$500,000
Lead patron — title-page dedication
The single lead opportunity for the campaign. Without a lead patron, an academic textbook of this ambition cannot reach publication. The named dedication appears at the front of every copy — every student who learns introductory psychology from this book, in every classroom that adopts it, will see the donor's role acknowledged. A defining act of generosity for a Catholic intellectual project of national scope.
Recognition: Lead-patron prose dedication printed on the title page of every copy of every printing, in perpetuity. Acknowledged as the principal benefactor of the textbook in all promotional and adoption materials.
Express interest in sponsoring →$250,000
Cover dedication — St. Dymphna stained-glass
Sponsor the cover-art commission and the rights to the St. Dymphna stained-glass image (originally from St. Mary of the Rosary Church, Cong, County Mayo, Ireland). St. Dymphna is the Catholic patroness of mental health, and her image visually links the textbook to DMU's St. Dymphna Chapel campaign at O'Boyle Hall — a natural opportunity for donors moved by either initiative.
Recognition: Donor named in the colophon of every copy alongside the cover-art attribution. Recognition tied to the patroness of mental health and to DMU's St. Dymphna Chapel campaign.
Express interest in sponsoring →$100,000
Curriculum development and editorial leadership
Underwrite the work of the curriculum developer (Aleksandra Ambroziak) and lead editors (Dr. Keith Houde and Dr. Chris Ewing) in shaping the textbook's pedagogy, structure, and integration of the Catholic-Christian Meta-Model of the Person. The editorial work is what transforms a collection of chapters into a unified text — the part of the project most often left unsung.
Recognition: Donor named on the title page beneath the editorial team and acknowledged in the preface as the underwriter of the curriculum-development phase.
Express interest in sponsoring →$100,000
Part sponsorship — Roots of the Psychological Sciences
Sponsor Part 1 — the foundation of the textbook. Authored by Dr. Keith Houde and Dr. Loren Toussaint, this Part covers the history of psychology and the basics of psychological research, including how a Catholic-Christian view of the human person shapes what counts as legitimate scientific inquiry into the soul.
Recognition: Donor named at the opening of Part 1 of every copy; recognized at the textbook launch and in adoption materials.
Express interest in sponsoring →$100,000
Part sponsorship — Biological Pillar of Psychology
Sponsor Part 2, authored by Dr. Catherine Bergmann. Covers genetics and inheritance, the neuron and neural networks, the structures and functions of the brain, and sensation and perception — the material substrate of human experience, read in light of a Catholic anthropology that does not reduce mind to brain.
Recognition: Donor named at the opening of Part 2 of every copy; recognized at the textbook launch and in adoption materials.
Express interest in sponsoring →$100,000
Part sponsorship — Cognitive Pillar of Psychology
Sponsor Part 3, authored by Dr. Chris Ewing with Dr. Paul Vitz. Covers cognition, intelligence, memory, learning, and consciousness — the territory most contested between secular cognitive science and a Catholic understanding of the rational soul.
Recognition: Donor named at the opening of Part 3 of every copy; recognized at the textbook launch and in adoption materials.
Express interest in sponsoring →$100,000
Part sponsorship — Developmental Pillar of Psychology
Sponsor Part 4 — development across the lifespan, integrating contemporary developmental psychology with a Catholic vision of the person from conception through old age. Includes the textbook's special-topic chapter on sex, gender, and sexual identity, developed in consultation with subject-matter experts.
Recognition: Donor named at the opening of Part 4 of every copy; recognized at the textbook launch and in adoption materials.
Express interest in sponsoring →$100,000
Part sponsorship — Clinical and Applied Psychology
Sponsor Part 5 — personality, social psychology, psychopathology, treatment, and vocations and careers in psychology. The Part most directly relevant to DMU's mission of forming Catholic mental-health professionals.
Recognition: Donor named at the opening of Part 5 of every copy; recognized at the textbook launch and in adoption materials.
Express interest in sponsoring →$75,000
Online assessment platform — test bank and quizzes
Underwrite the development of the textbook's online assessment platform: thousands of auto-graded quiz items per chapter, formative practice questions, and item-level analytics that adopting instructors will rely on for course grading. The closest counterpart in the industry is McGraw-Hill SmartBook or Pearson Revel — DMU's version is built in-house and Catholic-faithful.
Recognition: Donor named on the credits page of the online platform and on the textbook acknowledgments page.
Express interest in sponsoring →$75,000
Video companion library — author interviews and mini-lectures
Sponsor the production of the textbook's companion video library — short author-led mini-lectures explaining the hardest concepts of each chapter, plus interviews with DMU faculty on the Catholic-Christian integration. Students learn faster with multimedia; this is the budget that funds professional video production for every chapter.
Recognition: Donor named in the opening credits of every video and on the textbook acknowledgments page.
Express interest in sponsoring →$50,000
Adaptive learning module — personalized review paths
Build the adaptive learning module — the personalized study path that identifies a student's weakest concepts and surfaces targeted review. Comparable to the SmartBook adaptive engine but built around the textbook's specific learning objectives.
Recognition: Donor named on the credits page of the online platform.
Express interest in sponsoring →$50,000
Instructor companion suite — slides, manuals, activity guides
Sponsor the full instructor companion suite: per-chapter PowerPoint slide decks, the comprehensive instructor's manual with lecture outlines and classroom activity ideas, an image bank for instructors building their own slides, a suggested syllabus and pacing guide for one-semester courses, and rubric templates for written assignments. Without these, adopting instructors face hours of preparation per chapter — and many will choose a less-rigorous textbook because its companion materials are easier.
Recognition: Donor named on the instructor portal credits and on the textbook acknowledgments page.
Express interest in sponsoring →$50,000
Spanish-language edition
Fund the Spanish-language translation and adaptation of the textbook. DMU's Anáhuac collaboration and Catholic-mission reach across Latin America means a Spanish edition has a ready audience the moment it is published. Translates faithfully into the language spoken by the largest Catholic population in the Americas.
Recognition: Donor named on the title page of the Spanish edition; recognition at the international launch.
Express interest in sponsoring →$50,000
Mobile and web reader app
Sponsor the textbook's web and mobile reader app — students read on phone, tablet, or desktop with synchronized notes, highlights, and bookmarks, plus offline access for students in low-connectivity contexts. Standard expectation for any contemporary textbook; expensive to build well.
Recognition: Donor named on the about screen of the app and on the textbook acknowledgments page.
Express interest in sponsoring →$35,000
LMS integration package — Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace
Build the LMS cartridges that drop the entire textbook ecosystem (assessments, gradebook, course materials) directly into Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, and Brightspace — the four learning-management systems used by virtually every Catholic college and high school. Without this integration, adopting instructors face a fragmented experience; with it, the textbook works seamlessly inside whatever LMS their school already runs.
Recognition: Donor named on the integration documentation and on the textbook acknowledgments page.
Express interest in sponsoring →$25,000
Catholic high school discussion guide
Sponsor the development of a parallel discussion guide for Catholic high schools and seminaries — designed for younger or more catechetically-formed audiences. Helps the textbook reach Catholic secondary schools that are increasingly looking for serious psychology resources rooted in a Catholic view of the person.
Recognition: Donor named on the discussion guide and on the textbook acknowledgments page.
Express interest in sponsoring →$25,000
Custom illustrations and figures
Fund the textbook's custom illustration budget — anatomical diagrams of the brain, conceptual figures for cognitive processes, photographs and chapter-opener art that elevate the book beyond a textual treatment. A textbook lives or dies by the quality of its figures.
Recognition: Donor named in the figure-credit section of the textbook.
Express interest in sponsoring →$25,000
First print run
Underwrite the cost of printing the first edition. A practical and tangible gift — bridges the gap between manuscript completion and a finished book on a student's desk.
Recognition: Donor named on the first-printing colophon page.
Express interest in sponsoring →$25,000
Free-tier access for under-resourced schools
Sponsor free-tier access to the textbook and online materials for Catholic schools, seminaries, and formation houses that cannot afford the full retail edition. Especially valuable for the global south, missionary schools, and small Catholic colleges. Often the highest-impact gift in the campaign per dollar.
Recognition: Donor named as the patron of the textbook's free-access program; recognition at each school enrolled.
Express interest in sponsoring →$15,000
Subject-matter-expert interviews
Fund the subject-matter-expert interviews used to build the textbook's special-topic chapters — the chapters on sex, gender, and sexual identity, on vocations and careers in psychology, and on emerging topics in the field. Each requires multiple expert interviews and consultations to ensure accuracy and fidelity to Catholic teaching.
Recognition: Donor named on the credits page of each special-topic chapter.
Express interest in sponsoring →$10,000
Indexing and copyediting
Fund the indexing, copyediting, and proofreading work that turns a complete manuscript into a polished, professional textbook. Unglamorous, essential, often underfunded — the difference between an academic book that is taken seriously and one that is not.
Recognition: Donor named in the acknowledgments page.
Donate $10,000 online →$10,000
Faculty adoption community platform
Build the online community where instructors who adopt the textbook can share syllabi, discuss teaching approaches, and request new materials directly from the editors. Many textbook adoptions die quietly because instructors feel isolated; the community platform is the antidote.
Recognition: Donor named on the community platform's about page.
Donate $10,000 online →$1,000
Named acknowledgment
The broad-participation tier of the textbook campaign. Open to alumni, faculty, current students, parents, friends of DMU — anyone moved by the project. Every donor at this level has their name printed in the back-matter of every copy of every printing, in perpetuity.
Recognition: Donor name listed in the acknowledgments page of every copy of every printing.
Donate $1,000 online →
