As the premier design school, the Harvard University

Graduate School of Design (GSD) continues to attract

the most talented students from around the globe

and faculty whose meaningful research, practice, and

pedagogy quite literally shape the world. The GSD

relies on the support of alumni and friends to maintain

an innovative and inclusive educational environment

that pushes the boundaries of design education.

ANNUAL LE ADERSHIP GIVING

The Josep Lluís Sert Council is a

community of annual leadership donors

who are committed to supporting

the GSD, its students, and the future

of design education. Sert Council

members play an integral role in helping

to advance the GSD’s preeminent

status and provide essential funding

to support our students, faculty, and

degree programs.

COMMUNIT Y

In recognition of their annual

support, members of the Josep Lluís

Sert Council are invited to attend

events, receive publications and

communications, participate in

special opportunities, and are

acknowledged in the annual Giving

Report and Donor Wall in the Druker

Design Gallery of Gund Hall.

Donors who support the GSD

with annual leadership gifts are

recognized through four levels of

Sert Council membership:

AssociateAnnual contributors of $1,000 to $4,999 and

—Alumni who graduated 0 to 5 years ago

and contribute $100 or more annually

—Alumni who graduated 6 to 10 years ago

and contribute $250 or more annually

Partner Annual contributors of $5,000 to $9,999

Principal Annual contributors of $10,000 to $24,999

Dean’s CircleAnnual contributors of $25,000 or more

The Harvard University Graduate School of Design educates leaders in design, research, and scholarship to make a resilient, just, and beautiful world.

Every question that is urgent today anywhere in the

world—questions of economy, environment, politics,

technology, social value—has design repercussions.

To address all of these questions, we have to reach across disciplines:

through engineering, design, and technology; through politics, the

environment, and policy; through relationships, equities, and culture.

The extraordinary thing about design is that it touches so many issues.

It’s the most relevant discipline because design creates the world around

us at the scale of the network, the region, the city, the landscape, the

building, the chair, and even the fork. All of these scales, these relations,

and these connections construct our collective future. I’m so excited

to be part of a school that puts this future at its very center.

Thank you for considering a gift to the GSD and membership in Josep

Lluís Sert Council this year. Your gift provides the resources needed to

support our students and faculty, who together create meaningful change

and impact the future of design.

—SAR AH M. WHITING

Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture

Harvard University

Graduate School of Design

48 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

If you have any questions

about the Josep Lluís Sert Council,

please contact:

sertcouncil@gsd.harvard.edu

617.496.3146

gsd.harvard.edu/alumni

To make your gift online:

gsd.harvard.edu/donate

Join a circle of donors who believe in the transformational power of design education.