Academic exploration is one of the hallmarks of a Brown education. With the BrownConnect Fund, we're ensuring that this freedom to explore extends far beyond the classroom. BrownConnect provides undergraduates with summer internship and research opportunities, as well as financial support, to pursue their academic and professional goals while solving real-world problems.
BrownConnect Fund
Ensuring all students have access to summer internships and research experiences.
The BrownConnect Fund supports:
- Creating more high-quality internships and research opportunities in a wide range of fields across the globe, including Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards (UTRAs).
- Providing financial support for students who might otherwise not be able to accept a summer internship or research position due to financial barriers with Linking Internships and Knowledge (LINK) Awards and Summer Earnings Waivers (SEWs).
- Linking students with the extraordinary worldwide network of Brown alumni, parents, and friends.
Impact funds are part of the Brown Annual Fund family. These giving options strengthen a specific University priority. Gifts made to an impact fund will be used where it's most needed within the fund's focus area, allowing the University to be strategic and effective with every dollar.
85 %
of students participate in summer experiential learning during their time at Brown
23,175
students and alumni connecting through BrownConnect
$ 3.2M
funds awarded to students during the 2018-19 academic year
BrownConnect Fund Challenge
through June 30, 2021
The BrownConnect Fund enables students to gain invaluable experience outside the classroom. Help provide these internship and research opportunities, as well as the financial support to pursue them, for today's undergraduate students. Now through June 30: all gifts to the BrownConnect Fund will be matched 2-to-1, with less than $100,000 remaining to meet the Challenge.
Want to learn more about the BrownConnect Fund? Contact us at [email protected].
As part of the family of funds for annual giving with the Brown Annual Fund, gifts made to the BrownConnect Fund and any other impact fund are included in Annual Fund totals and the Reunion Class Gift to the Annual Fund.