Leaders Give Challenge
Support MIT Sloan students and faculty. Create Opportunity. Generate Impact. Unlock $500,000.
Your philanthropy fuels innovation. When you give through the MIT Sloan Annual Fund, you help to ensure MIT Sloan’s fiscal sustainability and operational excellence. Gifts are put to work immediately to support experiential learning opportunities and advance faculty research. Unrestricted, current-use support is the engine that powers so many of MIT Sloan’s core offerings, including new Action Learning labs and certificate programs, career resources, student-led initiatives, and curriculum around AI and other critical topics. The MIT Sloan Annual Fund is the flexibility that allows leadership to respond to emerging opportunities and challenges and seed the next big ideas.
Judy Lewent, SM ’72, chair of the MIT Sloan Americas Executive Board, and her husband, Mark Shapiro, are long-standing philanthropic leaders in our community. This year, they have offered a generous challenge that asks 500 others to join them in making Dean’s Circle-level gifts through the MIT Sloan Annual Fund.
Join a shared commitment to MIT Sloan students and faculty by making your gift today!

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2024-2025 Challenge Results
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512
Dean’s Circle donors.
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5.3M
contributed through the MIT Sloan Annual Fund by Dean’s Circle donors.
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92%
of the $5.7M MIT Sloan Annual Fund total came from Dean’s Circle donors.
Here are some examples of these donors’ meaningful impact:
- One Dean’s Circle Leader who gave $25,000 provided support for three student-led conferences.
- One Dean’s Circle Director who gave $10,000 funded an iLead (Innovative Leadership) event featuring inspiring leaders changing our world.
- One Dean’s Circle Partner who gave $5,000 funded a regional “MIT Sloan on the Road” event to meet potential applicants and admits around the globe.
- One Dean’s Circle Investor who gave $2,500 provided two clubs with funding through the MIT Sloan Student Senate.
- Two Dean’s Circle Investors who each gave $2,500 funded one Action Learning lab, which placed students with organizations to address real-world business challenges.
Invent the Future
You create opportunity. Discover what is made possible through the MIT Sloan Annual Fund.