Scholarship Donor Portal
Official contacts for University of Detroit Mercy scholarships have a free access to our . In the portal, you will have access to current and historical information about your scholarship, including student scholarship recipients and annual scholarship financial reports. The steps below will get you started.
The University is very grateful for the assistance your scholarship provides our students! If you have any questions, please contact Assistant Director of Annual Giving Michele Guyor-Borthwick at guyorbmm@udmercy.edu or 313-578-0329.
Getting started with Scholarship Donor Portal
1. Receive email
You will receive an email inviting you to create your account in the portal. Click on the link in the email. (Note: the link is unique to your email address.)
2. Bookmark sign-in page
Please bookmark as a browser "favorite." For security, the portal will sign you out after some time, and the donor sign-in page can be hard to find otherwise.
3. Create password
4. Sign-in
The next screen has several options to "sign in." We recommend selecting "Continue with Email."
5. Enter Email address
Enter your email address on the next screen. Unless you are familiar with using Google and Apple for signing in to accounts, we recommend using your email address and clicking the blue "Continue" button.
6. Enter password
You will be asked to enter your password. Enter your password and click "Sign in."
7. Multi-factor authentication
You will then be given two options for Multi-factor Authentication. If you are not familiar with Mobile Authenticator apps, we recommend choosing to receive your codes via SMS text message. Then click "Next."
8. Enter phone number
Enter the phone number you wish to use to receive confirmation codes, and you will be sent a test code.
9. Send/enter code
You will receive a code via text message to your phone. Enter the code you are sent via text message and click "Verify Code."
10. Welcome page / Timeline
Once you have signed in, you should see the welcome page, which provides a timeline summary of activity in your scholarship, beginning with the most recent, and includes financial and recipient information.
11. Welcome Message
For a “cover letter” welcome message from the University, click the "Welcome to your Scholarship Portal" box. (You can also reach this letter in the "Welcome" menu.)
12. Drop-down menu
You can always use the "Welcome" drop-down menu at left to go back to your timeline.
13. Timeline
From the timeline, you can get information about a scholarship recipient by selecting their photo in "Most Recent Recipients" or scroll down in the “Recent Activity” timeline.
14. Recipient info page
Student recipient pages contain an individual recipient's background information and a personal thank you message from them.
15. Fund information
The "Fund" menu at upper left links to the fund's financial information, list of recipients, and your donor profile. (You'll also find these links as upper-right tabs on many pages.)
16. Donor profile
Selecting "Profile" from the Fund menu (or tabs) shows the scholarship profile that recipients can see. To update the profile (including adding a photo), please email Michele Guyor-Borthwick.