Corporation/Foundation Giving
The Development Office’s Corporate and Foundation Relations staff works to partner with corporations and foundation for support of Manhattanville College, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. The office helps to match key Manhattanville needs with the giving criteria of corporations and foundations.
These supporters range from sole proprietorships to Fortune 500 companies, and from small family foundations to some of the largest regional and national foundations. Many corporations and foundations focus their charitable giving on providing scholarship aid, which is the college’s greatest need. In addition, they contribute to Manhattanville in a variety of other ways:
- Creating new and innovative academic and community-based programs
- Partnering to support faculty or student research initiatives
- Supplying state-of-the-art equipment
- Establishing endowments
- Helping the university with its capital needs and new facility construction
- Matching employee contributions to the university
If you and your corporation or foundation are interested in partnering with Manhattanville College, please contact Ethel Geisinger, Corporate and Foundation relationships Officer, at (914) 323-5315; or geisingere@mville.edu.
Each year, corporations and foundations support Manhattanville College through a number of ways including outright gifts, restricted grants, sponsorships, underwriting, and matching gifts. From scholarships to underwriting special events, Manhattanville has benefited from the generous support of local, state, and national corporations and foundations.
To complete our capital campaign, the Kresge Foundation has chosen the challenge grant approach to grant-making in order to help Manhattanville enhance their fundraising capabilities by attracting all alumni, parents, and friends through the Challenge Grant, and also to strengthen and transform the College.
The Kresge Challenge made a historic and prestigious award to Manhattanville College through a $1 million challenge grant that will help us meet its first ever Capital Campaign, Honor the promise, Deliver the Dream. The Grant requires the college to raise an additional $5 million by September 1, 2008.