The Lauder Institute’s signature programs — supported by generous gifts from alumni like you — reach significant numbers of students each year.
Participants in the Politics and Policy Program’s 2025–2026 cohort
Students who traveled on Lauder Intercultural Ventures in FY25
Recipients of summer internship funding in FY25
Our Funding Priorities
When you support Lauder, you empower us to recruit the best and brightest students and help us grow and sustain our signature programs. Our top priorities include:
- Strengthening the Institute’s endowed fellowship offerings, ensuring we can attract and matriculate exceptional candidates in an increasingly competitive landscape
- Funding curricular innovations to keep Lauder at the forefront of geonomics, thought leadership, and constructive disagreement
- Supporting students who undertake high-impact, low-paying (or unpaid) internships to hone their leadership skills
- Expanding the Institute’s academic offerings by establishing programs like the Politics and Policy Program (PPP) and providing support for conferences, lectures, and other events
Help Us Attract the Best and Brightest
At Lauder, we’re committed to recruiting the students best suited to our unique program — those who not only show promise in business, but also demonstrate a keen awareness of the importance of intercultural studies. By offering strong merit fellowships, we can empower these students to come to Lauder and bring them one step closer to achieving their long-term career goals.
Contact Carolyn Miller to learn more about how to support fellowships at Lauder.
Help Us Attract the Best and Brightest
At Lauder, we’re committed to recruiting the students best suited to our unique program — those who not only show promise in business, but also demonstrate a keen awareness of the importance of intercultural studies. By offering strong merit fellowships, we can empower these students to come to Lauder and bring them one step closer to achieving their long-term career goals.
Contact Carolyn Miller to learn more about how to support fellowships at Lauder.
Politics and Policy Program (PPP): A Student’s Perspective
Tatum Lee, G’26, WG’26
Latin America (Spanish) Program
“Conducting fieldwork and interviewing experts in my field of focus was professionally and personally very rewarding. I loved the challenge of conducting interviews about an advanced, niche topic, such as indigenous language revitalization, in Spanish. It was a completely new experience for me, and it fundamentally changed my outlook on indigenous language preservation and the role of private investment in preserving culture within emerging economies.”
How the Lauder Leadership Immersion Internship Program Powers Student Impact
“Coming straight from business school, I could not have absorbed 11 weeks of São Paulo living expenses on my own,” said Dania Cortes Cervantes, G’26, WG’26, who leveraged Lauder’s generous summer funding to intern at a health-tech startup in Brazil. “The Lauder funding turned an otherwise prohibitive opportunity into a formative experience, giving me firsthand startup operating exposure and a level of cultural and linguistic fluency that will compound throughout my career.”
How the Lauder Leadership Immersion Internship Program Powers Student Impact
“Coming straight from business school, I could not have absorbed 11 weeks of São Paulo living expenses on my own,” said Dania Cortes Cervantes, G’26, WG’26, who leveraged Lauder’s generous summer funding to intern at a health-tech startup in Brazil. “The Lauder funding turned an otherwise prohibitive opportunity into a formative experience, giving me firsthand startup operating exposure and a level of cultural and linguistic fluency that will compound throughout my career.”
Contact Us
Looking for more information on how to support Lauder? Please contact:
Carolyn Miller
Senior Associate Director
Lauder External Affairs
+1.267.418.8425
carmil@upenn.edu
Contact Us
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Ways to Give
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Matching Gifts
You can increase the impact of your gift if you or your spouse are affiliated with a company that has a matching gift program. For more information, call +1.215.898.5069 or search the University’s list of matching gift programs.
Donor-Advised Funds or Foundation Gifts
For online distributions to The Lauder Annual Fund through donor-advised funds or private foundations, you will need to provide the University of Pennsylvania’s Tax ID/EIN, which is 23-1352685. Payments should be made payable to “The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania” and designated to The Lauder Annual Fund.
Giving From Outside the U.S.
If you live outside the United States, visit Penn’s international giving page for more information on how to give. Your contribution may qualify for tax benefits in your home country.
Planned Giving
Planned gifts can be made through bequests, unitrusts, life insurance, pooled income funds, and real estate. If you are interested in learning more about planned giving opportunities, call +1.215.898.6171 or explore information from Wharton’s Office of Gift Planning.
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Send your gift via a bank wire to:
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To make a gift of appreciated securities, either you or your broker should contact:
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To contact the University’s Securities Office, please contact:
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