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Every gift to Bucknell serves one mission: to offer the best education possible to our students.
We are deeply grateful to the thousands of donors who enable us to continue this mission, further elevating Bucknell as a leader in undergraduate education and opening up the promise of a Bucknell education to the most talented students — regardless of their means.
Fuel the Future
YEAR-END GIVING
Gifts from alumni, parents and friends — like you — provide collective support that powers the student experience. Your generosity helps create scholarships, fund academic programs, support faculty, provide leadership opportunities, enhance residential life and prepare undergraduates to change the world for the better.
When you give $25 or more by Dec. 31, we’ll send you the 2025 Bucknell Calendar as a token of our gratitude!
New Centers for Excellence
Advances the scholarship of data science by fostering cross-college, data-integrated learning and data literacy among students
Dominguez Center for Data Science
Amplifies cross-disciplinary programming, bringing the entrepreneurial mindset to the forefront of the Bucknell experience
Perricelli-Gegnas Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Your Impact
Last year, more than 13,000 donors raised nearly $38 million for the University. Learn more about the tangible difference these gifts are making toward enhancing the Bucknell student experience.
Donor Stories
Learn more about the alumni, parents and friends of Bucknell who are lighting the way for generations to come, and how their Bucknell experience inspired them to give back.
Student Stories
Every gift to Bucknell supports and strengthens the student experience — whether it's through scholarships, top-level facilities, outstanding faculty or in countless other ways. Meet the amazing students your gift benefits, every day.
The Bucknell Forum
2024-25
National Speaker Series
NBC News Washington correspondent Yamiche Alcindor; comedian, TV host and producer W. Kamau Bell; pioneering actor and social justice activist George Takei (presented in partnership with MLK Week); and entrepreneur, investor and Shark Tank panelist Kevin O’Leary (presented in partnership with the Perricelli-Gegnas Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation) will appear for the 2024-25 Bucknell Forum speaker series. The speakers will address the series theme, "World in Transition," which reflects upon the dynamic and rapidly changing global landscape we are experiencing today.