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Microsoft Partners with UTEP as Official Corporate Sponsor of Raise Your Pick Giving Day

The community-wide giving event aims to raise funds for nearly 50 initiatives

EL PASO, Texas (Mar. 8, 2023) – The University of Texas at El Paso announced today that Microsoft Corp. is the official corporate sponsor of the inaugural Raise Your Pick UTEP Giving Day.

The University has announced that Microsoft Corp. is the official corporate sponsor of the inaugural Raise Your Pick UTEP Giving Day, a community-wide, high-profile giving event designed to raise funds for approximately 50 initiatives on campus. Microsoft has provided $25,000 in matching and challenge funds to incentivize donors to participate in the philanthropy event.
The University has announced that Microsoft Corp. is the official corporate sponsor of the inaugural Raise Your Pick UTEP Giving Day, a community-wide, high-profile giving event designed to raise funds for approximately 50 initiatives on campus. Microsoft has provided $25,000 in matching and challenge funds to incentivize donors to participate in the philanthropy event.

Raise Your Pick UTEP Giving Day is a community-wide, high-profile giving event designed to raise funds for approximately 50 initiatives on campus, including UTEP scholarships, programs, research and student support services. The event, which is scheduled for April 12, 2023, will offer multiple online giving opportunities for UTEP alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends of the University.

As a corporate sponsor, Microsoft has provided $25,000 in matching and challenge funds to incentivize donors to participate in the philanthropy event. Throughout the day, donors will be encouraged to visit the Raise Your Pick UTEP Giving Day website (givingday.utep.edu) often to monitor donations and giving leaderboards and contribute to campus areas that are competing to win matching and challenge dollars.  

Microsoft has been a partner to UTEP for several years, having provided more than $1 million to support multiple initiatives through the College of Engineering, the College of Nursing, the College of Health Sciences, the Woody L. Hunt College of Business and others. 

"Microsoft's sponsorship of our Raise Your Pick UTEP Giving Day is a testament to the organization's ongoing commitment to education," said Jake Logan, vice president of institutional advancement for UTEP. "The projects we are featuring on Giving Day are important to our campus community, and Microsoft's help in making these efforts successful shows their continued and generous support of our students." 

For more information about Raise Your Pick UTEP Giving Day, visit givingday.utep.edu

About Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

About the University of Texas at El Paso

The University of Texas at El Paso is America’s leading Hispanic-serving university. Located at the westernmost tip of Texas, where three states and two countries converge along the Rio Grande, 84% of our 24,000 students are Hispanic, and half are the first in their families to go to college. UTEP offers 169 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs at the only open-access, top-tier research university in America.

Last Updated on March 08, 2023 at 12:00 AM | Originally published March 08, 2023

By MC Staff UTEP Marketing and Communications