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Parent Volunteers

Contribute to the MIT Community—Volunteer!

Get involved as an MIT Parent volunteer through these two groups: the Parent Connectors and the Parents Fund Committee.

Parent Connectors

Parent Connectors at Family Weekend 2008. Photo by Katherine Peters.

These volunteers serve as a resource for MIT and for other parents in their geographic areas. They contribute significantly to the MIT community by welcoming incoming parents, participating in campus events, and attending regional events hosted by MIT and MIT clubs. These activities help connect parents with one another and with the Institute. 


Priorities

  • Inform parents about MIT and engage them in the MIT community.
  • Share insight, practical knowledge, and enthusiasm with current and prospective MIT parents to help ease any anxieties created by their students' transitions to college.
  • Help increase parent involvement by providing feedback and suggestions to the MIT Parents Association staff.

Job Description

  • Appear in the Parent Connector list with your city and state or country. Requests to communicate with a Parent Connector are filtered through the Parents Association staff to eliminate spam messages and then forwarded via email.
  • Welcome incoming and prospective families to MIT by calling the parents of incoming freshman from your area.
  • Participate locally:
    • Join or be the liaison to an MIT alumni club if one exists in your area. Encourage the MIT parent constituency to participate with you in the MIT club-sponsored activities and programs.
    • Host or attend a local gathering of MIT parents and students:
      • Spring break admitted student events: late March (for admitted students and their parents)
      • Summer send-off events: July–August (for the incoming freshmen class and their parents)
      • Regional MIT parent events throughout the year
  • Volunteer for campus events: Greet MIT parents at on-campus events including Campus Preview Weekend in April, Parent Orientation in August, and Family Weekend in October.

Sign Up

To become a Parent Connector or for additional information, call 617-253-8183 or send an email to mykidis@mit.edu with the subject line "Volunteer."

Parents Fund Committee

Parents Fund Co-chairs Parents Fund Committee Co-chairs Mike Whalen and Shirley Zanton P'10

Parent support reinforces the mission of MIT to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, management, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century. Lead the way by serving on the Parents Fund Committee.







Priorities

  • Raise funding to enhance student life and learning at MIT.
  • Increase non-alumni parent participation to develop a broad-based support system.
  • Educate non-alumni parents on the significance of gift designation and the six fund priorities of the Parents Fund:

Job Description

  • Support the fund with a gift at the William Barton Rogers Associates level ($1,000) or above.
  • Solicit key donors in person or via phone.
  • Help increase parent involvement by providing feedback and suggestions to the committee and to the MIT Parents Association staff.
  • Represent the Parents Fund at regional parent events and attend special events on campus with MIT officers, such as the Friday luncheon during Family Weekend.
  • Participate in committee meetings and conference calls.
  • Advise MIT on identification, cultivation, and solicitation of non-alumni parents.
  • Lend your name to the fund by being listed as a committee member in the spring issue of Parents News and the online giving site.

Sign Up

For more information or to sign up, contact Tish Callanan P'08, Director, MIT Parents Fund by calling 617-253-0708 or email callanan@mit.edu.