DO GOOD ON GIVING TUESDAY
Giving Tuesday starts at midnight on December 2, 2025! Join the movement and Do Good on Giving Tuesday by making your gift and supporting our DRAGON community.
Giving Tuesday is more than a day of generosity; it is a global celebration of giving, unity, and collective transformation. For the Ricks Institute Alumni Association, USA Inc., it is a moment for all of us—no matter where we live or when we graduated—to come together and invest in the future of the institution that helped shape us.
This year, we’re focusing on key areas that are essential to the success and well-being of our students at RICKS INSTITUTE. Your generosity will help us continue to provide opportunities, strengthen our community, and uphold our commitment to world-class academics for generations to come.
No matter where within the Ricks Institute Alumni Association Projects you choose to give, your contribution will positively impact students, faculty, and staff. Every donation empowers the Alumni Association to support Ricks Institute’s mission of opportunity and lasting change.
When considering ways to give donations, these options will make a huge impact on the student.
The campaign will feature the following specific giving opportunities:
Covers annual dues and support for convention services. Hold your place in advance of the annual convention. Satisfy your annual dues.
Supports the Farm to Table nutrition initiative.
Provides need-based financial assistance (tuition, room, and board) for students not currently enrolled. Offers a streamlined process for alumni and friends to set up specific scholarships.
Another way to support students at Ricks is through a memorial scholarship or regular scholarship. Under this program, you can establish a scholarship in honor or memory of a loved one– maybe a family member, a teacher, or a friend. These scholarships allow you the flexibility to develop your own qualification guidelines – you tell us what you want, we establish the scholarship at your request. Our Scholarship Team stands ready to assist you in establishing a scholarship of your choice!
Ricks Institute Alumni Association (RIAA) holds a long-standing tradition of helping students accomplish their academic goals and become successful citizens. Some students rely on our financial help to be able to go to school. 100% of the money that you donate goes directly to the student to pay for school fees, books, housing, meal plans, and other school supplies that are too burdensome for their families to shoulder.
Another way to make a difference for the Ricks Institute community, focusing your giving on what you are most passionate about. All donations are tax-deductible.
Shopping for gifts from the RIAA Gift Catalog can change the lives of students at Ricks Institute.
Ricks Institute STEM Initiative (RISI) … Our top-tier educational model
Established to supplement and consolidate the current Mathematics and Science curricula with Technology and Engineering instruction at Ricks Institute. The goal of RISI is to fully develop each student’s understanding and knowledge in STEM education through hands-on, real life, environmental and relevant exposure that would stimulate, motivate, and cultivate creativity toward problem solving opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.
The RIAA Scholarship Process and scholarship programs provide a systematic and defined pathway for alumni members, families and friends of Ricks Institute to confidently donate funds designated specifically for scholarships to benefit Ricks students. This process ensures accountability and alleviates you from having to spend time and effort on redundant steps. It allows for donors to use a streamlined, reliable, professionally managed and established means to more directly assist with educating children at Ricks.
Established in 2022, The Endowment Fund exists to ensure RIAA-USA, Inc can continue to support Ricks Institute in significant ways well into the future.
Allows donors to leave a legacy through charitable gifts (e.g., car or gift card donations) in their financial plans.
Encourages the utilization of corporate matching gift, volunteer grant, or corporate giving programs. Reach out to your employer’s Human Resources for details. Matching Gift programs include Benevity, CyberGrants, YourCause(BlackBaud), and Double the Donation, among others.
Recruits RIAA professionals, retirees, and friends to volunteer at Ricks for three to six months to improve academic, STEAM and agriculture programs.
