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Donating to MIT OCW

Thank you for choosing to make a gift to the MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) project.

MIT OCW will always be a free and open digital publication, however, your $50, $100, or $500 donation will enable us to continue to offer a high-quality publication of MIT’s course materials.

Thanks to the generous support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation, MIT OCW has been able to publish 1100 courses through Spring 2005. In offering free and open access to these courses, MIT is giving its educational materials to the world, but maintaining these courses, and evolving MIT OCW to meet the needs of our diverse user audience, has its costs.

It’s easy. The Giving to MIT Web site is a safe and secure way to financially support MIT OCW.

Visit the Giving Site and your gift has been automatically designated to the MIT OCW Fund
Hit the Give Now button (similar to the orange button at the top of this page)
On the next page, hit the orange Continue button.
Enter the amount of money, in U.S. Dollars, that you wish to donate.
Follow the simple steps to send your gift to MIT OCW.

You can also mail your gift in the form of a personal check to MIT OCW. Make your check payable to “MIT” and enclose a note indicating that the contribution is for the MIT OpenCourseWare Fund #4021100. Send your donation to:

Recording Secretary
MIT Office of the Treasurer
238 Main Street, Suite 200
Cambridge, MA 02142

MIT Alumnus Jon D. Gruber

An investment in open sharing

An enthusiasm for what’s “cutting edge” in technology has molded Jon Gruber’s life, and has now made its mark on MIT OpenCourseWare.

Gruber, an entrepreneur who is the president of Gruber & McBaine Capital Management, the company he founded in 1987, has been a consultant to government clients, a tech analyst, and now an investment advisor focused largely on technology stocks. In fact, he is known in some circles as “the father of technology investing.”

Recently, he decided to give a $1 million gift to MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW), an unprecedented act of generosity for MIT’s global initiative that is committed to publishing virtually all of MIT’s course materials freely and openly for the benefit of mankind.

A MIT Class of 1964 alum and generous supporter of MIT (in 1998, Gruber had established a career development professorship at the MIT Sloan School of Management), Gruber wanted to give MIT a large gift as part of his 40th MIT reunion celebration in summer 2004… But he was not sure where he wanted to direct that gift.

A conversation with former MIT President Charles M. Vest tipped the balance in favor of designating his latest gift to MIT OCW. “(OpenCourseWare) was a most distinct idea - something that no one else has done,” Gruber said. “And it was clearly one of Chuck Vest’s favorites, too. There was no ambiguity there. He was very, very upbeat about it.”

Upbeat for good reason: With 1100 courses published thus far, MIT OCW is already helping to make the world a better place. An example: University faculty in Baghdad are using it as a model while they consider how to rebuild their country’s education system.

Gruber’s gift will support the development and open publication of course materials in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - his undergraduate major - and also in MIT’s various programs in the visual arts.

“I chose visual arts because of my family,” he explained. “My mother and brother are both artists and photographers, and my sister is in the arts and singing, so my father and I are the only ones in the ‘other world.’” (Gruber’s father was an engineer from Carnegie Tech, now Carnegie Mellon University.)

Gruber and his wife, Linda, live in the San Francisco Bay Area and are patrons of several arts organizations there. The couple’s daughter, Lindsay, holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia; son Wyatt, a Duke University grad, also holds a degree from the MIT Sloan School.

Special Giving Opportunities for MIT OCW

MIT OCW seeks to build endowments for technology and education in these areas:

$10 million — Publication and maintenance of 25 new MIT courses each year, in perpetuity
$5 million — Delivery of MIT course materials to 25,000 educators and over 150,000 learners (roughly 5 percent of MIT OCW user traffic around the world) each year, in perpetuity
$800,000 — Department Liaison (DL) positions, where DLs assist faculty with developing and compiling teaching materials for both classroom teaching and publication on the MIT OCW Web site

Expendable support is also needed in order to…

Help 10,000 faculty in developing countries build and enhance curricula in science, engineering, humanities, architecture, and management;
Enable video capture and delivery of a complete series of lectures for two MIT courses;
Support external outreach efforts by MIT OCW staff to educators around the world; and
Meet core publication costs for each course.

To discuss a special gift to the MIT OCW initiative, please contact Jon Paul Potts, MIT OCW Communications Manager, at jpotts@mit.edu or 1-617-452-3621.