朋友基金

制作礼物 to the 朋友基金

Gifts to the 朋友基金 are critical in helping Bowdoin maintain and enhance academic, 艺术, 运动, and creative opportunities to which both current and future generations of students and community members will have access. Support of the Fund demonstrates a commitment to the liberal arts education and unique experiences that Bowdoin provides.

There are nine designations in the 朋友基金 to direct support:

• 最大的需要: As the last few years have underscored, Bowdoin’s needs change – sometimes dramatically – from year to year. Gifts to this designation are unrestricted and forward-looking: they provide the College with the flexibility to meet new needs as they arise, and they offer a vote of confidence in the College’s direction.
  
  
• 学者: Gifts to this designation support the core of the Bowdoin experience: the rigorous and highly personal education that make the College exceptional. 这些礼物支持教学, 学院奖学金, 学生的研究, 课堂教学技术, and the libraries – and they promote the connection between devoted faculty and talented students that is Bowdoin’s hallmark.
  
  
• 艺术 & 文化: Gifts to this designation support the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, as well as the many theater and dance performances, 音乐会, 学生展览, 以及校园讲座. These gifts provide vibrancy and culture to the Bowdoin community and offer students the opportunity to express themselves creatively and to appreciate the arts.
  
  
• 全面的援助: 一个关键 从这里 活动优先级, comprehensive aid ensures that all students have access to the full range of the College’s academic and student life offerings. Gifts to this designation provide academic technology such as laptops and iPads, 课程材料, 实习和奖学金, and support Bowdoin Outing Club trips, 出国留学, 以及其他活动. Some students may struggle to afford a new pair of glasses or a warm coat or winter boots; gifts designated for comprehensive aid remove these economic barriers to fully participating in campus life.
  
  
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives: Gifts to this designation affect every student, 教员, 也是皇冠体育的工作人员, and reach every corner of campus. They enable the Center for Multicultural Life to program inclusive student events and bring diverse speakers to campus. They move the campus forward through trainings such as A Groundwater Approach to Racial Equity, conducted by the Racial Equity Institute, 以及全校范围内的倡议, 比如DEI Partners, that promote introspection and collaboration.
  
  
• 环境管理: Through their support for programming, 绿色行动, and upgrades to campus facilities, gifts to this designation help Bowdoin toward its goals of maintaining carbon neutrality, 促进可持续发展, and involving students in pro-environmental efforts. These gifts support waste reduction through initiatives that include the Composite and Food Waste Program, 零分类回收计划, 和给予和行动计划, and make it possible for the College to prioritize energy-use reduction by incorporating the LEED or Passive House Design process into all new buildings.
  
  
• 金融援助: 皇冠体育的捐赠基金, 而令人印象深刻的, only provides a portion of the funding required for financial aid. Annual gifts to this designation make it possible for Bowdoin to remain one of only twenty colleges in the US that admit students on a need-blind basis and offer no-loan aid that covers full demonstrated need. Student need and the percentage of students on aid at Bowdoin continue to increase – and with a recent change in policy that offers greater financial assistance, including aid to middle-income students, 需求将继续增加. Annual gifts for financial aid are critically important to enable Bowdoin to keep this core promise of access to students and families.
  
  
• 健康 & 健康: An important aspect of Bowdoin’s residential model is ensuring the health and wellness of all students during their transformative, 有时很有挑战性, 在校时间. Gifts to this designation help students meet those challenges and learn essential skills to ensure that they know when to take a break, 何时寻求帮助, how to best support and be supported by others, 如何应对突发事件, 以及如何忍受痛苦. These gifts will also be utilized to help students access resources for their health and wellness so that they can find success in the classroom and beyond. They provide for religious and spiritual life; the Counseling Center; the Coe 健康 Center; gender violence prevention; and peer health and health education. 
  
  
• 学生生活: Gifts to this designation support the rich, 多种多样的, and life-changing cocurricular opportunities that define the Bowdoin student experience outside the classroom. These gifts provide for over 200 student clubs; many enriching activities such as lectures, 校内的运动, and student performances; alternative break service trips and other programs of the McKeen Center for the Common Good; and campus hubs like Sexuality, 女性, 及性别中心(SWAG).