Where to Give
Your generosity makes student success possible. From classrooms, laboratories, libraries, and ball fields; to hospitals, boardrooms, courtrooms, and galleries: Every step on a Blue Hen’s journey is fueled by the donors who stand beside them.
Discover opportunities to amplify your impact in the areas that matter most to you.
Student Experience
From experiential learning opportunities, internships and study abroad; to athletics and wellness; to diversity, inclusion and belonging; to pre-college readiness and post-graduate career preparation: Your support ensures every Blue Hen has the resources to achieve lifelong success.
Scholarships
Every Blue Hen—regardless of background—deserves access to a transformative education. Yet many talented students face financial hardships. For them, scholarships are both a lifeline and an investment for their success.
BUILDING X
A hub for scientific innovation. Tomorrow’s breakthroughs will be made in spaces of cross-disciplinary connectivity, and UD students and faculty are forging this future together.
Professorships
Every UD professor will enrich thousands of students’ lives over the course of their career. Our faculty conducts field-defining research across the disciplines, allowing students to learn alongside the world’s most distinguished thinkers.
UD Library Special Collections
With a mission to collect and preserve our shared history, UD Library’s Special Collections makes unique cultural resources accessible to the entire UD community. Through your support, Special Collections will renovate and transform the Morris Library collection space.
Blue Hen Strong Fund
The BHSF is UD’s leading tool for rapid-response projects. From housing grants for displaced students; to internship support for those who can’t afford to accept unpaid opportunities; to a laptop loaner program expanding access to technology: the BHSF delivers immediate support.
UD Parents Fund
The generosity of UD parents allows the University to provide our students with valuable resources for their health and wellbeing, to deepen their learning, advance equity and inclusion and drive holistic development through education, experiences and communities.
Blue & Gold Fund
Delaware Athletics is a hallmark of student life, and a hub for alumni and community engagement. Support of the Blue & Gold Fund allows us to continue to provide the best student-athlete experiences to over 600 student-athletes, maximizing their growth as athletes and people.
Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund
The JEDI Fund will help provide programs, resources and opportunities to cultivate educated and empowered individuals who not only understand societal challenges related to equity and social justice, but have the tools to create solutions to address them.
University Library, Museums, and Press
The University of Delaware Library is an innovator in identifying, acquiring and making accessible a broad range of electronic library resources. Your gift to the UD Library help cover the costs of resources, materials, services and facilities.
HenFunder
Join fellow Blue Hens in supporting a cause close to your heart through HenFunder, the University's crowdfunding platform. UD students, alumni, faculty and staff use this unique platform to raise funds for initiatives and programs that will significantly impact members of the University community.
Match Your Gift to UD
Your contribution to UD could go even further with your employer's matching gift program, potentially doubling or even tripling your gift amount!