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The Campaign Continues…
Sustain Current Programs
through annual unrestricted and restricted gifts that support the core mission of research and education on a daily basis and that provide a financial bridge between today and tomorrow.
Safeguard the Future
through new endowments that will provide income in perpetuity to support staff, to protect the collections, and to fund research and educational programs.
Unleash Programmatic Potential
through focused initiatives that encompass restricted, capital, and endowment goals around specific projects and programs.
. . . until June 30, 2010.
We invite your support and thank you for your confidence in and generosity to The Huntington.
Annual Giving
Gifts to support current operations, fulfilling the core mission of research and education.
Unrestricted $8 million each year
To sustain ongoing operations.
Restricted $4 million each year
To support specific activities such as exhibitions, fellowships, cataloging, conservation, and volunteer and education programs.
Endowment
Gifts to support staff, preserve the collections, and fund research and educational programs over the long-term.
Position Endowments
Gifts to establish named positions help to ensure The Huntington’s ability to attract and retain the finest talent. Currently, we seek to fund some 20 positions, including:
Curator, Conservatory & Tropical Collections
Curator, Early Printed Books
Curator of European Art
Curator, Hispanic, Cartographic & Western
Historical Manuscripts
Curator, Literary Manuscripts
Curator of Living Collections and
Collections Manager
Curator, Photographs
President’s Discretionary Fund
Pooled gifts to provide the president with funds to meet the institution’s highest priorities, most pressing needs, and emerging opportunities.
Institutional Endowment
Pooled gifts that carry no further restrictions and support The Huntington as a whole.
Divisional Endowments
Gifts restricted to a particular division for the maintenance and operation of existing buildings, collections, or current research and educational programs.
Focused Initiatives
Gifts restricted to a particular initiative that may support capital, program, or endowment elements within a larger, more complex project.
1. The Desert Garden Project: A Model for a New Century
To address plant collections and their use for conservation and species preservation; to plan an educational center, better growing facilities, and the model garden; to restore infrastructure; to fund and endow curators and gardeners; and to endow the garden’s maintenance.
2. The Japanese Garden Project: The Second Hundred Years
To study and plan refurbishment of the iconic Japanese House, temple, ponds, grotto, and Zen Court; to build curatorial and staff endowments.
3. The Library Project: The Heart of the Mission
To complete the rewiring of the original electrical system; to refurbish aging spaces with state-of-the-art systems—creating the space needed to build collections and to better serve our scholars and staff; to fund and endow curatorial programs, conservation, and reader services.
4. The Education Project: Serving Students and Teachers, K–12
To build endowments for school programs, for docent training, and for educators in art and botanical science; to develop and fund new teacher-training initiatives; and to help develop curricula that serve the needs of California’s students and teachers.
5. Liu Fang Yuan —The Garden of Flowing Fragrance: The Next Phase
To fund the construction of pavilions, walkways, courtyards and gardens to complete the northern and western sides of the Chinese garden; to fund and endow maintenance and programs, curatorial and gardening staff.
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