Giving
We Lead the Way Together
With Illinois is our most ambitious fundraising campaign to date. Our goal of raising $550 million will support our campaign priorities and build a brighter future for Grainger Engineers. By sharing in our bold vision, your investment in our outstanding students and faculty will help us find solutions to the world’s toughest challenges through groundbreaking research, as well as increase infrastructure that cultivates innovation and community. Your unrestricted support will also allow us to respond to the most pressing needs.
We set extraordinary minds free to solve our world's most important challenges. Your support is essential to ensuring that Illinois continues to set a global standard for engineering research and education.
With Illinois, you can help us to lead the way on each of our priorities:
Engineering Visionary Scholarships
Tackling the Toughest Challenges
Aggressively Drive the Economy
Reimagine Engineering Education
Together, we give the brightest minds an opportunity to thrive. The Engineering Visionary Scholarship Initiative makes an Illinois education accessible to the most-deserving and highest-achieving students. Now through the end of 2019, The Grainger Foundation will match all donations up to $25 Million to the Grainger College of Engineering's scholarship endowments. With Illinois, amazing young people become incredible engineers.
Together, we do the impossible every day. We envision a future in which new solutions from our best engineers bring nuclear and cyber security, global access to clean water, cures and treatments for diseases, effective health care, and a sustainable environment. We make this possible by building state-of-the-art learning spaces and labs to cultivate breakthrough research and innovation. Strategic investments in our faculty and facilities allow us to recruit and retain the brightest minds. With Illinois, we are tackling the toughest challenges.
Together, we aggressively drive the economy. We create opportunities to bring innovations to market through our Faculty Entrepreneurial Fellows program. The Innovation, Leadership, and Engineering Entrepreneurship program expands these offerings and integrates them into every student's experience. We are building the Chicago tech pipeline with a new City Scholars internship program. With Illinois, new industries are defined, and new economic powerhouses are built.
Together, we ensure our engineers are ready for the world. Beginning on day one, every student learns the power of interdisciplinary thinking through programs like the Illinois Engineering First-Year Experience. The Academic Redshirt in Science and Engineering program provides point-of-entry opportunities for top students from educationally underserved backgrounds. We connect faculty and students to the most innovative teaching and learning methods through the Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education. The world is changing, and it's changing fast. With Illinois, the best engineers are prepared.
The Grainger Matching Challenge
The Engineering Visionary Scholarship (EVS) Initiative has paved the way for hundreds of Grainger Engineering students. Now through December 31, 2019, gifts to the EVS Initiative may be matched by The Grainger Foundation!
With Illinois Campaign Progress
So far, we've raised $516.6 Million of our $550 Million campaign goal thanks to the help of donors like you! Want to stay connected? Sign up for our newsletter or join us at an upcoming event:
When Illinois rises, humanity advances. Join us in building a better world With Illinois.
Arielle Gross
Materials Science and Engineering, '11
"The democratization of education to produce better problem solvers is a noble concept. Many institutions benefit from private donations, which when put to effective use, create invaluable opportunities. If my scholarship fund can help more students launch effective careers and add value to society, that is a meaningful outcome for me."
Lauren Schissler
Civil Engineering, '22
“I am very thankful to receive financial assistance to attend Illinois Engineering. As a student here, I plan to pay it forward by being welcoming to all students to help create a positive community. Once I have achieved success and have financial resources of my own, I hope to be able to give someone else the same opportunities that I have at Illinois by potentially becoming a donor myself. I would be honored to help a deserving person attend Illinois Engineering, opening up a world of possibilities.”
Ways to Give
Your support ensures that we remain a leader in engineering education, discovery, innovation, and sustained excellence. To make a gift, choose which path you'd like to take.