UD Initiative Fund

UD receives more than $1.5 million each year for vital operating areas that need your immediate support. Financial aid is the most pressing requirement, but there are academic and social programs, faculty salary support, facility renovations, and technology upgrades that only happen because of the UD Initiative Fund.

Giving to the UD Initiative Fund provides the president and deans the ability to be flexible, to meet unforeseen situations with answers, and to respond where the need is greatest:

• research funds for a brilliant junior faculty member who has yet to receive her first research grant
• conference fees for a graduate student to present his first paper
• leadership training for a female faculty member to build her skills and advance professionally

All are pieces that build a university. All are reflected in the priorities of a university. All are provided by the UD Initiative Fund.

Gifts of $50 or $500 or $5,000 are joined together and amass to over $1.5 million. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts when we all unite through the UD Initiative Fund. Every gift truly counts.

On behalf of the junior faculty member in the lab, the graduate student at a conference podium, and the female faculty member moving up to department chair – thank you.

Add your voice today by making a contribution to the UD Initiative Fund.