Giving in Action
- Local company Meadowlark Optics, founded by alum Tom Baur, is generously supporting $70,000 in new scholarships for CU Boulder undergraduates exploring the quantum field.
At the Campos Student Center, dedicated staff and visionary donors are transforming students' lives, proving that compassionate leadership and philanthropy can open doors to possibility, purpose and belonging.
The Buckley Center for Sustainability Education has been renamed the SPIKE Center for Sustainability Education to reflect dynamism and its growing role as a hub for sustainability learning and leadership on campus and beyond. The center launched last summer with a transformative $10 million gift from alumnus Spike Buckley,
CU Boulder will become the 10th institution in the state to offer the prestigious Reisher Scholars Program through The Denver Foundation, funded with a $4.2 million commitment to connect transfer and continuing students to scholarships.
CU Boulder's cultural programs, like CU Presents, the Art Museum and Fiske Planetarium, connect campus and community through art, science and wonder. See how philanthropy powers these experiences and why your support matters.
Open through Dec. 12, Coloradans can support hundreds of vetted charities through the Colorado Combined Campaign, securely giving to causes that feed families, protect natural resources, uplift communities and more.
CU Boulder's sustainability momentum continues to grow with a new commitment from the Walton Family Foundation to support programs that address Western water issues through The Water Desk and Western Water Policy Program.
CU Boulder donors gave a record-breaking $228.9 million this year, fueling student success, sustainability and research that will shape the university's future.- The BOLD Center is getting a new name—the Campos Student Center—and will continue its mission of broadening engineering student opportunities, community and leadership.
Preserving a century of family legacy, a transformative $10.4 million land and endowment gift will turn CU Boulder's Spruce Gulch Wildlife and Research Reserve into a living laboratory for generations of scholars, scientists and artists.