Giving
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Support for Jasper Ridge advances hands-on learning, environmental research, and innovative land stewardship for ecological integrity
Your Gift Matters
Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma) is a living laboratory where students, faculty, and community members learn side by side in a dynamic natural setting. For over 50 years, Jasper Ridge has advanced environmental discovery, education, and stewardship.
Gifts from donors provide funding for unique student research opportunities, community environmental education programs, and innovative projects informed by Western and Indigenous science.
Your Impact at Jasper Ridge
Jasper Ridge Operation Support
Your gift sustains the essential day-to-day work that enables Jasper Ridge staff to host cutting edge research and educational activities.
Environmental Scholar Award
The Jasper Ridge Environmental Scholar Award is funded by donors to support outstanding students who demonstrate leadership in environmental science and communication.
Community Outreach
Gifts create opportunities for novel engagement activities for our community with Stanford faculty and other Bay Area participants to explore timely topics in sustainability and socio-ecological concepts.
Conservation Technology
Your support allows Jasper Ridge to invest in emerging technologies for wildlife and ecosystem monitoring in order to document biodiversity, track environmental change, and guide management decisions.
Two-Eyed Seeing
Gifts support the development of a new collaborative education and research initiative to build sustainable land management practices informed Indigenous and Western science.
Stewardship Research Internship
Gifts directly support the Jasper Ridge Stewardship Research Internship, creating new experiences for students to engage in hands-on research under the mentorship of senior researchers and regional land management agencies.
Ways to Give
Employer Matching
Gifts may be matched by your employer.
One-Time or Recurring Gifts
Endowments
Endowment gifts generate a stable, steady funding stream in perpetuity. Endowment gifts provide naming opportunities and may be matched.
Bequests
You can make a bequest by designating Jasper Ridge as the beneficiary of your life insurance policy, IRA, or other retirement plan.
Your gift is tax-deductible under applicable rules. As a unit of Stanford University, Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma) qualifies for tax-exempt status under Section 501 (c)(3). Our Tax ID is 941156365 (Stanford University).
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Celebrating lives
As part of our commitment to honoring and remembering our Jasper Ridge community members, we would like to ensure that we acknowledge and celebrate the lives of those who have passed away.