Your gift, large or small, makes a difference.  There are many ways to make a meaningful gift to your academic program, the College or OU.  Regardless of what you choose to support and how you choose to give, we will work to ensure that your gift is a good fit between your interests and our needs.  You may provide a gift that is unrestricted, allowing the College to seize opportunities or respond to emerging needs, or you may direct your gift to support something very specific.
 
Gifts are typically directed to two types of accounts, regardless of what they will support.  Spendable accounts allow for the entire gift to be spent for the intended purpose of the gift, whereas endowed accounts provide perpetual funding, with the gift invested and only the interest spent. 
 
All gifts to the College will be deposited with the OU Foundation.  The OU Foundation is an independent, legal entity whose purpose is to accept, invest and distribute charitable gifts as the donor intended to benefit programs at OU. 

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