Endowing a Scholarship
This is a meaningful way to honor a loved one, alumna/us, faculty member, or your own Marymount experience. Endowed scholarships:
- exist in perpetuity
- may be named for the donor or someone the donor wishes to honor
- ensure lasting support for Marymount University, its students, and faculty.
The minimum gift level to endow a scholarship is $25,000. This assures an annual scholarship award of approximately $1,000. Larger gift levels will increase the annual scholarship award. Many donors choose to endow a scholarship with pledge payments over one, two, or three years.
As the benefactor of an endowed scholarship, you will be invited to our annual Scholarship Luncheon hosted by President Bundschuh, where you will have the opportunity to meet your scholarship recipient(s).
Learn more about Marymount's currently endowed scholarships and funding priorities.
Other Naming Gift Opportunities
Endowed Chair ($2,000,000 opportunity)
Holding an endowed chair is a prestigious honor, conferred by Marymount University upon faculty members with distinguished records of scholarship and teaching. Resident and visiting faculty are eligible for appointment to an endowed chair, for terms ranging from one to three years. Chair holders take an active leadership role within the academic community, sharing their knowledge, research, and love of their disciplines with students and faculty. Income from an endowed chair pays the faculty member's salary and related expenses, including professional development, research, and travel.
Learn more about the first Endowed Chair in Marymount's history, the John J. McDonnell, Jr. Endowed Chair in Ethics.
Endowed Professorship ($1,000,000 opportunity)
An endowed professorship supports innovative teaching and high quality scholarship by enabling faculty to focus on research initiatives and curriculum development projects. Income from an endowed professorship supports the faculty member's salary and project-related expenses.
For more information about the scholarship endowment or naming gift opportunities, please contact Vice President, Development and Alumni Relations Emily Mahony at
emily.mahony@marymount.edu or (703) 284-1647.