Take Your Place in Georgia History
Nearly half a century ago, the Georgia Historical Society created an Endowment Fund to ensure the future of one of the oldest historical societies in the nation.
Governed by an independent Board of Trustees, the purpose of the GHS Endowment is twofold: provide perpetual care for, and access to, the oldest archival collection of Georgia history in the nation and ensure the delivery of rich and varied educational programs that teach history to hundreds of thousands of students each year.
The Georgia Historical Society Endowment Fund extends to donors a unique opportunity to provide perpetual support in fulfillment of GHS’s educational mission to collect, examine, and teach Georgia history. If you are interested in making a gift to the GHS Endowment, we encourage you to speak to your financial and legal advisors to determine the best option for you and your family. There are many ways to support the GHS Endowment, including gifts of cash, bequests, and other types of planned gifts.
By supporting the Society’s Endowment Fund, you are leaving an enduring legacy that will benefit the people of Georgia for generations to come.
Professional Position, Program, or Facility Endowments
Donors who wish to directly support a certain facet of the Georgia Historical Society’s mission have the option of endowing a position, program, or facility. GHS has curated a list of naming opportunities representative of central activities that would benefit by having a perpetual, dedicated source of support. We welcome donors sharing with us their personal interests and where they may wish to see their gift make the greatest future impact.
Named Funds
For a minimum gift of $25,000, donors may honor or memorialize an individual, family, or entity by creating a named fund within the GHS Endowment. Named funds are recognized with engraved bronze plates in Hodgson Hall, home of the Georgia Historical Society Research Center. Donors who give $50,000 and above are also included in the Endowment Fund Biography Book to ensure that not only their name is remembered in perpetuity, but also their life story. Gifts of $250,000 or larger are recognized through cast bronze plaques prominently displayed on the pilasters of the Reading Room.
Legacy Society
GHS invites a select number of prominent Georgia families who have shaped our state’s history to join the Legacy Society by donating their personal and/or family collections of papers, photographs, portraits, and museum-quality materials to be cataloged and archived at the Society’s Research Center.
Future generations will be able to access these collections in perpetuity, sustaining each family’s unique story and its impact on the state of Georgia and its place in our nation’s history.
An endowment gift to accompany these family collections ensures the proper preservation and cataloging by the Society’s professional archivists, who will also provide students, teachers, scholars, and the public with access to this important part of our state’s history.
Members of the Legacy Society will be recognized with cast bronze plaques displayed prominently on the pilasters in the historic GHS Reading Room, as well as in the Society’s publications and on its web site.
Endowment Trust Board
For more information regarding the GHS Endowment, please contact Ashley Rainge-Shields at 912.651.2125, ext. 116 or arshields@georgiahistory.com.
- Dr. William T. Moore, Chairman
- Dale Critz, Jr.
- Joel Goodman
- Dr. W. Todd Groce, Ex-officio
- Patrick J. Haynes III
- John Helmken II
- Thomas V. Reilly
- Philip Solomons, Jr., Trustee Emeritus
- Kessel D. Stelling, Jr.
- Clyde Tuggle, Ex-officio
Named Endowment Funds
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY GENERAL ENDOWMENT FUND
Established in 1973, the Fund was established to provide for the perpetual care and maintenance of the Society’s collection and facilities as well as to ensure sustained funding for the delivery of educational outreach programming and research services.
Pledged Funds
Blake Family Fund
Stephanie V. Blank Fund
Eddie and Shan Cooper Fund
Susan Strobhar Dulany and Franklin Reed Dulany, Jr. Fund
Charles and Venessa Harrison Fund
Patrick and Lorill Haynes Fund
Jim and Kathleen Jordan Fund
in Honor of John Duncan
Mr. and Mrs. H. Jerome Russell, Jr. Fund
Solomons Family Fund
Katherine L. Strobhar and A. Douglass Strobhar Fund
Katherine L. Strobhar and A. Douglass Strobhar Fund
Bequests
For more information regarding the GHS Endowment, please contact Ashley Rainge-Shields at 912.651.2125, ext. 116 or arshields@georgiahistory.com.
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Gene Carpenter Fund
Mary E. McGinnis Coke Family Fund
Elizabeth and Thomas Holder Fund
Kevin and Kim Iocovozzi Fund
Phil and Jenny Jacobs Fund
Kole Family Fund
Rhett M. Rountree Fund
Rosaleen R. Roxburgh Fund
William Sprague III Fund
Kenneth H. Thomas, Jr. Fund
*Legacy Society denoted in Italics.
Support the Georgia Historical Society
For more information on giving to GHS, please contact, please contact Ashley Rainge-Shields, Development Associate, at 912.651.2125, ext. 116 or arshields@georgiahistory.com.