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The Wooster Fund plays a vital role in providing resources that help every student discover their unique path— whether it’s through innovative programs, research opportunities, or hands-on experiences that ignite their intellectual curiosity. We invite you to join us in empowering this generation and future generations of Wooster students.

Gifts to The Wooster Fund are a crucial complement to our tuition and endowment revenue, supporting every aspect of the College’s work, and allows us to be nimble and respond to emerging priorities. Each year, thousands of Scots ensure that Wooster has the funding to meet our areas of greatest need.

Areas of Impact

Financial Aid

Ensure that Wooster is accessible to all so the College can continue to educate students based on their strengths and potential, not their ability to pay.

Experiential Learning

Support students pursuing immersive educational experiences, preparing them for careers shaped by the impact of their real-world knowledge and experience.

Mentored Research

Help fund Wooster’s elite Independent Study experience, as well as the numerous other opportunities students have to complete hands-on research under the mentorship of expert faculty.

Campus Life

Ensure each student’s Wooster experience is full of opportunities to deepen connections with one another and explore Wooster’s rich history of traditions.

Faculty & Staff Support

Help fund the excellence of our faculty and staff through professional development, faculty research, and sabbatical, all of which enable our staff to be experts in their fields.

Area of Greatest Need

Support every aspect of the College and allow us to advance the mission and vision of Wooster.

Ways to Give

Choose the giving method that works best for you. Every gift makes a meaningful difference to our students.

Stock Gifts

Support Wooster with a gift of appreciated stocks, bonds, or other securities.

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Stock Giving

Planned Giving

Create a lasting legacy by including The College of Wooster in your estate plans.

Planned Giving

Give From Your IRA

Make a gift directly from your IRA while helping support The College of Wooster.

IRA Charitable Rollover

Donor Advised Fund (DAF)

Support Wooster now and in the future through your donor advised fund.

Employer Matching Gifts

Double or even triple your impact through your employer's matching gift program.

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Endowment Opportunities

Support Wooster's future with a gift that strengthens its permanent endowment.

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By making a gift to Wooster Athletics, you can help our Fighting Scots compete at the highest level, both in their sport and in the classroom.

A gift to the Fighting Scots Fund is a gift that supports all of Wooster’s athletic teams. Your gift to the Fighting Scots Fund will support the areas of greatest need for all our teams, ensuring that our Scots continue to compete at the highest level.

Make a gift to the team(s) of your choice, with 100% of your donation supporting those programs. You can select the team(s) you would like to support in the giving form.

Giving Societies

Throughout Wooster’s history, gifts from generous alumni and friends have been vital to our mission as an independent liberal arts college that prepares students to become leaders of character and influence. The College of Wooster values its donors and has a number of ways to recognize your generous contributions.

Giving Societies recognize alumni, families, and friends whose annual generosity provides essential support for The College of Wooster. Members help strengthen scholarships, academic programs, student experiences, and other priorities that shape a Wooster education.

Planned Giving Society

The 1866 Legacy Society recognizes those alumni, parents, and friends who have demonstrated their commitment to Wooster’s future by naming the College as the beneficiary of irrevocable or revocable planned gifts, including life-income gifts and bequests. For more information about planned giving, click here.

Benefactor Societies

Wooster’s benefactor societies recognize the vision, leadership, and dedication of loyal and generous donors who have made significant lifetime gifts to the College and whose support has created a culture of philanthropy that will benefit students and the College for years to come.

The James Reed Society recognizes donors whose cumulative giving to the College, over the course of their lifetimes, is $1 million and more. The Society is named for the Presbyterian minister and trustee who, while pausing on a hilltop in 1865, envisioned it as the perfect location for a college. Reed’s conviction, devotion, and perseverance led to the formal incorporation of Wooster as an institution of higher education on December 18, 1866.

The Howard Lowry Society recognizes donors whose cumulative giving over the course of their lifetimes to the College is $250,000 to $999,999. The Society honors the College’s 7th president who served Wooster for 23 years. President Lowry’s understanding of the liberal arts and vision for Wooster, especially his introduction of the Independent Study program, has impacted the lives of generations of students and faculty members.

Empower Wooster

Support The Wooster Fund

Areas of Impact

Financial Aid

Experiential Learning

Mentored Research

Campus Life

Faculty & Staff Support

Area of Greatest Need

Ways to Give

Stock Gifts

Planned Giving

Give From Your IRA

Donor Advised Fund (DAF)

Employer Matching Gifts

Endowment Opportunities

Give to Wooster Athletics

Questions About Giving?

Giving Societies

Support Wooster Priorities

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