Support Sustainability
Our community, made up of world-class faculty, students, staff, alumni, and donors, is fueled by optimism, hard work, creativity, and a clear mission. We are driven to unlock discoveries, advance knowledge, and spark innovations that change the world. Join us.
Funding Opportunities
Programs
Career Center
To make a meaningful impact on the world, our students must gain real-world experience through internships in sustainability careers during their studies. Career placement services and resources are also highly desired by students, particularly as the job market for sustainability graduates evolves.
External Education & Mobilization
The school aims to become the preeminent provider of professional education on sustainability and a global force for societal change by informing and motivating individual and community behavior. Our External Education programs are designed to empower participants to make informed decisions about strategy, operations, policies, and lifestyles that affect global sustainability.
Discovery Grants
Discovery Grants prioritize the generation of fundamental, inquiry-based research across all topical areas within the school, aiming to advance our understanding of Earth, biological, societal, and engineered systems. They support research that does not easily qualify for other school-wide grant programs or is considered too risky for conventional funding sources.
Research for Solutions
Solution Areas enhance the school’s ability to translate Stanford research into large-scale solutions and to inform key decision-makers in policy and business. Selected based on where Stanford can make the most meaningful impact, the school’s eight Solution Areas are: climate; water; energy; food; risk, resilience, and adaptation; nature; cities; and platforms and tools for monitoring and decision making.
Sustainability Accelerator
The Sustainability Accelerator speeds the translation of Stanford research into scalable technology and policy solutions to address urgent global sustainability challenges. Considering scale from the outset, the Accelerator focuses investments and scaling support on Flagship Destinations—ambitious and measurable targets with the potential to substantially improve the quality of human life and our planet.
Sustainability Fund
Annual gifts to the Sustainability Fund help maximize discoveries and amplify the school’s impact. As a critical source of unrestricted dollars, the fund can be deployed by the dean to meet emerging challenges and seize new opportunities—year after year as the school grows.
Places
Sustainability Commons
The Sustainability Commons, comprising new buildings and a series of outdoor spaces on the west side of campus, will become the school’s new home. The Commons will welcome all of Stanford with an interest in sustainability, regardless of their academic focus, as well as partners outside academia working to drive policy and technology solutions to advance the long-term prosperity of the planet.
Hopkins Marine Station
As a leader in marine science since 1892, the station is home to 9 distinct laboratories that each address crucial scientific inquiries, from marine genomics and migrations to coastal ecosystems and blue food economies. Hopkins is undertaking a significant capital improvement project to renovate existing facility space and expand capacity to accommodate anticipated growth. Learn more>
Foundational Launch Partners
We are grateful to these visionary philanthropists for their generous support of our ambition in education, research, innovation, and impact.
Matching Opportunities
Matching dollars may be available for giving opportunities as described above, depending on the gift structure and the remaining balance of matching funds that have not already been committed to current donor pledges. Looking for something more? There are many exciting initiatives underway within our departments, programs, and institutes, where additional opportunities may exist to explore philanthropic support.