With a contribution to ACLS, you support the research of scholars across the nation and around the world. This research enhances our knowledge and understanding of history, culture, and ideas. You may wish to give to ACLS to honor a friend, mentor, or loved one. Consider pledging an annual donation or remembering ACLS in your tax or estate planning. Every gift makes a difference. In 2009, ACLS received nearly $240,000 in contributions from individuals.
If not otherwise designated, contributions go to the ACLS Fellowship Campaign. Launched in 1997, the campaign continues to seek contributions to increase the endowment devoted to fellowships as well as the number and size of fellowship stipends that the endowment can fund. Stipends now range from $30,000 to $60,000, up from $20,000 for all ranks in 1997. Grants from the Andrew W. Mellon, Ford, Rockefeller, Hewlett, and other Foundations; contributions from institutional associates; and gifts from ACLS Fellows and other individuals continue to be critical to this campaign. These contributions helped us award fellowships totaling almost $9 million to 235 United States scholars in 2009, with significant awards made to scholars abroad as well.
Contributions may also be directed to the following funds that honor specific individuals whose work has advanced humanistic scholarship:
- The John H. D'Arms Fund is dedicated to supporting the ACLS Fellowship Program and initiatives identified with D’Arms’s leadership in the humanities.
- Through a specially designated fund, the ACLS/Oscar Handlin Fellowship in American History is awarded each year to an outstanding project in American history.
- The ACLS/Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Fellowship Fund for fellowships in Chinese history, which, when fully endowed, will support a postdoctoral fellow of any rank in his honor. The royalties from the sale of Professor Wakeman’s book,
Telling Chinese History
, also help support this fund.
- ACLS now also accepts contributions in memory of Frederick H. Burkhardt, president emeritus of ACLS, in support of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. (Read more about Frederick H. Burkhardt.)
In addition, we are grateful for undesignated gifts to support all the work of ACLS.
For information on including ACLS in your estate or tax planning, contact Sandra Bradley in the President’s Office, by email or telephone at 212-697-1505 x123.