Matching Gifts

Since 1972, the Deloitte Foundation, a not-for-profit arm of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, has offered a Matching Gifts Program, which encourages U.S. partners and employees to support high-quality, innovative education through contributions to colleges and universities. The program provides support to numerous professorships, scholarships, fellowships and more. Contributions are also made in the form of unrestricted gifts, which provide universities with much-needed discretionary funds for academics.

National Student Case Study Seminar

Through contributions from retired partners, the Deloitte Foundation sponsors an annual National Student Case Study Seminar. Six schools participate each year.

Prior to the seminar, a student group works with a faculty adviser and a Deloitte & Touche manager to identify issues and develop a plan to research them, develop a solution and prepare a presentation. Cases are selected from those available for the Trueblood Seminars for Professors. Our Accounting Services group develops the cases from complex accounting issues that have come through the consultation process.

The student groups at the national seminar present their cases and solutions to a panel of partners and faculty who act as a client's senior management or audit committee. The panel raises questions and issues for response and discussion. A group of active and retired partners selects the top groups. A $1,000 scholarship goes to each student on the winning team, a $500 scholarship to each second-place-team participant and a $250 scholarship to all other students.

Tax Case Study Competition

The Tax Case Study Competition is an educational program that aims to improve the quantity and quality of students pursuing a career in tax. The program, made up of eight regional competitions and a national event, also provides tax faculty with case study materials for use in the classroom and brings broad exposure to tax programs within the university environment. Approximately 100 schools are invited to participate each year.

At the national and regional programs, student teams have five hours to complete a complex theoretical case study that requires them to analyze information, identify data issues and consider alternative tax treatments for a fictitious client situation. Each team at the conclusion of the competition prepares a written solution to its case and submits it to a panel of judges for evaluation. All national participants receive financial rewards for themselves and their schools. 

Additional Support
We support education through other programs and initiatives, including grants to support institutions and individuals engaged in worthy educational projects or research. Local offices often have their own programs to support institutions, professors and students in their area.