The Power of Philanthropy

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MIT’s Fundraising Priorities

The Climate Project

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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Faculty and Researchers

Creative, curious people are the sparks that drive MIT’s problem-solving engine. Blurring boundaries and boldly turning problems into opportunities, these brilliant minds and hands fuel MIT’s mission to best serve the nation and the world.

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Flexible Funding at MIT

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 when federal research funding is in jeopardy and higher education endowments face unprecedented challenges.

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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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Infrastructure: A Campus for Today and Tomorrow

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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Innovation for Impact

MIT has long been a model of innovation and entrepreneurship in action. The Institute’s uniquely potent innovation infrastructure helps catalyze the translation of big ideas into products and policies with serious social impact.

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MIT Core

MIT is known for its technical mastery, its research outcomes, its entrepreneurial track record. But behind each success story are the believers, makers, and doers whose minds and hands can change the world. We know brilliance isn’t rare at MIT, but access to the resources that amplify it? That takes serious philanthropic support for the MIT Core: scholarships, fellowships, professorships, infrastructure, and flexible funds. Raising this support has never been more important than it is now.

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Reinventing Education

Education continues to encounter the forces of great change. At MIT, we are unleashing new endeavors to reshape the learning experience, opening an expanded portfolio of offerings to the world, and creating a learning-living environment charged with opportunity.

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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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