One of the most impactful ways for donors to support MMA is through a gift to the annual fund. Annual fund gifts are unrestricted — gifts contributed for general purposes.
When you make a gift to the MMA annual fund, you enable the Academy to apply the funds immediately where they are most needed. Annual fund gifts make a crucial impact on our cadets and the overall success of MMA.
Annual gifts help support ...
The whole core of what MMA stands for is still there, even after the ups and downs of 130 years. I believe in what they are doing.
Chris Gentry ’88
As a Missouri Military Academy cadet, D'Cherion "DC" Nelson '15 excelled as the Academy nurtured leadership within him and challenged to achieve. Today, he is a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. with aspirations of working as an intelligence officer in the Pentagon.
"The pandemic has revealed with painful clarity how important education and access to basic resources are ..." Read President Geraci's spotlight on the role of education in America in his recent Mission: Readiness feature.
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