Year-End Giving

Experience history in ways you never imagined!

With your help, the History Center can bring to life new aspects of the history of art and culture. In the fall of 2024, we will highlight the experiences and difficulties of soldiers returning home from war throughout the 20th century, and in the spring of 2025, we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Great Gatsby by looking at the Lake Forest that F. Scott Fitzgerald encountered in the 1920s and showing the many ways the town inspired his works.   

Knowledge of the past can help inform our future. Let's explore together local history that hasn't been told before.

 

Join us in supporting all that the History Center does, with a year-end gift.

Your gift allows us to create award-winning exhibits, thought-provoking programs, and cutting-edge tours. Thank you for helping the History Center become the go-to place for experiencing history in imaginative and unexpected ways.

How Your Gift Supports the History Center:

$25 – Helps purchase one acid-free storage box to store fragile artifacts in the archives located in the Research Center.

$50 – Covers one hour of staff time in the archives to answer a research question.

$100 – Helps train a docent for walking tours.

$250 – Helps defray the cost of an engaging program speaker.

$500 – Helps fund virtual and on-site programming with engaging speakers from across the country.

$750 – Covers the cost of training volunteers to become docents for walking and biking tours.

$1,000 – Covers the cost of researching and developing new walking and biking tours.

$1,500 – Underwrites the Zoom fee for virtual programming.

$2,000 – Funds the purchase of archival storage materials to ensure our historic documents last another 100 years.

$3,000 – Pays for the printing of the panels for one of the History Center's upcoming exhibits.

$4,000 – Funds one semester for a student internship, which provides a project-based assignment for undergraduate and graduate students that require historical research using the archival materials at the History Center.

$5,000 – Will upgrade the audio/visual experience and provide livestream of in-person events.

$10,000 – Helps fund the yearly web-hosting fee for online exhibits.

$15,000 – Provides the entire funding for one of the upcoming exhibits!

 

 

Thank you to those who have donated so far!

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