Foundation Relations

Westmont College is honored to partner with foundations to accomplish mutually significant goals.

Our common objectives provide tremendous opportunity for impact on student lives. Through the college’s academic programs and scholarships, research initiatives, equipment purchases, and well-equipped facilities, our students and faculty thrive and flourish. We are deeply grateful to each of our foundation partners in this work.

In the 2011 fiscal year, foundations invested $2.2 million in Westmont. As the college celebrates 75 years, we acknowledge foundation contributions toward Westmont's place as a top-tier liberal arts college.

Recently constructed Winter Hall for Science and Mathematics featuring the Darling Foundation Lecture Hall, the Mosher Foundation Sculpture Green and Terrace leading to the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum and Adams Center for the Visual Arts, Mericos H. Whittier Science Building, and the Keck Telescope and Physics and Engineering Lab are just a few of Westmont's treasures made possible through Foundation grants.

Westmont places high value on life transformation. Thousands of Westmont graduates are effective contributors to their communities and professions today in part because of foundation scholarship support during their academic career.

2011-2012 top foundation grant highlights:

Music Building:

• The Ahmanson Foundation
• The Outhwaite Charitable Trust
• The Adams Legacy Foundation
• PacificBancorp- Santa Barbara Bank & Trust

Music Instruments & Equipment:

• Williams-Corbett Foundation
• David T. and Dorris E. Staples Foundation

Science Equipment:

• Hedco Foundation
• Mericos Foundation
• James L. Stamps Foundation
• The Fletcher Jones Foundation
• John Stauffer Charitable Trust: CHALLENGE
  • (see press release or choose DONATE NOW)

Press Releases About Foundation Grants

• http://www.noozhawk.com/noozhawk/article/073012_westmont_challenge_grant_raise_1_million/

Westmont invites foundation board and staff members to visit our growing campus:

Please contact Kenon Neal, director of foundation and corporate relations, at (805)565-6851 or kneal@westmont.edu to arrange a visit and campus tour.

 

Message from the President

Your investment in Westmont helps us accomplish our distinctive mission as a rigorous undergraduate, liberal arts college with a deep Christian commitment where students live in a close residential community and develop a broad global perspective.

The genius of Westmont lies in connecting these five essential characteristics in a unique educational experience that transforms young men and women into leaders inspired to change the world for Jesus Christ.

Students grow deeper in all areas of their lives -- intellectual, spiritual and personal -- while they develop their talents, discover their calling and prepare for a lifetime of service meeting the great, pressing needs of our time.