Featured Giving Opportunities

Endowed chairs, professorships, lectureships

Giving Opportunity: $15,000,000

We are enlisting support for endowed chairs, professorships and lectureships, which boost our intellectual prowess and help to recruit and retain talented members of our faculty.

Visual Arts Complex Building Fund

Giving Opportunity: $5,000,000

We opened a cutting-edge, centrally located Visual Arts Complex that houses the Department of Art and Art History and showcases compelling artistic creations in the CU Art Museum.

Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy

Giving Opportunity: $1,000,000

We seek support for a visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy, a rotating position to be staffed by experts who can trace conservatism from its philosophical grounding to its modern incarnations.

Graduate fellowships and Undergraduate Scholarships

Giving Opportunity: $20,000,000

The university seeks to foster and encourage the best students. To that end, it is soliciting support for endowed graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships. Supporting these endowments is doubly important: It helps individual students and society at large.

CU in Washington D.C.

Giving Opportunity: $2,000,000

We aim to bring students face to face with the nation’s capital. Hands-on, “experiential” learning-such as internships, research projects and educational travel—inspires students, stoking their passion to learn and to lead full, productive lives. These truths drive our “CU in D.C.” initiative, in which the College plans to create a Washington, D.C., satellite facility.

Caruthers Biotechnology Building

Giving Opportunity: $13,000,000

We invite partners to help maintain Colorado’s stature as a hub of cutting-edge biotechnology and chemistry. The university is erecting a biotech building that will facilitate critical research. This will help us continue to generate new graduates to work in biotech firms, new discoveries to benefit people and generate capital, and new spin-off companies to do both.

Jewish Studies Program

Giving Opportunity: $3,000,000

We seek support for a more globalized curriculum. Our vision spans the world. Recognizing the significance of global perspectives, we have established the Center for Jewish Studies.

Colorado Shakespeare Festival Support

Giving Opportunity: $2,100,000

We continue to support the prestigious Colorado Shakespeare Festival, which has been performing for more than a half-century.

Conference on World Affairs

Giving Opportunity: $1,000,000

CWA is a conference on Everything Conceivable–encompassing music, literature, environment, science, journalism, visual arts, diplomacy, technology, spirituality, the film industry, politics, business, medicine, human rights and so on. A campaign to generate annual giving and to build a $1,000,000 endowment is being organized as the Conference approaches its 61st year.

STEM ed Learning Assistance and Master Teachers

Giving Opportunity: $1,600,000

Miramontes Arts and Sciences Program

Giving Opportunity: $500,000

Dean's Fund for Excellence

Giving Opportunity: $3,000,000

Bruce Curtis Graduate Fellowship – Geology

Giving Opportunity: $1,500,000