TRACK & FIELD / ATHLETICS
ENDOWMENT
&
Donations

The Track & Field / Athletics endowment is established as a permanent trust fund -- the principal funds are invested by the Institute and never spent. The quarterly interest from the investment is used to develop the Track & Field / Athletics collections in both the Library and Museum.

Donations to the Library and Museum

• CASH DONATIONS:

  
  $ 25.00 -- $ 50.00 -- $ 100.00 -- $ 250.00 -- $ 500.00 -- $1000.00 -- $ 2500.00 -- $5000.00 -- $ 10,000.00
  The IISOH is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational corporation and donations are tax deductable.
  
  Donations of cash IN ANY AMOUNT are always welcome and help the endowment grow over time.
  Donors will receive recognition in accordance with the wishes of the Board of Directors.
  

  For example -- for donations of $250 and higher -- we would like to engrave your name on a brick paver
  to be located on the patio cafe and walkways through the sculpture gardens. For larger donations we
  would like to thank you with larger pavers or plaques to be mounted on designated walls inside/outside the building.

  
  

• NON-CASH DONATIONS:

  
  

  The Library and Museum eagerly accept donations of material that are within the scope of its collections. Collectors are encouraged to send us books, monographs, theses & dissertations, magazine and subscription collections for the library, as well as medals, pins, torches, posters, artwork and collectables for the Museum.
  

  LIBRARY donations:
  

  • Material in ANY language, including but not limited to English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portugese, Flemish, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Latin, Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Farsi, Sanskrit and dozens of others. The scope of the collection is international and comprehensive.
    

  • Books
  • Monographs
  • Theses & Dissertations
  • Bound and unbound serials (magazines, journals, etc)
  • Newspapers (hard copies or microfilm)
  • Juvenile literature
  • Dictionaries
  • Encyclopedias
  • Reference books
  • Manuscripts
  • Archives of organizations
  • Original letters of correspondance
  • Maps
  • Ephemera (pamphlets, booklets, folders, flyers, tickets, etc).
  • Miscellaneous items that do not fit into the above categories
    
  

  MUSEUM donations:
  

  • TRACK & FIELD Posters
  • Antique TRACK & FIELD equipment
  • Statuary in bronze, resin, plaster, terracotta, etc.
  • Paintings, Serigraphs, Drawings, etc.
  • Photographs, prints, negatives, glass plates, etc.
  • Films, movies, videos, dvd's, especially older films in need of archival preservation
  • Music, records, tapes, sheet music
  • Graphics, 16th - 19th century lithographs & prints
  • TRACK & FIELD-related medals, awards, trophies
  • TRACK & FIELD commemorative medals, participation medals, badges, etc.
  • TRACK & FIELD pins
  • TRACK & FIELD flags, banners, advertising
  • TRACK & FIELD-related memorabilia
  • Philatelic items, stamp collections, illustrated postcards on TRACK & FIELD
  • Numismatic items, coins, exonumia with TRACK & FIELD themes
  • Uniforms, clothing, textiles, fashions
  • Physical education, recreation and play equipment related to TRACK & FIELD
  • Games, especially antique items

  These lists are not comprehensive and are limited only by your imagination!
  

  Keep in mind that TRACK & FIELD is an international sport -- and it is called ATHLETICS by most nations other than the USA. We seek everything on this topic -- in every language -- in order to develop the most comprehensive collection in the world for the research and educational purposes of our mission.
  

  Various aspects of Track & Field can be considered among the oldest sports in mankind's history. Javelins or spears have been used as weapons in warfare for thousands of years by different civilizations, while running was the first and only event in the earliest Olympic Games in Greece. In today's Modern Olympic Games the Track & Field events (officially called Athletics) are the focal point of most fans and athletes, the sport for which the stadiums are built. It is a sport that almost every nation in the world competes. Equipment is minor -- the Ethiopian athlete, Abebe Bikila, won the Marathon race at the 1960 Rome Olympics while running the race in his bare feet. Some of modern sport's greatest moments have come from the achievements of the athletes in Track & Field such as Jim Thorpe, Jesse Owens, Emil Zatopek, Carl Lewis, and of course Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell in the 1924 Olympic film Chariots of Fire.
  

  Please support this worthwhile project generously.
  

  For additional subject areas that we seek, see the list in the SUBJECTS area for endowments.
  Go here to see the Subject List.
  

  

  The IISOH is a non-profit, educational, literary and research organization
  incorporated in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to operate a library and museum.
  The IISOH is a public charity under section 501(c)3 of the
  Internal Revenue Code.
  Donations are tax deductable.
  

  
  

  Links to pages about the IISOH
  

  • Read the Articles of Incorporation here
    

  • Read the BYLAWS here
    

  • Meet the Board of Directors here
    

    Charter Membership Drive ends December 31, 2008
    

  • Join now or send a donation
    

  • Building Plans
    

  • Endowment Program
    

  

  Contact:
  International Institute for Sport and Olympic History (IISOH)
  PO Box 175
  State College, PA, USA 16804
  

  Mr. Harvey Abrams, President
  email:

  Olympicbks@aol.com

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  This page was created February 26, 2002
  This page was updated February 18, 2008
  

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