FOOTBALL ENDOWMENT
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FOOTBALL COLLECTION
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International Institute for Sport
and Olympic History
Library and Museum
Illustration by Frederic Remington, 1887
The IISOH is seeking $1 million (one million Dollars)
from a donor in order to establish an endowment for the sport of
AMERICAN FOOTBALL.
This is a naming opportunity for the benefactor to have a perpetual identification
with the sport of AMERICAN FOOTBALL.
The endowment would be named by the benefactor with the approval of the IISOH Board of Directors.
The endowment becomes a permanent trust fund invested by the Institute
with only the quarterly earned interest being used for development of the football collections
in both the Library and Museum.
For more details about the endowment program, please click here
Cash donations IN ANY AMOUNT are always welcome.
Any size donation is gratefully appreciated. All donors are recognized in writing either in the Institute's publications or website -- or both. The Board of Directors would like to express its gratitude to donors through engraved bricks or plaques located throughout the proposed complex.
Donors who give $250 or more will have an engraved paver (brick) placed in the patios or walkways that will wind from the restaurant through the playgrounds and sculpture gardens. Larger donations -- over $500 -- will have larger plaques in marble, stone or bronze displayed on designated walls of honor either inside or outside the buildings.
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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, and memorabilia, posters, artwork and collectables for the Museum. The scope of the collection includes football teams on the local community level to the Super Bowl.
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
- Ephemera (pamphlets, booklets, folders, flyers, tickets, etc).
- Miscellaneous items that do not fit into the above categories
MUSEUM donations:
- Football Posters
- Antique Football 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
- Football-related medals, awards, trophies
- Football commemorative medals, participation medals, badges, etc.
- Football pins
- Football flags, banners, advertising
- Football-related memorabilia
- Philatelic items, stamp collections, illustrated postcards on Football
- Numismatic items, coins, exonumia with Football themes
- Uniforms, clothing, textiles, fashions
- Physical education, recreation and play equipment related to Football
- Games, especially antique items
These lists are not comprehensive and are limited only by your imagination! Keep in mind that American Football is an international sport and that we seek everything, in every language, in order to develop a comprehensive collection for this sport. As one of the most important sports in American culture, football originated in the 19th century from british rugby rules when someone picked up the ball and threw it forward instead of backward. Played in most high schools and universities, football grew in the 1960's to become one of the most important professional sports we know today.
The sport of American Football has spread throughout the world in various forms. The game is played in Canada, Australia and Europe with slight variations on the American rules. American football is not as popular worldwide as Soccer which is known through the world as Football. Our plan calls for two seperate endowments -- one for American style football and another for Soccer.
The IISOH will include all aspects of football in this American Football collection -- from high school and college football to the Super Bowl.
For additional subject areas that we seek to endow, see the list in the SUBJECTS area
The IISOH is a Pennsylvania Non-profit, Educational, Literary and Research corporation
under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.
Donations are tax deductable.
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