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 2007, ACLS received more than $250,000 in contributions from individuals.
If not otherwise designated, contributions go to the ACLS Fellowship Fund. In 1997, ACLS launched a campaign to enlarge the ACLS endowment devoted to fellowships and thereby to increase fellowship stipends. 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 have helped us award fellowships totaling almost $8.4 million to 232 United States scholars in 2007, with significant awards made to scholars abroad as well.
ACLS gratefully accepts contributions to 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. A more recent initiative is 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 President Burkhardt.)
Donations to ACLS are fully tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. To learn more about how your contribution will be used to further ACLS endeavors, see our Funding section. 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.