24-Hour Challenge

On Thursday, April 11, 2024, support the amazing Owls and essential resources that make the Rice community so special! When 4,000 alumni and student donors make a gift, Walt Greenberg ’78 will contribute an additional $300,000 to Rice.

Matches & Challenges

Donation Challenge

$100,000 if 250 donors give in the next 6 months

Challenge Complete!

For George R. Brown School of Engineering

Offered by Engineering Advisory Board

Donation Challenge

$34,000 if 100 donors give in the next 6 months

Challenge Complete!

For Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies

Offered by Anonymous

Donation Challenge

$25,000 if 150 donors give in the next 6 months

Challenge Complete!

For OpenStax

Offered by Steve Smith '76 & Diana Go and Jumee & David Park III '85

Donation Challenge

$20,000 if 100 donors give in the next 6 months

Challenge Complete!

For Glasscock School for Continuing Studies Fund

Offered by Glasscock School Advisory Board

Donation Challenge

$20,000 if $20,000 is donated in the next 6 months

Challenge Complete!

For Shepherd School of Music Student Travel Fund

Offered by Shelly Cyprus

Donation Challenge

$15,000 if 100 donors give in the next 6 months

Challenge Complete!

For School of Humanities Excellence Fund

Offered by The Humanities Advisory Board

Donation Challenge

$4,000 if 100 donors give in the next 6 months

Challenge Complete!

For Rice University School Mathematics Project (RUSMP)

Offered by Two anonymous donors

Donation Challenge

$2,500 if 40 donors give in the next 6 months

Challenge Complete!

For Graduate Liberal Studies Gift Fund

Offered by Graduate Liberal Studies Alumni Association Board

Donation Challenge

$2,500 if $2,500 is donated in the next 6 months

Challenge Complete!

For Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen

Offered by Anonymous

Donation Challenge

$2,000 if 20 donors give in the next 6 months

Challenge Complete!

For Center for Civic Leadership- Giving to Learn

Offered by Rich Family Endowment

Donation Challenge

$500 if $500 is donated in the next 6 months

Challenge Complete!

For Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen

Offered by Anonymous

Donation Match

$200 per donor up to $1,000

Match Complete!

For Class of 1998

Offered by James J. Ling

Donation Match

$100 per donor up to $500

Match Complete!

For Kinesiology Initiative Fund

Offered by Ricky Mercado

Donation Challenge

$100 if 50 donors give in the next 6 months

Challenge Complete!

For Class of 2012

Offered by Liz Young

Donation Challenge

$100 if 10 donors give in the next 6 months

Challenge Complete!

For Wiess School of Natural Sciences

Offered by Summer Nijjer

Donation Challenge

$50 if 5 donors give in the next 6 months

Challenge Complete!

For Betty and Jacob Friedman Holistic Garden

Offered by Summer Nijjer

Donation Match

$25 per donor up to $500

Match Complete!

For KTRU - Rice Radio

Offered by JJ Heldmann

Donation Match

$25 per donor up to $250

Match Complete!

For Rice Green Fund

Offered by Richard Johnson

Donation Match

$10 per donor up to $100

Match Complete!

Offered by Anonymous

Donation Match

$5 per donor up to $5

Match Complete!

Offered by Chloe Walker

Donation Match

$1 per $1 donated up to $50,000

Match Complete!

For Owl Club Athletic Fund

Offered by Anonymous

Donation Match

$1 per $1 donated up to $10,000

Match Complete!

For Owl Club Athletic Fund

Offered by Gary Chiles ‘86 & Amy Sutton ’89

Donation Match

$1 per $1 donated up to $10,000

Match Complete!

For Owl Club Athletic Fund

Offered by Walt Greenberg '78

FAQ/Contact

Updates

We did it! 💥

Thanks to your support, we reached our goal of 4,000 alumni and student donors, unlocking an additional $300,000 gift from Walt Greenberg '78.

177 days ago by Chad Shanks

Almost there! ⏳

With just four hours left to go, the Rice community has stepped up
and we are so close to reaching our goal of 4,000 alumni and student donors!

177 days ago by Chad Shanks

Half way there!

We're more than half way to our goal of 4,000 alumni and student donors! Thank you to those who have given so far.

178 days ago by Chad Shanks

Today is the 24-Hour Challenge!

The wait? OVER. The stakes? HIGH. ❗📣 When 4,000 alumni and student donors make a gift, Walt Greenberg ’78 will donate $300,000 to Rice. Support the people and programs that make a Rice education extraordinary. Let’s go!

178 days ago by Chad Shanks

It's almost time!

Let’s make some noise! Rice’s 24-Hour Challenge is tomorrow, April 11. You can make your gift early and help us jumpstart the momentum! 💙 #1Day1Rice

178 days ago by Mayra Castillo

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Donors

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Residential College ChallengeThe residential colleges with the highest participation among their alumni and students will earn a portion of $10,000 from an anonymous donor — first earns $5,000, second earns $3,000 and third earns $2,000!

Residential College	Donors	%
Duncan College	66	4.2%
Hanszen College	406	8.4%
Sid Richardson College	309	7.4%
Martel College	114	6.1%
Will Rice College	359	7.6%
Lovett College	307	7.2%
Jones College	440	9.3%
Baker College	351	7.6%
Brown College	277	6.7%
Wiess College	279	6.1%
McMurtry College	194	12.1%

Donors by Affiliation

Rice Affiliation	Donors	Raised ($)
Friends	533	$77,027
Parents	670	$157,626
Faculty/Staff	629	$79,141
Graduate Alumni	1020	$250,559
Students	371	$12,912
Undergraduate Alumni	3647	$938,420

Best Performing Fund Pages

Donors	Donors	Raised ($)
SRUW Endowment for Fondren Library	33	$2,010
Rice Thresher Gift Fund	35	$3,290
Graduate Student Community, Excellence, and Recruitment Fund	11	$1,600
Rice Green Fund	27	$4,372
Glasscock School for Continuing Studies Fund	84	$38,416
Rice Emerging Scholars Program	21	$3,231
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Excellence Fund	22	$2,660
Baker Institute	24	$2,495
Association of Rice University Black Alumni (ARUBA) Legacy Endowment Fund	20	$2,810
Dean’s Fund for Engineering Excellence	49	$116,233
Association of Rice University Black Alumni (ARUBA) Excellence Fund	40	$3,053
Rice Venture Fund	14	$3,585
Brown College	99	$13,343
Rice Alumni Pride Award Endowment	20	$2,980
Biochemistry and Cell Biology Graduate Student Association	17	$1,260
Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Student Groups (NOMAS) & (ARC)	21	$4,200
Rice University Emergency Medical Services	10	$1,175
Residential College Life	48	$12,477
Center for Career Development (CCD)	14	$1,650
Materials Science and NanoEngineering Department Excellence Fund	12	$545
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Association	20	$1,195
Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship	22	$39,655
Raymond Johnson Graduate Fellowship in Mathematics	10	$1,370
Wiess College	82	$12,725
Will Rice College	106	$11,350
Kinesiology Initiative Fund	17	$1,435
Kinder Institute for Urban Research	16	$775
Betty and Jacob Friedman Holistic Garden	15	$1,205
Rice Business Fund	182	$34,965
SOLAR – Raíces a Ramas Endowment	24	$1,044
Rice Center for Engineering Leadership	43	$5,529
The BioEngineering Excellence Fund	12	$3,076
Rice University Adaptive Skating	10	$475
Rice Business Alumni Programs	8	$410
Center for Teaching Excellence	12	$935
KTRU - Rice Radio	46	$3,942
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department Excellence Fund	36	$3,485
Rice University Student Health	13	$1,925
Rice Philharmonics	14	$2,550
Architecture Course Travel Fund	29	$10,755
Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research Department Excellence Fund	13	$515
Rice Office of STEM Engagement (R-STEM)	11	$2,200
Tapia Center	48	$14,234
Duncan College	50	$3,930
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship	17	$2,371
Hanszen College	230	$27,327
BioSciences Graduate Student Diversity Enhancement Fund	7	$1,050
Other	133	$16,996
Indian Students at Rice	5	$725
Rice Engineering Alumni (REA)	117	$10,712
Center for Civic Leadership- Giving to Learn	24	$3,195
Human Impacts on the Earth	19	$1,970
Rice Business Professional and Executive MBA Scholarship Fund	3	$250
Society of Rice University Women (SRUW) Scholarship Endowment Fund	38	$2,740
Sid Richardson College	160	$14,453
Latin American Graduate Student Association	40	$930
McMurtry College	235	$13,738
Fondren Library	118	$16,020
Rice Coffeehouse	13	$750
Deans Discretionary Fund	135	$70,030
The Campanile	4	$260
Undergraduate Business Studies Fund	5	$175
Summer Immersion Program	4	$625
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Excellence Fund	35	$3,380
Rice Architecture's William T. Cannady Hall Tech and Furnishings Fund	6	$835
Student Activities General Fund	4	$60
Baker College	144	$15,168
GradGames	1	$100
Health Care Internship Fund	1	$50
Master of Accounting	9	$3,925
Rice Program Council	2	$50
Rice Women In STEM	5	$250
Wiess School of Natural Sciences Academic Excellence Fund	46	$5,895
Rice Olympic Weightlifting Club	4	$880
Owl Access Early-Arrival Program	6	$850
Chinese Student Association	30	$7,125
Society of Latino Alumni of Rice (SOLAR)	27	$1,311
Owl Club Athletic Fund	1019	$275,932
Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL)	7	$1,350
The Marching Owl Band (MOB)	50	$7,232
PLAT Student Publication	0	$0
Rice Bikes	9	$165
Entrepreneurship (Lilie - Liu Idea Lab)	11	$1,610
Political Science Graduate Student Association	25	$3,010
Data to Knowledge Lab	8	$755
Statistics Department Excellence Fund	5	$295
The Pub at Rice	9	$1,285
Valhalla	46	$8,540
Owl Edge Summer Experience Fund	2	$125
Rice University Club Sports	12	$1,675
Black Graduate Student Association	8	$225
Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Association	7	$348
Dean's Excellence Fund - Architecture	36	$9,675
Student Wellbeing Office and Rice Counseling Center	54	$10,825
Mechanical Engineering Department Excellence Fund	33	$3,090
Tutoring and Academic Support Services	10	$1,450
Physics and Astronomy Graduate Student Association	17	$995
Martel College	77	$5,641
Latinx Grads	14	$1,400
Robert F. Curl Legacy Fund in Chemistry	31	$3,495
The Access, Opportunity & Inclusion Gift Fund	117	$16,914
Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies	121	$73,648
Area of Greatest Need	563	$181,527
Rice University School Mathematics Project (RUSMP)	160	$44,366
Military Scholars Program	8	$1,035
Lovett College	114	$8,960
Jones College	226	$20,728
Rice Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Student Chapter	2	$35
Dean's Excellence Fund	181	$53,120
Owl Edge Externship Travel Fund	5	$755
Kid Power	2	$200
Activate Engineering Communication Program	9	$1,070
Shepherd School of Music Student Travel Fund	120	$34,360
Physics Undergraduate Student Summer Support	25	$4,070
McNair Hall Technology Fund	0	$0
Undergraduate Scholarships / The Rice Investment	469	$108,502
Graduate Liberal Studies Gift Fund	38	$7,090
OpenStax	182	$35,941
Launch Funding for new Ph.D. Students	6	$900
The Access, Opportunity & Inclusion Gift Fund	117	$16,914
Crownover Scholars Program	2	$75
The Hoot (Late Night Dining SRB)	3	$55
Rice Pre-Medical Society	4	$125
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Fund	13	$735
Rice University Community of Asian Alumni Legacy Endowment	16	$1,158
180 Degrees Consulting Rice	1	$5
ARA Diversity Fund	17	$21,558
Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen	66	$13,267
Computer Science Department Excellence Fund	28	$2,223
Rice Alumni in Medicine (RAM)	27	$3,820
BRIDGE Initiative (Building Research on Inequality and Diversity to Grow Equity)	38	$4,450
International MBA Student Scholarship Fund	12	$1,571
Graduate Student Assocation (GSA)	28	$2,155
Brazilian Student Association at Rice (BRASA)	13	$230