2025 Project Portfolio
Current Priorities
Invest in Futures
This year our faculty and new deans have reimagined the curriculum to create even more opportunities for students to effect positive change in the world. Prescott College has always been at the forefront of experiential and collaborative learning. This curriculum regeneration strengthens our commitment to providing an education that is dynamic and responsive to the world’s most pressing challenges. Our commitment to social justice around the world is an underpinning of our core values and will continue as we move into a new era. Your support through our annual appeals is critical. Only together can we ensure that today’s students have the same base that has allowed you to be successful in your endeavors. Paying it forward is the hallmark of our college.
Thank you for your help!
- President Morris -
Program Updates
Counseling
Funds for students and faculty to jointly present at regional and national conferences and colloquia is a critical need. The American Counseling Association would be a great place to get students more involved through registration and travel stipends. Funding support for the IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility) to include wellknown guest speakers in our colloquium and bring additional events to campus. Ultimately, funds for an endowed chair and a clinical training Wellness Center.
Annual Goal: $25K
Adventure Education
For over fifty years we’ve been a leader in adventure education by teaching technical skills, leadership, communication, expedition logistics and environmental and social awareness. It takes tremendous resources to transport our students to remote areas for the necessary hands-on learning and supply them with all of the safety and emergency gear. Equipment is needed to accomododate diverse students and curricular needs. This year, the focus is on updating our ski’s, bindings; poles; 16 foot metal rafting frame, and 10 canoes.
Annual Goal: $30K
Center of Nature and Place - Prescott
The Center was established to support and expand student research, training for early childhood educators, pre-service teachers, administrators, and program directors in developmentally appropriate nature and place-based pedagogy. A traveling program has recently been created to visit rural communities. While the van has been purchased, there is an urgent need for support for travel costs to reach underserved communities
Annual Goal: $15K
Green Mountain Center for Sustainability - Prescott
The Green Mountain Center for Sustainability serves students, alumni, staff, neighbors, and an online audience by promoting solutions-based learning about living more sustainably, from the personal to the global scale.
One of our most important projects is to help fund innovative student projects that foster more environmentally, socially, or economically sustainable practices.
Annual Goal: $15K
Kino Bay Center - Mexico
This bi-national field station is dedicated to experiential education and communitybased environmental conservation. Our integrated programs are all grounded in constant presence in the region of Kino, Mexico. Each year Kino Bay hosts over 1000 researchers, students, faculty, community members and community groups from Mexico, the U.S. and other parts of the world.
Annual Goal: $180K
Dopoi Center - Kenya
Africa represents a setting that is conducive to interdisciplinary opportunities for students. Students support Maasai community priorities and study wildlife conservation, help create programs for better hygiene and medical care, design culturally-supportive education programs for youth, and research indigenous people’s land right issues.
Annual Goal: $180K
Campus Updating
Our on-site campus programs continue to thrive. Built largely through private donations, the Crossroads Center has proven to be a wonderful centerpiece. Recently the completion of the Anne Sterling Dorman, James Stuckey and Betsy Bolding Centers, the studentcentric hub of campus, clearly expresses the president’s desires to place students at the heart of our campus. An exciting facelift project is in progress to give our campus an overall update. These projects are the key priorities for the next couple years and naming opportunities are available.
Building Updates
Ironwood
The remodel of Ironwood will update classroom space and house some administrative staff to support students. Naming opportunities exist.
Goal: $500K
Residence Halls
Students deserve a well-functioning, comfortable place to reside on campus. Our living spaces need some infrastructure work and updating. We are actively seeking support to complete this work.
The cottage remodels are largely done and well-received. Cholla is the final cottage that needs major renovation and is our next project.
Goal: $100K
Warehouse & Boats
We have completed the post and beam structure to protect our boats. The next phase is to add the future designed solar installation. This eco-friendly initiative will make a significant step towards our commitment to conservation and community service. We are also seeking the addition of ten canoes and two rafts to our fleet of boats to replace ones that are beyond service years. With this new storage area, we will keep the boats in shade for the heat of the summer and better protect your investment.
Goal: $40K
Landscaping
Landscaping, trees, fountains, lighting, seating, and shade covers or structures, along with better signage and a sound wall, is the current plan. The landscaping on campus has been neglected for many years, so replacing invasive species, replanting, and designing better outside spaces that are conducive to weather challenges is key for our students.
Leave your legacy on campus. Some naming opportunities that are currently available include: benches ($1000 each) and trees ($100-$1000).
Goal: $300K
Creek Restoration Project
Butte Creek is one of eight streams within the Granite Creek Watershed in Prescott, Arizona, and begins at the Sierra Prieta and Bradshaw Mountains intersection. Prescott College is proud to be stewards of the lowermost section of Butte Creek (between Willowand Lincoln Streets, (about 1⁄4 mile). In the 1990s, the campus section of the creek was an active road. Generations of PC students, staff, and faculty have volunteered to restore the creek’s natural flow and riparian zone. Our restorative ambitions were recently given a historic boost from a generous donation to help with educational signage, replace some invasive species, and support community outreach. The project will continue focusing on invasive Siberian Elm and the creek bank protection. PC’s restoration efforts provide a vibrant exemplar of what a small group of dedicated volunteers can do to restore Prescott’s natural legacy by creating greenways while simultaneously improving wildlife habitat, mitigating storm runoff, and cleansing vital water sources.
Annual Goal: $30K
Student Support
Scholarships
Scholarships, internships, student travel & conference fees, stipends for student teachers in rural schools and fellowships for our graduate programs are a continual need.
Annual Goal: $250K
The No Barriers Course Fee Award
The No Barriers Course Fee Award will create more access to transformative field courses for traditionally minoritized and/or low-income students through this award.
Endowment Annual Goal: $20K
Study Abroad Fund
This fund will create more access for low-income students to participate in our off campus centers by providing travel and living expenses while attending courses with our global partners and Centers.
Annual Goal: $25K
Student Support
Frantz Fanon Scholars
Aligning with Prescott College’s ethic of social justice and inclusivity, the Frantz Fanon Scholars Program seeks to recruit 10 students yearly into the Critical Social Justice and Solidarity degree and 10 students yearly into the Environmental Humanities degree with the goal of creating renowned programming to better support, recruit and retain students of color and other minoritized identities and communities.
Annual Goal: $30K
Cycling Club
We are super excited to share a project in which we seek donations to launch a cycling club. This great activity will be a great way to attract additional students and embody the active spirit of our College.
Prescott College will be in the Southwest Cycling Conference, allowing incoming students to participate in nationally sanctioned collegiate events through the USA Cycling organization.
Our goal is to raise $30,000 toward equipment, uniforms and scholarships to kick off this program.
Annual Goal: $30K
Thank you
Thank you for exploring a gift to Prescott College. We are very grateful you are here and would love to help you make that perfect gift to support the College as a whole, scholarships or a particular program or center that has captured your heart.
Below are some ways to explore giving to match your financial and tax goals.
Outright gifts of cash and securities
Appreciated securities: Such as stocks and bonds and IRA’s
Donor Advised Funds
Real Estate
Equipment and supplies
Planned Giving
Planned gifts allow you to provide for us in the future when it may not be practical today.