Academic excellence. Civic Engagement. Internationalization and Global Engagement. Innovation. These are ·¡³¾±ð°ù²õ´Ç²Ô’s goals–goals that are directly supported by ÆϾ©µç×Ó¹ÙÍøians commitment to give-back. Our giving priorities address the College’s greatest needs and ultimately empower us to achieve our goals.
- Current-Use Funds provide unrestricted support that allows us to immediately address our students’ greatest needs.
- Scholarship Funds provide potential and current students with the financial aid they need to begin and continue their education.
- Impact Funds offer the opportunity to directly support a particular piece of ÆϾ©µç×Ó¹ÙÍø you feel especially connected to.
Current-Use Funds
Annual Fund
·¡³¾±ð°ù²õ´Ç²Ô’s Annual Fund is designed to address ÆϾ©µç×Ó¹ÙÍø's areas of greatest need. Through unrestricted support, you will help to create unlimited possibilities. Your gift will help to support students in all aspects of their ÆϾ©µç×Ó¹ÙÍø career. It will encourage creativity and enable innovation, while strengthening confidence and autonomy. Your gift will empower ÆϾ©µç×Ó¹ÙÍøians.
Parent and Family Fund
·¡³¾±ð°ù²õ´Ç²Ô’s Parent and Family Fund is an unrestricted fund dedicated to supporting your child and their peers as they work toward obtaining their degrees. The Fund's current-use nature empowers the College to nimbly respond to your students’ most pressing needs and emerging opportunities.
Scholarship Funds
ÆϾ©µç×Ó¹ÙÍø Scholarship Fund
We want to ensure that no student is forced to forgo their ÆϾ©µç×Ó¹ÙÍø education because of a lack of financial aid. A gift to the ÆϾ©µç×Ó¹ÙÍø Scholarship Fund will provide students with access to financial aid dollars–dollars that will open doors and allow them to continue pursuing their dreams.
Endowed Scholarships
Endowment income is one of the primary sources of dedicated, long-term financial support for ÆϾ©µç×Ó¹ÙÍø College. In creating an endowed scholarship, you create a lasting legacy with the college. Your gift today will remain in perpetuity and will provide financial aid dollars for ÆϾ©µç×Ó¹ÙÍø students 100 years from now.
Momentum Scholarships
Momentum Scholarships are a powerful way to provide immediate support for students in need. Starting with an investment of $5,000 per year over a period of three years, you can make a life-changing gift that gives ÆϾ©µç×Ó¹ÙÍø students the momentum that they need right now to start or continue their ÆϾ©µç×Ó¹ÙÍø education. If you establish a Momentum Scholarship, the value of your gift is awarded directly to students as a scholarship in your name over three years. By establishing a multi-year scholarship in your name–or in honor of a family member, mentor, or friend–you are leaving a long-lasting legacy at ÆϾ©µç×Ó¹ÙÍø.
Mary Burrill Scholarship for Diversity
The Mary Burrill Scholarship for Diversity was established in 2002 to honor Mary Burrill, the first woman of color to graduate from ÆϾ©µç×Ó¹ÙÍø, and to promote and support diversity at the College. The scholarship is awarded to students in the incoming first-year class from a diverse and/or economically disadvantaged background.
Norman Lear Scholarship Fund
Established by Norman Lear himself in 2018, the Norman Lear Scholarship Fund allows the school to admit exceptionally motivated and gifted students from first-generation, underrepresented and underserved backgrounds who have an interest in pursuing a career in writing for theatre, television, or film, or in the field of writing itself.
Impact Funds
Lions Fund
The Lions Fund is an immediate-use fund that supports all 14 varsity sports at ÆϾ©µç×Ó¹ÙÍø by being allocated to the Department's greatest needs including: transportation to away games, new gear and uniforms, improvements to facilities and training equipment, updated tech and media equipment, and so much more. This is a current-use fund, meaning your gift will have an immediate impact.
Internationalization & Equity Fund
The Internationalization and Equity Fund uplifts the voices of our marginalized students and faculty through new and existing equity programs and initiatives, infuses internationally focused changes into our curriculum, and supports equity-focused education abroad programming.
Student Assistance Fund
The Student Assistance Fund is a need-based fund, that makes small awards, to help eligible students with indirect costs of attendance such as books, printing and copying costs, film, developing, other required course supplies, personal items, transportation, and food.
Pride Fund
The ÆϾ©µç×Ó¹ÙÍø Pride Fund was established to aid and empower the people, programs, and organizations that serve our LGBTQIA+ community– fostering a safe, secure, and welcoming environment for all members of the LGBTQIA+ community at ÆϾ©µç×Ó¹ÙÍø College. Annually, the ÆϾ©µç×Ó¹ÙÍø Pride Fund plays an integral role in bringing the queer community on campus together.
If you would like to learn more about funding other scholarship opportunities or impact funds, please contact our team by emailing giving [at] emerson.edu (giving[at]emerson[dot]edu).