Support Emma

“I have given to the school over the years not only because I am grateful for my own education, but also because I believe much of the world’s future will depend on the efforts of intelligent and capable women. ... I am very proud that Emma Willard provides such a superb education.”

– Alice Dodge Wallace ’38

Why support Emma? Because giving back is giving forward.

You are empowering the next generation of bold thinkers, creative doers and global citizens. You are moving us toward the next iteration of translating Emma Willard’s vision into practice.

You are honoring our founder’s legacy of bold and progressive initiatives on behalf of girls.

You are guaranteeing that the girls who go here today will experience Emma just as you have.

You are ensuring our girls will leave here empowered for life.

It was a bold idea then, and it remains our strategic vision today.

Gifts to Emma contribute to the life of the mind and the experience of the day-to-day. Here are some ways in which donors have given back.

• Twin sisters who graduated in 1988 are endowing a $50,000 scholarship fund to strengthen the school’s financial aid program.
  
  
• The Davis Scholars Program, created by Gale Lansing Davis ’63 and her family, offers eight full scholarships each year to outstanding students from across the globe.
  
  
• The mother of a member of the Class of 1970 supports great teaching by establishing a $500,000 fund for faculty excellence.
  
  
• A member of the Class of 1975 pledged $125,000 to boost the school’s unrestricted endowment and the Annual Fund.
  
  
• Eight alumnae – graduates of every decade from the 1920s through the 1960s – have given gifts of $1 million-plus for endowed faculty chairs, unrestricted endowment and initiatives that enhance students’ technological fluency.