Your Gift Matters

For 29 years, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) has been Stanford University’s hub for teaching and scholarship on race and ethnicity. Our mission is to advance racial equity through interdisciplinary education, innovative research, and community engagement.

CCSRE provides the foundation for students, faculty, and fellows to pursue interdisciplinary work that combats racial injustice through a nuanced understanding of the complex and powerful social forces that shape our world. Join us in supporting urgently needed teaching and research at Stanford.

Our Goals

Produce innovative, comparative, and interdisciplinary research that advances racial equity, drawing on every field of inquiry;
Educate students to think critically about and be leaders for racial equity;
Mobilize research to influence policy, media, and public discourse on race;
Increase the pipeline of scholars, students, practitioners, and leaders working on pressing challenges related to race;
Convene diverse constituents to set national/global agendas to transform how race works.

Gift Opportunities

Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity

Academic Year 2024-25

Endowed Opportunities

Endow a Named Faculty Directorship - $5M
This fund will provide annual discretionary support for one of our CCSRE programs. Choose to endow a Directorship for one the five Academic Programs or for the Center as a whole.
Endow a Teaching Fund - $250,000
This fund would provide ongoing support for undergraduate coursework in CCSRE programs.
Endow the Summer Fellowship Program - $2M for 10 fellows
This endowed gift would support a full cohort of 10 Undergraduate Praxis Fellows in perpetuity.
Endow a Named Lectureship - $2M (with potential for matching contribution)
This fund would support one Lecturer annually in a program of your choosing.

Expendable Funds

Teaching Fund - $18,000
This urgently needed fund will support one lecturer-led course in an area of curricular need and student interest. Recent courses have addressed topics including food justice, federal Indian law, and South Asian racial politics. Support the hiring of a full-time Lecturer who will teach six courses per year for $100,000.
Career-building conversation series for students (10 talks) - $7,500
This series would bring undergraduate majors and minors together over dinner to hear from CCSRE alumni leaders across industries and professions. Guests will be put in conversation with a faculty affiliate to discuss how training in race studies empowers work beyond the academy.
Fund an Undergraduate Liaison - $5,000
Our Undergraduate Council serves as a network of peer advisors, program representatives, and event coordinators. They promote student engagement and accessibility in each of our academic programs. Choose to support one Liaison for $5,000 or to fund all six members of the Undergraduate Council for $30,000.
Fund an Undergraduate Praxis Fellowship - $10,000
Our Praxis Fellowships pair undergraduate students directly with community organizations working towards racial justice in the Bay Area and across the country. CCSRE supports upwards of 18 undergraduate fellowships each year.
Fund a Postdoctoral Fellowship - $90,000
Support recent PhDs working at the leading edge of race studies who conduct original research and teach in the field. Postdoctoral fellowships are essential for launching emerging scholars’ careers in academia.

To make a gift through the Stanford University online portal, please click the button below.
For more information, please contact Scott Sugiura at the Office of Development, 650.723.1208 or ssugiura [at] stanford.edu (ssugiura[at]stanford[dot]edu).

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Named Gifts

The Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity appreciates the support of all donors who have made gifts over the past years, including:

Adrian and Monica Arima Gift
Ina Coleman Gift for CCSRE
Anne and Loren Kieve Distinguished Speaker Fund
Jeff and Tricia Raikes Fund for CCSRE