Why Give?
Investing in the Future of Business
Your support of the Leeds School of Business helps strengthen the education and career successes of future business leaders. Here's a look at the impact your generosity helps make possible.
$6M+ in Scholarships
Raised for Leeds since July 2021, getting us closer to our goal of $20M by July 2024.
1,200 Leeds Students
Leeds awarded over 2,000 scholarship awards to 1,214 students.
1,236 Alumni
Made a gift to Leeds last fiscal year. Join you fellow alumni in supporting the Leeds student experience.
Contributions to Leeds provide funding for scholarships, technology, academic programs and more. Here's how to get started.
Donors help Leeds continue to support its academic and research missions amid constant change. Here's a look at how your support creates impact.
How Scholarships Create Impact
Scholarships represent a life-changing opportunity for future business leaders. Here, three Leeds scholarship winners share how donor support helped them explore new avenues, take on extracurricular challenges and take deeper dives into their career interests.
Anna Bedell sees her scholarships as an investment in her education—but also her future.
Donors' generosity taught Will Xu the value of paying it forward.
For Maggie Rodney, scholarships offered freedom to fully immerse herself as an MBA student.
Fiscal Year 2022 Donor Impact
2,539 donors
Made investements in the Leeds School of Business.
$5.6M in Scholarships
Awarded to students during the 2022-23 academic year.
$19.6M
Invested in Leeds (including $8.4 million in estate gifts).
Every Gift Makes an Impact
The Leeds community thrives on innovation and momentum—foundational attributes of CU Boulder’s unique identity. In partnership with generous supporters, we continue to build and support an active, impactful community.
Please join us in our mission to positively transform the future of global business by inspiring and educating next generation business leaders and creating impactful knowledge. We are committed to advancing the chancellor’s three strategic imperatives for CU Boulder and making top-quality business education available to deserving students.
The Leeds giving story
The naming gift for the Leeds School of Business set the school on a track that’s equipped its student, alumni and faculty to bring invaluable perspectives to the changing world of work. Just after Michael Leeds and his family announced the gift, in 2001, the Enron scandal made clear that the phrase “business ethics” had become an oxymoron. The gift instilled within the school a purpose and a mission to consider ethics a core business skill, like finance or marketing. For more than 20 years, Leeds has emphasized ethics, social responsibility, diversity and sustainability—demonstrating the business case for these values long before they made it to the C-suite. Now, as industry confronts an age of A.I., climate change and increasing geopolitical tension, Leeds and its graduates are better prepared than ever to ensure business has a seat at the table in solving the greatest challenges of tomorrow. Meet Michael Leeds