Ways To Make Your Impact

Your gift supports our mission of creating knowledge with enduring impact, and influencing and educating current and future leaders.

During the Chicago Minds campaign, Chicago Booth seeks to become the global destination for thought leaders who are shaping and defining new fields, and for students who have the greatest potential to harness their education for impact. Your support will ensure that Booth remains a top business school well into the future. It also will enhance the experiences of our students and faculty, as well as signal your pride as a member of the global Booth community.

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Joining a Community of Donors with the Annual Fund

Support for the Annual Fund makes you a special part of the Chicago Booth donor community and gives the dean the flexibility to support emerging priorities that are most important to the school. It is the seed funding for the new ideas developed at Booth that will transform the world in the future.

Designating your gift to the Annual Fund makes an immediate impact on the school’s greatest needs. Consider giving to one of the Annual Fund priorities including scholarship, global visibility, or any of the research center annual funds. Your gift of any size makes you part of Booth’s community of donors and renews your connection to the school.

Gift Amount	Impact of Gift Size
$250	This is the median gift size of our alumni donors.
$1,500	A gift of this amount is the average gift size of our alumni donors.
$2,500	Donors who make gifts of this size or more to the Annual Fund are recognized in the Dean's Society as part of the top 10 percent of Booth supporters.
$25,000 to $100,000	Gifts of this amount inspire philanthropy in others and are eligible to sponsor a challenge match campaign.

To learn more about making an impact through your Annual Fund gift, contact Adam Niermann.

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Helping Students through Scholarship

Scholarships are crucial in attracting the most talented candidates from around the globe and allowing them to make their program decision on the basis of academics rather than cost. By increasing our pool of available scholarship funds, the school aims to ease financial constraints so that the most talented students can attend Booth and reach their full potential.

Gift Amount	Impact of Gift Size
$125,000	Award a merit-based scholarship to be awarded to one student for two years or two students for one year.
$250,000	Endow in perpetuity a merit-based scholarship to be awarded annually.
$1,500,000	Endow in perpetuity a full merit-based scholarship to be awarded annually.

Contact Hannah Ruth Henrickson to learn more about supporting scholarships.

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Karl Muth, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Chicago Booth, teaching a class

Sustaining Our Reputation and the Quality of Our Education

Teachers. Scholars. Mentors. Booth professors are pushing forward the boundaries of knowledge and are unwavering in their commitment to the success of every student. You can help us attract and retain the world’s best faculty.

Gift Amount	Impact of Gift Size
$100,000	Sponsor a postdoctoral research assistantship through Pathways to Research and Doctoral Careers (PREDOC) and help lead new faces to become future faculty.
$250,000	Invest in cutting-edge faculty research funding.
$1,000,000	Endow in perpetuity a doctoral fellowship for a Booth PhD.
$5,000,000	Endow in perpetuity a full professorship—the highest academic honor at Booth.

To learn more about ways to support Booth faculty, contact Katie Tkach.

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Invest in the Buildings that House Booth’s Human Capital

Expanding global visibility also helps the school maintain its position as a top business school. Named space opportunities are available at each Booth campus.

Gleacher Center (downtown Chicago)
Harper Center (campus in Hyde Park)
Hong Kong Jockey Club University of Chicago Academic Complex | The University of Chicago Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong
Robert Rothman, MBA '77, London Campus

Contact Katie Tkach to learn more about space naming opportunities.

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Impacting Academic Inquiry

From entrepreneurship to marketing, social impact to artificial intelligence, Booth research has lasting and profound impact in business, culture, and society. When you support our research centers, you help our faculty and students make pioneering discoveries and solve global problems, and you support the Nobel laureates of tomorrow.

Find out how Booth’s research centers are helping mold the future of business and society.