Priorities

Ensure we can continue delivering a world-class education to its students by supporting RISD’s immediate needs and priorities.

Enhance RISD’s competitiveness in recruiting and retaining its most sought-after graduate students.

Increase scholarships and fellowships and advance social equity so students with limited financial means can benefit from all that a RISD education has to offer.

Support the extraordinary teachers and makers who are shaping RISD’s next generation of artists and designers.

Build the best environment for learning and making by investing in RISD’s studios, classrooms, community spaces and dorms.

Advance RISD’s mission and accessibility by supporting the RISD Museum, founded alongside the college in 1877.