When you make a gift to the HLS Annual Fund, you are sustaining the core of everything we do at Harvard Law School.
- Your generosity strengthens recruiting, ensuring the excellence and diversity of every HLS class.
- Your engagement enriches experiential learning and public service opportunities.
- Your commitment provides financial aid, making an HLS education accessible to every student and preserving the broadest possible range of career options for graduates.
- Your support gives the school the freedom to innovate and the capacity to respond immediately in times of crisis.
Through the Annual Fund, you can expand the frontiers of legal education.
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I support the Annual Fund because it provides critical resources for the dean, faculty, staff, and students to prepare for and address the country’s and the world’s many challenges. It also gives HLS the flexibility to react nimbly, while standing on the foundation of the preeminent legal education institution in the world.
— Blaise Warren ’05
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How to Make Your Gift
Each year, gifts to Harvard Law School play a critical role in supporting key initiatives and limiting tuition increases. Alumni and friends can contribute to Harvard Law School through a variety of methods.
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I have been receiving assistance from the [LIPP] program since I graduated from Harvard Law in 2014, and I can unequivocally say that my career would not have been possible without it. I went to law school to pursue immigration law and social justice work, and the assistance I received from LIPP was indispensable in helping me realize that dream.
— Marie Celentino ’14
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HLS Report of Gifts
Annual Fund donors are recognized in the Report of Gifts alongside other alumni, friends, and organizations who support the HLS mission.
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Annual Fund donors in 2023-2024 3,900+
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Annual Fund gifts less than $1,000 73%
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Raised for HLS in 2023-2024 $11.8M+
Choose your area of interest
Financial Aid: Access for All
The ability to offer competitive, need-based financial aid allows Harvard Law School to attract and enroll the next generation’s best and brightest candidates from across the globe, regardless of their ability to pay.
Annual Fund gifts in support of financial aid grow HLS’s need-based aid program for J.D. students and our Low-Income Protection Plan (LIPP), which helps graduates pursue nonprofit, government, academic, and other lower-income legal careers.
Clinical Programs: Learning the Law, Serving the World
HLS was the first law school in the United States to offer clinical education, and today we offer more clinical opportunities than any other law school. The J.D. Class of 2024 completed nearly 400,000 hours of pro bono service—the highest number by any class in the Law School’s history.
Annual Fund gifts in support of clinical education can bolster important clinical programs; grow and support our clinical faculty; and offer funding for immediate opportunities and operational support.
Public Service: A Focus on Community
Harvard Law School builds an ethic of public service into the student experience, and many of our graduates are called to serve through internships and careers in the public interest, government, nonprofits, and more.
Annual Fund gifts for public service can support the Summer Public Interest Fund (SPIF), which assists students who pursue summer employment in a nonprofit, government, NGO, IGO, or related setting; public service fellowships for students and recent graduates; and the Public Service Venture Fund, which awards up to $1 million annually to startups launched by alumni.
Areas of Greatest Need
Your gift will be put to use for the Harvard Law School community where and when it is needed most.