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Support our Center

Explore our 2025 Philanthropy Impact Report to see how your support is turning purpose into practice. From launching the first paid in-semester internship course in the country (with a list of paid internships often double the number of students in the class) to supporting student-managed investment funds, philanthropy has enabled us to scale from 4 classes to over 30 per year, serving 300+ students.

Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership Operating Support

Your gifts to the Center for Entrepreneurship Fund go to work immediately and enable us to provide robust, experiential programming for students including Lunch with a Leader, Winterim, workshops and so much more.

Make a Gift to the Center for Entrepreneurship

John and Susan Bates Endowment Fund

John and Susan are long-time friends and supporters of the college. John taught in the Business Program and was later elected as a trustee of the college, eventually serving three years as chair of the board. He is currently a life trustee. John and Susan led the overseas study program to Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg in 1979. Gifts to the John and Susan Bates Endowment will be used to support the general operations of the Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership in perpetuity.

Make a Gift to the Bates Endowment Fund

Ken Pierce Endowed Faculty Scholar

Ken Pierce inspired his students and colleagues through his restless and robust intellect, charismatic personality, and leadership. He never settled for the ordinary. The Kenneth H. Pierce Endowed Faculty Scholar not only provides funding to the center but will also honor and carry on Ken Pierce’s entrepreneurial leadership and pragmatic vision.

Make a Gift to the Ken Pierce Faculty Scholar

For more information, contact Brian Detweiler-Bedell, Chrys Huntchings or Catarina Hunter