Big Give 2021

Every gift matters

Please consider supporting The American Cultures Center during the Big Give (9 pm on March 10 through 9 pm on March 11)


For thirty years, The American Cultures (AC) Center has designed programs and initiatives to support the learning, lives, and experiences of UC Berkeley students and faculty centered in a political and cultural infrastructure of critical pedagogy, of race, Blackness, and the experiences of BIPOC, queer, trans people and those living with disabilities. The pedagogical structures built across 50 programs and departments offering AC courses (the largest curriculum at UC Berkeley) have deep antiracism commitments. We invite you to visit our many programs that support undergraduate learning, faculty teaching and research, and community partnerships and engagement during Big Give. Direct Gift.

What is the Big Give?

The Big Give is an annual online giving on March 11th that brings the entire UC Berkeley community — alumni, parents, students, faculty, staff, and friends — together to support schools and programs and help them win prize money.

Core Needs

Support for student and faculty programming - over 13,000 undergraduates enroll in the curriculum every year.

Support for student projects that address some of the nation's most pressing social and racial issues 

Support to provide community partners and organizations with opportunities to work with UC Berkeley faculty and students through partnership grants

Support for student workshop development centering creative tools and digital literacy central to racial justice education

How Your Gift Supports Us:

Provides funds for workshops such as Teaching in Troubled Times
 
Funds student fellows working with community partners in American Cultures Courses

Funds community organizations working with AC faculty and students 

Funds student training at Community Organizations

Funds equipment for students to develop digital storytelling tools

Funds stipends for graduate students in antiracism pedagogy and scholar activism