Affinity Groups

Gifts to provide support and mentorship for students working on projects in their home countries.

Gifts to endow a student aid fund to benefit women students at MIT.

Gifts to establish an endowment fund to collect oral histories of MIT alumnae, the income to cover costs of tapes and equipment, travel expenses, and salaries of student interviewers.

Gifts of alumni/ae and friends to support the Black Students Union. Funds support services and programs that give a sense of community and help to aid in the welfare of black students on and off campus.

Gifts from alumni/ae and friends to support black women events that encourage bonding such as yearly retreats, winter banquets, and black women's week.

Gifts of alumni/ae and friends to support the Black History Project.

Gifts from alumni/ae and friends to support large events that are put on collectively by the groups that represent the African Diaspora.

Gifts to support the community activities for graduate students/postdocs who are the first in the family to have pursued and graduated from a 4-year college and graduate students/postdocs who grew up in a low-income household, received a Pell grant, or whose parent contribution for undergraduate education was ≤ $5000.

To provide programs and services in support of Latino and Latina alumni, students, and prospective students of MIT.

Gifts to support the Latinx Graduate Student Association, which seeks to empower its members through the creation of a strong network of graduate students, faculty, administrators and alumni that will aid in the retention, graduation and professional support of the MIT latinx student.

Gifts for an endowed fund for scholarship assistance with preference for the Minority Introduction to Engineering (MITES) program.