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100% of members of the Williams College Board of Trustees have already made a gift in support of the Davis Center Initiative. Join them in making Williams an equitable and inclusive environment for all.

MAKE AN EVERYDAY IMPACT

Designate your Alumni Fund gift to Equity and Inclusion
Your gift to the Alumni Fund will go toward creating an inclusive academic and personal environment where students can live, learn and thrive. Gifts to Equity and Inclusion support programs and opportunities provided by the Davis Center and Minority Coalition groups, among others.

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.

SUPPORT THE BUILDING PROJECT

Your gift can now go twice as far!

Thanks to a generous donor couple, we are offering a 1:1 match in support of the Davis Center Building Project. Donors who are making their largest gift to the college to date—a gift of at least $50,000 in support of this critical capital project—will be matched dollar for dollar, thereby doubling the impact of their giving.

Architects' rendering, January 2022.

ENDOW PROGRAMMING

Donors interested in making gifts starting at $250K over five years may want to consider endowing their support, thereby ensuring their gift is supporting the Davis Center’s work in perpetuity. Endowed gifts are invested with the college’s endowment and create a permanent, self-sustaining source of funding for a program of the donor's choosing. Those funds are then spent aligned with the donor’s intentions annually.

”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

Your gift of $25,000 to the Alumni Fund or Parents Fund can give three new Williams students the best possible start to their time on campus—even before first-year orientation.

2016 Summer Humanities and Social Sciences MobyDick

”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.