Areas of Support
Imagine what you love most about PLU – your gift can support it!
Whether advancing student scholarships, enhancing academic colleges, or fortifying athletic programs, you have options to ensure your investment makes the significant difference you intend. Gifts to the PLU Fund are the most adaptable way to support students. Your investment will reach students through avenues such as scholarships, exceptional faculty, updated learning and living spaces, mental health support, and community-building experiences.
If you have general inquiries or want more information about areas of support like endowments or named funds, email advancement@plu.edu; your message will be forwarded to the appropriate person, or call (253) 535-7177.
Greatest Need
Supporting the greatest need is critical for ensuring that resources are directed to where they are most urgently helpful. By contributing to this fund, you provide the flexibility to address pressing challenges and seize opportunities as they arise. Giving to a greatest-need fund ensures that your generosity has a direct and immediate impact.
Campus Facilities
Your donation lays the groundwork for the future, creating cutting-edge facilities that inspire greatness. Support our current campus facility campaign, focusing on renovating the Rieke Science Center.
Academic Colleges
Put your gift to work by supporting one of our four colleges. Help create an engaging learning environment that ignites students’ ambition and supports faculty. Our diverse curriculum merges rigorous liberal arts with professional programs, fostering skills in decision-making, analysis, communication, and reasoning through classroom instruction, experiential learning, innovative programs, and internships and research opportunities.
Student Scholarships
Support student success with your gift to PLU Fund scholarships. Your gift assists 9 in 10 undergraduate students, helping to reduce financial obstacles to enrollment and graduation. With your investment in scholarships, you are joining a network of care that supports students to pursue their educational goals.
Experiences & Resources
Promote student involvement on and off campus. With 50+ student clubs and organizations, you can support experiences ranging from career-focused clubs to life-changing trips and service learning activities.
Athletics
Celebrate the momentum that our athletics teams have built. Your ongoing support fuels our student-athletes inside and outside the classroom, fostering leadership, teamwork, and service. Your investment propels their growth and success. Go Lutes!
Don’t want to give online? There are many other ways to give to PLU!
If you have questions or want more information about giving, please connect with us.
Academic Colleges at PLU
In 2022, PLU’s academic programs were restructured into four distinct colleges.
With the four newly designed colleges and their subdivisions, we will continue our purposeful integration of liberal arts, professional studies, and civic engagement with contributions from each of the four colleges to the core curriculum. Liberal arts education will remain the common foundation for students across all four colleges, as will PLU’s commitment to integrating socially impactful civic engagement across its community of faculty, staff, students, alumni, and partners.
PLU Provost Joanna Gregson
