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Mark your calendar for Brown Athletics’ giving day! Bruno Gives Back Day is your chance to join thousands of Bears around the world in a thrilling competition to support Brown’s incredible student-athletes. Help your favorite varsity or club team unlock prize money with your gift to the BUSF Athletics Annual Fund. A total of $300,000 in cash prizes is at stake:
Varsity SportsTeams will compete in brackets to earn prize money in the following competitions:
Current Parents can win additional funds for their student-athletes’ teams through the following competitions:
Stay tuned to see if your varsity sport has a challenge on Bruno Gives Back Day!
Club SportsTeams will compete on Bruno Gives Back Day to earn prize money in the following competition:
It all starts at midnight ET* on Wednesday, October 8!
*Bruno Gives Back Day is Wednesday, October 8 from 12:00 a.m. ET - 11:59 p.m. ET. Please plan accordingly if you will not be in a location that observes Eastern Time.
*Includes gifts made from July 1 to October 8.
Gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $30,000, thanks to two friends of Brown Baseball.
In an effort to “Beat our Best”, an additional $15,000 will be unlocked if men’s basketball surpasses $65,000 raised on Bruno Gives Back Day thanks to an anonymous donor.
Gifts will be matched 2:1 up to $50,000. In an effort to “Beat our Best”, an additional $15,000 will be unlocked if Women’s Basketball surpasses $15,000 raised on Bruno Gives Back Day. These challenges are thanks to friends of women’s basketball.
Gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $100,000, thanks to friends of Brown Men’s Crew.
In an effort to “Beat our Best”, an additional $70,000 will be unlocked if women’s crew surpasses $70,000 raised on Bruno Gives Back Day, thanks to friends of Brown Women’s Crew.
In an effort to “Beat our Best”, an additional $25,000 will be unlocked if equestrian surpasses $20,000 raised on Bruno Gives Back Day, thanks to an anonymous donor.
Gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $10,000, thanks to Marlene DeMaio ’81.
Gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $125,000 thanks to Kevin Mundt '76 LHD'23 hon., P'11, Matt DeSutter '92, and the Class of 1995
In an effort to “Beat our Best”, $50,000 will be unlocked if men’s hockey surpasses $60,000 raised on Bruno Gives Back Day, thanks to friends of Brown Hockey.
Gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $25,000, thanks to friends of Women’s Ice Hockey.
Gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $100,000 thanks to Tom Gilbane, III '97 and the 1994 Final Four Team.
In an effort to “Beat our Best”, an additional $50,000 will be unlocked if women’s lacrosse surpasses $65,000 raised on Bruno Gives Back Day, thanks to an anonymous donor.
Gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $100,000. In an effort to “Beat our Best”, an additional $45,000 will be unlocked if men’s rugby surpasses $60,000 raised on Bruno Gives Back Day. These challenges are thanks to friends of men’s rugby.
Gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $45,000 thanks to the Orr Family Foundation and an anonymous donor.
In an effort to “Beat our Best”, an additional $40,000 will be unlocked if sailing surpasses $75,000 raised on Bruno Gives Back Day, thanks to a sailing alumna and Chiara and Ben Edmands P’25.
In an effort to “Beat our Best”, an additional $65,000 will be unlocked if men's soccer surpasses $50,000 raised on Bruno Gives Back Day thanks to two former Bruno goalkeepers.
Gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $25,000, thanks to an anonymous donor.
In an effort to “Beat our Best”, $5,000 will be unlocked if softball surpasses $15,000 raised on Bruno Gives Back Day thanks to Nikki Berman ’91.
In an effort to "Beat our Best", an additional $15,000 will be unlocked if men's swim & dive surpasses $30,000 raised on Bruno Gives Back Day thanks to young alumni of the program.
Gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $25,000 thanks to an anonymous donor.
Gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $100,000. In an effort to “Beat our Best”, an additional $150,000 will be unlocked if men's tennis surpasses 20% alumni participation. These challenges are thanks to an anonymous donor.
Gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $50,000 thanks to Kimberly (Fogarty) Arth ’03 and Aaron Arth.
In an effort to “Beat our Best”, $20,000 will be unlocked if men’s water polo surpasses $50,000 raised, thanks to Jon Pliner ’88, P’26, P’27 and a friend of water polo.
In an effort to “Beat our Best”, $20,000 will be unlocked if women’s water polo surpasses $40,000 raised, thanks to a friend of Brown Women’s Water Polo.
Gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $125,000 thanks to Jim Esposito ’90, P’25, P’27.