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Support Columbia Students, Faculty and Researchers

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Support Tomorrow’s Leaders

Your gift has an immediate impact on the lives of our undergraduates – answering a need today or strengthening their ability to shape our future.

Drive Innovation

Give now to sustain the work of Columbia’s graduate schools, which push the boundaries of human understanding and create breakthroughs across a range of disciplines to address the world’s most pressing challenges.

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Make Your Impact

Stand up for scientific research, health and medical education, and patient care to help countless people live healthier, longer, and more productive lives.


 

Take Action for Columbia

Members of the Columbia community have the power to play a uniquely important role in helping to protect and shape Columbia’s future.

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Ways to Give
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Your Velocity

Velocity is your chance to keep up our momentum and support those facing cancer every day.

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Support What Matters

Find the school, initiative, cause that matters to you and support our students, faculty, and research.

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Join Us

On Columbia Giving Day, October 21, inspire and shape the future. Your participation matters now more than ever.

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To Repay the Help They Received

Nearly a decade after first stepping foot on the Columbia campus as a School of Professional Studies student, Master of Science in Actuarial Science alumna Claire Li (‘15SPS) returned to Lewisohn Hall to reflect on her experience and share her motivations around making a generous gift to the program.

Education opens up a world to people. If you give that to somebody, you improve the world for everyone.

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Remembering Those Who Follow

Like many high school students, Milton Edelin ’54CC, ’57GSAPP wasn't sure what he wanted to be when he grew up. He also wasn't sure what he could be.

Fellowship Supports Displaced Scholars

The one-year fellowship offers support and resources for scholars to continue their studies, enhance their research capabilities, broaden their professional networks, and advance their careers in academia.