All-Grant is a top institutional priority:
Through June 30, 2025, financial aid endowment gifts that do not specify a preference will be matched one-to-one by the college’s unrestricted endowment.
YOUR GIFT CAN GO TWICE AS FAR
An innovative matching program will help reach the goal of raising at least $25M in new endowment over the next two years.
The matching opportunity will allow new donors to create named scholarships with lower gift minimums and donors with existing scholarships to grow them to new stewardship levels.
To participate, donors must make an endowed gift commitment of at least $125,000 payable over a period of up to five years and a five-year, leadership-level commitment of at least $2,500 to the Alumni Fund or Parents Fund designated for financial aid.
SAMPLE GIFTS
Give $125,000 + $125,000 match = $250,000 Named Scholarship
Support the financial aid program in perpetuity without designating a specific student
• Donor chooses name for the scholarship
• Donor makes a five-year commitment to leadership-level
Alumni Fund or Parents Fund support of at least $2,500 per year
Give $250,000 + $250,000 match = $500,000 Named Assigned Scholarship
Provides approximately half the average scholarship for a student each year in perpetuity.
• Donor chooses name for the scholarship
• Names of student beneficiaries are shared with the donor
• Donor makes a five-year commitment to leadership-level
Alumni Fund or Parents Fund support of at least $2,500 per year
Give $500,000 + $500,000 match = $1,000,000 Distinctive Scholarship
Provides the full cost of average scholarship for one student every year in perpetuity.
• Donor chooses name for the scholarship
• Names of student beneficiaries are shared with the donor
• Donor makes a five-year commitment to leadership-level
Alumni Fund or Parents Fund support of at least $2,500 per year
All pledges may be spread over five years.
Designate your Alumni Fund gift to Financial Aid
In supporting Williams Firsts, your gift can go toward pre-orientation activities and workshops; resources and guidance throughout their academic journey; group activities for all four years; and the meaningful Williams Firsts Graduation Celebration.
Designate your Alumni Fund gift to Financial Aid
In supporting Williams Firsts, your gift can go toward pre-orientation activities and workshops; resources and guidance throughout their academic journey; group activities for all four years; and the meaningful Williams Firsts Graduation Celebration.
Designate your Alumni Fund gift to Financial Aid
Williams' first-in-the-nation all-grant financial aid program is only made possble by the continuation of the generous history of gifts from past alumi and families. Your gift to financial aid all supports free txstbooks for all aided students,, free lag and art suplies, music lessons, halthe insuance, summer storage and the essentials high-need students require to be prepared for dorm life as well as the demands of their first Williamstown, MA.
Designate your Alumni Fund gift to First Generation Support
In supporting Williams Firsts, your gift can go toward pre-orientation activities and workshops; resources and guidance throughout their academic journey; group activities for all four years; and the meaningful Williams Firsts Graduation Celebration.
”Broad institutional support of the Davis Center will help ensure that it is poised to meet the current and evolving needs of the campus community, particularly the students from historically underrepresented or marginalized groups.”
—Letiticia Smith-Evans Haynes ’99,
Vice President for Institutional Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
PURPLE MOUNTAIN PATHWAYS
”SHSS helped me to prepare for the academic year and think more about what I wanted from my first year at Williams. It was nice to have a community...at Williams before starting freshman year. The work our professors and advisors and other administrators did was very meaningful and impactful for us.”
—Hikaru Hayakawa '24
The Summer Humanities and Social Sciences and Summer Science programs introduce students from underrepresented communities to college life and help them build relationships with faculty, staff and peers. Each year, these programs serve 50 students, at an annual operating cost of nearly $400,000.
By making an Alumni Fund or Parents Fund gift of $25,000, designated for Equity & Inclusion, you can make three new Williams students’ experiences in these programs possible. This Purple Mountain Pathways gift provides exceptional leadership support of these and other offerings from the Pathways for Inclusive Excellence, part of the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, whose mission is to make sure all students thrive academically at Williams and beyond through opportunities and programs that work to eradicate racial and socio-economic disparities in higher education.