GLBTA Online Giving

Make a Gift Online to one of UMD's three existing GLBT Funds:

• UMD Cruden-Riggs Scholarship: awarded to students who actively contribute to GLBT people and issues, and who have a financial need. This scholarship, created in 2002, is named after two students who lead the campus lobby effort to create the GLBT Services office and directorship. Karin Riggs and Ben Cruden were two students who created the very services they were so much in need of themselves.


• UMD GLBT Leadership Fund: used to assist GLBT students in gaining valuable leadership skills. Opportunities arise each year such as “activist training camp,” Gender Political Action Committee conferences, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s annual “Creating Change” conference. It’s been our experience that students return to the UMD campus with great ideas, honed leadership skills, expanded networks, enhanced self-esteem, and positive feelings about their own identity. The GLBT movement needs leadership, and leaders need skills! This fund will help fulfill these needs.


• UMD GLBT Program Fund: these gifts support programs such as films, lecturers, workshops, training and development, and important resources such as books, pamphlets, and videos.