Learn about the different areas of campus that you can support and designate your gift to the program on campus that means the most to you. Direct your giving to the project, iniative or faculty that means the most to you, and discover the many different ways that you can support the Laurier community
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Designate your gift to Laurier's Greatest Need and make an immediate impact. Your gift could support innovative research, awards for students in need student wellness, athletics, campus cultural activities, exciting new building projects and so much more.
Healthy students thrive in their studies, activities and personal well-being, while mental, physical and financial struggles can be significant barriers to success. Your support for student wellness could be the reason a student makes it to graduation.
The Leanne Holland Brown Student Emergency Fund is a 100-per-cent donor-supported relief fund for Laurier students experiencing unforeseen financial crises.
Student emergency funds provide immediate financial relief to students facing exceptional circumstances, helping them meet basic needs like rent, groceries or medical expenses when they've exhausted all other options. These funds are made possible through donor support.
Give to the Student Emergency Fund
Laurier takes a proactive response to student mental health needs by offering a variety of programs including financial literacy and nutrition workshops, mental health first-aid training, counselling, supportive social activities and more.
You can help - many of these programs can't happen without donor support.
Scholarships, bursaries and awards change lives. They offer the financial support and encouragement that help students focus, persist and stay healthy.
Scholarships are competitive incentives that reward academic achievement and personal or extracurricular accomplishments.
Bursaries offer financial assistance to students who demonstrate financial need. They aren’t based on academic or personal achievements.
Awards are competitive and recognize achievement/accomplishment. To qualify, students must also demonstrate financial need.
Laurier’s Very Own Crowd-Funding Site
HAWKstarter supports student, faculty and staff charitable projects that need funding in the $500 to $5,000 range. HAWKstarter projects showcase the depth and breadth of the many ways that the Laurier community can make a real-world difference. Past projects funded include:
Check out HAWKstarter today to see what’s happening and support community engagement at Laurier.
We are loud and proud about athletics at Laurier! Donate to make a real difference for student athletes and to support athletic programming – a key ingredient in our campus life.
Calling all Golden Hawk fans! Your gift to Athletics provides vital support for our exceptional student-athletes and helps bring home the wins.
Give to Athletics Highest Priority Needs
Designate your gift to Athletics & Recreations' Greatest Need and make an immediate impact. Your gift could help 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. .
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.
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!
Laurier is well-known for our incredible student experience. Small, close-knit campuses with many opportunities to learn, grow and connect within and beyond the classroom help students find their passion, build their confidence and make a difference. Be a part of our thriving community by supporting student life at Laurier!
Laurier is committed to building capacity in Indigenous education on all of our campuses under the leadership of Indigenous students, faculty and staff. Your support for Indigenous Initiativies helps provide funding for:
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. Give students a chance to learn the business and culture of other countries through co-op terms, study exchanges, competitions, conferences and volunteer opportunities around the world.
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.
Give to one of our exceptional faculties and schools to support academic excellence at Laurier and help students make a difference now and in the future.
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 Centre for Healthy Communities at Laurier is a community outreach program that aims to improve activity levels and the overall health of youth within our community.
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.
Grounded in theology, Martin Luther University College (formerly Waterloo Lutheran Seminary) educates people for ordained and non-ordained leadership roles in the church, faith communities and in community agencies.
Donations 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.
Help us educate and equip people who are motivated to serve their neighbours throughout the world.
