Giving Opportunities

It takes courage to commit to raising funds for new buildings, faculty support, and life-changing financial aid—but by doing so, we ensure Brown’s future as one of the nation’s premier universities. We are stepping boldly into the future. Please join with us on this incredible journey.

Giving Opportunities

Range

Opportunity

$100 million

Endow the Financial Aid Initiative

$10 - $35 million

Name a large new or newly-renovated structure such as the about-to-be-renovated Hunter Lab

Endow the Public Health Program

Endow a research initiative such as the Brown Institute for Brain Science

Endow a programmatic initiative such as the Environmental Change Initiative

Endow the Brown/Marine Biological Laboratory Partnership

Name an existing campus building, such as the English Department Building

$5 million

Name an existing campus building, such as the Applied Math Building

Endow a Deanship

$3 - $4 million

Name an existing campus building, such as the Judaic Studies Building or the East Asian Studies Building

Endow a Professorship
(including clinical professorships at Alpert Medical School)

Endow the Athletic Director's position

Endow the Brown Library's Center for Digital Initiatives

$1.5 - $2 million

Endow a Visiting Scholar at the Watson Institute for International Studies

Endow undergraduate research opportunities

Endow a visiting professorship

Give a current-use gift for the Center for Computational Molecular Biology

Endow a head coaching chair

$1 million

Endow a Chancellor's Scholarship

Endow a Faculty Fellow

$650,000

Endow a Graduate Student Fellowship

$500,000

Endow a President's Fund for University Initiatives

Endow a Trustee's Scholarship

Endow an assistant coaching chair

Give a current-use gift for multimedia classrooms across campus

Give a current-use gift for faculty research initiatives

Give a current-use gift for club and intramural sports

$150,000 - $250,000

Endow a Dissertation Fellowship

Endow an Undergraduate Scholarship

Endow graduate teaching assistantships

Endow graduate summer research fellowships

Endow a Flexible Research Fund

Name an existing laboratory, classroom or library area, or office space across campus

$100,000

Endow a Financial Aid Fund

Endow a Brown Medical School Scholarship

Endow a Library Collection

Endow a Graduate Student Travel Fellowship

Endow a fund for an International Undergraduate Teaching and Research Assistantship

Give a current-use gift to your favorite department or program (to address its most immediate needs of the department or program)

$80,000

Give a current-use Brown Annual Fund Scholarship

$50,000

Endow an Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award (UTRA) or a Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund to the Brown Annual Fund Investment in diversity

Give a current-use gift for diversity initiatives

$25,000

Give a current-use gift to the Library to purchase a plasma screen

$15,000

Give a one-year Alpert Medical School Scholarship

$10,000

Give a Brown Annual Fund Leadership gift

$5,000

Give a Sports Foundation "Drive for Five" Annual Leadership Gift

Give a Brown Medical Annual Fund Distinguished Fellow Gift

$1,000

Become a Brown Annual Fund Partner