This Giving Day, Help Columbia Global Bring New Ideas to Shared Challenges, From Local to Global

Every year on Columbia Giving Day, alumni, students, partners, and friends around the world give during the same 24 hours to support the parts of Columbia they care about most. This year, on Wednesday, Oct. 28, you can direct your gift to Columbia Global and the work we do around the world. Give today.

What your gift to Columbia Global supports

Columbia Global connects Columbia to the world and the world to Columbia. Together, Columbia World Projects, the Columbia Global Centers, the Committee on Global Thought, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and Undergraduate Global Engagement help students and faculty take their learning and research to the places where global challenges unfold. They work side by side with local partners who define the problems and shape the solutions, and what they learn together comes back to campus, into classrooms, labs, and the next generation of Columbia’s work.

For Lina Al Zouabi, her partnership with Columbia Global changed the course of her career. A Syrian researcher, Al Zouabi joined the Columbia Global Emerging Scholars program through the Columbia Global Center in Amman in 2022 to study the lives of Syrian asylum seekers in Jordan. That work set the direction for what came next. She earned her PhD in English language and literature from Karabük University with research on refugee narratives, and today she teaches English language and literature at Maaref University of Applied Sciences.

“The Columbia Global Emerging Scholar program fundamentally transformed my academic trajectory,” she said. “It gave me the tools, mentorship, and institutional backing to approach refugee issues with rigor and nuance.” (Read her story.)

Multiply that experience across hundreds of students, faculty, scholars, and partners each year, and it changes how Columbia learns and teaches. Your Giving Day gift helps make more of these experiences possible.

How to give

Giving is open now and closes Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

1. Go to Columbia Global’s Giving Day page
2. Scroll to the bottom of the page, or select Funds in the menu at the top.
3. Choose where you want your gift to go: Columbia World Projects, the Columbia Global Centers network, the Committee on Global Thought, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Undergraduate Global Engagement, or the Columbia Global Annual Fund, which supports all of our work. To give to a specific Global Center, look for it by city name, and check page two of the list to see all of the Global Centers.
4. Select Give on that fund, enter your gift amount, and follow the prompts to complete your gift.

Where will you make an impact?

On Giving Day, you can direct your gift to the work that matters most to you:

• Columbia Global Centers — Strengthen Columbia's hubs for research and impact in cities around the world. Support the full network, or pick a single center to make your gift local.
• Columbia World Projects — Turn research into real-world solutions and develop the next generation of global leaders.
• Committee on Global Thought — Support the programs that enable students to examine global challenges across disciplines.
• Institute for Ideas and Imagination — Empower artists and scholars to collaborate on and advance interdisciplinary work.
• Undergraduate Global Engagement — Expand study abroad programs, internships, and global experiences to every Columbia undergraduate.
• Columbia Global Annual Fund — Fuel the full breadth of Columbia Global's mission.

See our work in action

Curious what your support makes possible? Start with these stories.

• You can't fight climate change alone. Three Chilean towns show working together can get it done: Three Chilean municipalities wrote climate action plans built for their own communities, working with Columbia researchers and the Columbia Global Center in Santiago. Read the story.
• Beyond COP30: Turning Climate Promises into Permanent Progress: Columbia scholars and regional experts from the Global Centers’ Road to COP30 series share what it will take to turn climate commitments into action. Read the story.
• Beijing Global Center Expands as it Marks 17 Years: Alumni give back to the Center that has connected Columbia and China since 2009. Read the story.
• What it takes to move from knowing to doing: Inside the leadership programs that prepare students, faculty, and professionals to lead change. Read the story.
• Displacement in a Changing World Event Series Returns to Campus: Scholars, policymakers, and people with lived experience come together to discuss forced displacement. Learn more.