Areas to Support
Laurier encourages the designation of your gift to the program on campus that means the most to you.
Our current capital campaign is Making Space for Music. With your help, we are going to renovate and expand our current music building, transforming it into a vastly-improved space for teaching, practising, rehearsing and performing.
Discover the different areas of campus that you can support and learn about the various ways to donate to Laurier.
Projects and Initiatives
Scholarships reward students for meaningful, effective work. They are competitive, and primarily recognize academic success, but may also be given for community impact, leadership, or other accomplishments.
Providing a scholarship is a simple, practical way to help an individual student directly and inspire them to continue to set lofty goals.
We can help you set up a scholarship that recognizes high-performing students in alignment with your interests and affiliations. You can choose to support a scholarship through an expendable or endowed gift.
While the costs of postsecondary education affect most students, some struggle more than others to pay for tuition, books and living expenses. Bursaries provide financial assistance for those in need. For many students, a bursary directly affects their ability to attend and graduate.
Providing a bursary sends a message to struggling students that you see their challenges and that you care, giving students the financial and moral support they need to succeed.
We can help you set up a bursary in alignment with your interests and affiliations. You can choose to support a bursary through an expendable or endowed gift.
Awards are competitive like scholarships and can recognize academic, leadership, community impact or other accomplishments, but like bursaries they also require that students demonstrate financial need.
Providing an award is a great way for you to help students in need, while also recognizing their achievements. Awards inspire students to continue to work hard while reassuring them that they have the financial support to do so.
We can help you set up a meaningful award in alignment with your interests and affiliations. You can choose to support an award through an expendable or endowed gift.
The Student Emergency Fund is one of Laurier’s unique responses the challenges students face into today’s complex society. This fund provides one-time support to students who are experiencing an unforeseen financial crisis. In many cases, it allows them to stay in school and complete their degree. The fund supports a range student needs, including helping a single parent/student in a housing crisis with first and last month’s rent.
The Student Emergency Fund is a great way to support students’ physical and mental health and well-being so that they can succeed in their studies.
Laurier students care about the world around them and they are passionate about getting involved and broadening their horizons. Our international learning and service programs are extremely popular and constantly expanding; every year, more students have the opportunity to make a difference abroad while learning real-world skills.
You can support students’ international experiences through travel scholarships, awards and bursaries or by funding specific team or group travel.
Unsure of where you want to direct your gift? Designating your gift to Laurier’s Greatest Need allows us to us to use your support where it will make the most immediate difference. This type of giving is wonderful because it allows for a great deal of flexibility and timeliness in supporting our university community. Your gift could be directed from anything to an exciting new building project, student awards, investment in research, student wellness, athletics, campus cultural activities and everything in between!
The Library is the intellectual and cultural heart of Laurier, the place where the university community comes together to access and interact with information and people, generate new ideas and engage with the great questions of our time.
Our Library offers students, faculty, staff and community members a space to engage with traditional and emerging media. Donor support helps us offer fundamental research and teaching resources like books, databases, theses/dissertations and our archives, but also supports an in-house makerspace, community/culture events and activities and multi-media resources. Because of your generosity, the Library has something for everyone.
As we look to the future, university senior leadership has charged the university librarian with a task to organize and convene a university-wide "Transform Laurier Library" committee and to lead a process that will imagine the next stages of the Laurier Library evolution.
The Library is about to take on a comprehensive and wide-ranging consultative process and to think deeply about the role of the Laurier Library within the context of a variety of stakeholders and through many different lens.
What will the library of the future look like? You can play a role in shaping it! Stay connected with our visioning process, and/or support the Library with a transformational gift.
Adopt-A-Hawk to support Laurier Athletics! Through the Adopt-A-Hawk program, alumni, family and friends “adopt” one of our more than 500 student-athletes each season by offering a donation in their name to their specific athletics program.
Donations help Laurier secure top-quality equipment, enhance coaching resources, increase opportunities for advanced off-season training and exhibition play and inspire our student-athletes to lead lives of leadership and purpose, on and off the field. Programs such as men's baseball, women's lacrosse and men's rugby exclusively use the Adopt A Hawk platform to support their needs.
Do you know and love a Golden Hawk student-athlete? Adopt them today!
Calling all Golden Hawk fans to support the Athletics Highest Priority Needs fund. As with our Laurier’s Greatest Need fund, your gift will go to the Athletic project or program most in need of support at the time of your gift.
This type of giving is wonderful because it allows for a great deal of flexibility and timeliness in supporting our Athletics at Laurier.
HAWKstarter is Laurier’s very own crowd-funding site. It supports faculty, staff and student charitable projects that need funding in the $500-$5000 range. HAWKstarter projects showcase the depth and breadth of the many ways that the Laurier community can make a real-world difference, and can also be set up in memoriam. Past projects funded include:
- Teaching Excellence Toolkit for Haiti
- Curie-osity Award for Women in Science
- Planting a Laurier Forest
- The Dr. Gary Cameron scholarship in Social Work
- Christopher Triantafilou Memorial Fund
- Past and present Class Reunion Giving Challenges
Check out HAWKstarter today to see what’s happening and support community engagement at Laurier.
By offering various types of programs – everything from financial literacy workshops to mental health first-aid training – Laurier is working hard to prevent, rather than react to, mental health crises.
You can help Laurier students by donating to support mental health initiatives, outreach and support programs at Laurier. Your donation will go directly to support the mental health needs of our students at Laurier.
Our students can’t do their best when they don’t feel their best. They need your support!
Join Laurier and its committed to building capacity in Indigenous education on all of its campuses under the leadership of Indigenous students, faculty and staff, by making a donation in support of Indigenous Initiatives today.
Please, consider giving to support the The Nadjiwan Kaandossiwin Gamik— Beautiful Place Of Learning Project.
The renewal of Laurier’s Lucinda House, including $700,000 raised to-date, will play a vital role in the university’s ongoing multi-campus efforts to eliminate barriers for Indigenous learners.
With your support, Laurier will be one step closer to realizing its vision to build an environment where indigeneity is part of the core experience for all students, faculty and staff.
Give to Support Indigenous InitiativesDonations can be made in the form of gifts to Martin Luther University College for our general purposes; to one of Luther’s centres; or to designated funds for specific purposes such as the student bursary (financial aid), the Women of Faith fund, academic awards or programs, or endowed academic chairs.
To help us educate and equip people who are motivated to serve their neighbours throughout the world, please donate.
Faculties
Committed to teaching and research excellence, Laurier’s Faculty of Arts boasts more than 5,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 11 departments and interdisciplinary programming, spanning a number of fields in the social sciences and humanities.
You can fuel the aspirations of Laurier’s Arts students by supporting scholarships and bursaries, real-world study experiences or one of these key priorities and unique initiatives, including:
Your support is needed to enable Laurier’s Faculty of Education to continue its mission to prepare educational leaders who inspire lives through learning.
Offering a Bachelor of Education degree, a Master of Education program and the Master of Education, Student Affairs Field, the faculty aims to provide its students with an advanced and integrated understanding of the relationship between educational theory, practice, and reflection.
You can fuel the aspirations of Laurier’s education students by supporting scholarships and bursaries, real-world study experiences or one of these key priorities and unique initiatives, including the Educator and Leadership Institute (ELI).
Laurier’s graduate and postdoctoral students are engaged with the world around them, producing effective research while inspiring the next generation. Specialized research requires visionary support from donors who see the value in both the knowledge itself as well as the relationships that are forged in the discovery. Collaborations among academics and within wider industries are the foundation on which progress is made in our culture. Support for scholarships, fellowships and travel and research funding brings continuing resources and energy into this already generative system.
Do you have a particular interest or affiliation you’d like to support at the graduate level? Would you like to support excellence in teaching and advising? There are many ways to support graduate and postdoctoral students at Laurier.
Donate to support the innovative learning opportunities fostered by Laurier’s Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, which offers degrees in the programs of Criminology, Game Design and Development, Health Studies (Community Health, Health Administration and Public Health programs), Leadership, Policing and Psychology, and promotes continuing education for professionals through the Centre for Public Safety and Well-Being.
The faculty is currently focused on securing much-needed donor support for a number of key priorities and unique initiatives.
From traditional arts disciplines such as English and History to new interdisciplinary fields of study such as User Experience Design, Faculty of Liberal Arts programming prepares students to think critically and then apply that thinking to real world issues. With many experiential learning opportunities, Liberal Arts students are well equipped to make a positive difference in their communities upon graduation. We also offer the unique Master of Arts in Social Justice and Community Engagement, and two of our programs, Human Rights and Human Diversity and Law and Society, are part of a program partnership with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, which allows students to achieve a Bachelor of Arts and a law degree (LLB) in six years.
Support for the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Laurier celebrates the vibrant history of the Liberal Arts education while building opportunities for new and innovative applications of critical thinking skills.
Laurier’s renowned Faculty of Music is dedicated to fostering artistic and scholarly development of the highest calibre and to providing a creative environment for student success. Our students, faculty and outside artists present upwards of 100 concerts and events a year to the public! We’re also highly engaged in the community through our Laurier Centre for Music in the Community and our Music Therapy programs which bring us into connection with a wide and diverse range of individuals.
This is an exciting year for the Faculty of Music, as we kick off the Making Space for Music campaign. With the help of our music-loving donors, we are going to renovate and expand our current music building, transforming it into a vastly-improved space for teaching, practising, rehearsing and performing. We’ll also be continuing to work with donors to support students through scholarships, fellowships and instruments.
Your support is needed to keep Laurier’s dynamic and rapidly growing Faculty of Science focused on offering an interdisciplinary approach with an emphasis on the applications of science that address some of society’s most pressing issues. By supporting scholarships and bursaries, new endowed chairs and multidisciplinary research, you will be investing in tomorrow’s scientific leaders.
The faculty is currently focused on securing much-needed donor support for a number of key priorities and unique initiatives, including:
Laurier’s remarkable Centre for Women in Science (WinS), which aims to build an inclusive community for women in science through research, communication and action.
The Sun Life Financial Centre for Physically Active Communities (CPAC) at Laurier is a community outreach program that aims to improve activity levels and the overall health of youth within our community.
Mama Aki Mother Earth Camp first launched in 2018 as a partnership between the Office of Indigenous Initiatives and the Faculty of Science with the goal to engage indigenous youth in the sciences and to link science with indigenous knowledge. This summer the program will run two weeks of overnight camps at Wilfrid Laurier University on the Waterloo campus. Indigenous youth in grades seven and eight will have the opportunity to engage in science activities throughout the day.
The Lazaridis School of Business & Economics is one of the most engaged and adaptive undergraduate business schools in Canada and one of the best in North America.
At the Lazaridis School, we offer students immersive learning opportunities in a challenging yet supportive environment that prepare them to thrive in an increasingly complex world. This year, the Lazaridis School is celebrating the success of its recently completed Building Canada’s Best Business School campaign.
Donor support plays a huge role in the success of the Lazaridis School. Scholarships and fellowships support purposeful learning, engaged teaching and meaningful research while support for labs, incubators and active learning classrooms prepare students to thrive in school and the world beyond.
You can make a difference in the lives of Laurier’s social work students by donating today. Laurier’s Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work has an international reputation for excellence in teaching, research and field education. Our programs are ideally located in the heart of downtown Kitchener and Brantford – embedding our students close to the social service agencies with which they work.
Your support will help bolster social work programs at the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels. Our newest Bachelor of Social Work program, located at Laurier’s Brantford campus, offers a generalist degree with a unique focus on Indigenous issues.
You can fuel the aspirations of Laurier’s Social Work students by supporting scholarships and bursaries, real-world study experiences or key priorities and unique initiatives.