When you make a gift to any of Cornell’s annual funds, scholarship funds, or the Provost’s Research Resiliency Fund, we’ll add $200 to the fund you support. And gifts of ALL sizes count.

The first 500 donors to give to these funds before Homecoming will each secure an extra $200. That’s a total of $100,000 in extra support for Cornell, thanks to the generosity of challenge donor Anne Meinig Smalling ’87, chair of Cornell’s Board of Trustees!

As federal funding shifts and Cornell faces increased financial pressures, your support early this semester is crucial.

Give by October 4 to be counted.
 

When donors like you come together before Homecoming weekend, you help ensure critical projects can continue this semester. Gifts help cover immediate needs and core commitments in today’s unpredictable financial environment.

Cornell’s strength, as always, lies in the strength of our exceptional community: our students, faculty, staff, and especially our alumni, who carry Cornell’s mission out into the world. I am grateful to all of you, and have no doubt that together, we will rise to meet this moment.

—President Michael I. Kotlikoff

Back-to-school challenge details

• An extra $200 in challenge funds per donor will be given to the annual fund, scholarship annual fund, or research resiliency fund each donor supports.
• Only gifts to these funds will be counted, up to 500 donors total.
• If a donor gives to multiple funds, the $200 in challenge funds will be given to the Cornell Annual Fund.
• Gifts of any size made by October 4 count toward the challenge. Minimum online gift amount is $5.
• Challenge funds will NOT be reflected on individual donor giving records.