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Director
Principal Giving and Strategic Initiatives
Matt Sparkman returned to CU Boulder in August 2023. In his role, Matt partners with colleagues across campus to manage Principal Giving and Strategic Initiatives operations for the CU Boulder campus, maintaining up-to-date pipeline and principal giving pool information, proactively prospecting for new prospects, and assisting with proposal writing and concept development.
Prior to coming back to Boulder, Matt served as Assistant Director for Prospect Development at the University of Tennessee Foundation. He spent 2016-2022 in various advancement roles at CU Boulder and CU System.
Matt is a proud CU Boulder alumnus (class of 2016), with a B.S. in Business Administration from the Leeds School of Business.