Why give to Colorado State University?
Legacy gifts change lives - not only for students, but for donors as well. Each gift is individually crafted to achieve your personal philanthropic goals through scholarships, faculty retention, facilities maintenance, athletics, or student organizations. The opportunities are endless. Legacy gifts help to strengthen, build, and transform the Colorado State University Foundation into a world class institution.
While financial support from the State of Colorado is rapidly decreasing, the Colorado State University Foundation (founded as a land grant university in 1870) remains deeply committed to its standard of excellence and affordable, quality education. Just as the 21st century brings excitement and hope for change, it also delivers challenging and uncertain times. Each generation facing new world problems to solve, new and ongoing research to cure disease, opportunities to improve quality of life through new technology, stabilization of our natural resources, sparking the imagination of children through education, and the ability to relieve the stresses in our daily lives through the arts. These, and countless more scenarios, require funding to provide the necessary equipment, resources, faculty, and staff to prepare the next generation. Your generosity provides the knowledge and foundation necessary to make a difference that will impact humanity through teaching, research, service, and extension benefitting citizens of Colorado, the United States, and the world.
Our donors say it best, take a minute and hear their stories, feel their passion and see their visions for Colorado State University.