For the eighth straight year, TCU Gives Day 2021 was a resounding success, celebrating the second highest year in both dollars and donors. On Oct. 26-27, TCU blew past this year’s goal of 2,500 participants — with 2,661 donors — and raised more than $2,106,412 overall for Lead On: A Campaign for TCU, the university’s most ambitious philanthropic campaign in its nearly 150-year history.
Along the way, Horned Frogs unlocked a $100,000 matching gift from the Reckling family and challenge gifts for each school and college, as well as those benefitting Black Alumni Alliance scholarships and the Mary Couts Burnett Library. Results from all 2021 Gives Day challenge gifts can be found here.
Other takeaways from TCU Gives Day 2021:
- More than $300,000 was raised for scholarships overall.
- Michelle and Thomas Reckling and their sons Dub, Freddy, a TCU sophomore, and Thomas ’20, and their daughters Adelaide, Emmy and Rienzi ’17 (M.Ed. ’18) generously agreed to be this year’s challenge donors with $100,000 to endowed scholarships.
- For the second year, TCU included high-priority designations such the Frog Family Crisis Fund and the Inclusive Excellence Initiatives Fund.
- There was an unbelievable turnout from TCU faculty and staff, with a record-setting 344 employees making gifts.
- More than 900 alumni contributed, as well as more than 700 current and former parents.
- A record-setting 818 volunteer social media ambassadors helped exceed the goal.
“Thank you for helping sustain the important people and programs that make TCU one of the top universities in the nation,” said Chancellor Victor J. Boschini. “Your support truly made a difference.”