Make A Gift

There are several ways to make a cash gift to Boston College. Please consider the gift options below.

Online giving: It takes just a few minutes to make a credit card gift of any amount via our safe and secure online giving site at www.bc.edu/give. Our streamlined site makes it easy to designate your gift or pledge payment to any area of the University or to dedicate your gift to a friend or loved one. For your convenience, we accept Visa, Mastercard and American Express.
By U.S. mail: To send a check, please make your check payable to "Boston College," and mail to:
  Boston College
Office of University Advancement
  More Hall 220
  140 Commonwealth Avenue
  Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
By phone: You can make your gift via credit card by calling our toll-free number, 888-752-6438.
Wire transfers: To initiate a wire transfer to BC, please contact Bob Sylvain at 617-552-3464 for our Bank of America account number and ABA Routing number.
Gifts of securities: To make a gift of securities, please provide your broker with detailed instructions of the gift that you would like to make to BC, including the name of the stock and the number of shares to be transferred from your account to Boston College's at:

Fidelity Investments, National Financial Services Corp.
DTC (Depository Trust Company) #226
Account #201973114, Trustees of Boston College
Reference: Donor's Name

Please call the Boston College Gift Processing Office at 617-552-4844 to let us know the name of the stock and the number of shares that you will be transferring to the BC account at Fidelity. This information will help us to identify your gift and to provide you with proper gift acknowledgment on a timely basis.

If you'd like to make a gift via a charitable gift annuity, trust, or other planned giving vehicle, please contact the Office of Gift Planning at 617-552-3328.

Matching Gifts
If your employer or your spouse's employer has a matching gift program, your gift to Boston College may be doubled or even tripled. The human resources office at your employer can supply you with specific instructions about its process for matching gifts. In some cases, a spouse's company will also match the gift. Learn more. Find out if the company you work for will match your gifts to BC.

Payroll Deductions for Boston College Employees
Employees of the University may use this payroll deduction authorization form (pdf) to make regular contributions to Boston College from their pay. For more information about supporting the University as an employee or about this program in particular, please contact Maggie Dougherty at margaret.dougherty@bc.edu or 617-552-3404.

Memorial Gifts and the Memorial Book of Boston College
Memorial gifts, unless otherwise designated, are allocated to the Memorial Scholarship Fund. Boston College is honored to recognize the names of those memorialized through gifts to the University that total $1,000 or more, and for whom no other special name recognition exists on campus, by inscribing their names in the Memorial Book of Boston College. The Memorial Book is a handsome, handmade, embossed leather volume—a beautiful example of the book art practiced in the time of Ignatius of Loyola. Anyone interested in finding a particular name can do a search to locate the page in the online version of the book, with the name as it appears in the actual book. Boston College is deeply grateful to all who have chosen to remember a loved one or special friend in this way, creating a continuing benefit for the educational mission of the University. For more information about the Memorial Book, please contact Katherine MacDonald at katherine.macdonald@bc.edu or 617-552-4439.

View the Memorial Book of Boston College

Tax Benefits of Your Gift
Please note that cash or credit card gifts make you eligible for a deduction for the full value of your gift. You can utilize this deduction for up to 50 percent of your Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) and carry forward any unused portion for up to five additional tax years.

To learn more: Please direct any questions to the Boston College Fund by calling 888-752-6438 (toll-free) or by sending e-mail to bcfund@bc.edu.