Annual Fund
Your gift to the MBL Annual Fund will go to work immediately to support and enhance the MBL’s core research and education programs, aid in securing new funding opportunities, and fund the Lab’s many costs, such as tuition assistance, supplies, or facilities maintenance. Gifts to the Annual Fund are one of the most important ways you can support the MBL.
Gifts of $1,200 or more enroll you in The Whitman Society, the MBL’s leadership donor giving society, established in 1993. Since then, this group of leadership donors has grown to more than 200 loyal members who make gifts from $1,200 to more than $50,000 to the MBL Annual Fund each year. They are the very heart of the MBL, offering support, expertise and creativity that sustains and enriches our community.
The MBL’s fiscal year runs July 1 - June 30.
Downloadable Forms: Mail-In Gift Form | Pledge/Recurring Gift Form
Invest in the Future of the MBL
Unlike many who find their way to the Marine Biological Laboratory, I didn’t come here as a scientist. I trained as an engineer and spent much of my career as a consultant in the life sciences industry. I have always been fascinated by fundamental science—by the questions people ask simply because they want to know, and by the discoveries that follow in directions no one could have predicted. That fascination first drew me to the MBL in 1999 and, today, as Chair of the Board of Trustees, it is why I’m asking you to join me in supporting the MBL Annual Fund.