Development

When you give to Reed, you honor the challenging, rigorous, and transformative education that shaped you, and pass that opportunity on to someone else. Signs of your philanthropy appear everywhere on campus—in our science labs, conference-style classrooms, the library, residence halls, and the increasingly healthy ecosystem of the Reed canyon. Less tangibly, the impacts of your gifts appear in each renewed generation of hard-working and talented students and professors. Many of the students who take Reed’s arduous academic journey and animate Reed’s distinctive culture can enroll only because of the college’s commitment to need-based financial aid, but even students paying full tuition today do not fully cover the cost of their education. Reed relies on past philanthropists, whose gifts created the endowment, and current gifts of all sizes to cover the college's expenses each year and set ambitious goals for the future.