Students Celebrate Fundraising Success Using Boundless

UNIVERSITY NEWS | Boundless, LMU’s new crowdfunding platform, has proved to be a successful fundraising tool for student groups ranging from the newly established to the more than 50-year-old LMU choir program. In just over four weeks, three student groups, DACA internships, LMU choirs, and LMU ice hockey, have leveraged Boundless to exceed fundraising goals and attain important programmatic needs.

To date, more than $141,487 has been raised by seven student groups through the Boundless platform since its launch in spring 2021. This total includes an anonymous matching gift of $25,000 to support LMU Chorus.

Claudia Sandoval, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of political science and faculty advisor for BoundlessLMU, a one-year-old program that supports undocumented students at LMU. The group initially set a fundraising goal of $10,000 to support at least five DACA internship stipends at $2,500 each. When that goal was reached, they set a new one of $15,000.

“Many of our students have been working unpaid internships their entire undergraduate career, even though they are in much need of monetary support,” said Sandoval. “Unfortunately, deserving students who we are training to be highly qualified professionals, are not able to accept paid internship opportunities simply because of their documentation status.”

The LMU Choir Program, boosted by an anonymous gift of $25,000, has raised more than $50,000 to offset travel costs for all singers to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York in June 2022.

“Returning from almost two years of Zoom rehearsals and no public performances took a heavy toll on all artists,” said TJ Harper, associate professor of music, chair of music and director of choral activities. “This tremendous outpouring of support signals to our students how important the arts are to the LMU community and beyond.”

Student groups have expressed their immense gratitude for the donors who supported their causes financially and through social media outreach.

Without Boundless, raising necessary funds to support our students would have been extremely difficult,” said Harper. “Although we have other fundraising events planned, we would not have achieved the critical support for this event so early in the year, which has had an immediate positive impact on more students who can now join us. I am exceedingly grateful for the guidance and support of the LMU community who have gone above and beyond in their efforts to support this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our students.”

For information about leveraging the Boundless platform to raise funds in support of a student group, email Deanna Amaya-Felix at Deanna.Amaya-Felix@lmu.edu or visit here.

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