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Welcome to University of Colorado Foundation
Planned Giving

No matter how your life has been enriched by CU, you can leave your own enduring legacy at the university through a planned gift. It can pay dividends that leave tomorrow's CU a better place for students, for faculty, for Colorado, and for the world.

There's a planned gift to suit every circumstance. On these pages, we outline creative ways you can bolster CU's future. Each giving strategy has distinct benefits for you and for the university.

Our Gift Planning Group can guide you through the available choices and help you leave the legacy you choose.

University of Colorado Foundation
Gift Planning Group
4740 Walnut St.
Boulder, CO 80301
Telephone: 303-541-1335
Fax: 303-541-1397
Office hours: Mon.-Fri., 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
planned.gifts@cufund.org
www.cufund.org/planned-giving

Gift Planning Group:

Kristen Dugdale - Vice President Gift Planning
Rich Larson - Senior Director Gift Planning
Karen Thompson - Development Associate

Profiles in Giving

When you choose to make a gift to the University of Colorado Foundation, you have a world of options. You choose the plan that works best for your needs.

To read real-world examples of the many ways that donors have made an impact, click a picture below.

Support a Great Enterprise
A new building in the heart of downtown Denver is a critical component of the Business School's vision to be a leading public urban business school. More on Support a Great Enterprise >>.

Boulder Diversity Efforts and Honoring Ofelia Miramontes
Before succumbing to breast cancer in 2005, Ofelia Miramontes led efforts to change the CU-Boulder cultural landscape by creating programs and policies that support diversity on campus. More on Boulder Diversity Efforts and Honoring Ofelia Miramontes >>.

Sustaining CU Architecture, Music, and Art and Art History Programs
This year the family of the late Dr. C. W. Bixler forever extended his legacy of caring for others through a $9 million bequest to University of Colorado programs in architecture, music, and art and art history. More on Sustaining CU Architecture, Music, and Art and Art History Programs >>.

Honoring a Daughter's Chosen Path
Eugene McMahan was a pharmacist's son, in an era when he and his siblings would stuff medication capsules for his father's practice—by hand. More on Honoring a Daughter's Chosen Path >>.