The Parents Fund
The Parents Fund supports Bucknell University's top priority: our students. In the past fiscal year parents contributed over $2 million — sending a strong, collective vote of confidence in the University's mission and vision. You can designate your Parents Fund gift to any area of Bucknell.
When you make a gift to Bucknell, you provide the vital resources that make our academic programs so strong, our residential programs so engaging, our financial aid packages so substantial, and our campus such a beautiful and effective space for learning.
Most of all, your gifts support our students — your children — along with their friends and peers and future generations of Bucknellians, helping them grow into broadly educated leaders ready for success.
The Difference Your Gift Can Make
$50
Your gift could provide:
- Student travel expenses to conduct research at a local site
- One musical score for the Music Library
- One day's wages for an engineering student worker
$100
Your gift could enhance student life by providing:
- Supplies for an international cooking class at 7th Street Studio
- One Common Ground scholarship
- Bagel brunch for 40 students at the Berelson Center for Jewish Life
$250
Your gift could celebrate the arts by providing:
- Paint for an entire art class for one semester
- One cross-cut mitre saw to build theatre sets
- A semester's worth of chemicals for the photography lab
$500
Your gift could provide Bison Athletics with:
- One video camera for baseball team analysis
- Two goals for the women's lacrosse program
- One season's worth of strings and grips for tennis teams
$1,000
Your gift could provide the Career Development Center with:
- Bus transportation for students to attend a career fair
$2,500
Your gift could provide University resources like:
- Two laptop computers for the library equipment desk
- One large-format digital printer for the Department of Art & Art History