The Power of Philanthropy

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MIT’s Fundraising Priorities

Campus Infrastructure

Interdisciplinary labs and world-class makerspaces. Dynamic arts facilities and distinctive residences. Collaborative classrooms and celebrated landmarks. The ongoing reinvigoration of MIT’s campus opens the door to achievement, today and beyond.

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Climate and Energy

The Climate Project is a whole-Institute mobilization through which MIT will become one of the world’s most prolific and collaborative sources of technological, behavioral, and policy solutions for the global climate challenge within the next decade.

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Flexible Funding

The flexibility of unrestricted gifts supports the MIT community and advances the ability of faculty, students, and staff to nimbly pursue game-changing ideas and cutting-edge solutions. This is particularly relevant at a time of ongoing and emerging complexities.

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Foundational Support

We know brilliance isn’t rare at MIT, but access to the resources that amplify it? That takes serious philanthropic support—for scholarships, fellowships, professorships, infrastructure, and flexible funds. Securing these foundational resources has never been more important than it is now.

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Health and Life Sciences

Asking big questions, then asking many more, can change the course of humankind. MIT’s students, faculty, and researchers fearlessly traverse the arc of scientific discovery, pursuing new knowledge today to face the unknowns of tomorrow.

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Human Insight

The world faces challenges that technology alone can’t solve. MIT has long recognized the critical role of the humanities, arts, and social sciences in exploring the political, cultural, economic, and ethical perspectives necessary to address complex problems.

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The Whole Student Experience

Our students are going to do incredible things, both at MIT and beyond. But incredible things aren’t easy. MIT strives to educate the whole student by supporting academic success, fostering community and individual well-being, and cultivating personal and intellectual growth—helping students become leaders who invent the future and build a better world.

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