Giving Tuesday Offers Opportunity to Support University Funds

In honor of Giving Tuesday, Dec. 3, the Office of Advancement is highlighting three funds to demonstrate the impact a gift can have in the life of a Truman student.

Giving Tuesday celebrates and supports causes that improve the lives of Truman students. The three funds highlighted at truman.edu/givingtuesday are representative of the many ways donors can help the University.

The Truman Food Pantry serves an average of 90 Truman students at each of their pop-up pantries. While addressing food insecurity, they also purchase food options that reflect the cultures and backgrounds of students that need it most, providing international options, shelf-stable milk and recipes for healthy meals with ingredients offered. With dollar-for-dollar gift matching up to $10,000, a gift to the food pantry can help meet day-to-day needs of students facing food insecurity.

Members of 1978-79 men’s basketball conference championship and Hall of Fame team are providing a $25,000 matching gift challenge to support the men’s basketball program. The matching gift challenge runs through Dec. 31 and is designed to help generate much needed support for operations, recruitment and scholarships for the program.

The General Scholarship Fund is used to strategically support University scholarship programs. In most recent years it has been used to award athletic scholarships, band scholarships, e-sports scholarships and support the Bulldog Scholars. A portion of general scholarship is also reserved every year for emergency funding, helping students who need a boost to stay enrolled or are facing personal hardship.

In addition to the highlighted funds, the Truman State University Foundation welcomes gifts of all sizes to any fund at any time. For more information about donating to the University, visit truman.edu/giving or contact the Office of Advancement at 660.785.4133.