University of Maryland

Smith Vets Remember 2026

By Frank Goertner

The Robert H. Smith School of Business M.B.A. fellowship is in memory of two part-time M.B.A. students who were killed at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

$1,250

6%

Funded

5

Donors

42

days left

Invest in the Future of the Mighty Sound of Maryland

By Dr. Andrea Brown

Help us grow the first endowed fund to support scholarships for marching band students of all majors!

Help us grow the first endowed fund to support scholarships for marching band students of all majors! Your gift will have twice the impact! Thanks to a generous alum, all donations to the Student Scholarship Fund will be matched, and your donation will be doubled. Established by Dotty Reitwiesner ’78, the Marching Band Student Support Endowment provides scholarships to marching band students from all majors across campus. Since its founding, Mighty Sound of Maryland supporters have generously contributed more than $100,000 to support student scholarships. A gift of any size will help strengthen the Marching Band Student Support Endowment, providing scholarship support for generations of MSOM students. Your generosity will help ensure that students can continue to experience the transformative opportunities of the Mighty Sound of Maryland year after year.A personal call to action from Dotty: When I was in the marching band, I had to juggle school, my part-time job, and band. So it was an easy decision to help band members by creating a scholarship fund. A little help can go a long way toward making marching band participation less financially stressful. Please make a gift today and join me in growing this endowed scholarship. I have met some of the scholarship recipients, and each has expressed gratitude to all of the donors who contribute to this fund. And every recipient is a reflection of the band members we all marched with at UMD. Together, we can make MSOM the best band in the land! Your gift to the scholarship fund will have a positive and meaningful impact. Our best advocates are our MSOM scholarship recipients. This year, eleven students received awards. Here are their thank-you notes: The MSOM scholarship fund has given me the opportunity to focus on what matters most to me: school, professional internships, and my role as a leader in band. This financial freedom has made a tremendous difference in my life and allows me to give back to the MSOM community that has been my home throughout college. Thank you! Coming into college, I didn’t think I’d be able to juggle school, work, and marching band. But thanks to the MSOM Scholarship Fund, I can enjoy doing the thing I love without the burden of suffering financially or academically as a byproduct. Your generous gift will greatly assist in my ability to persist and thrive in MSOM. I am paying for my education, so awards such as these are paramount in helping me balance MSOM with my academic commitments, mainly by reducing the amount I have to work at my 2 campus jobs. By work less hours, I can focus more on being a great leader for my section, bonding with my section, be less stressed about the time commitment, and mitigate the opportunity cost of not working during rehearsal hours. Receiving this assistance allows me to shift my focus away from financial stress and more fully toward the incomparable experiences MSOM has to offer. It means so much to receive this support from an organization that has become one of the highlights of my personal and educational career. The MSOM Scholarship Fund is a great financial help. With it, I can worry less about how I'm paying for rent and groceries, and focus more on putting my all into being part of the band. Receiving this assistance took some financial burden off of having to work a campus job while also being a full-time student. I am very grateful for the giving nature of people who donate to MSOM to help students like me. This scholarship allows me to dedicate more time to music and my studies. As a senior, the MSOM Scholarship Fund helps me focus on my undergrad career as I prepare for graduate school while still being able to perform at my best for the Mighty Sound of Maryland. My family and I are truly grateful for this assistance and the financial relief it brings. Thank you so much for this assistance. Since my current financial aid doesn’t cover my tuition, this assistance will help me to buy groceries, and help me pay rent for the apartment I live in. This allows me to better enjoy the time I spend in band instead of working a part-time job. I am so grateful that I was selected to receive this financial assistance. Being out of state and balancing classes, this assistance is beneficial to my overall participation in MSOM this season, helping me strive and push for more. I am so proud to be a part of MSOM118! Thank you. Receiving this assistance is beneficial to my participation in MSOM by shifting my focus away from financial challenges and towards the fantastic experiences I have in Marching Band, my classes, and other extracurriculars. As a Senior, internships, higher-level courses, incoming graduate applications, and beyond have added a lot of stress to my schedule, and MSOM has continued to be a part of my college life that grounds me through these challenging moments. I am incredibly grateful for the support! Thank you so much for providing this financial relief. I will now be able to participate in MSOM without the overwhelming worry of adding a job to my already busy schedule, and I am glad that I can happily be in MSOM and continue to give my best efforts. Thank you for generously supporting future generations of MSOM students! Check out a performance by the Mighty Sound of Maryland from last season! Gifts in support of the University of Maryland are accepted and managed by the University of Maryland College Park Foundation, Inc., an affiliated 501(c)(3) organization authorized by the Board of Regents. Contributions to the University of Maryland are tax-deductible as allowed by law. Please see your tax advisor for details.

$29,725

74%

Funded

70

Donors

0

days left

Support QUEST's 35th Anniversary

By University of Maryland

Gifts will support transformative QUEST experiences, including travel, scholarships, networking, professional development, and hands-on learning opportunities.

Gifts will support transformative QUEST experiences, including travel, scholarships, networking, professional development, and hands-on learning opportunities. To celebrate 35 years of the QUEST Honors Program, we are raising $35,000 to ensure that students have access to transformative learning experiences outside the classroom! Your generous contributions will help fund: Student scholarships for domestic and international trips (QUEST to New York City, QUEST to Silicon Valley, QUEST to Japan) Transportation and lodging for QUEST trips and site visits Professional development, networking, and hands-on learning opportunities that connect students with industry and broaden their perspectives 100% of donations directly support our students! Why These Experiences Matter: For 35 years, the QUEST Honors Program has brought together exceptional students from business, engineering, and science to solve real-world challenges through multidisciplinary collaboration. While the classroom provides a strong foundation, many of the program's most meaningful learning happens beyond it. Industry visits, experiential trips, professional development activities, networking events, and community-building experiences give students opportunities to apply what they learn, explore new perspectives, build relationships, and connect their classroom experience to the world outside of UMD. At the same time, the rising cost of these opportunities has made it increasingly difficult to provide financial support for every student who needs it. As a result, some QUEST trips and experiences have had to be scaled back or canceled. We want to ensure that financial circumstances never prevent a QUEST student from accessing the experiences that make this program so meaningful. Cohort 1 Students at IBM's Research Triangle ParkRaleigh, NC - 1996Help Us Reach $35,000 As we celebrate our 35th Anniversary in April 2027, we invite students, alumni, parents, corporate partners, UMD colleagues, and friends to invest in the next generation of QUEST leaders. With a strong community of more than 1,800 alumni, 250 current students, parents, corporate partners, UMD colleagues, and friends, we have the power to make a significant impact. Every gift brings us closer to our $35,000 goal and helps ensure that today's QUEST students can access the experiences that have defined the program for 35 years. Help us celebrate 35 years of QUEST by investing in the next generation of QUEST leaders. Together, we can reach $35,000! QUEST Students at Hong Kong Disney Site VisitHong Kong - 2014 The Impact: Student Feedback "I truly feel like this trip changed my perspective on my career. Until this trip, I had never pictured myself working at any of these companies, but after visiting, I found myself really looking forward to applying for internships at these companies next year. It was really great to see what interesting and diverse career opportunities await us as STEM students that we aren’t typically exposed to on the East Coast." - Tyler Apicella, Participant in 2025 Silicon Valley Trip Tyler Apicella and his peers at the Google Site VisitMountain View, CA - 2025 Gifts in support of the University of Maryland are accepted and managed by the University of Maryland College Park Foundation, Inc., an affiliated 501(c)(3) organization authorized by the Board of Regents. Contributions to the University of Maryland are tax-deductible as allowed by law. Please see your tax advisor for details.

$2,050

5%

Funded

2

Donors

187

days left

Support WMUC Sports Alongside Mark Crotty '80

By Ryan Martin '27

WMUC Sports is the sports broadcasting branch of WMUC 90.5 FM, the official student-run, non-commercial radio station at the Univ. of Maryland.

WMUC Sports is the sports broadcasting branch of WMUC 90.5 FM, the official student-run, non-commercial radio station at the Univ. of Maryland. WMUC Sports is the sports broadcasting branch of WMUC 90.5 FM, the official student-run, non-commercial radio station at the Univ. of Maryland. For over the last 50 years, WMUC Sports has evolved to be the go-to, diverse student broadcasting coverage for a dozen Division 1 sports participated in by the Maryland Terrapins. Our program has evolved into over 60 energetic, passionate, and entrepreneurial sports broadcast-oriented students who provide live sports radio play-by-play while also hosting podcasts, social media, and feature stories. WMUC Sports' prides itself on giving our student members the most professionally-applicable experiences has possible, which comes with your generosity. Your support is greatly appreciated to help make sure that our students, when applicable, can substitute a hotel and flight instead of couch surfing after a 10+ hour out-of-pocket drive when covering road games. Your donation also helps us cover invaluable equipment and subscription costs that are necessary for future growth.We encourage you to consider joining Mark Crotty '80 in supporting our work. Mr. Crotty, an active volunteer at the National Radio and Television Museum in nearby Bowie, Maryland, has graciously established two station-changing funds: The “Robert Mark Crotty ’80 Endowed Fund for WMUC Sports Journalism” and the “Robert Mark Crotty ’80 Current-Use Fund for WMUC Sports Journalism.” These funds, set to be impactful during the 2028-2029 academic year, will see Mr. Crotty generously contribute to the endowment and provide on-going annual funding towards our expenses. WMUC Sports is beyond appreciative for Mr. Crotty vision and investment in our student members' future, and now, he wants to work with you and support the station before his contribution becomes active. Mr. Crotty has gone above and beyond and pledged to match an additional $2,500 for current use if the same value can be raised through WMUC Sports' 60-day Launch UMD campaign.Thank you for the time, interest, and unwavering support alongside Mr. Crotty as our students look to build their professional career and extend the WMUC Sports legacy. Gifts in support of the University of Maryland are accepted and managed by the University of Maryland College Park Foundation, Inc., an affiliated 501(c)(3) organization authorized by the Board of Regents. Contributions to the University of Maryland are tax-deductible as allowed by law. Please see your tax advisor for details.

$970

38%

Funded

11

Donors

55

days left

University of Maryland

Projects