You can donate online by going to 24hourchallenge.mit.edu, choosing one or more microchallenges to support, and clicking “Give Now” to complete your donation. If you do not see a particular fund listed, you can donate on the MIT giving site and still be counted in the MIT 24-Hour Challenge.

If you’d like to donate via PayPal, please do so on giving.mit.edu.

Please call the MIT Office of Records at 617-253-8270 to make your credit card gift by phone on 3/13/2025 between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. ET.

Giving during the Challenge on March 13 enables you to join with thousands of Institute alumni, students, parents, and friends around the globe who believe in the MIT community’s efforts to make a better world. Together, these gifts will add up to make a positive, tangible impact on education, research, and innovation at the Institute—and aid our students, faculty, and staff as they work to solve society’s biggest challenges.

Your gifts to MIT are always appreciated—thank you for your generosity! On March 13, more than 40 MIT departments and groups will hold special microchallenges to help us reach our goal. And by giving on this day, you will be uniting with thousands of other MIT alumni, students, parents, and friends around the globe to support the MIT community’s efforts to make a better world.

You can make a gift at giving.mit.edu and provide information about your honoree.

For all non-credit card gifts, please notify the Office of the Recording Secretary at recsec@mit.edu. In your email, please include the type of gift that will be coming, the amount of the gift, how it should be designated, and note that you wish to have it counted in the Challenge. If you are sending a gift of stock or mutual funds, please also include the number of shares, ticker symbol, and the brokerage firm making the transfer. For gift instructions, including stock instructions, wire account information, or where to send a check, please visit https://giving.mit.edu/ways.

Yes. For donors who are 70½ or older, qualified charitable distributions for up to $108,000 per person per year from your IRAs may count towards your required minimum distribution and can be excluded from your taxable income. Please send an email to MIT’s Office of the Recording Secretary at recsec@mit.edu and the Office of Gift Planning at giftplanning@mit.edu to let them know of your intention and designation. We realize these gifts take a little longer to execute, and with this notice of your intention and desire to include it in the MIT 24-Hour Challenge, we are pleased to count it.

You can find more information about IRA QCDs here. 

The best way to ensure that your gift is counted during the MIT 24-Hour Challenge is to give online at 24hourchallenge.mit.edu or by calling 617-253-8270 between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. ET on March 13. You can also send a check to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PO Box 412926, Boston, MA 02241-2926. Please be sure to add a note to the memo section indicating that it is an MIT 24-Hour Challenge gift. Only checks received and processed, or designated to be processed, on March 13 will be counted in the Challenge.

Yes! Please note, though: If the gift is not made directly on the Challenge website at 24hourchallenge.mit.edu, there may be a delay in your gift being added to the leaderboard of donors—but please know that it will be counted in the final tally!

You can find a list of the current microchallenges here.

Yes! You can make a gift in support of two or more microchallenges. When visiting the giving form, you can specify multiple designations by selecting the “Add another gift to your donation” button in the bottom left when you are entering the details of your gift. After choosing to make an additional gift, you will get to choose another microchallenge designation. You may do this as many times as you wish. Please note: No matter how many microchallenges you support—thank you!—you will count toward the overall Challenge goal as one unique donor.

Yes! Please visit giving.mit.edu and search for the fund you wish to designate your support to and make your gift there. (You can also call us at 617-253-8270 to make your credit card gift by phone on 3/13/2025 between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. ET.) Your gift will still be counted in the overall MIT 24-Hour Challenge goal if it is given on March 13. Please note that there may be a delay in your gift being added to leaderboards, but know that it will be counted in the final tally.

As the MIT 24-Hour Challenge HQ is in Cambridge, the timeline for giving is between midnight and 11:59 p.m. ET. Please be sure to make your gift during this period and your gift will count! You can also email recsec@mit.edu before March 13 to check if your gift can be counted that day.

Yes! Please call the Office of Records at 617-253-8270 to make a credit card gift over the phone and ask that it be processed on March 13, 2025, to count toward the Challenge. You may also send a check now to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PO Box 412926, Boston, MA 02241-2926. Please be sure to add a note to the memo section indicating that it is an MIT 24-Hour Challenge gift. Thank you!

Thank you for considering making a recurring gift, which offers you a convenient way to set up regular contributions to MIT. To set up a new monthly or annual recurring gift and have it counted toward the MIT 24-Hour Challenge, visit giving.mit.edu BEFORE March 1, 2025. Any monthly or annual recurring gift set up with payments falling on March 1 or March 15 will be counted. MIT will take care of the rest.

Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that we will receive your gift through those channels by March 13. We encourage you to make a gift of any amount on March 13, 2025, at 24hourchallenge.mit.edu, in order to have your participation counted. Gifts made through employer portals or other third-party platforms may take as long as three (3) months before arriving at MIT, depending on their disbursement practices.

Thank you for your support of the MIT community. Unfortunately, pledges WILL NOT count toward the MIT 24-Hour Challenge. While we are greatly appreciative of those who wish to make a pledge, only gift transactions made between midnight and 11:59 p.m. ET on March 13 will count toward the micro- and overall challenges.

Yes, you can make your pledge payment on our giving site at giving.mit.edu or call us at 617-253-8270 so we can help you.

Thank you for your past support! Yes, all alumni, students, parents, and friends who have already given in this fiscal year may make another gift to the MIT community on March 13 and it will count toward the Challenge.

Congratulations on your reunion milestone—and yes, your gift to any fund at MIT during the MIT 24-Hour Challenge will count toward your reunion class gift.

Travel mugs will ship in four to six weeks following the MIT 24-Hour Challenge. One mug per donor for gifts of $314 or more.

No, you have the option to not display your name when you give during the Challenge. Alternatively, you can also choose not to display your gift amount but have your name listed on the Donor Wall—it’s up to you! Please note: The default is to list both your name and your gift amount, so be sure to select the option that works best for you.

MIT Annual Giving is partnering with Mightycause to offer the MIT community—alumni, students, parents, and friends—a place to celebrate the Institute on March 13, 2025, by participating in the MIT 24-Hour Challenge. Mightycause is an online fundraising platform used by nonprofit organizations and individuals to raise money for charitable and personal causes.

Yes! You can see who has already made a gift in support of the Challenge on the MIT 24-Hour Challenge web page. The Donor Wall will be visible on the right side of the web page and will be updated throughout the day. When a gift is made on the MIT 24-Hour Challenge website, the name of the donor will be visible on the Donor Wall if they choose to display their name. However, we will also be uploading gifts coming in from various other sources throughout the day; therefore, there may not be a comprehensive list of all donors until the end of the day.

Thanks for serving as a Challenge Ambassador! Please visit the MIT 24-Hour Challenge home page and look for “Get Involved” in the upper-left corner dropdown of the web page. Click over to the page and you will be prompted to log in with your Challenge Ambassador credentials. If you do not have credentials yet, you can simply sign up with your email or MIT Infinite Connection account. Additionally, if you are logged into your account, you can use any share buttons on the site or microchallenge pages. Any of the activity generated through these links will also be reported on your Challenge Ambassador page.

Yes! When you log in to your Ambassador page, you will be able to see how many donors have given to MIT through your personalized link. Please note: You will see the number of gifts but not the actual donor names on your page.

Yes—thank you for sharing information about the Challenge! Please feel free to share the link along with Challenge content as much as you want on March 13. And remember: Your custom link enables you to track how many donors have made gifts thanks to your awareness efforts.