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FINANCIAL AID
The Wilmette Institute is able to provide a small number of scholarships for tuition for Spiritual Foundations students. Financial aid is available to all, regardless of race, sex, religion, or nationality. If a student feels she needs assistance, please write the registrar stating (1) the reason for the need and (2) the amount needed. Some financial aid is available for students taking correspondence courses. The Wilmette Institute also arranges payment plans for those not able to pay the tuition in full all at once. The Wilmette Institute also encourages students to seek scholarships from local spiritual assemblies.
Contributions to the scholarship endowment (described on the next page) are greatly appreciated.
WILMETTE INSTITUTE ENDOWMENTS
To guarantee its long-term stability, the Wilmette Institute has established four endowment funds:
1. Scholarship Endowment. Out of its interest, this endowment provides scholarship monies to needy students.
2. Orlando Nuñez Memorial Fund. Orlando Nuñez was a student of the Spiritual Foundations for a Global Civilization program during its first residential session in 1996. He died in an automobile accident in November 1996. To remember his devotion to teaching the Faith, the Executive Board has established a fund in his name, which gives scholarship money to students with financial need.
3. Development Endowment. This endowment supplies an annual fund for creating new courses, expanding the Institute’s facilities, and meeting other needs.
4. Faculty Endowment. In its Riván 1997 message to the Bahá’í world, the Universal House of Justice noted that "just as one deputizes another to teach in one’s stead by covering the expenses of a pioneer or traveling teacher, one can deputize a teacher serving in an institute, who is, of course, a teacher of teachers. To do so, one may make contributions to the Continental Fund, as well as the Local, National, and International Funds, earmarked for this purpose." In response, the Wilmette Institute Executive Board has created an endowment to cover the costs of its faculty.
The Wilmette Institute is also aware that some local spiritual assemblies have established scholarship funds to assist students wishing to take the Institute’s courses.
The Wilmette Institute Board holds a small fund raiser each year, thereby guaranteeing it a steady flow of support for the Institute's expansion. Eventually additional endowments will be established to meet more specialized needs. Contributions to Wilmette Institute funds are tax deductible; checks should be made out to the National Bahá'í Fund with a "wish, hope, or desire" expressed that the money might be put toward the endowment funds. The check should then be sent to the Wilmette Institute to ensure proper processing.