MIT Sloan Annual Fund Dean’s Circle

While most funding is allocated to specific programs or initiatives, the MIT Sloan Annual Fund provides for a critical need: unrestricted funding—in real time—for innovation, dispersed as needed to any number of crucial priorities. Since certain programs require different levels of funding year-to-year, unrestricted gifts allow MIT Sloan to seize new opportunities, and allocate funds as needed to timely initiatives

The MIT Sloan Annual Fund provides flexible funding to support innovation, knowledge creation, and a diverse community; and ensures the continued development of principled, innovative leaders who improve the world, while generating ideas that advance management practice. Some specific examples of Dean’s Circle dollars at work are helping to fund MIT Sloan Senate, student conferences, Action Learning labs, and Admissions events around the globe.  

Your Dean's Circle-level gift is unrestricted and current-use, meaning that it can be allocated to the most pressing priorities around the school with immediate effect. Dean’s Circle dollars are directed as needed toward groundbreaking initiatives. This translates to empowering the school's leaders to respond proactively to new ideas and opportunities, as we pursue a mission that's been ours for over a century: improving the world through our work. 

Because Dean’s Circle support is so vital to all that MIT Sloan does, we thank Dean’s Circle donors by providing insider access to MIT Sloan community events and exclusive exposure to the research and thought leadership that their giving supports. As a Dean’s Circle donor, you will receive insider access to MIT Sloan community events, including invite-only receptions, and exposure to the research and thought leadership that you support through your MIT Sloan Annual Fund philanthropy. 

To remain a Dean’s Circle donor, you must make a gift of $2,500 or more per year. The power of a Dean’s Circle gift is magnified by consistent giving, year after year, building your legacy of support. A Dean’s Circle gift can be given either as a single sum, a monthly payment totaling $2,500 over the course of a year, or as part of a company match (as long as the total is $2,500 and the match from your company comes in within the fiscal year).