The CU Annual Fund: Strength in Numbers
Rory Moore was a third-year medical student when she attended her first birth. “I knew then that it was something I wanted to be a part of,” she says.
Now chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Westminster’s Kaiser Permanente clinic and a practicing doctor at Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center in Boulder County, she made her first annual gift to support her alma mater this year. A recipient of a prestigious Boettcher scholarship, she graduated from both CU-Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science and UC Denver’s School of Medicine. She split her gift evenly between the two schools that prepared her for a career in medicine.
“Even though this is the first year I could afford to make a gift, I plan to contribute regularly. CU has given me a lot; my education has really shaped my life. Hopefully I can help to shape the lives of current students in the same positive way,” she says.
Rory was one of 23,026 donors who made a gift through the annual fund this past year, doing her share to generate a collective $2.7 million to support excellence at the University of Colorado. Unrestricted annual fund donations give CU leaders the flexibility to cover priority needs not supported by any other means. And these gifts are absolutely essential for scholarships and opportunities for students, innovative programs, and groundbreaking research.
