University of Michigan

Since 1915 the Martha Cook Building has provided a gracious safe haven for women students. The donor, William C. Cook, believed "The Building must be more than a place in which to live. There must be created there an atmosphere of love, and truth, and beauty - those things for which the external symbols stand. It must be a college home, inspiring cultured courtesy, sincere friendship, devoted service, integrity of character, industry, self-reliance, sound scholarship, and an appreciation of the finer things of life". We invoke your assistance in continuing this grand and worthy tradition.

Description of Major Gift Funds

The Martha Cook Building Capital Fund is an expendable fund used for critical and immediate building preservation and renovation.

The Martha Cook Building Historic Preservation Fund is an endowed fund intended to provide for the long-term future preservation needs of the Building.

The Martha Cook Building Alumnae Memorial Fund is an expendable fund to be used for Building needs and to provide gifts to the Building. It is intended to honor any and all alumnae, governors, and past house directors.

Anne E. Shipman Stevens Scholarship Fund is an endowed fund. Interest from the fund finances MCB room and board scholarships to qualified residents.

Ann Arbor Chapter Minority Scholarship Fund is an endowed fund. The interest from the account is used to provide scholarships to qualified minority residents of MCB.

Gift Giving

The Martha Cook Building gift funds are part of the University's investment portfolio. Gifts made to MCB are tax-deductible and count toward University of Michigan recognition programs.

Martha Cook has also established its own recognition program. The names of donors to all MCB gift funds will be published each year in the Annual Report. Each alumna donor who gives $10,000 to either the Capital Fund or the Historic Preservation Fund may, if she chooses, have a nameplate placed next to her old dorm room door. Donors may also contribute for a nameplate in honor of or in memory of an alumna.

MCB accepts all giving options acceptable to the University, including stock transfers and deferred gifts.

Contact Information

Marion Scher
Martha Cook Building Director
734-763-2084
mscher@umich.edu

Martha Cook Board of Governors
mailto:mcbgovs@umich.edu