FACES
OF APPALACHIA
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Contribution Form 300k PDF
Support
a Permanent Endowment for the Appalachian Studies
Association and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity
and Gender in Appalachia!
In 1996, and again in 1999, a Rockefeller Foundation
grant funded the Center for the Study of Ethnicity
and Gender in Appalachia (CSEGA) to focus scholarship
on diversity in Appalachia. Anticipating the
end of the Rockefeller funding for the Center
at the conclusion of the grant, a collaborative
effort between the Appalachian Studies Association
(ASA) and Marshall University was formed in order
to expand and continue the programming of CSEGA
and to insure that diversity scholarship in Appalachia
will become a permanent part of Appalachian Studies.
To fund this joint effort, the ASA and Marshall
University applied to the National Endowment
for the Humanities (NEH) for a challenge grant
that was awarded in 2001. With that award came
the challenge to raise $1.5 million dollars to
be matched with $500,000 from NEH. Faces of Appalachia
is the fundraising effort that will institutionalize
such scholarship.
We need your help to fully fund this endowment!
This year is critical for fundraising. NEH granted
us a one-year extension to raise our share of
the needed funds but that extension expires July
31, 2005. We’ve applied for an extension,
but we could lose NEH’s match for this
year, if we don’t raise our part. Your
help is needed now to fund this important opportunity
for the ASA and CSEGA, both in terms of the endowed
staff position as well as scholarship on women
and other minorities in Appalachia that the grant
will support in perpetuity.
How will your contribution help?
Your contribution will benefit both CSEGA and
ASA by helping to fund the following programs:
• The Annual Summer Conference on Diversity
in Appalachia for K-12 Teachers will rotate among
ASA affiliated institutions, with teachers receiving
credit toward ongoing professional education requirements
in diversity.
• Three Annual Summer Post-doc Fellowships
for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia
will provide support for individuals to pursue
scholarship on ethnicity and gender in Appalachia
at any institution affiliated with ASA.
• The
Distinguished Chair in Ethnicity and Gender in
Appalachia (open to scholars throughout Appalachia)
will be housed at Marshall University’s
College of Liberal Arts in the Center for the
Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia.
This rotating semester or year-long chair will
support scholars’ original
research.
• Support for the ASA office by
providing a half-time coordinator of research
and dissemination who will be responsible for
orchestrating the above three programs. Twenty
percent of the endowment earnings, through an
agreement between Marshall and the ASA, are dedicated
to funding this position—even
if the ASA decides to leave Marshall University.
How can I help support ASA and CSEGA through
this endowment?
• Make a Matching Contribution: All contributions
are matched 3:1 by NEH and are tax-deductible.
Use the following form to send in your contribution.
All donations/pledges received by July 31 will
count as part of this year’s match. Funds
contributed after that date will go toward next
year’s match.
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Questions? Contact Edwina Pendarvis at (304)
696-2855 or pendarvi@marshall.edu
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