Why Give
Supporting Growth Through Collaboration
Your generosity supports our efforts to find solutions to some of the world's biggest challenges, from combating climate change and global inequality to growing local entrepreneurship and protecting arts and culture. Additionally, your gifts make a tangible difference in the lives of students enrolled at DU as they carve out futures and launch new careers.
Together, we can improve lives, grow communities and empower the next generation of world-changers. Discover how you can help shape our campus, our educational approach and the lives of our students.
$44M Overall total contributed
17,000 Total donors
$11M Total given to scholarship
Recognition Societies
Donating to the University has its perks. Our recognition societies provide varying levels of access and benefits to donors, whose generosity fuels our growth and empowers our students.
The University Endowment
More than just an investment fund, DU's endowment is the foundation on which we're building the future of our campus and community. Funds from the endowment go to support educational development and programming, from scholarships and professorships to research projects, new educational materials, and facility maintenance and construction.
Making a Difference
Helping Future Teachers
With planned giving, Bob Metzler established the Metzler Family Scholarship Fund — the largest in the history of the Morgridge School of Education — to ease the financial pressure for teachers like himself.
Donna Vocate's Scholarship
Upon learning that no graduate communications scholarships existed, Donna Vocate was inspired to give back.
Young Alumni Scholarship
Thanks to trustee Craig Harrison (BSBA ’03), the Young Alumni Endowed Scholarship Fund provides support for exceptional rising seniors at DU.
