We will see more medical breakthroughs in the next 10 years than in the past 100, and CU will be at the frontier of that discovery. Our investments in personalized medicine, public health, cell-based therapies, and mental and behavioral health will help us address our nation’s greatest unmet health care needs. Our commitments to patient-focused care and wellbeing will ensure that no one needs to leave the Rocky Mountain region for the best care in the world.
Did you know? During the Essential CU campaign, donors like you gave more than $2.2 billion to improve health and wellness here in Colorado and beyond.
Read below how you and CU are changing, and saving, countless lives.
More Essential Ideas
First time donors to Anshutz Medical Campus since 2014
Community partnership with the Renee Crown Wellness Institute at CU Boulder in it's first year o help promote the health and well-being of youth.
Areas of health supported at CU Denver's Lolo & Rob Salazar Student Wellness Center
About Essential CU
CU and its donors are essential to our economy, health, culture and social fabric. We solve our world’s most pressing challenges together. Thanks to generous donors like you, we are supporting CU’s academic, research and public service priorities across our four campuses.
CU Anschutz Fund for Excellence
Science, Research & Innovation
To provide a flexible funding source to address CU Anschutz's most promising priorities in support of research, education and patient care.
Financial Aid Endowment Fund - Need Based.
Scholarships & Student Success
To provide scholarship support for students with demonstrated financial need at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Chancellor's Innovation Fund
Scholarships & Student Success
To provide flexible support to address the campus's most promising priorities in enhancing student success and CU Denver's prominence as an institution of higher education.
UCCS
Wellness Center, Mental Health Services Fund
Scholarships & Student Success
To support the mission and programs of the Wellness Center, Mental Health Services at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.