Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion Fund

Enhancing the student experience—from recruitment and matriculation to Commencement—through creative programs and opportunities.

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The Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion Fund supports creative programming and opportunities that help to shape a learning and living environment in which students from all backgrounds can thrive at Brown.

In addition to providing grants for programs that cultivate an inclusive environment for undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, new initiatives within the Pathways Fund provide support to strengthen Brown’s recruitment efforts.

Support the Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion Fund

By making a gift today, you're helping to foster a diverse and inclusive campus environment.

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Your gift to the Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion Fund helps to foster a diverse and inclusive campus environment in a multitude of ways, including:

  • Sustaining the pipeline of talented applicants to Brown from a diverse range of backgrounds through:
    • Raising awareness of Brown’s holistic, individualized, mission-driven admissions process among prospective students, their families, and guidance counselors.
    • Improving Brown’s yield of admitted students from a diverse range of backgrounds through enhanced alumni volunteer efforts.
    • Developing resources for programs focused on regional recruitment with high schools and community-based organizations.
    • Providing travel grants to campus for prospective and admitted students and their families, and increasing funds available to match financial aid awards from peer institutions.
  • Supporting academic and administrative departments, centers, and institutes that provide resources and mentorship for students from diverse communities.
  • Investing in campus spaces that nurture a community for students to discuss subjects related to a sense of belonging, through programming and community events.
  • Offering student-centered programming and events that promote community-building, critical discourse, skill-building, mentorship, and professional development.

My experience with the Gender and Sexuality Peer Counselor Program has been pivotal to my time at Brown. Coming in, I was hesitant about my abilities to find a community on campus. Since finding and working with the Sarah Doyle Center and LGBTQ Center, I have gained more confidence in my identity and in myself as a community leader. The program has allowed me to extrapolate the intersections between gender and sexuality in my academic studies, encouraging me to explore my intellectual passions through new lenses.

Meleah Neely ’25 Gender and Sexuality Peer Counselor Coordinator
 
Meleah Neely poses for a photo inside a Brown building.

Impact funds, like the Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion Fund, are part of the Brown Annual Fund family. Donor support of these giving options amplifies key University priorities. Your gift made to an impact fund will be used where it's most needed within the fund's focus area, empowering the University to be strategic and effective with every dollar.

As part of the family of funds for annual giving with the Brown Annual Fund, gifts made to the Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion Fund and any other impact fund are included in Annual Fund totals and the Reunion Class Gift to the Annual Fund.

 

Want to learn more about the Pathways to Diversity & Inclusion Fund? Please contact:

Alyssia Coates, Ph.D.
Senior Director of Development
+1 (401) 863-1221
alyssia_coates@brown.edu

 

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