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Centennial Campaign

Campaign to Strengthen an Independent Champion and Endowment for the Humanities
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As the creator of large-scale competitions for funding, ACLS is widely trusted and respected. With a broad base of member learned societies, ACLS harnesses the scholarly ideas of hundreds of thousands of humanists. A private nonprofit that is closely aligned to the university system but not of it, with a deep reach into all humanities disciplines, ACLS serves as a critically important independent champion and endowment for the humanities.

With the support and collaboration of our peers and partners, we laid out bold plans to advance the pursuit and use of knowledge in the 21st century supported by a $125 million Centennial Campaign launched at our 2019 Centennial Celebration.

We are pleased to have surpassed our goal thanks to generous donors to our Centennial Campaign, raising more than $139 million for the priorities listed below.

Campaign Priorities

Research fellowships are the principal means of producing knowledge in the humanities and thus our first priority for increased investment. Our Campaign Priorities are:

  • Investment in New Knowledge
  • Beyond the US Academy
  • Broadening Access
  • Building Capacity for Greater Service

How to Give

The Centennial Campaign offered the opportunity for donors to name a fellowship, restrict their support and/or honor a loved one. While the Campaign has ended, we always welcome the opportunity to discuss how you can support ACLS. Learn More

Learn More

ACLS was founded in 1919. You may learn more about the history of ACLS by watching our centennial film or reading The First Century.

Our Centennial Campaign strengthened ACLS’s role as an independent endowment for the humanities and leader in setting new directions.

For more information or to discuss your support of the Centennial Campaign, we encourage you to contact Mary Richter, Chief Development Officer, at [email protected] or 646-485-5951.

Thank you.

Campaign Committee

We are grateful to the following individuals for serving on the ACLS Centennial Campaign Committee:

Carl H. Pforzheimer III, Chair
Peter Baldwin
Nicola Courtright
Ann Fabian
William C. Kirby
Marwan Kraidy
James O’Donnell

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Formed in 1919, ACLS is a nonprofit federation of 79 scholarly organizations. As the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and related social sciences, ACLS holds a core belief that knowledge is a public good.

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