Enhance our Collections
Your gift allows us to purchase new books by and about our authors.
Donate to the Marion E. Wade Center
Make a Gift Today
See the many ways your gift supports the work of the Wade Center.
What Your Gift Supports
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Support Student Internships
Your gift supports student interns as they hone their skills as researchers, writers, curators, and/or editors.
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Sponsor Book Talks and Lectures
Your gift helps us continue to offer enlivening events at the Wade Center.
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Expand our Publishing Imprint
Your gift enables us to publish groundbreaking new scholarship on our authors.
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Invest in Special Projects
Your gift funds new exhibitions and projects that promote scholarly, artistic, and spiritual renewal.
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Make a Legacy Gift
Your gift ensures that future generations encounter the intellectual and imaginative work of our authors.
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The Friends of the Wade
We invite you to partner with us by becoming a Friend of the Wade. Together, we can continue to promote our seven authors' enduring and distinctive blend of intellect, imagination, and faith to audiences of all ages.
Our Friends of the Wade program recognizes anyone who meets one or more of the following:
- Gives a monthly or annual financial gift to the Wade of any amount
- Has given more than $25,000 in total to the Wade
- Has informed us that the Wade Center is in their estate plan
As a Friend, you will receive our newsletter (past issues are available to read online). You may also receive advance notices of Wade Center news and events, personalized tours of the facility, and discounts where applicable. All gifts are acknowledged with a receipt as a tax-deductible gift to Wheaton College.
Wade by the Numbers
Did you know that he Wade Center is self-funded and receives no direct income from Wheaton College?
7
Wade Authors
1,000
Reading Room Users per Year
10,000
Wade Center Visitors per Year
49,200
Books, Manuscripts, and Letters in our Collections
Ways to Give
Thank you for your gifts to the Wade Center! We remain deeply grateful for the community of friends & supporters who allow the Wade Center to flourish and fuel our mission to share the works of the seven authors with the world.
Give Online
Make a gift through our secure website.
Give by Mail
Make a check out to Wheaton College/ Wade Center and mail it to:
Marion E. Wade Center
Wheaton College
501 College Avenue
Wheaton, IL 60187