Creating a Sustainable World
The faculty of our diverse programs – ranked among the very top in their respective fields – is training tomorrow’s leaders in sustainability. But to continue this tradition of excellence, CNR must recruit and retain the sharpest and most visionary minds.
This means:
- improving our facilities
- enhancing our financial support for research and teaching
- having the means to support the world’s best scholars and students
By investing in CNR, you can play a key role in preserving a thriving, healthy world for future generations.
Current Giving Opportunities
Special Project and Unrestricted Support
The College of Natural Resources seeks to raise $2.2 million to fund classroom and field technology innovations and provide unrestricted support for other College priorities.
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The Don Dahlsten Outreach Fund (Supporting K-12 outreach programs and field technology innovations)
Laura Lagomarsino
“Now, I know exactly what I want to do and what I want to study.”
Your support makes Laura's research possible! Thank you for supporting Sponsored Projects for Undergraduate Research.
Student Support
CNR must raise funds to attract and support top graduate students and provide undergraduates with opportunities for laboratory and field research, along with financial assistance for those who need it.
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The Berkeley Fund for Natural Resources
The CNR Graduate Student Support Fund
Are you UC Berkeley faculty, emeriti faculty, staff, retired staff, or a student?
Rosemary Gillespie holds the William M. and Esther G. Schlinger Chair in Systematic Entomology.
Her research focuses on evolutionary ecology, systematics, spider biology, and conservation.
Faculty Support
CNR plans to raise private support to recruit and retain outstanding faculty, which requires being able to offer competitive salaries, teaching funds, and research support.
Major Gift Opportunity: The Hewlett Challenge
You can endow a CNR faculty chair by taking the Hewlett Challenge.
The Center for Sustainable Resource Development provides training for the holds workshops for Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program Participants.
Interdisciplinary Research and Program Support
CNR can sustain and expand the interdisciplinary institutes, academic centers of excellence, and international programs that are essential to effective faculty collaboration and societal outreach.
For more information, please contact Kathryn Moriarty-Baldwin, Assistant Dean of Development and Public Information.
Capital Project Support
CNR seeks to raise funds to make critical infrastructure renovations and technology upgrades, to improve its research and classroom facilities, and to preserve some of California's most beautiful and historic academic buildings.
For more information, please contact Kathryn Moriarty-Baldwin, Assistant Dean of Development and Public Information.
How to Give
Phone: 510-643-8860
Fax: 510-642-4612
Mail: Please make checks out to "The College of Natural Resources" and in the subject line please write the name of the fund or area of giving to which you would like to contribute (e.g., "Berkeley Fund for Natural Resources", "Forestry Teaching Fund").
College of Natural Resources
Office of College Relations
101 Giannini Hall, MC 3100
Berkeley, CA 94720
For More Information
If you would like more information on these or other donor opportunities, please contact the Office of College Relations at 510-643-8860 or email info@nature.berkeley.edu.