Corporation/Foundation Giving

The Development Office’s Corporate and Foundation Relations staff works to partner with corporations and foundation for support of the University of St. Thomas. The office helps to match key St. Thomas needs with the giving criteria of corporations and foundations.

The Twin Cities has a world-class community of corporations and foundations that have been vital collaborators over the years, helping St. Thomas develop its highly regarded academic programs and facilities. These supporters range from sole proprietorships to Fortune 500 companies, and from small family foundations to some of the largest regional and national foundations.

Many corporations and foundations focus their charitable giving on providing scholarship aid, which is the university’s greatest need. In addition, they contribute to the St. Thomas community in a variety of other ways:

• Creating new and innovative academic and community-based programs
• Partnering to support faculty or student research initiatives
• Supplying state-of-the-art equipment
• Establishing endowments
• Helping the university with its capital needs and new facility construction
• Matching employee contributions to the university

If you and your corporation or foundation are interested in partnering with the University of St. Thomas, please contact Susan Spray, director of corporation and foundation relations, at (651) 962-6984; (800) 962-6819, Ext. 2-6984; or srspray@stthomas.edu. For a list of the entire staff of the department, click here.