Match Madness is here! Generous matching donors are putting their money on the line to inspire you to make a gift. With various match opportunities, your gift can have double or triple the impact as matching opportunities are added! Make your gift today!
O'Reilly & Wooten families announce $1.5M match to support Panther Students!
In addition, the O'Reilly and Wooten families have once again generously stepped forward with the O’Reilly-Wooten Challenge. Rosalie O'Reilly Wooten '64, Anya and Larry O'Reilly '68, and Stacey and David O'Reilly '71 are offering to provide up to $1.5 million total in matching funds to support student success. That means that your Match Madness gift goes even further in supporting Panther students!
Everyone can join the Madness by making a gift to the Student Success Fund and related funds listed – these are our highest priorities for funding to support Panther students. Scholarships significantly impact students, helping Drury attract and retain the best and brightest students and faculty.
Donors can designate to any of the funds below and have their gift matched:
- Student Success Fund
- Area of Greatest Need
- Breech School of Business Scholarships
- Hammons School of Architecture Scholarships
- Natural and Mathematical Sciences Scholarships
- Communications, Fine and Performing Arts Scholarships
- Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences Scholarships
- Education and Childhood Development Scholarships
- Student Athlete General Scholarships
- Men's Basketball Scholarships
- Drury GO Scholarships - evening and graduate studies
- Dr. Curtis Strube Entrepreneurial Annual Scholarship
- First-Generation Students
- Student Services
- Faculty and Academic Support
- Facilities
Show your spirit, share your love for DU, and help transform students' lives. Join alumni, friends, parents, faculty, staff, and students in making a gift to make the most of Match Madness today!
Did you know that you can recognize your favorite professor(s) or other individuals when you make a gift? Include your honoree's name in the “in honor of” section of the giving form. We will notify them or their family, and they will be listed in the Honorary or Memorial section of the Annual Honor Roll of Donors in the fall.
You can also help us spread the word. Use the sharing buttons below the video to email your friends and share on social media. Be sure to TAG your Drury friends on Facebook! Click on the Advocate Tab and learn how you can have a major impact as a virtual volunteer advocate.
If you have any questions about the campaign, issuing your own match, or becoming a virtual volunteer advocate, please email Melanie Earl at mearl@drury.edu.
A generous donor is honoring the late Dr. Curtis Strube (pictured below), former Dean of the Breech School of Business at Drury, and matching all gifts to this fund up to $100,000. The Dr. Curtis Strube Entrepreneurial Scholarship benefits multiple students studying in the Breech School of Business and continues Dr. Strube's legacy of supporting students at Drury.
When you make a gift to this designation today, your gift will have 4 TIMES THE IMPACT through currently available matches, including the O'Reilly-Wooten Challenge!
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