FRIENDS ANNUAL GIVING – Donations to a Friends Group make an immediate and direct impact on each team’s annual budget. Gifts of any amount are encouraged. For donations of $5,000 or more, donors may elect to spread payments out over up to five years.
ONE CRIMSON FUND – DESCRIPTION AND BENEFITS - TBD
ATHLETIC DIRECTOR’S DISCRETIONARY ENDOWMENT FUNDS – A minimum gift of $100,000 will establish an Athletic Director’s Discretionary Endowment Fund and help provide flexibility and long-term support for our programs. These endowments provide key long-term support for programmatic needs that fall outside the scope of the Department’s budget and the Friends Group annual budgets.
ENDOWED ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT POSITIONS – A gift of $2 million will establish a named
Head Coach endowment. The following positions are available to be endowed:
• Men's and Women's Fencing Head Coach
• Field Hockey Head Coach
• Women's Rugby Head Coach
• Sailing Head Coach
• Softball Head Coach
• Men's Volleyball Head Coach
• Women's Volleyball Head Coach
• Director of Sports Medicine and Athletic Performance
• Director of Strength & Conditioning
FACILITY PROJECTS – Alumni/ae, parent, and friend contributions enable us to maintain, renew and enhance our facilities to meet the expectations and needs of today’s student-athletes. Harvard Athletics proudly calls home The Soldiers Field Athletic Complex, which is comprised of 76 acres of land and over one million square feet of athletic facilities. In addition, the Department maintains the Malkin Athletic Center, Hemenway Gymnasium and the Quad Recreational Athletic Center in Cambridge, the Newell and Weld Boathouses plus the Sailing Center on the Charles River, and the Polo and Equestrian Center in Hamilton, MA.
PLANNED GIVING – Potential PDFs or Link to University Advancement
RECREATION - ANDREA
All gifts to Harvard Athletics will receive Class and Reunion Credit. The Department of Harvard Athletics, the Friends groups and the Harvard Varsity Club encourage all alumni/ae to make an additional annual gift to the Harvard College Fund to support the overall experience for our student-athletes, which includes the College’s commitment to financial aid.
Online donations are preferred, as members of the Harvard Varsity Club and Athletics Department staff continue to work remotely and have limited access to mail or phones due to COVID-19 restrictions. To give online, please visit our
giving page.
Checks should be payable to
Harvard University and include the donor’s name, year (if applicable), and sport designation. Please do not send to the Murr Center but instead mail to:
Harvard University
PO Box 419209
Boston, MA 02241-9209
