Your gift empowers lifelong leaders.

Help Pitt Business Grow and Succeed

Your philanthropic support ensures the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration will continue to grow and succeed. You are crucial to our efforts to develop tomorrow’s business leaders.  

Areas of Greatest Need

Scholarships

Tuition support is crucial to minimizing the debt burden incurred by highly qualified students of limited means and will empower students to realize their potential. Your gift will support scholarship funding that will afford students the opportunity to further their education with Pitt Business, as well as directly impact our ability to recruit and retain top students.

Dean’s Excellence Fund

A gift to this fund provides an immediate and essential source of funding. By making an unrestricted contribution, you allow the school to direct the funding toward the areas of greatest need. Annual, expendable gifts provide Pitt Business vital flexibility to support a variety of areas and remain at the forefront of business education.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Learning, valuing and having experience working in diverse and inclusive environments is a critical skill that we strive for all Pitt Business students to achieve.  Gifts to this fund will support programming to teach students how to implement a diversity strategy in the workplace and prepare our graduates to become catalysts for change. Dean Assad’s vision is that equity, diversity, and inclusion will be fully integrated in the curriculum and serve as a focal point for our school.

Impact Stories

Students Learn Computational Thinking in Saaty Hackathon

Students Learn Computational Thinking in Saaty Hackathon

Pittsburgh-area college students keen on mastering decision-making techniques and harnessing the power of generative AI to tackle complex challenges are invited to the T.L. Saaty Decision Making for Leaders Hackathon. This third annual competition on March 22- 24,...

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Undergraduate Students Work to Improve Public Safety

Undergraduate Students Work to Improve Public Safety

How can undergraduate business students help a nonprofit foundation find creative and innovative ways to connect police with residents to help create a safe, thriving community for all? That is the question The Hear Foundation (THF) asks Pitt Business to help it...

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Ways to Give

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Customize Your Contribution

There are many powerful ways to give to Pitt Business. From the annual fund to creating an endowment to making a planned gift, your philanthropy has a profound impact on students, faculty, and the Pitt Business experience.

Questions?
Contact Jodi Weisfield, Executive Director of Development at 412-514-4361 or jweisfield@katz.pitt.edu

Online & Recurring Gifts

Gifts can be made to Pitt Business using our secure online giving form. Questions? Contact Simone Jurinko at 412-648-7546 or sjurinko@business.pitt.edu.

Corporate Matching

Many employers match charitable contributions made by their employees. Find out how you can double or even triple the size of your gift to Pitt by participating in a workplace matching gift program.

Endowed Funds

Endowed funds are charitable contributions that provide a perpetual stream of income in support of scholarships, fellowships, faculty chairs, instruction, and other important programs or services. They allow major gift donors to establish named funds that will exist in perpetuity and provide permanent support for students within a particular area or for a specific purpose. Minimum endowment levels guarantee that sufficient income will be available to fulfill the donor’s specific intentions. 

Current Funds

Unlike endowed funds, current funds can be distributed in the same year they are received. They are a terrific alternative for those who might have excess funds available each year but who do not have the full endowment minimum to make a gift in perpetuity. Similarly, they are ideal for annual IRA disbursements or lump-sum gifts to fund research projects, travel, or faculty and student awards for a designated number of years.

Planned Giving

Planned Giving options allow you to amplify the impact of your generosity to the University of Pittsburgh and to potentially create lifetime income streams and reduce your taxes. You can leave a legacy through bequests, retirement plans, and life insurance. 

Mail

Send your gift directly to Pitt Business by making a check out to the University of Pittsburgh and mailing it to:

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
PO BOX 640093
PITTSBURGH PA 15264-0093

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Contact Us

Have a question about giving to Pitt Business? About opportunities or resources for alumni? Reach a member of our staff. 

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

I wish to give back to society and one day sponsor another student like me who could dare to dream big. This award has allowed my dream to come true – which was to pursue higher studies from the U.S. I thank you! 

Siddharth Srivastava

MBA '23

Your support has encouraged me to work and study my hardest to earn the best grades. I hope one day that I am able to pay your generosity forward and support the next generation of Pitt students. I had the most amazing opportunities at Pitt due to donors like you and support from the Pitt community.

Julia Podvin

BSBA '20