May 7, 2014
Establishing a fund is a wonderful way to link your name or someone else’s to a particular area of interest – for a year or in perpetuity. A research fellowship, an excavation fund, a travel fund, a fund for archaeology and technology, a fund for underwater archaeology… the opportunities are vast. The fund may be endowed, with the principle preserved in perpetuity, or the principle may be spent to meet a level of activity of the donor’s choosing. The fund may be added to over a period of years to build up endowment while providing for current use. Or it may be established through an estate giving instrument such as a bequest or as simply as designating the AIA as a beneficiary of your retirement funds.
The accompanying list suggests a range of opportunities.
| Opportunity | Minimum for One Year | Minimum Expendable Fund | Minimum Endowment Fund |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research Fellowship: To award an annual stipend for research in a promising area of study | $10,000 | $20,000 | $100,000 |
| Excavation Grant Fund: To award an annual grant to aid a professional archaeologist organizing an excavation | $30,000 | $60,000 | $500,000 |
| Site Preservation Grant Fund: To award an annual grant to save a threatened archaeological site | $25,000 | $50,000 | $500,000 |
| Research Travel Fund: To provide grants to scholars for travel to professional meetings or excavations | $2,500 | $5,000 | $50,000 |
| Foreign Scholars Travel Grant Fund: To enable foreign scholars to attend and give papers at the AIA Annual Meeting | $2,500 | $5,000 | $50,000 |
| Student Field School Scholarship: To enable a student to participate in his/her first archaeological field school. | $1,500 | $7,500 | $40,000 |
| Annual Meeting Session Fund: To cover the expenses of a session including travel and paper preparation. | $10,000 | $20,000 | $200,000 |
| Society Outreach Grants: To subsidize the expense of new Society outreach programs. | $2,500 | $5,000 | $50,000 |
| Archaeology Day Fund: To support programming related to International Archaeology Day | $1,000 | $5,000 | $25,000 |
| Publication Program: To provide funds for the publication of books of merit to scholars or the general public. | $25,000 | $150,000 | |
| Endowment for the AIA: To support the operations of the AIA. | $1,000 | $10,000 | $25,000 |
| Member Services Fund: To underwrite services for AIA members. | $10,000 | $20,000 | $200,000 |
| Student Membership Fund: To establish a fund that would subsidize membership fees for students interested in archaeology. | $1,000 | $5,000 | $20,000 |
American Journal of Archaeology
| Opportunity | Minimum for One Year | Minimum Expendable Fund | Minimum Endowment Fund |
|---|---|---|---|
| Color Photograph Fund: To provide for color photographs in the AJA. | $7,500 | $25,000 | $100,000 |
| Online Content Fund: To provide additional content including videos, book and museum reviews, appendices, and more via the AJA website. | $3,000 | $10,000 | $50,000 |
| Dedication of an AJA issue: For one issue carrying the donor or someone else’s name. | $25,000 | ||
| Fund for Special Topics in AJA: To subsidize the printing of suitable articles on a subject area of interest to the donor, e.g., Egypt and the Near East, sculpture, painting, ceramics, Greece and the Aegean | $7,500 | $25,000 | $100,000 |
| Editorship of the AJA: To underwrite the salary and expenses of the Editor in Chief | $25,000 | $50,000 | $1 million |
To learn more about how to support archaeological research and discovery, contact Elizabeth Bailey at 857-305-9357 or ebailey@archaeological.org or visit www.archaeological.org/give.
