pitt day of giving Archives

Pitt Day of Giving raises $2.4M, a slight increase from last year

By Abby Lipold and Ryleigh Lord • February 28, 2024

Pitt’s eighth annual Day of Giving took place on Tuesday, Feb. 27. 11,472 donors participated and raised $2,466,611.

Pitt Day of Giving raises $2.4M, down 19% from last year

By Elizabeth Primrose, Senior Staff Writer • February 22, 2023

The seventh annual Pitt Day of Giving — a 24-hour fundraising initiative — took place all day Tuesday. This year’s PDoG raised $2,405,864, down about 19% from last year’s event.

Pitt Day of Giving raises nearly $3 million, up 19% from last year

By Kendall Swift, Staff Writer • February 23, 2022

The sixth annual Pitt Day of Giving — a 24-hour fundraising initiative — took place all day Tuesday. This year’s PDoG raised $2,956,566, up about 19% from the $2,494,002 raised during last year’s event.

Pitt Day of Giving raises more than $2.49 million, up 51% from last year as of early Wednesday

By Mische Holland, Rebecca Johnson, and Suln Yun • February 24, 2021

The fifth annual Pitt Day of Giving — a 24-hour fundraising initiative — took place all day Tuesday. This year’s PDoG raised about $2.49 million, as of Wednesday at 2 a.m. — up about 51% from last year’s event, which raised $1.65 million.

Editorial | Pitt Day of Giving should not coincide with a self-care day

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • February 22, 2021

Pitt could have easily avoided scheduling Pitt Day of Giving and the first self-care day of the semester on the same date

Pitt Day of Giving raises $1.6 million, down 61% from last year

By Ashton Crawley, Staff Writer • February 26, 2020

The fourth annual Pitt Day of Giving — a 24-hour fundraising initiative — took place on Tuesday. This year’s PDoG raised $1,651,212 — which is down about 61% from last year’s event.

Letter to the Editor: Don’t Celebrate the Pitt Day of Giving

By Pat Healy, Ph.D student in Information Science • February 25, 2020

I have personally made hundreds of dollars in donations in past Pitt Days of Giving. I have run social media campaigns around getting people to donate to the Pitt Day of Giving as an officer in the Pitt...

Examining Pitt Day of Giving 2020 guidelines

By Ashton Crawley, Staff Writer • February 25, 2020

Tuesday is the fourth annual Pitt Day of Giving — a 24-hour fundraising event which encourages students, faculty, staff, family and alumni to donate to various organizations within the University. This year, some changes have been made to how it’s run.

Pitt Day of Giving 2019

March 3, 2019

Pitt’s third annual Day of Giving was held on Thursday, Feb. 28. This year’s PDoG raised $4.2 million from more than 6,000 donors, which includes students, alumni and Pitt employees. Unlike the past two PDoGs, this year’s combined a day-long on-campus event with the online donation campaign. The campus event brought together students and senior leadership to celebrate Pitt’s 232nd birthday and increase on-campus engagement.

Third annual Pitt Day of Giving raises more than $4 million

By Mary Rose O’Donnell, Staff Writer • March 1, 2019

The third annual Pitt Day of Giving took place Thursday, Feb. 28 — the University’s 232nd birthday. This year, PDoG raised $4,218,150 from 6,345 donors.