Your support enables the Department of Romance Studies to enhance the experience for undergraduate and graduate students and contribute to faculty excellence. Gifts can help fund lectures and conferences, faculty and student research, distinguished speakers, field trips, and other Department priorities. Please consider a donation to either the unrestricted gifts fund or the endowment gifts fund.
Romance Studies Unrestricted Gifts Fund
Gifts made to this fund are available immediately for Department priorities.
Romance Studies Endowment Gifts Fund
Gifts made to this fund are placed in an Endowment account where they are invested in perpetuity. Income from the endowment is provided each year to the Department for priorities.
Gifts may also be made by mail or over the phone:
By Mail
Cornell University, P. O. Box 25842, Lehigh Valley, PA 18003-9692 (Please make checks payable to Cornell University and note for the Romance Studies Unrestricted Gifts Fund or the Endowment Gifts Fund in the check memo. If there is no preference indicated, your gift will be placed in the Romance Studies Unrestricted Gifts Fund)
By Phone
Call 1-800-279-3099 to give your credit card information to a member of Cornell’s giving staff.
We welcome gifts of cash and securities, stock or mutual fund shares, and bonds. You can double or triple your gift if you or your spouse work for a company that matches donations to nonprofit organizations. Gifts to the Department of Romance Studies are tax deductible to the full extent of the Internal Revenue Code.