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🎇Alumni Fund for Scholarships: The Alumni Fund for Scholarships impacts every aspect of CMC and the student experience every day. Gifts to the Alumni Fund for Scholarships give CMC the flexibility to direct funds to parts of the budget that need critical and immediate support – like scholarships and financial aid. Support the College’s priorities with your gift to the Alumni Fund for Scholarships today. 

📖Athenaeum: Unique in American higher education, the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum (the “Ath”) is a signature program of Claremont McKenna College. Four nights a week during the school year, the Ath brings scholars, public figures, thought leaders, artists, and innovators to engage with the CMC and Claremont College community.

🏆 Athletics: CMS Athletics supports Scholar-Leader-Athletes in their pursuit of excellence in competition and the classroom while helping them develop the skills that allow them to thrive in all aspects of their lives. Make your gift to one of CMS's 21 varsity teams, CMS Recreation, Sports Medicine, or the CMS Athletics discretionary fund, which supports the program as a whole.

🖐 CARE Center: The CARE Center proactively engages and educates the CMC community to develop the skills needed to have difficult conversations, identify with one another across social barriers, and engage in effective dialogue towards solutions and resolutions. Make your gift to the CARE Center to help students grow as collaborative, empathetic leaders. 

🔬Centers & Institutes: CMC believes in the benefits of hands-on learning and student-faculty research. Make your gift to one of CMC’s 11 Centers and Institutes to provide students with graduate-level research opportunities in conjunction with the College’s distinguished faculty. 

✏️ Financial Aid: Making sure young people have access to the best education regardless of socioeconomic background is a cornerstone of CMC’s mission. Financial aid is essential to sustaining our need-blind admission promise, ensuring that CMC has the resources to admit the best possible candidates to our college community no matter their ability to pay

🧪 Integrated Sciences and Computation: Always at the forefront of academic excellence and innovation, CMC prepares its students to harness the exponential power of science and computing in a bold new integrated sciences program with interdisciplinary connections. Make your gift to integrated sciences and computation to prepare our students to lead at the intersections of technology, business, and policy.

🎓 John E. Allen Alumni Merit Award: Originally established as a scholarship in 1991 by Trustee Rossi A. Russell ’71 and John E. Allen ’73, it was renamed the John E. Allen Alumni Merit Award in 2001 after John’s sudden death at age 50. Russell and Allen bonded over a common goal—to increase the diversity of the student body. In 1991, they set out to create a merit award, and today the award helps students who come from underrepresented communities or show a demonstrated commitment to underrepresented communities. Russell committed his own funding and Allen drove the grassroots fundraising that enabled the fund to grow. 

🧠 Mental Health Fund: CMC recognizes that our students face various challenges in our current times and continues to respond by adapting and increasing student mental health resources. Make your gift to the Health Fund to help Monsour Counseling and Psychological Services and the Dean of Students meet our students' mental health needs.

📓 SIE (Sponsored Internships and Experiences): Its goal is to encourage quality student experiences across a variety of industries and geographies that facilitate development and growth. The program provides funding for CMC students, particularly in their first and second summers, to pursue domestic and international experiences of 4 to 12 weeks in length. 

🌎 SOURCE: Student Outreach Utilizing Resources and Community Exchange (SOURCE) was designed by CMC students to improve the services and capacities of regional nonprofit organizations. Make your gift to SOURCE to help connect impact-conscious students who want organizational consulting experience with local nonprofit organizations.

💼 Soll Center for Student Opportunities: Provides personalized advising, coaching, mentoring and networking support for students at all stages of their college experience. This support also extends to our alumni post-graduation.Make your gift to the Soll Center to support these student opportunities.

🧯 Student Emergency Fund: Students may face a variety of unexpected or unplanned expenses throughout the academic year. The Student Emergency Fund helps support the evolving financial and logistical challenges of CMC students.