Thrive in ’25
Serving Up The Future
Building on our success since 2011 by upgrading the Club facilities to position us for continued excellence over the next 15 years. Donate today and double your impact with 100% matching funds provided by the Club!
$1.23M raised as of 01/06/2026
82% of goal
Every dollar donated toward our funding goal by Alumni and Elite Sponsors will be 100% matched by the Cannon Dial Elm Club. We deeply appreciate contributions made by all of our members toward the Club’s improvement campaign.
Donate to Thrive in ’25
Donate today to help us reach our funding goal. The Cannon Dial Elm Club and our Elite Sponsors will match your donation effectively tripling the impact! Please click on your preferred payment method below:
Credit Card
Click the button below to make your donation. You can select one of the three quick preset donation amounts or click “Other” to enter your desired donation. If you’d like to also cover the credit card processing fee, check the box below the donation amounts.
Venmo
- Venmo us at @cannonclub
- In the “What’s this for?” box, please enter “Thrive in ’25” along with your name and graduating class year.
Check
- Make your check payable to Princeton Cannon Dial Elm Foundation.
- In the check memo field, please enter “Thrive in ’25 Donation.”
- Mail your check to the address below:
c/o Cannon Dial Elm Club
P.O. Box 7788
21 Prospect Avenue
Princeton, NJ 08543-7788
Via donation to the PPF
- At the Princeton Prospect Foundation (PPF) Donate page, please click the “Donate Online” button in the Cannon Dial Elm Club section.
- Your donation is tax deductible to the extent allowable under IRS regulations for the Princeton Prospect Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization.
If you have any questions, please contact us.
Read the article:
Cannon Dial Elm Club readies for renovation in 2025
by Isabella Roberts and Elisabeth Stewart, November 15, 2024
Investing for success
The storied Cannon Dial Elm Club is generally regarded as a welcoming home away from home for the largest family you’ve ever seen (200+ members).
The club completed its last major set of renovations and upgrades prior to 2011. We have reaped the rewards of those investments, developing a reputation for serving the best meals on the Street, becoming the club for highly accomplished students who come to us from a very wide diversity of backgrounds and locations, putting on some of the best social events anywhere, and as the place where members go to have fun, unwind, study, work collaboratively, and develop lifelong friendships.
Today, the club is financially sound with a thriving and actively-involved membership roster of both students and alumni. However, after more than a decade, we must invest for the next chapter in the club’s story.
Current challenges
Kitchen & Servery: Much of our kitchen equipment is nearing end-of-life and there is a very significant cost to replace these commercial-grade appliances within a kitchen designed to serve 200+ members. The servery is also in need of upgrades to improve meal handling and service efficiency.
Dining Room: While we are not currently seeking to significantly increase Club membership, we still face a pressing need for dining space expansion (+48 seats) in order to accommodate larger-scale dining events like Parents Weekend and events where members are accompanied by a non-member plus-one.
Workspaces: Our student workspaces and study areas need significant upgrades to reflect a level of functional, technological, and aesthetic sophistication comparable to what Princeton University graduates are likely to see in their future professional endeavors.
Competition: A number of our fellow (bicker) eating clubs have either upgraded their facilities or are planning to do so.
Cannon Dial Elm, the next 15 years!
We are aiming to reach our fundraising goal later this year. We intend to break ground on construction and renovation work in early summer 2025. The updated and improved club will be complete and open for business by Labor Day 2025 and ready for the 2025-2026 academic year. Design renderings below show you what the club will look like after we open.
Elite Sponsor opportunity
Our club is very fortunate to have an extraordinary, actively-involved alumni base, a number of whom have the ability to make significant financial contributions to the club. With this in mind, we are providing each of our alumni with the opportunity to become an Elite Sponsor for a significant contribution to our Thrive in ‘25 campaign.
The generosity of our Elite Sponsors has helped the club provide outstanding service to our members since 2011 and their contributions to the Thrive in ’25 initiative will help propel the club strongly into the 15 years to come.
In appreciation of their extraordinary generosity, Elite Sponsors will be recognized on this website, in signage at our post P-rade party, and with naming rights to different parts of the club if they so desire.
| Naming right | Donation level |
|---|---|
| Room | $100,000 or more |
| Dining room table | $50,000 – $99,999 |
| Bar stool | $25,000 – $49,999 |
Select Sponsor opportunity
Donors who contribute between $5,000 and $24,999 to the Thrive in ’25 initiative, will have their names highlighted as Select Sponsors when we recognize all of our extremely generous donors.
| Select sponsor | Donation level |
|---|---|
| Principal | $10,000 – $24,999 |
| Foundation | $5,000 – $9,999 |
If you are interested in becoming an Elite Sponsor or a Select Sponsor, please contact us and a Grad Board member will reach out to you.
Young alumni competition
Game on!
In the spirit of our members’ highly competitive nature, we will launch a donation contest among our younger alumni. Donors will be judged at the graduating class group level on two donation goal races:
- Largest total donation by a class; and
- Highest class participation rate.
All members of the winning class in each race will be recognized on a plaque in the club’s expanded dining space as well as given recognition on this website and at Reunions. In addition, winning classes will get VIP service at the post P-rade party. More details to come as we continue work on our Thrive in ’25 initiative but rest assured, it will be awesome! And remember, your donation will be double matched by the club and our Elite Sponsors.
Competition Launch: 01/21/2025
Competition Closes: 02/18/2025
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