The Society Invites Your Support
There are a number of opportunities available for supporting Society projects. Please indicate if you would like for your contribution to support a particular project or fund.
All monetary gifts to the Society are meaningful and important, no matter the size. Each gift helps us preserve the state’s heritage and make it available today and for future generations. Please keep Missouri history alive!
Society Funds
Richard S. Brownlee Fund – Provides grants to individuals and organizations for research, publications, and other projects that document the history of Missouri and its citizens. Recent recipients of Brownlee grants included history graduate students, local historical societies, and individuals working on such projects as the history of the Missouria Indians, a biography of Senator Thomas F. Eagleton, and the history of Mt. Muncie Cemetery, an African American cemetery near Higginsville.
James W. Goodrich Graduate Research Assistantship in Missouri History – Honors the historian, writer, and preservationist who served the Society as executive director, 1985-2004. Jim Goodrich utilized collaborative activities to conserve and disseminate valuable research and cultural resources and to help Missourians understand their history. The James W. Goodrich Graduate Research Assistantship in Missouri History will support a research assistantship at the Society for a graduate student in Missouri history. The Society will award the first Goodrich Research Assistantship for the 2008-2009 academic year in cooperation with the University of Missouri-Columbia Department of History.
James W. Goodrich Memorial
Sidney Larson Fund – Gifts to the Larson Fund are used to purchase artwork for our collection and to maintain and enhance the Art Gallery, which features rotating exhibits from the collection and selections from the George Caleb Bingham and Thomas Hart Benton collections on permanent display.
Projects and Goals
The Thread of Life – $60,000 to defray the cost of acquiring a painting by George Caleb Bingham.
Famous Missourians – $50,000 to expand our Web site aimed at fourth graders studying Missouri history.
Missouri History Speakers’ Bureau – $40,000 to provide speakers on historical topics, without charge, to historical and genealogical societies and other not-for-profit groups throughout the state.
Newspaper conservation – $50,000 to assist with microfilming daily and weekly Missouri newspapers and duplicating microfilm endangered by vinegar syndrome.
Programs
National History Day in Missouri –National History Day in Missouri is part of a national program that encourages students in grades 6-12 to research historical topics in primary and secondary sources and present that research in papers, exhibits, performances, or media presentations in local, regional, state, and national competitions.
Memberships and donations enable us to better care for our collections, expand our public programs, and assist individuals and organizations in researching and preserving local and state history. Because we are a not-for-profit organization, gifts are deductible for federal income, estate, and gift tax purposes.
What else can you contribute?
Please enter the amount of your donation in the box marked "Quantity."
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