CAMPAIGN PRIORITY
Empower the brightest minds to tackle the most significant challenges facing our ocean world.
Join the Campaign for Our Ocean Planet with a gift to Unleash Talent and help WHOI attract, support, and empower the people who drive ocean science for the global good.
Fuel Visionary Leadership
Provide endowed named leadership chair funds to support senior leadership as well as the heads of WHOI's five oceanography departments and the Marine Policy Center.
| President and Director | $10 million (100% endowed) |
| Deputy Director and Vice President for Science and Engineering | $7.5 million (100% endowed) |
| Department Chairs | $3 million+ (100% endowed) |
Launch New Careers
Drive recruitment and provide support for pre-tenure scientists at the career stage where support is most needed to provide a springboard to a high-impact science career.
| Named Early-career Scientist Chairs | $1.5 million+ (plus $100,000 current use) |
Establishing a fellowship-or an entire fellowship program-is a superb way to support staff and students at every level and provide leadership with tools to support and retain top talent and propel research in strategically important directions.
| Named Early-career Scientist Chairs | $100,000+ (current use) |
| or $1 million (endowed) |
Empower Breakthrough THinkers
Back talented scientists during their most productive years and help retain them when they are most vulnerable to poaching by industry, other institutions, and foreign countries.
| Mid-career scientist chairs | $1.75 million+ |
| (plus $150,000 current-use) |
Support the most influential and accomplished scientists at WHOI as they build on years of scientific impact.
| Named senior scientist chairs | $2.5 million start |
| ($2.25 million endowed plus $250,000 current use) | |
Launch a first-of-its-kind chair for a senior member of the technical staff through an investment in top-tier technical talent that reinforces WHOI's historic strength in engineering and technology development.
| Named senior technical staff chairs | $2.5 million (100% endowed) |
| ($2.25 million endowed plus $250,000 current use) |
Power the mission
Support the distinguished visiting scholar program, which helps bring extraordinary scientific, engineering, and policy minds to WHOI to collaborate with staff and students and enrich the intellectual life of our research community.
| Named visiting scholar appointments | $100,000 for one year (current use) |
| or $2 million (100% endowed) |
Support the Organizational Development Office (ODO) in advancing a resilient, inclusive, and empowered workplace culture through strategic recruitment, tailored training, community partnerships, and holistic workforce development.
Provide flexible support for scientific, technical, and student programs and help WHOI attract and retain the most extraordinary minds at every level of the scientific and technical career ladders.