Unrestricted Gifts
Unrestricted gifts provide the director with a pool of immediately available funds to use when timing is crucial. For example, when works by an author or artist become available and curators must act quickly to purchase them, these funds ensure that the Center does not miss the opportunity.
Unrestricted funds are also important to campaigns, providing seed money as matching gifts for leveraging major donations.
These funds are used exclusively for Ransom Center programs and initiatives, including:
- acquisitions of collections
- conferences, lectures, and symposia
- research fellowships
- exhibitions and public programs
- preservation of rare materials
For more information on unrestricted giving please contact Lisa Avra at (512) 471-5174 or lisaavra@mail.utexas.edu.
Participate
Video Clip
Director Thomas F. Staley explains how original source materials stimulate and enhance the learning experience.
Registration for the Flair Symposium, November 13-15, 2008, is now open. Registration is open to the public with a limited number of spaces available to students at a discounted price. Members of the Harry Ransom Center also receive a discount.
Watch broadcast journalist Mike Wallace's interviews from the television program The Mike Wallace Interview. Wallace donated the show's footage on 16mm kinescope to the Ransom Center in the early 1960s. Most episodes have not been seen since they aired.
