The Berkeley Fund for Natural Resources
There is no time like the present to support ecological and economical sustainability.
That is what the faculty and students of The College of Natural Resources are focusing on today. There is a growing need for scientific leaders in the environmental fields to find solutions to the global problems we are currently facing today and those that we have yet to realize.
Gifts to the Berkeley Fund for Natural Resources provide the funds needed to educate tomorrow’s environmental leaders—the Dean’s top priorities at the College.
In recent years, the fund has supported:
- SPUR, Sponsored Projects for Undergraduate Research
The Sponsored Projects for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) program offers students a unique opportunity to develop as scientists, with a level of independence that has often been reserved for graduate students.
SPUR provides grants to undergraduates and their faculty mentors.
- CNR-sponsored lectures such as a special lecture on biomimicry
- Furnishings for the Student Resource Center
- Scholarship funding for the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program
The Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) offers a unique learning opportunity for mid-career environmental professionals and decision-makers to gain expertise, enhance skills and broaden perspectives on environmental and natural resource management and leadership.
The ELP offers an annual 3-week summer certificate course in Sustainable Environmental Management at UC Berkeley, and coordinates an active and growing Alumni Network. The ELP also supports post-training collaborative projects with alumni through its Small Grants Initiative.
- Faculty recruitment and retention
- The Berkeley Institute of the Environment
The Berkeley Institute of the Environment addresses complex environmental problems by:
- Making research tools and understanding accessible across disciplinary lines
- Fostering collaboration and new ways of thinking about critical environmental problems across disciplines
- Training a new generation of environmental researchers, citizens and professionals.
Through its initiatives the BIE seeks to confirm Berkeley as the premier institution in environmental theory, understanding, actions and solutions.
All gifts to CNR are tax-deductible to the extent of the law.
CNR provides unique learning and research opportunities for its faculty and students.