College Raises More Than $900K on NC State’s Day of Giving

Alumni, friends, faculty, staff and students showed record support for the College of Sciences on NC State’s Day of Giving this year. 

On March 26, the college received 1,250 gifts — more than ever before — totaling more than $900,000 as part of the annual fundraising event. Over the 24 hours, NC State as a whole raised more than $50.5 million from 18,565 gifts. Donors representing 100 North Carolina counties, all 50 states and 17 countries were part of the effort.

Each year on Day of Giving, the Wolfpack comes together to help NC State raise funds for priorities across the university, such as meeting students’ most urgent needs, increasing scholarship to keep education accessible to people from every financial background and strengthening the infrastructure that supports our leading-edge research. 

By the end of the day, the college had:

• Raised $911,878
• Received 1,250 gifts, a record and a 13% increase over the 2024 Day of Giving event
• Received technological and financial contributions from Lenovo, which will play a pivotal role in advancing hurricane risk research led by Professor Lian Xie from the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
• Landed more than $7,000 from winning various university challenges and securing university bonus funds; the college has now received about $67,000 in challenge and bonus funding across all Day of Giving events.
• Earned a $5,000 gift-matching challenge from Dean and Gail Bunce when the college’s Excellence Fund reached 100 gifts by 3 p.m. The Bunces are the university’s only supporters to donate Day of Giving challenge funds in all seven years of the event’s existence.
• Earned a $5,000 gift-matching challenge from Dean Emeritus Dan Solomon after the college reached 50 gifts from faculty and staff during the 2-3 p.m. hour.
• Earned more than $1,000 in a special gift-matching challenge from Barb Prillaman, a member of the College of Sciences Foundation Board of Directors and the Alumni Advisory Board, in memory of our beloved colleague, Wilma Jean Daley.