Day of the Dons 2024

Your support helped reach our goal and unlocked the $25,000 challenge gift. The difference you made on Day of the Dons is going to have an impact on students lives forever. But we aren't done yet!

Thanks to your generosity, Jack and Sue Boland have offered a boost challenge of $10,000 when we get an additional 100 donors before midnight!

Help us make an even bigger impact with your gift tonight!

Two donors were randomly selected to have their gifts matched $150. 

Nola Agha - Sports Management

Edmund Graham - Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives Fund

Thank you for making a difference today!

Time to rally, Dons! For the next hour ONLY, two random donors who make a gift to any area of USF between now and 7pm will receive a $150 match each. Show your Dons pride and make your gift now!

There's no better excuse for old friends and classmates to get together and reminisce about our time on the Hilltop! Thanks to all the Dons who've joined us so far today at our Day of the Dons regional events in Atlanta and New York. Once a Don, always a Don 💛

See you soon, West Coast alumni, parents, and friends! There's still time to join us. Click on your region for more information:
Honolulu
East Bay
Los Angeles
Peninsula Silicon Valley
Seattle

With only 9 hours left, we need your help to get our last 700 donors and unlock $25,000 for USF students. If you haven't had a chance to make your gift yet, the time is now!

Already made your gift? You can still participate in the fun: Put your USF knowledge to the test with trivia about your favorite university in the City by the Bay 📝

You must be a Double Don, then! Double Dons are a special group of USF graduates who not only graduated with one degree from USF, but two!

Today, we are celebrating you by doubling your gift up to $150 for two lucky Double Dons. Make a gift before midnight and you'll have a chance for your gift to be randomly selected for a match!

This year you have even more ways to support your favorite causes! USF exists to change the world for the better and by giving through USF to a cause that you care about, you are helping to put USF's mission into action and change the world.

Start a ripple, and make a wave! Today, we are celebrating causes near and dear to your heart by giving three $150 matches to randomly selected donors who give to one of the causes we are highlighting: 

💚 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
🎓 Scholarships
💛 Serving the Jesuit Mission
🔬 Health and Life Sciences Campus

Click on a cause to learn more about it and how USF is working to put our mission into action.

USF Trustee Jeff Silk '87 and his wife Naomi have generously offered matching gifts of $20,000 each to the Silk Speaker Series and the Silk Investment Institute! Make your gift to one of these funds now to triple your impact.

The Silk Speaker Series is designed to provide learning opportunities and discussions for USF's students, alumni, faculty, and friends of the university. The speaker series has brought leaders on global affairs, the economy, and business to the Hilltop such as Billie Jean King, Janet Yellen, Charles Schwab, Steve Wozniak, Condoleezza Rice, Megan Rapinoe, Kal Penn, and more.

The Silk Investment Institute will launch an undergraduate minor in investments, open to all USF students, as a one-of-a-kind offering through the School of Management. The institute will also house new leadership development, an investment lab, a student seed fund, a Silk Nobel Laureates Speaker Series, and a community financial literacy initiative.

Today, when 600 alumni make a gift to any area of USF, a special $5,000 gift will be presented from the Alumni Board to the USF Food Pantry.

Since 2018, the USF Food Pantry has provided support to over 4,000 students (and counting!) experiencing food insecurity. Help the Food Pantry reach even more students and make your gift now!

FIVE ✋ recent alumni who make a gift today will be randomly selected to have their gifts matched with $100! Check back later to see which Dons' gifts were selected.

To celebrate the ripple Dons create around the world, two randomly selected international donors who make a gift to any area of USF today will earn a $150 match! No matter where you are around the globe, we all know you use your USF education to make an impact. Make your gift now for a chance to increase your impact!

Follow along today as we announce pop-up challenges all day long, offering more ways for you to make an even bigger impact on USF students!

All of our pop-up challenge gifts are a part of a generous gift from Trustee Development Committee Chair Mark Buell '64 and Trustee Doris Cheng.

Don't want to wait until we hit our goal to celebrate USF? Listen to this special Day of the Dons playlist curated with some favorites from past Donaroo headliners and classic San Francisco and Bay Area hits! 

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