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Why Your Gift Matters.
When You Make a Gift to Dartmouth through the Dartmouth College Fund, you have a "real-time" impact on students' lives.
$279
Pays the cost of educating a Dartmouth student for one day
$500
Pays the cost of two cases of test tubes for a laboratory classroom
$1,500
Funds a grant for one senior to conduct honors thesis research
$3,500
Makes it possible for one student to do leave term research in their chosen academic field
$5,000
Allows a student to participate in a varsity sport for a year
$8,200
Enables the library to subscribe for two years to a digital database of the New York Times back to the first issue in 1851
$10,000
Sends a student on a Dartmouth Foreign Study Program to Greece
$30,000
Underwrites a Dartmouth College Fund student scholarship for one year
$50,000
Covers the cost of a mainstage student theater production (recent productions include Two Gentlemen of Verona, Rocky Horror Show, and the Lady from the Sea)
$100,000
maintains Dartmouth's campuswide wireless computer network for six months
$101,890
Funds the full cost of educating a Dartmouth student for one year
$125,000
Buys 16 treadmills for the state-of-the-art Fitness Center, used by 80 percent of all Dartmouth students



