Cleveland State University’s annual “Giving Day” on Feb.12, raised more than $460,000 for university programs, easily breaking the previous record of $283,710 set in 2019.
The seventh annual online Giving Day received donations from 2,511 different donors from 46 of the 50 states, leaving only New Mexico, Wyoming, North Dakota, and Maine without donations. 
With more than 2,500 donors for only the second time, Giving Day supporters crowdfunded their way to a grand total of $460,092.
Ohio was home to 2,027 of the donors, the most from any one state in the event’s history..
All of this year’s Giving Day event proceeds will go to different university programs, as chosen by individual donors. The final tally for 2020 showed that the athletics department received the most donation money, with a total of $288,561 in gifts from 1,890 donors. 
Cleveland State Director of Athletics Scott Garrett expressed his gratitude to donors in a departmental press release.
“On behalf of the coaches, staff and student athletes in our 18 sport programs, I would like to extend enormous gratitude to the friends, family, alumni and other Viking fans that helped support Cleveland State University on Giving Day,” Garrett said. 
“To have grown support in Athletics by almost 30% over our 2019 Giving Day figures impacts tremendously our collective efforts in providing student-athletes with a transformational experience
through their participation in NCAA Division I athletics.” Giving Day has set records every year since its inception in 2014, with donors setting the bar higher and higher each year. But as that bar has continued to rise, so has the generosity of the donors.