Sustain Our Work
Major gifts allow the Baker Institute to expand current programs and explore new areas of research. Most major gifts are directed to a program or project of high importance to the donor, and fellows use the resources in a variety of ways. Some apply it to support new or ongoing projects; others hire graduate and postdoctoral students who participate in significant research initiatives. Major gifts have transformative power, helping our fellows provide research-based policy recommendations to policymakers across the globe.
Critical to creating a strong financial foundation, philanthropy supports Baker Institute fellows, research, events and published reports. We are grateful to those who sustain the institute’s groundbreaking work and allow our policy research programs to reach out to policymakers and to the public at lectures, conferences and other events.
Baker Institute supporters are also invited to make pledges, which represent an immediate or future gift and which can be made with specific guidelines.
To discuss how you might direct your gift, please contact the Baker Institute development office at [email protected].
The Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies Endowment, made possible through the generosity of longtime Baker Institute supporter Wallace S. Wilson (pictured on the far left, meeting with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair), has helped the Baker Institute establish itself as the leading university-based think tank on energy geopolitics and policy.