The recession of the past several years has taken a toll on nonprofits in the community. The impact of the downturn — and how local institutions have responded — have varied widely, though. The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities not only survives these tough times, but thrives in them, thanks to a diversified approach...
The Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program earned one of the highest honors offered to humanities programs earlier this month when the 2011 Helen and Martin Schwartz Prize was awarded to the soon-to-be 10-year-old program.
Named after his parents, this Fellowship will provide income to support ongoing scholarship on the South Atlantic Region.
Anna Lawson understands the crucial role of unrestricted support for a nonprofit organization. “Many donors seem to find new buildings, professorships, threatened wetlands compelling—and they are; but we must have those annual dollars for operations.”
Dick and Marty Wilson see designating the VFH as a beneficiary in their will as a way to serve the needs of children and adults in Virginia long after their lifetimes.
When asked why they support the VFH, Lydia explains, "As the world grows more and more technologically focused, we need to hold on to what humanizes us..."
The National Archives has signed a cooperative agreement with VFH to provide access to 68,000 historical papers of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington that have not yet been published in authoritative documentary editions.
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities’ public radio program and podcast, BackStory with the American History Guys (backstoryradio.org), co-hosted by three nationally known, widely published U.S. historians, will soon be going from monthly to weekly broadcast.
Charlottesville, VA: The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) will receive a grant of $150,000 from the energy company, Dominion Resources, to build the Commonwealth’s only online historical and cultural archive about Virginia’s Indian communities. The grant matches an additional award from the Mary Morton Parsons Foundation of $75,000. Virginia Indian Heritage Online will...
Thanks to Dominion a new digital archive will preserve historic images and other documents of Virginia Indian Tribes.