Centennial Priorities

There are countless ways to support Nazareth’s Centennial giving priorities that celebrate the University, its heritage of experiential learning and service to the community, and its bright future.

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Support Nazareth’s Centennial through these key initiatives:

Student Success

  • Scholarships - Raise additional funds for endowed and restricted scholarships that will support current and future Nazareth students.
  • Retention Grants - Provide key funding for emergency retention grants - to ensure our Nazareth students are successful and thriving.
  • SPARK Grants 

Institutional Sustainability and Future Advancement

  • Annual Fund - Gifts to the Nazareth Annual Fund provide powerful financial flexibility that allows the school to sustain its ongoing commitment to students and respond to emerging needs in addition to its highest priorities.
  • New Program Start-up - Funds will be used for new programs 
  • College Naming - We seek to name the Colleges that make up Nazareth University
  • Artificial Intelligence - Funds will be used to support the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT)

Community Engagement + Strategic Partnerships

  • Community Engaged Learning (Bonner Leader Scholarship Program) - Nazareth offers 15 prestigious Bonner Leader scholarships per year. The Nazareth Bonner Leader program builds on Nazareth’s many years of community partnerships and student engagement focused on making an impact.
  • Experiential learning + Transportation fund - We seek to create access and opportunity for our students through student transportation.
  • Dialogue Series Endowment 
  • Endowed Visiting Artist Fund - Help us welcome talented artists to the beautiful and award-winning Nazareth campus facilities.

Campus Enhancements

  • Student Success Hub - A phased plan for a physical location that will be the streamlined and integrative center for student thriving.
  • Athletics Hall of Fame - Funds will be used to renovate the Nazareth Athletics Hall of Fame and create an athletics recruitment space.

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Naz at 100: A Century of Uniting Education and Action