This year the American Antiquarian Society will be holding its 8th annual Adopt-a-Book event on Tuesday, May 5, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. This fundraising event supports the library’s continued acquisitions of historic material and has been very successful in the past, with over $100,000 raised to date. The funds help curators buy more books, pamphlets, ...
This November AAS experimented with a new year-end fundraiser. We called it "Give a Gift to AAS Give a Gift to the World." Thirty objects were selected from across the entire spectrum of the Society's collections with several criteria in mind. Items had to be significant sources of research, fragile or rare, and under about ...
At most non-profits, November and December are year-end fundraiser months. You are probably getting a lot of solicitation letters in your mail box, along with those stacks of glossy holiday catalogs. AAS has several important initiatives underway, including donations to our Annual Fund. This year, however, we are also trying something new. The Society’s curators have selected thirty objects ...
