The 1946 Challenge

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

📓 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!

⚖️ Diversity & Inclusion Fund: Claremont McKenna College is committed to an inclusive community that enriches the value of the CMC experience for all students, staff, and faculty. Make your gift to the Diversity & Inclusion Fund to support workshops, training, research, and campus organizations to ensure our students have the behavioral commitments, ethical courage, and effective strategies to contribute and lead in today's society. 

🧯 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.

🍎 Friends Fund: A fund for friends of CMC to support the academic & intellectual rigor of a CMC education. Friends help ensure dynamic classroom experiences for students, faculty and staff development, world-class faculty research, and technology or facilities for learning. Make a gift today to help carry out the mission of the College.

💻 Information Technology Fund: Help support technology services, like free printing for students, with a gift to this fund.  Former Student Technology Assistants will remember providing technical support and services at the labs, please help fund these services for today's students!

📒 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, helping 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.

📃 Mirza-Stark Veteran's Scholarship Fund: Founded by Mustafa Mirza ’76 P’13 P’15 and family, and Jack Stark ’57 GP’11, CMC President Emeritus, and his wife, Jil Stark ’58 GP’11, the Mirza-Stark Veteran's Scholarship Fund help veterans and their children attend CMC.

🌐 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.

📚 Ward Elliott Professorship: In honor of Professor Ward Elliott, and with the tremendous support of the alumni, parents and families that were impacted by his many contributions, Claremont McKenna College is establishing the Ward Elliott Professorship. It will be awarded by the College’s Board of Trustees and referred to as the Ward Elliott Chair. The Chair will be bestowed upon an existing CMC faculty member determined by the College to be an outstanding teacher-scholar that embodies the characteristics of Professor Elliott.