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Record matches and challenges mark an (inter)stellar Giving Day

For 24 hours, donors rallied together to help Cornell University reach for the stars on its eleventh Giving Day, March 13, 2025. This year’s space-themed event raised $11,206,717 from 17,591 donors, for a total of 25,929 gifts making a tangible show of support for causes across the university. “Cornellians everywhere demonstrated their continued commitment to … Read the full story

By Jennifer Wholey March 17, 2025
Cornell graduation 2023: (L to R) Enrique Vila-Biaggi '94, MEng '95, P '20, '23, '27; Paola Diaz ’23; Eleni Gianulis ’23; and Enrique’s daughter Veronica Vila ’23, MEng ‘24

Cornell Club of Puerto Rico rocks Giving Day scholarship challenge

The Cornell Club of Puerto Rico raised over $42,000 for their scholarship fund on Giving Day 2024

By Linda Copman May 10, 2024

Record-breaking number of donors turn out for Cornell Giving Day 2024

In just over 24 hours, Cornell’s 10th Giving Day rallied 18,692 donors to contribute to causes they care about on March 14, 2024. 

By Jennifer Wholey March 18, 2024
Cornell students talking and smiling as they write thank-you postcards

🥇🔓 Record unlocked: Cornellians raise more than $13M in just 24 hours

Cornell’s ninth Giving Day brought together 18,296 donors to raise more than $13 million in just 24 hours, shattering records from previous years.

By Kaitlyn Danielle Ruhf March 20, 2023
(L to R) Alan Zhou ’03; Hongnan Ma, director of international development, Asia; Jeff MacCorkle ’88, member of the Cornell Asia Alumni Leadership Advisors (CAALA); and former Beijing Club co-president Tanni Wu ’06 at a 2019 Cornell event in Beijing

My heart told me the time was now: Alan Zhou ’03 shares his giving story

Last fall, in honor of his upcoming 20th Reunion, Alan Zhou ’03 took advantage of Cornell’s affordability challenge and made a gift to establish the Alan and Chelsea Zhou Family Scholarship. The fund will provide financial assistance to undergraduate students with demonstrated financial need, with a preference for students from the states of Maine, Oklahoma, … Read the full story

By Linda Copman March 2, 2023
Volunteers serve soup in Sage Chapel

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Help us celebrate all the good Cornellians can do! Tell us about the areas and organizations you support in your community. ❤️🐻

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