“As humanity struggles with so many interlocking global crises, it has never needed the people of MIT more than it does now. Let’s do big things, together.”
Sally Kornbluth
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Foundational philanthropic support provides the resources that enable every part of MIT to thrive. It includes undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships that attract exceptional students, professorships that empower world-class faculty, unrestricted gifts that give Institute leadership the flexibility to meet emerging needs, and investments in the physical and technological infrastructure that make discovery possible.
MIT’s Fundraising Priorities
Breakthrough ideas at MIT often emerge in unexpected moments. In a time of ongoing complexities, the need to act quickly is clear. Your commitment of flexible funding gives MIT the agility to support exceptional people, explore game-changing ideas, and shape new solutions to society’s most complex and consequential challenges—from climate to computing to human health.
Your gifts foster a physical environment where collaboration, creativity, and achievement flourish. Interdisciplinary labs, makerspaces, arts facilities, residences, and classrooms all play a vital role in uniting MIT’s people and ideas. Advanced computing resources are integral to this ecosystem as well, serving as essential drivers of discovery.
The immense, complex, and overlapping challenges of energy and climate inspired the Climate Project at MIT. Your support will propel advances in science, technology, policy, and finance. And help build scalable solutions and systems to sustain people and local communities around the globe.
Your philanthropy expands access to MIT and powers the work of its community of learners and doers. Funding for scholarships, fellowships, professorships, campus infrastructure, and flexible support strengthens our foundation, ensuring that our people can thrive and deliver discoveries that matter.
As MIT unites experts across disciplines and forges powerful partnerships to advance human health, your support plays a crucial role. With your help, we will drive discovery and turn scientific understanding into better outcomes for people everywhere.
Many of today’s challenges extend beyond technology alone. The humanities, arts, and social sciences provide critical perspectives on cultural, ethical, and societal questions. Your continued engagement ensures these insights shape thoughtful, effective, and community-centric policies and solutions.
MIT students are driven to achieve extraordinary things. Their success depends on academic support, community, well-being, and personal growth. Because of you, students thrive at MIT and beyond—prepared to lead, innovate, and build a better world.
