Make an impact on Concordia’s future

Get involved with major initiatives designed to meet the diverse and evolving needs of today’s students. Your support of these and many other projects will help students fulfill their vocation and have a profound impact on the landscape of the Concordia campus.

Where to Give

A Distinctive Lutheran Identity

Grounded in the pursuit of truth, freedom, and vocation, our Lutheran identity enables CUC to be distinctive in the American higher education landscape.

Tremendous social and cultural pressures challenge our moral foundations. By embracing and staying true to our Lutheran identity, we become a more appealing choice for students and families who share those timeless values.

Your charitable gifts can help us:

  • recruit LCMS faculty and students
  • advance theological scholarship
  • uplift the next generation of Lutheran educators and musicians
  • assure our values and voices remain prominent in today’s society

Give to the Lutheran Identity Fund

The Dr. Rosa J. Young Opportunity Scholarship

A unique partnership between CUC, the LCMS Foundation, and the Lutheran Church Extension Fund (LCEF), the Dr. Rosa J. Young Opportunity Scholarship endowment supports African-American students at CUC who desire to pursue LCMS church vocations.

Your charitable gifts to this endowment are matched dollar-for-dollar to double the impact you can have expanding opportunities for a more diverse group of future ministry leaders.

View The Dr. Rosa J. Young Opportunity Scholarship brochure (PDF)

Give to Dr. Rosa J. Young Opportunity Scholarship

CUC Fund for Strategic Initiatives

Our new strategic plan, Focusing our Future, is an exciting and important step for CUC. It touches every aspect of university life in targeted ways that are both aspirational and achievable.

It is about our students, our finances, our facilities, our mission, and our community. It enables us to develop a clear, strong, unifying identity.

Your charitable gifts can help:

  • underwrite key strategic initiatives that will provide a formative student experience
  • assure fiscal agility and strength
  • develop enduring partnerships that advance the common good
  • elevate a vibrant university community

Learn more about our Strategic Initiatives

For more information how you can make a direct impact on specific Strategic Initiatives contact:

Jeff Hynes
Foundation President and CEO
jeff.hynes@cuchicago.edu
708-209-3444

Scott D. Ward, PhD
Associate Vice President for Development
scott.ward@cuchicago.edu
708-488-4342

Funding for New High Impact Programs

While upholding our core values, CUC also embraces the world to assure there are capable, qualified, and faithful students who embrace the world in thoughtful and relevant ways.

Concordia-Chicago has launched a new College of Health, Science & Technology, a new College of Theology, Arts & Humanities, and a new Free Enterprise Center, and has recruited distinguished academic leaders to lead these new high impact programs.

Your charitable gifts can assure that financial and intellectual resources are available to rapidly invest in promising opportunities and assure the success of these impactful programs.

For more information how you can make a direct impact on New High Impact Programs contact:

Jeff Hynes
Foundation President and CEO
jeff.hynes@cuchicago.edu
708-209-3444

Scott D. Ward, PhD
Associate Vice President for Development
scott.ward@cuchicago.edu
708-488-4342

For more information about current initiatives and how you can make a direct impact on Concordia University Chicago contact:

Jeff Hynes
Foundation President and CEO
jeff.hynes@cuchicago.edu
708-209-3444
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