Support ecological research, teaching & outreach
Give online
You may use a credit or debit card to donate online to any of the funds listed below. Clicking on any of the following links will take you to KU Endowment's secure website. Please consider giving to our unrestricted fund, the Center for Ecological Research Endowment. Every gift matters, and 100 percent of your gift benefits our research center directly. Email us at biosurvey@ku.edu with questions.
Choose your fund
![Researcher and students working in greenhouse-like structures with prairie flowers](/sites/biosurvey/files/images/2023/1803207_AW_Bever%20Research%20Field%20Station-72%20sized.jpg)
Center for Ecological Research Endowment
![Small group of people in early spring forest looking up with binoculars](/sites/biosurvey/files/images/2023/Group%20looking%20up%20Wendy%27s%20sized%20768.jpg)
Friends of the KU Field Station
![Delicate spring ferns and wildflowers on forest floor](/sites/biosurvey/files/images/2023/DSC_0119%20edited%202%20sized%20768.jpg)
Baldwin Woods Conservation Fund
Student support
![Group tour at garden with rows of native flower beds](/sites/biosurvey/files/images/2023/IMG_7104%20sized.jpg)
KU Native Medicinal Plant Research Garden
![Student watering individual plants in prairie research plot](/sites/biosurvey/files/images/2023/Reb%20Bryant%20Senger_watering%20edited%20sized%20768.png)
Student Research Fund
![Mari Pesek and other graduate student in a prairie research plot](/sites/biosurvey/files/images/2023/DSC_0546%20edited%20sized%20768.jpg)
Mari Pesek Memorial Fund
![People in hardhats and protective clothing conduct prescribed burn in woodland](/sites/biosurvey/files/images/2024/2311057_MK_BaldwinBurn.1565%20sized%202.jpg)
KU Field Station Conservation Fund
Give by mail
Please make your check payable to KU Endowment and include a letter indicating that your gift is for the Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research or the KU Field Station to:
KU Endowment, P.O. Box 928, Lawrence, KS 66044-0928
Monthly contributions
In the process of giving online, you may indicate your preference to make your gifts in installments via automatic bank transfer, or by credit or debit card.
If you are mailing in your giving form and wish to make your gift in installments, please note your preference in an accompanying letter. You also may email KU Endowment at givetoku@kuendowment.org or call 785-832-7400 or 800-444-4201.
Matching gifts
Does your employer match charitable contributions? Contact your Human Resources department to request a match and increase your gift. You can request a match whether you give online or by mail.
Major gifts
Major gifts can provide for vital needs such as named, endowed funds to support facilities, research, teaching and outreach. If you are interested in discussing a major gift or creating an endowed fund, please contact Sara Baer (sgbaer@ku.edu), director of the Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research, or Bryan Foster (bfoster@ku.edu), KU Field Station director.