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Support CKS!

Your contribution is vital to our continued growth. By donating or becoming a member you are supporting connections between Cambodian scholars, students and artists with their international colleagues for the purpose of fostering understanding of Cambodia and Southeast Asia


Ways in which you can help:

  • Support CKS’s Library fund: acquisition of books, equipment and computers, and the ongoing training of our Cambodian librarians.
  • Support important CKS public outreach: free lectures, workshops and conferences, publications on contemporary and historical topics, and translation of essential educational texts into Khmer
  • Help CKS train junior faculty at the universities: to rebuild higher education after its deliberate destruction by the Khmer Rouge.

Annual fund Membership categories include:

  • Director’s Circle ($35,000 and up)
  • Patrons ($20,000-$34,999)
  • Sponsors ($10,000-$19,999)
  • Supporting Members ($1,000-$9,999)
  • Members ($100-$999)

Download the CKS contribution form or contact:

Membership Office
Center for Khmer Studies
149 East 63rd St.
New York, N.Y. 10065
Tel:(1) 212 980 6628

For stock transfers, please call 212-980-6628

To donate individual books

please choose from our Wish List and send to:

Head Office or
Center for Khmer Studies
PO Box 9380
Wat Damnak, Siem Reap,
Cambodia
Tel: (855) 063 964 385
Fax: (855) 063 963 035
Center for Khmer Studies
149 East 63rd St.
New York, N.Y. 10065
USA
Tel:(1) 212 980 6628

Email: center@khmerstudies.org

All contributions are tax-deductible.

We Need You!

  • Support our Library $10,000

CKS’s library is the largest free public library outside Phnom Penh. It offers unparalleled educational facilities to Cambodian students and public, as well as to visiting scholars.

  • Sponsor the Translation of Educational Texts $5-10,000

In the absence of books in the Cambodian language, Khmer, CKS translates and publishes key texts. A donation of $10,000 will defray costs for an average 300 page book and will be acknowledged in the publication.

  • Donate a new computer for our library reading room ($1,500)
  • Connect CKS’s library to the World Wide Web for 1 Year ($2,000)
  • Sponsor an overseas Cambodian student for the CKS/University of Hawai’i summer in-country program ($3,500).
  • Place your name on a Bookcase containing approximately 400 titles ($5,000)
  • Join the Director’s circle and place your name on a plaque in the new library ($35,000)
  • Send a Cambodian scholar to the 2012 Meeting of the Association of Asian scholars in Toronto ($3,500)
  • Or to make a donation of your choice to support our core activities

We thank you for your assistance!

Please read our newsletter In-Focus for an overview of current activities at the centre Click Here

The Center for Khmer Studies is recognized in the U.S. as a tax-exempt institution under article 501 (c) 3 of the Internal Revenue Code. All contributions are tax-deductible.

Thank You to Our 2010-2011 Annual Donors!


Director’s Circle ($35,000 and up)
Robert and Lisa Kessler
Lois and Georges de Menil

Patrons ($20,000-$34,999)
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Anne H Bass
Selma Ertegun
Nancy Norman Lassalle
Steven and Michele Pesner
Mary Lawrence Porter

Sponsors (10,000-$19,999)
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Olivier Bernier
John and Martha Howard (Close Friends Foundation)
Adam Roseman

Supporting Members ($1,000-$9,999)
Abercrombie & Kent Group
Brook Berlind
Rosamond Bernier
W.L. Lyons Brown, Jr. Charitable Foundation
Emma Bunker
Marina Couloucundis
Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz
Kate Fickle
M. Gaye Fugate
Goldman Sachs
S. Lawson
Julian Lethbridge
Marc and Jacqueline Leland (Leland Foundation)
Benjamin de Menil
Elizabeth De Woody
Lisa Reid
Susan Jeffries
Laurel McGee
Elizabeth and Richard Miller
Gerard Riedel
Nancy Schacht
Lloan and Hardwick Simmons
Susan Shine Shiva Foundation
Mortimer Stanley III
Orest Szul
Young Presidents’ Organization Group
Dee Bates
Bruce and Patty Beck
Frances Broaddus-Crutchfield
Vienna Cobb-Anderson
Margaret Douglas-Hamilton
Emily Fine
John and Jenny Jefferis
Wendi Mackay
Mercedes Mestre
Joanna Migdal
Ken Moran
Dr. Ben Rush
Janet Stethem
I.Peter Wolff

Members ($100-$999)
Edward Bass
Marion Becker
Justice Stephen Breyer
Nerou Chang
Peter and Jeannette Ehrenkranz
Adeline Frelinghausen
Pamela Gale
Robert Geniesse
Emmanuella Habsburg
Jeffrey Hansen
Helen Jessup
Michael Ferguson Johnson
Sambo Khim
Vera Kistiakowsky
Kate Medina
Donald Owlsky
Felipe Propper
Joy de Menil and Laird Reed
Edie Silber
Stephanie Stokes
Adele and Norman Taylor
Virginia Thors
A.Van Tooch
Doris Pattison White

Institutional Support
Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Florence Gould Foundation
U.S. Government, Department of Education,
Title VI Program
U. S. Department of State, Dept. of Education and Cultural Affairs
The Van Waveren Foundation