UNITED FOR COOPER!

United for Cooper

For over 165 years, The Cooper Union has been powered by the remarkable people who make this community so special. We are United for Cooper, and we need to raise $1.1 million by December 31 to meet our year-end goal. Every dollar you give will be matched, thanks to three generous donors. 

Will you please make a gift today?  Your gift will go twice as far to support our extraordinary students.

By giving to help fund scholarships, you are reinvigorating Peter Cooper’s legacy of removing financial burdens for students and ensuring that education is within reach for all. Together, united, we can ensure that today’s students and future generations continue to learn, create, and thrive as part of this remarkable institution. 

The deadline to make your gift and have it matched is midnight on December 31, 2024. With $1.1 million left to raise, we need every member of our community to step up.  

Will you join us by making your matched gift today?

United, we can make all the difference for the caliber of students who build their futures at The Cooper Union; we can ensure that Peter Cooper’s legacy lives on for the good of our students and the good they do in the world.  

Please don’t wait. 

Give now and be part of this remarkable moment, United for Cooper.

Thank you for being an essential part of this journey. Together, we’re building a stronger Cooper Union and ensuring a bright future for all of our students. 

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.