You can make a gift online at any time using a credit card.

Send a check or money order to:

Midland University
Office of Institutional Advancement
900 N. Clarkson
Fremont, NE 68025

Midland works with your brokerage firm to facilitate the sale of stocks, bonds, or mutual funds, supporting an area of your choice.

A Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) a giving tool that provides a simple, flexible, and efficient way to manage your charitable giving, and can be an alternative to direct giving or creating a private foundation. This is accomplished by first establishing a DAF with an irrevocable gift to a public charity that sponsors a DAF program, such as a community foundation. The donor then recommends the allocation of the donated assets to a qualified public charity (such as Midland University).

With matching gifts, you may sometimes double or even triple your gift. Many employers sponsor matching gift programs and will match charitable gifts made by their employees. 

Honor or memorialize a friend or loved one by giving a gift in his or her honor or memory. Honorees or their families will be notified of your donation. 

A gift of tangible personal property, such as a work or collection of art, rare books, stamp or coin collection, etc., entitles the donor to a charitable deduction based on the full fair market (appraised) value of the gift if the gift complies with the standard of “related use” regarding the designation at and use by Midland University. 

By including Midland University in your estate through a planned gift or by providing a perpetual gift, you can maximize the impact of your assets and do much more than you ever dreamed possible, often leaving an equal amount to your heirs and extending this gift to support Midland University. There are several ways to provide a planned or perpetual gift to Midland University:

• Bequest
• Beneficiary Designation
• Charitable Remainder Trust
• Charitable Lead Trust
• Real Estate & Other Property
• Perpetual Scholarships

Do you already have Midland University in your will or interested in making a planned gift? We’d love to recognize you as one of Midland’s Victory Society members, 250+ members strong!

Midland University also partners with Lutheran Giving to assist donors in exploring and executing charitable intentions in the most efficient and satisfying manner for the donor, their heirs and Midland. Through the creative planning process, charitable giving strategies are incorporated within comprehensive estate plans to fulfill philanthropic goals, reduce income taxes, avoid capital gains and possible estate taxes, retain a life income, increase spendable income, and/or reduce the costs of estate settlement, all while enjoying the satisfaction of providing significant future financial support for Midland University. If you would like additional information on the services LPGS provides, please visit https://www.lutherangiving.org/.

For more information about any of these types of gifts, please contact Laura Jensen, Vice President for Institutional Advancement, at 402-941-6523 or jensen@midlandu.edu. To learn more about planned gifts, visit our Planned Giving page.

Create a trust or annuity that supplements your income today and supports our mission tomorrow.

What is an IRA charitable rollover?
The IRA charitable rollover is a terrific, simple, and tax-efficient method of making a tax-free gift to support Midland University, a 501(c)(3) organization.

Starting at age 70 1⁄2, you can choose to make Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs), also called the Charitable IRA Rollover, through your retirement account.

• Donor must be 70 1⁄2 or older at the time of transfer.
• The maximum amount you can contribute in 2026 is $111,000 (married couples can donate up to $222,000 combined if both meet the qualifications and each have separate IRAs).
• The gift must be outright and transferred directly from the IRA account by the IRA administrator to Midland University.
• Such transfers are not included as taxable income and may not be claimed as a charitable income tax deduction. Check with your financial advisor to see how this applies to you.

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Benefits of a QCD

• Due to the high standard deduction environment, most donors have not been able to itemize charitable deductions. Using a QCD is a tax-efficient strategy that is still available.
• If you have reached your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) age of 73, a QCD can help you meet your RMD from your IRA without increasing your income taxes.
• Because your gift is transferred directly to Midland University, it will have an immediate impact on students.

Thrivent Choice is a program through which members can designate their available Choice Dollars toward various organizations, including Midland University. If you are a Thrivent policy holder or hold a volunteer leadership position, just follow these simple instructions and you can designate your Choice Dollars.

1. Go to the Thrivent website and sign in with your username and password or register for an account in the upper right hand corner of the page.
2. Once you have registered and signed in, select the Direct Choice Dollars tab for Thrivent Choice.
3. In the middle of the next page, type in Midland University in the Organization Name box and click search.
4. Next to Midland’s name (900 N. Clarkson St., Fremont, NE), click the Direct Now button. You will be able to assign all or part of your choice dollars to us.
5. Click the Submit button and your Thrivent Choice Dollars will be sent to Midland University.