The 1946 Challenge

Help us reach 1,946 donors in 1,946 minutes, consider a recurring gift, and support any area of CMC, including:

📓 Alumni Fund for Scholarships: What did you love about CMC? Was it the exceptional academic experience, a faculty-student research project that informed your future work, the financial support that allowed you to attend, or a life-changing opportunity through an internship program? Make your gift to the Alumni Fund for Scholarships to support CMC students. 100% of gifts are invested in student financial aid!

🏆 CMS Athletics: CMS Athletics is dedicated to supporting Athena and Stag 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 today to one of CMS’ 21 varsity teams, CMS Recreation, Sports Medicine, or the CMS Athletics discretionary fund.

🔬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.

💭 Athenaeum: The Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum is the College's cultural and social cornerstone and holds a special place in many CMCers hearts. Make your gift to the Athenaeum and support future thought-provoking engagements!

🤗 CARE Center: The CARE Center (Civility, Access, Resources, and Expression) is an innovative undertaking that proactively engages and educates the community to develop the skills needed to have difficult conversations, identify with one another across social barriers or ideological difference, and engage in effective dialogue towards solutions and resolutions.

⚖️ Dreier Roundtable: Former Congressman David Dreier ’75 shares his excitement launching the Dreier Roundtable at Claremont McKenna College, his alma mater. The Dreier Roundtable is dedicated to cultivating responsible and collaborative leaders who value public service and civil discourse. The mission is to inspire students to engage with diverse perspectives and promote understanding through meaningful conversations and hands-on experiences.

🧯 Emergency Fund: CMC is committed to ensuring our community is prepared for any crisis that may present itself, such as COVID-19. Make your gift to the CMC Emergency Fund to support our student's urgent needs such as health care, travel, housing, additional financial aid, and technology.

✏️ Financial Aid: Ensuring deserving students have access to the best education regardless of socioeconomic background is the cornerstone of CMC’s mission. Financial aid is essential to sustaining our need-blind admission promise, preserving resources to admit the best possible candidates to our college community no matter their ability to pay.

📒 John E. Allen Alumni Merit Award: Help carry on the legacy of John E. Allen '73 by making your own gift to the John E. Allen Alumni Merit Award. This scholarship aims to help yield admitted students from underrepresented communities or any student who shows a demonstrated commitment to underrepresented communities. The Merit Award has helped support more than 80 recipients since the early 1990s.

🧠 Mental Health Fund: CMC recognizes that our students face a variety of challenges in our current times, so the College responded by adapting and increasing student mental health resources. Make your gift to the Health Fund, and help Monsour Counseling and Psychological Services and the Dean of Students make sure that our students' mental health needs are met.

🏆🥇 Model United Nations (MUN): Support the award winning CMC Model UN team. Earlier this calendar year, the team made history at the Harvard National Model U.N. Conference, aka the “Super Bowl” of Model U.N. The CMC team won the Best Large Delegation award —the highest achievement possible at the HNMUN event, which is the world’s oldest, largest, and most prestigious annual Model U.N. conference.

📖The Open Academy: The nationally-recognized Open Academy develops a critical response to the educational imperative of our time: overcoming what divides us to solve the world’s most challenging problems. Through core commitments to Freedom of Expression, Viewpoint Diversity, and Constructive Dialogue, students are given the tools to listen respectfully, ask incisive questions, and engage with greater curiosity and openness to differences of opinion.

🌐 Parents Fund: The CMC Parents Fund is a vital source of financial support for the College. It helps enhance the full campus experience for CMC students, making it possible to support opportunities outside of the classroom such as the Athenaeum and sponsored internships. Make your gift to the Parents Fund to support the life-changing opportunities available through a CMC education.

🎓 R. Andrew Gray '91 Endowed Scholarship: The R. Andrew Gray '91 Endowed Scholarship is a memorial scholarship honoring Andy Gray '91, who valued the CMC experience and made life-long CMC friendships. This scholarship is awarded to CMC students from Arizona, reflecting Andy's passion for CMC and his home state.

🪖ROTC-Military Science: The ROTC Fund at Claremont McKenna College provides critical financial support for cadets by covering tuition, fees, and books, and by offering a monthly living stipend. Specific benefits vary by program, helping ensure that those who serve our country can pursue their education with fewer financial barriers.

🌎Salvatori Center: Founded in 1969, the Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World is CMC’s oldest research institute and the first of its kind in the world. The Center’s mission is to develop close relationships between students and scholars and to engage in the study of political philosophy and freedom as it relates to American Constitutionalism and the American Founding. It seeks to understand, and, if possible, to hearten the moral, political, and intellectual underpinnings of democracy in America.

🏛️The Washington D.C. Program: Since its establishment in 1974, the CMC Washington Program has been a hallmark of the Claremont McKenna College (CMC) experience. Built around a full-time internship in the nation’s capital combined with a rigorous academic curriculum, the Washington Program has long offered students deep experiential learning illuminated by a liberal arts education.

🚀💼Women in Leadership: The Women in Leadership Development (WLD) Initiative is a year-long leadership development opportunity for CMC women. The program consists of one day long leadership retreat, followed by participation throughout year-long events such as workshops, women leader salons, and one-on-one leadership coaching.