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Annual Giving

Your gift serves ECU

ECU’s mission is to serve. One of the greatest ways alumni, friends, parents, faculty, staff, and students can serve the university is by making an annual gift. Yearly gifts help set students up for success and provide faculty with immediate, necessary tools to ensure they can seek tomorrow’s solutions. With more than 3,000 funds to choose from, there are so many ways your gift can be put to good use.

Mission-Driven

Annual gifts, no matter the size, provide every area of the university with the flexibility to respond to immediate and pressing financial needs. Tuition and state appropriations cover only a portion of the annual cost of education. Private support through annual giving fills the gap of unmet academic essentials and ensures ECU can fulfill its mission.

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College and School Priorities

Annual gifts give deans, directors, and chairs the opportunity to quickly address the greatest needs of the area they oversee.
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Medicine and Health Care

Your annual gift to a fund in the Division of Health Sciences helps advance health care through allied health sciences, dental, nursing, and medical education.
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Student Scholarships

One of our greatest funding needs is student scholarships. Annual gifts to scholarship funds open doors to students seeking an ECU education.
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Arts and Culture

Music, dance, art, glass blowing, and theatre. These are not just past times; they are inspiration to feed the soul and a sampling of the arts and culture offered by ECU. From the Alexander Series and Family Fare to the GlasStation and Four Seasons Music Festival, there is something for everyone and every cultural passion.

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Research and Innovation

Faculty and student researchers at ECU are developing new technologies, medicines and innovative approaches that will transform the rural and coastal regions of our state and be part of the flagship university of eastern North Carolina.

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Enhance the ECU Experience

Life as a Pirate is the best kind of life! Our students deserve an educational experience like only our university can provide. Whether it’s learning to be leaders through programs and activities or taking a dive during the annual Polar Plunge, every aspect of student life helps mold and prepare these students to serve.

Support your passion

Your annual gift in support of an area of ECU for which you feel passionate is meaningful for our students and faculty.