Major giving
The IU Foundation considers a gift of $50,000 or more to be a "major gift," which can be funded during one’s lifetime or after. Major gifts can support student scholarships, fellowships, faculty, research, experiential learning (student research, study abroad, internships, etc.), program support, and many other areas.
The College’s major gift officers travel coast-to-coast to cultivate relationships with alumni and friends who have been identified by giving behavior and capacity to be major gift prospects. From time to time, major gift officers will be in touch with your academic unit to learn about priorities and strengths that will enhance their ability to build relationships and match giving interests with your priorities.
Gift officers document interactions with major gift prospects—including phone calls, in-person visits, and other engagement efforts—which can all be found in a university system called Crimson. If you do not have access to Crimson, click here to begin the request process.
We encourage you to document your conversations with alumni and friends and to share that information with our office via our alumni-update form. This will help as we identify individuals who may be interested in supporting your academic unit’s priorities in a major way.
Funding objectives
Departments and programs have priorities that they're actively hoping to fund via donor support, and we want to know about them.
Please complete our "Funding objective" form via the button below. This form, in and of itself, is not a “case statement.” Rather, it includes guiding questions that help you describe concrete, useful details related to your project. That information, in turn, allows us to craft a clearer, more persuasive case for support that we can share with donors.
In addition, we've created a budget template that can help you navigate the financial particulars of your proposal, and this template can be submitted as an attachment with the form itself.
