CMU Annual Fund
The CMU Annual Fund allows the university to live out its mission today - supporting students, programs, and community experiences that define a CMU education.
Your gift to the CMU Annual Fund makes it possible for faculty to provide the teaching, leadership and mentoring for our students that are so central to the mission of CMU. Because of your gift, athletics, music ensembles, student leadership development, counseling services, and activities in spiritual life can be realized.
Help us tend to the areas that allow CMU education to be more affordable, accessible, innovative and formational.
CMU Education / Where Most Needed
A gift to CMU Education / Where Most Needed provides flexible support where it can have the greatest impact. These gifts strengthen the CMU Annual Fund, help to address emerging priorities, enhance the student experience, and respond to the university's most pressing needs.
Student Buraries and Financial Aid
Gifts to Student Bursaries & Financial Aid provide direct assistance to students with demonstrated financial need, helping remove financial barriers so they can focus on their studies, participate fully in campus life. Each dollar given to bursaries is matched by the Manitoba government scholarships and bursaries initiatve. Your gift of $100 turns into $200 to help support students.
Tuition Offset
Tuition Offset helps keep a CMU education affordable by bridging the gap between the true cost of education and what students pay in tuition. Gifts to Tuition Offset support every student by reducing financial barriers, making it possible for more students to experience the transformative education and community that CMU offers.
Academic and New Programs
Gifts to Academic & New Programs support the development and growth of the educational offerings at CMU, helping provide innovative learning opportunities that prepare students to engage thoughtfully, serve faithfully, and contribute to the flourishing of their communities. Connect with us if you have a particular program you are interested in supporting, e.g. Music, Business, Social Work or Education.
Blazers Athletics
Gifts to the Annual Fund support CMU Blazers Athletics by helping provide students with opportunities to compete, build community, develop leadership skills, and grow through the experience of university sport.
Spiritual Life
A gift to Spiritual Life support opportunities for faith formation and community building at CMU, including chapel, worship, spiritual practices, and initiatives that nurture students’ growth as people of faith and service.
Accessibility Services
Gifts to Accessibility Services help ensure that all students have the support and resources they need to fully participate in the CMU learning community and thrive in their academic journey.
"We give to CMU because of the impact it has had on our lives, our children's lives and the lives of many others."
– John and Norma Thiessen
Giving Levels
Partners (Gifts up to $999): Partners are valued members of the CMU community whose annual gifts provide essential support for the programs, initatives, and student experiecnes that make a CMU education possible.
President's Circle (Gifts $1,000 +): You can become part of the President's Circle by contributing $1,000 or more to the CMU Annual Fund. President's Circle members ensure that CMU has a stable foundation to continue its mission.
Patrons (Gifts $5,000+): Patrons of CMU make an investment in transformative education at CMU which has a significant impact. These donors express confidence in the faculty, administration, and students of CMU to fulfill the mission of leadership, service, and reconciliation in the church and society.
Giving levels are acknowledged in the annual donor listing in The Blazer magazine.
To discuss your gift or learn more about the many different ways your gift to the Annual Fund supports the mission of CMU, contact Alex Tiessen, Director of Advancement at 204.594.0510 or email atiessen