Donate to the Lam Family College of Business
The Lam Family College of Business at San Francisco State is San Francisco’s public business school. We embrace the area’s rich diversity and provide access to professional success through high quality teaching, innovative and relevant courses, discipline-based and pedagogical scholarship, and engagement with the academic and business communities.
AACSB Accredited
Accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International since 1964, the Lam Family College of Business at San Francisco State University provides a high quality business education to a diverse learning community through innovative teaching, research, and support. We are one of just five percent of all business schools worldwide that meet the rigorous standards for this accreditation.
Our commitment to sustainable business, diversity, social justice and global partnerships echoes our core philosophy of responsible leadership. Our College prepares students to succeed in an economy that is global in nature. As one of the top-ranked public universities, we have been recognized worldwide for our investments in diversity, social responsibility, and visionary academics. We aspire to be one of the best public urban business schools by applying sustainability and ethical perspectives to our understanding of business practice, global leadership, innovation, the economy and society.
Our Graduate Business Programs, conveniently located at the San Francisco State University Downtown Campus in the heart of San Francisco, educates leaders for careers in the growing innovative industries of the dynamic Bay Area and global marketplace.
Lam Family College of Business Funding Initiatives
Scholarships
Scholarship can make the difference of students being able to buy textbooks, pay for tuition, or even stay in college.
Institute for Innovation
The Institute for Innovation will include an incubator space, access to angel funding, scholarships, awards and an endowed chair.
Center for the “Language of Business”
The Center will become a central hub for accounting students, faculty, alumni and industry professionals to collaborate together.
Trading Room & Student Investment Fund
The stock trading room provides students with an opportunity to gain valuable real world hands-on experience.
Institute for Wine, Food & Restaurant Management
The Institute will coordinate education, research and applied learning across the fine food, restaurant and wine industries.
Business Enterprise &
Engagement Center
The Center will provide career development resources, internship opportunities, faculty-led consulting engagements and student conferences.
Lam Family College of Business Stories
First responders might have a new partner on the way thanks to a team of forward-thinking San Francisco State University students. The students recently took home first prize at the Lam Family College of Business’ third annual Entrepreneurship Symposium and Pitch Competition with Simba Police, a voice-activated mobile assistant designed to help first responders in emergency situations.
Now a student in the LFCoB, Terah Lawyer was formerly incarcerated for 15 years. The scholarships she has received have helped her persist in her education and start a new life after prison.
Although she is not a graduate from the Lam Family College of Business, Loretta has worked for much of her career in the accounting industry. Last September, she established the Loretta Doon Scholarship Endowment in Accounting to ensure future accounting students have the means to continue their path to graduation.
“The power of SF State's Volonteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program is twofold: One, valuable work and service experience for students, and two, the VITA program gives back to the community in meaningful ways by generating a $1 million in tax refunds to those who need it.” - Katie Hetherington, J.D., Assistant Professor in Accounting in the Lam Family College of Business
For more information about donating to the Lam Family College of Business:
Manny Nungaray
Executive Director of Development & Campaign Operations
University Development
Email: mannyn@sfsu.edu
Phone: (415) 405-2655
Janine Hurty
Director of Development for the Lam Family College of Business
Lam Family College of Business
Email: jhurty@sfsu.edu
Phone: (415) 338-1183