Growing Our Endowment
Growing Our Endowment
Endowment gifts create lasting impact—supporting students, faculty and innovation for generations.
Fueling Access and Excellence
Gifts to the NIU Foundation help make NIU a destination for bold, driven students and exceptional faculty. They support groundbreaking research, social mobility and programs that prepare students to lead and thrive in a changing world.
A Legacy That Grows Over Time
Endowed gifts are invested to generate ongoing support for scholarships, academic programs, and faculty excellence. By growing our endowment, we ensure a permanent foundation for opportunity—empowering current and future Huskies to dream big and succeed.
Stories
Making a lasting difference
FORWARD Voices
Shaun D. Levine, ’04, M.A. ’06
“NIU is a community. When a person has the ability to help that community grow, feel more secure and succeed, we all prosper.”