Naz Giving Day 2025

Integrated experiential learning gives Nazareth students skills — and an edge. The average Naz undergrad completes four hands-on experiences, including things like professionally-valuable internships, cutting-edge research, and life-changing study abroad programs. 

Your gift to any of these areas will help Nazareth students as they prepare for their life's work.

• Center for Life's Work – The Center for Life's Work partners with students to create a path from college to careers and lives of meaning. Career coaches help you plan and integrate your academics, skills, and experiences with your passions. Alumni are welcome to either receive coaching or partner to provide opportunities for students.
  
  
• Civil Rights Journey - Nazareth students travel to historical sites in Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee and meet with activists, historians and scholars. Participating students also learn about the Sisters of St. Joseph who participated in the civil rights struggle and the direct connection between Nazareth University and their foundational work at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Selma, Alabama.
  
  
• Global Engagement Fund – With more than 75 programs in 35 countries around the world, Nazareth offers study abroad opportunities for students looking to add valuable international experiences to their degree program.
  
  
• Nazareth Alternative Break - During Winter or Spring semester break, travel locally or globally to learn and serve alongside peers and community members.
  
  
• Partners For Learning – The national award-winning Partners for Learning program engages Nazareth students in partnerships with the children, teachers, and staff of six urban sites: School #9, School #42, School #46, the Discovery Charter School, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Rochester, and Nativity Preparatory Academy.
  
  
• SPARK Grants –  Students Pursuing Academic and Real-world Knowledge (SPARK) grants help cover undergraduate student costs for an unpaid or underpaid summer internship, summer research, or an international experience any time of the year.
  
  
• Undergraduate Association – The Undergraduate Association is Nazareth College's student government, which provides funds, information, and other resources for the purposes of encouraging student involvement and empowering students to pursue their own interests.
  
  
• Weider Community Engagement Office – We know that Nazareth students are justice-seekers. They see inequities in the world and want to do something about them. The Weider Community Engagement Office is a mechanism for students to do that work, to find their places to engage, to understand their power to be changemakers.