Giving Day 2025 - Be Unstoppable

And there's still time to earn $5,000 for an area of your choosing with the Alumni Association's $5,000 Donor Participation Challenge, ending at midnight.

109 days ago by Katrina Culhane

Ring, Ring, Ring! Time for the Dinner Bell Blitz: 5 pm to 7 pm EDT

🍴 The Dinner Bell Blitz challenge is happening NOW!

As the day winds down, donors are stepping up to support their favorite projects.

Let's make this dinner hour count and secure that extra $1,000! 🌟

109 days ago by Katrina Culhane

Lunch Power Hour & Midday Momentum

This afternoon, VIP Hockey Fund and Stony Brook Child Care both earned $1,000 towards their funds, thanks to the Alumni Association!

109 days ago by Katrina Culhane

Midday Momentum: 2 pm to 4 pm EDT

The chances to win extra dollars for the areas that mean the most to you keep coming!

☀️ The Midday Momentum challenge is gaining traction!

Donors are rallying to make a difference in the afternoon.

Keep the momentum strong and help your project win extra funds! 🚀

109 days ago by Katrina Culhane

Halfway through Power Hour #2

Current standings:

Respiratory Care & Hockey are battling it out for $1,000!

Make sure to make your gift and give your project a boost!

109 days ago by Katrina Culhane

Lunch Power Hour: 11 am to 1 pm EDT

🍽️ The Lunch Power Hour challenge is heating up!

Donors are coming together during their lunch break to support meaningful projects.

Let's keep the energy high and push for that additional $1,000! 💪

109 days ago by Katrina Culhane

First winner of the day!!!!!

We've got our first winner!

Stony Brook Child Care has won $1,000 towards their fund for having the most donors between 8am-10am!

Stay tuned for our next Alumni Association Power Hour challenge at 11am!

109 days ago by Katrina Culhane

Halfway through Morning Buzz!

We're halfway through our first of 5 Power Hour Challenges and here are the current standings:

Occupational Therapy is in the lead!

Make your gift to the area of your choice to help them win $1,000!

109 days ago by Katrina Culhane

Win $1,000 - Morning Buzz: 8 am to 10 am EDT

🌅 The Morning Buzz challenge is off to a great start!

Early risers are making a significant impact by supporting their favorite projects.

Keep the momentum going and help your chosen area earn extra funds! 🌟

109 days ago by Katrina Culhane

The Alumni Association $5,000 Giving Day Participation Challenge starts NOW!

🎉 The Giving Day Participation Challenge is underway!

The project with the highest number of donors during the next 24 hours will receive the top prize of $5,000, thanks to the generosity of the Stony Brook Alumni Association.

Every donation counts, so let's make this day unforgettable! 🏆

109 days ago by Katrina Culhane

Two Ways to Make a BIG Impact!!

Just Announced: Two Ways to Make a BIG Impact!!

1. Your Giving Day Gift Amplified — 2.25x Match for Scholarships!

Endowed scholarships are the most impactful way you can help bring a life-changing Stony Brook education within reach for a deserving student. On Giving Day 2025, your gift to the Stony Brook Endowed Scholarship Fund will be more than doubled through a special match.

Thanks to the MJS Foundation as well as the New York State match, your gift to unrestricted endowed scholarships will be matched 2.25x up to $100,000! For instance, a gift of $100 will become $225 in total impact to support talented Seawolves.

In addition, thanks to the Stony Brook Alumni Association, when 150 donors make their gift to the Stony Brook Endowed Scholarship Fund, it will unlock an additional $30,000 for scholarships, which means your gift goes even further!

2. Take Part in the Alumni Association Challenge

The Alumni Association wants to help YOU make an even bigger impact.

Help the area that matters most to you earn extra funds.

The project with the highest number of donors in each of these windows will receive an additional $1,000 ($5,000 total will be awarded):

Morning Buzz: 8 am to 10 am EDT

Lunch Power Hour: 11 am to 1 pm EDT

Midday Momentum: 2 pm to 4 pm EDT

Dinner Bell Blitz: 5 pm to 7 pm EDT

Evening Energizer: 8 pm to 10 pm EDT

But that's not all! The project with the the highest number of donors during the 24 hours of Giving Day (midnight to midnight) will receive the top prize — $5,000!

With over $300,000 in matches and challenges this Giving Day - YOU can help Stony Brook #BeUnstoppable

110 days ago by Katrina Culhane

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Top Performing Projects

Programs & Funds	Donors	Raised ($)
Study Abroad	0	$0
Stony Brook Child Care	214	$13,456
Stony Brook Marching Band	97	$5,231
Student Enrichment Theatre in New York	0	$0
Jazz Fund for Excellence	1	$5
Speech Language Pathology	166	$5,235
Biochemistry and Cell Biology Endowment for Excellence	103	$43,904
Division of Gastroenterology	4	$2,150
Pollock-Krasner Study Center	1	$75
Internet of Things Laboratory Fund	0	$0
Gerald Brown Endowed Fund for Excellence in Physics & Astronomy	0	$0
Staller Center for the Arts Endowed Fund	1	$100
School of Social Welfare Scholarship Fund	1	$50
Mattoo Center for India Studies	3	$200
Long Island State Veterans Home Capital Fund	115	$9,960
John J. Ricotta Professorship in Surgery	0	$0
Neurosciences Institute	0	$0
John H. Marburger III Endowed Fellowship for Science, Engineering & Mathematics	0	$0
Guru Madhavan Endowed Intent Leadership Speaker in Engineering	0	$0
School of Social Welfare L Fund	0	$0
Knapp Pediatric Research Endowment Fund	0	$0
Stony Brook Center for Global Health Equity Fund for Excellence	1	$30
Class of 1987 Endowed Scholarship in Medicine	2	$200
Collaborative for the Earth	2	$270
Korean Studies	2	$100
Stony Brook Endowed Scholarship Fund	110	$78,840
Department of Orthopedic Surgery Fund for Excellence	0	$0
Civil Engineering Fund for Excellence	2	$510
The Conti Family Scholarship	1	$100
Radiology Department	0	$0
Philosophers of Future Excellence	1	$50
European Languages Fund for Excellence	1	$200
First Alumni Endowed Scholarship	1	$250
Family Medicine Division Fund for Excellence	2	$18
Alumni Dissertation Fellowship in Philosophy	1	$500
Applied Health Informatics Fund for Excellence	3	$145
Office of Student Life	0	$0
Endocrinology Division	2	$7,510
Africana Studies Fund for Excellence	4	$175
Student Affairs Fund	3	$221
Stony Brook Heart Institute	4	$185
Honors College Scholarship Fund	3	$210
Terry Alexander Award in Women's and Gender Studies	0	$0
Evan R. Liblit Memorial Endowed Award	1	$200
Stony Brook Film Festival at Staller Center	4	$135
Urology Department Fund	5	$365
The Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) Center (Greatest Needs)	0	$0
CVB Fund for Excellence	2	$75
Mattoo Center for India Studies	3	$200
Autism Initiative Excellence Fund	3	$20
Mobile Stroke Unit	2	$10
College of Arts and Sciences Scholarship Endowment	1	$10
Emergency Department	1	$25
Friends of the Library	3	$281
Stony Brook Volunteer Ambulance Corps (SBVAC) Alumni Endowed Scholarship	3	$167
Ed Fabian Alumni Engagement Endowed Fund for CoB	0	$0
The Japan Center at Stony Brook	8	$1,480
Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Fund for Excellence	4	$1,710
Lauterbur Frontier Research Endowment Fund in Chemistry	1	$500
Turkana Basin Institute Project	4	$367
Tennis Fund for Excellence	5	$540
The Sherry and Howard Sussman Endowed Scholarship	2	$18
Graduate Student Organization Student Emergency Support Fund	2	$21
Carlos Vidal Memorial Scholarship Fund	5	$1,325
CLS Equipment Fund	0	$0
Radiation Oncology Department Fund for Excellence	1	$5
Cardiothoracic Surgery Fund	2	$60
Center of Excellence for Alzheimer's Disease	2	$41
Fund for Stony Brook University Hospital	6	$785
Palliative Care Department Fund for Excellence	1	$100
School of Professional Development Fund for Excellence (Greatest Needs)	7	$162
Heart Institute Cardiology Fund for Excellence	2	$500
Physical Therapy Department Fund for Excellence	11	$662
FoodLab Education	6	$191
VIP Hockey Fund	342	$25,832
Frances Bisignano Memorial Scholarship in Nursing	1	$1,000
BookEnds Second Chapter Endowment Intent Fund	52	$4,966
Geriatric Education Fund	0	$0
W.I.S.E. Diamond Fund	4	$210
Global Affairs Fund For Excellence	0	$0
Center for Multilingual and Intercultural Communications Fund for Excellence	5	$168
Institute of Energy: Sustainability, Environment, & Equity Excellence Fund	3	$200
Alda Center for Communicating Science	3	$2,557
Institute for Ocean Conservation Science (IOCS) General Fund	1	$10
College of Business Scholarship Fund	9	$471
University Counseling Center	6	$250
The Judy Sue Sussman Fund for Breast Cancer Research	2	$18
Richard L. Gelfond Fund on the Health Effects of Mercury Exposure	0	$0
Pediatric Emergency Department Expansion Fund	1	$15
The Francesco P. and Dina D'Alto Malgeri Endowment in Italian Culture	0	$0
Lichtenstein Fund for Southampton Arts	3	$130
Study Abroad Scholarship Fund	8	$377
Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund	4	$150
Mechanical Engineering Fund	5	$201
Growth and Discovery in Skin Cancer and Aging Skin Treatments	1	$5
Renaissance School of Medicine Scholarship Fund	9	$2,133
Richard B. Moore Endowment	0	$0
SBU Letters Fund	3	$60
Honors College Program Fund	3	$223
Support the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Stony Brook University (OLLI)	123	$7,086
Urology Department Fund	5	$365
Department of Psychology Fund for Excellence	27	$3,779
Emergency Department	1	$25
Medical Scientist Training Program Fund for Excellence	6	$1,767
Geosciences Department Fund for Excellence	2	$30
Career Center Support Fund	3	$157
Out of State Recruitment Counselor Events	7	$380
Center for Changing Systems of Power Excellence Fund	5	$1,255
School of Dental Medicine Scholarship Endowment	2	$500
Football Fund for Excellence	209	$450,597
Women's Health Fund	4	$142
Kidney Transplantation Program Fund	5	$520
Staller Center's Barbara N. Wien Arts & Education Fund	0	$0
Stony Brook Volunteer Ambulance Corps (SBVAC) Alumni Endowed Scholarship	3	$167
Dr. Aldustus E. Jordan Underrepresented Minorities in Medicine Endowed Alumni Scholarship	7	$1,278
Child Life Services Fund	3	$130
Hillel Jewish Culture Fund	44	$5,030
UG Biology Research Awards	36	$2,040
Center for Multilingual and Intercultural Communications Fund for Excellence	5	$168
Theatre Arts Department Fund for Excellence	1	$100
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Building Fund	2	$150
Thomas Hartman Center for Parkinson's Research in Neurobiology & Behavior	1	$48
Center for Hellenic Studies	28	$5,315
School of Dental Medicine Fund for Excellence (Greatest Needs)	6	$2,470
SDM Scholarship for Underrepresented Students	25	$2,313
Milton Lodge Fund for Political Psychology	0	$0
Applied Math and Statistics Fund for Excellence	10	$6,111
Political Science Fund for Excellence	9	$3,737
Dan Rattiner Special Collections Fund	1	$57
Stony Brook Alumni Association Scholarship Fund	5	$125
Stony Brook HOME	5	$228
Program in Writing and Rhetoric Fund for Excellence	4	$250
Study Abroad Scholarship Fund	8	$377
Physician Assistant Education Fund for Excellence	14	$710
Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center Endowment	2	$21
Butterklee Assistantship Endowment	2	$3,000
Physics and Astronomy Department Fund for Excellence	37	$5,787
Stony Brook Cancer Center	11	$331
Clinical Lab Sciences Department	23	$639
Dept. of Neurology: Resident Training Funds	0	$0
Electrical and Computer Engineering Fund for Excellence	1	$1,000
Post Endodontics Educational Fund	1	$250
Music Department Fund for Excellence	31	$2,629
Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) Fund For Exellence	38	$2,361
LGBTQ* Center Fund for Excellence	11	$574
Microbiology Department	13	$1,674
Surgery Chairman's Research and Education Fund	11	$2,037
Mathematics Department Fund for Excellence	14	$1,148
Graduate School Dean's Fund for Excellence	9	$351
Staller Center for the Arts	14	$815
Philosophy Department Fund for Excellence	5	$220
Anthropology Fund for Excellence	10	$1,314
Dr. Jason Kim '03 Endowed Scholarship in Medicine	1	$1,000
Ecology and Evolution Department Fund for Excellence	64	$9,398
Graduate Program in Public Health Fund	33	$1,980
Department of Medicine Research and Education Fund	49	$54,385
Economics Department Fund for Excellence	3	$110
Brooke Ellison Endowed Scholarship	33	$7,700
Applied Math and Statistics Fund for Excellence	10	$6,111
Stony Brook Kappas Endowed Achievement Scholarship Fund	41	$8,414
Women's Soccer Fund for Excellence	31	$2,440
Pharmacology Department	10	$1,899
Asian American Fundraising Account	19	$1,642
Center for Clean Water Technology Excellence Fund	3	$260
Women's Basketball Fund for Excellence	29	$3,818
Fund for Excellence in Undergraduate Biology	4	$48
Men's Basketball Fund for Excellence	35	$4,181
CVB-Rainforest Conservation Fund	9	$1,926
Center for Hellenic Studies	28	$5,315
Respiratory Care Program	45	$1,288
Asian and Asian American Studies Fund for Excellence	18	$1,118
College of Business Fund for Excellence (Greatest Needs)	34	$4,771
Art Department Fund for Excellence	8	$336
Stony Brook Fund for Excellence	64	$4,043
School of Social Welfare Fund for Excellence (Greatest Needs)	21	$2,981
The English Department Fund for Excellence	11	$1,080
Italian Studies Fund	16	$8,292
University Food Pantry	37	$1,600
Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery at Staller Center	17	$1,046
Benjamin Wisoh Lee Endowed Excellence Fund for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships	11	$1,860
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Fund for Excellence (Greatest Needs)	27	$5,925
Campus Beautification Committee Fund	10	$397
School of Nursing Fund for Excellence (Greatest Needs)	57	$4,555
Lichtenstein Fund for Southampton Arts	3	$130
World Language Teacher Award	15	$2,100
SoMAS General Scholarship Fund	15	$2,009
Cross Country / Track & Field Fund for Excellence	41	$7,807
Paul L. Siegel Endowed Scholarship for Women in STEM Fund	19	$6,203
Black and Latino Alumni Network Endowed Scholarship	14	$1,730
Men's Soccer Fund for Excellence	17	$3,492
Sociology Department Fund for Excellence	31	$1,644
Humanities Institute Fund	14	$545
Friends of the Ashley Schiff Park Preserve	37	$2,431
Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Fund for Excellence	18	$2,536
Baseball Fund for Excellence	37	$11,069
Hispanic Languages and Literature Undergraduate & Graduate Student Award Fund	22	$1,325
Softball Fund for Excellence	38	$2,743
The Southampton Review	22	$873
History's Chairs Fund	26	$3,029
WUSB-FM Radio Fund	40	$2,683
College of Arts and Sciences Fund for Excellence (Greatest Needs)	56	$8,388
Women's Leadership Council Fund	57	$6,458
Student Emergency Support Fund	23	$2,374
SBU Veterans Assistance Fund	25	$1,102
Seawolves United	41	$3,846
The Southampton Review	22	$873
Athletic Training Program	77	$2,207
School of Health Professions Fund for Excellence (Greatest Needs)	77	$1,567
Women's Lacrosse Fund for Excellence	17	$2,044
Alda Center Innovation Fund	36	$808
EOP Endowed Fund	21	$12,721
Chemistry Department Fund for Excellence	27	$9,257
Renaissance School of Medicine Fund for Excellence (Greatest Needs)	25	$8,842
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Fund for Excellence (Greatest Needs)	22	$2,437
Volleyball Fund for Excellence	25	$3,699
School of Communications and Journalism Fund for Excellence (Greatest Needs)	25	$3,532
Men's Lacrosse Fund for Excellence	97	$9,026
BS Health Sciences Support Fund	81	$1,601
Stony Brook Children's Hospital	23	$1,312
Swimming & Diving Fund for Excellence	23	$2,319
Occupational Therapy Fund for Excellence	83	$1,653

Top Performing School/College

School/College	Donors	Raised ($)
School of Health Professions (SHP)	548	$17,031
College of Arts & Sciences (CAS)	727	$142,164
Honors College	5	$433
Renaissance School of Medicine (RSOM)	110	$23,559
School of Professional Development (SPD)	7	$162
School of Social Welfare (SSW)	21	$3,031
School of Dental Medicine (SDM)	34	$5,533
School of Nursing (SON)	58	$5,555
School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences (SOMAS)	40	$4,916
Graduate School & Programs	10	$371
College of Business	44	$8,242
School of Communication & Journalism (SOCJ)	60	$6,897
College of Engineering & Applied Sciences (CEAS)	66	$20,115