The Annual Fund is designed to channel donations to the Graduate Center's most pressing needs, providing unrestricted monies that can be used to enhance existing programs and to launch worthy new initiatives. Your donation may serve to recruit and support distinguished faculty members or it might provide increased financial aid for outstanding doctoral candidates. Every gift to the Annual Fund enhances excellence and provides the flexible resources that are essential if the Graduate Center is to achieve it goals. Read more about the Annual Fund >

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If you are among our leadership donors, making a gift of $1,000 or more to the Annual Fund, you will be recognized as a member of the President's Alliance. Your gift, and your involvement with the Graduate Center, will be acknowledged in a number of ways throughout the year. Because you are a leader of the community, your gift as a vote of confidence in the Graduate Center will inspire others to take notice and to give as generously as they can. Read more about the President's Alliance>

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Library Associates facilitate the mission of the Mina Rees Library by providing funding for print and electronic acquisitions, as well as for the preservation and maintenance of the library's holdings, facilities, and equipment. As a member of the Library Associates you will receive invitations to events sponsored by the Associates and your gift will strengthen our collections, preserve them for future generations, and ensure that the Mina Rees Library offers the most advanced resources to students and faculty.

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The Amie and Tony James Gallery, a museum-quality space on the main floor of the Graduate Center with windows fronting Fifth Avenue, annually presents five or six exhibitions of artworks in all media. The exhibitions, lectures, and other activities of the Amie and Tony James Gallery encompass a spectrum of scholarly interests, offer doctoral students the opportunity to gain valuable curatorial experience, and contribute to the cultural life of New York.

Your gift as a member of the Gallery Associates entitles you to an array of benefits including invitations to opening receptions and private gallery talks. Gallery Associates' gifts help support special exhibitions that enhance the teaching mission of the gallery and enrich the City's cultural landscape.

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Your gift may be directed to many special purposes such as: scholarships that provide access to graduate education for students of modest means; salary enhancements for the most talented faculty; funds for faculty and student research and travel; support for students or faculty in a particular discipline, program, center, or institute; funding for distinguished visiting professorships; support for programs designed to serve New York City; and underwriting support for lectures, conferences, concerts, theater, and other public programs.

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If you are interested in learning more about the special needs of the Graduate Center and about how you can help, please contact the Office of Institutional Advancement.