Giving That Reflects Your Corporate Vision
Partnering with St. Edward’s offers numerous ways to invest strategically in university programs and initiatives that align with your company’s values and vision. You’ll help shape the future of countless students and your industry while supporting our mission to create a more just and sustainable world.
Today’s communities need more professionals guided by expertise and moral reasoning — the hallmarks of a St. Edward’s Holy Cross education. As we pursue funding to help achieve our goals, we look to partner with business leaders who are passionate about improving the world through the impact of our transformative education.
Interested in exploring a partnership with St. Edward’s?
Complete our short Employer Interest Form. We’ll get back to you right away.
Align Corporate Sponsorships and Philanthropy with Your Priorities
Your gifts of time, talent, and treasure can make a significant difference for our academic community as well as reinforce your company’s priorities. The following programs and initiatives provide opportunities to invest your corporate contributions in a way that aligns with your corporate goals. We welcome the chance to discuss how your business can benefit from helping sustain and grow these programs.
Education Access and Student Support
Assist students from low-income and underserved communities who are transforming society and charting new paths of economic mobility for themselves and their families.
- Annual gifts to The St. Edward’s Fund provide a stable foundation for every aspect of the St. Edward’s experience — from student scholarships, resources and activities to academic instruction and experiential learning.
- Lend a helping hand to students experiencing unexpected hardships and food insecurity by contributing to the Hilltoppers Overcoming Obstacles Fund (HOOF), and the Monarchs Food Pantry on campus, sponsored by Campus Ministry
- For more than 50 years, the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) at St. Edward’s has proudly served the higher education needs of students from migrant farm-working families. Each year, 35 students are selected to enroll at St. Edward’s through CAMP. Your support for this program helps us enhance learning and professional development opportunities for our CAMP students while covering the majority of their college expenses.
Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability
Strengthen environmental education, conservation and climate resilience efforts by supporting our programs and resources that address these issues.
- St. Edward’s offers innovative degree programs in environmental and sustainability studies, which give students opportunities to conduct high-level research alongside faculty mentors and engage in internships related to their degree.
- Our Wild Basin Creative Research Center and Climate Resilience Living Lab provide research and experiential learning opportunities on environmental subjects. So does our sustainable campus. The hilltop maintains outdoor spaces devoted to teaching and research, along with a Campus Garden and Food Forest managed by the Students for Sustainability organization.
Community Impact and Volunteering
Our Holy Cross mission inspires us to give back to our communities in ways that foster a more humane, just and sustainable world.
- Help us elevate our community reach and impact through vital services and programs like our Community Counseling Clinic and the Kozmetsky Center for Civic Engagement.
- Support Campus Ministry’s volunteer programs for students, such as SERVE Austin and Service Break Experiences. These initiatives, and more, connect students to volunteer opportunities with a diverse range of nonprofit organizations in Austin and beyond.
Healthcare Equity and Access
The new School of Health Sciences at St. Edward's prepares highly skilled, compassionate professionals for careers that meet the growing healthcare needs across Central Texas communities. The school offers pathways for students to earn a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and to achieve a soon-to-be-offered doctorate in Occupational Therapy. More academic programs are planned, including four new post-baccalaureate degrees.
By supporting our Health Sciences programs, your contributions help us advance practices that promote healthcare equity and access for everyone.
Cultivating the Arts
The arts are fundamental to a St. Edward’s education. Studying the arts instills creativity, innovation, independent expression, critical thinking and a deeper understanding of history and other cultures. If you’re keen to champion students and faculty immersed in the arts, here are just a few areas where your generosity can make an impact.
- Our award-winning Mary Moody Northen Theatre provides options for supporting the theatre. Your donation bolsters scholarships, enhances our productions and funds the BFA Acting Showcase, which helps senior students in the performing arts launch their careers post-graduation.
- The St. Edward's Fine Arts Gallery serves both the university and Austin community through exhibitions of professional artists, faculty, alumni and students, as well as sponsored lectures and other programming related to our visiting artist program.
- The Marcia Kinsey Visiting Writers Series brings renowned writers to campus to read from their work, talk about their writing and interact with our students.
Brand Awareness
Partnering with St. Edward’s offers opportunities to expand the visibility of your business while supporting our mission. Sponsorships make a positive impression on our family of students, parents, alumni, faculty and staff, as well as the greater Austin community.
- Partner with Hilltopper Athletics to engage with our vibrant and growing audience of sports fans on the hilltop and beyond who cheer on our teams.
- Sponsor outstanding theater productions at the Mary Moody Northen Theater, Austin’s only theater-in-the-round, which has a large and loyal following of theatergoers.
- Position your brand at the center of campus-wide events like Homecoming and Hillfest, our annual student-run campus party. These popular traditions regularly draw thousands of attendees each year.
Tell Us How You Would Like to Collaborate
Learn more about the value of investing in the mission and students of St. Edward’s. Complete our Employer Interest Form. Or contact our Sponsorships and Philanthropy team directly. We look forward to working with you!
Meghann Bolton
Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations
Cell: 512-313-4115 mbolton@stedwards.edu
Weston Sythoff ’06
Corporate Relations Officer
Cell: 512-428-1204 wsythoff@stedwards.edu
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