Students, faculty, and administrators from the School of the Humanities greatly appreciate the support of its donors. Our current fundraising objectives focus on endowing the Center for Public Humanities and the Public Humanities Fellows program. However, you may also choose to contribute to specific departments or scholarship programs. We are working closely with the Office of Development to form partnerships with individuals, corporations, foundations, service organizations, and government agencies to secure endowment funding for the Center for Public Humanities. Donors may either contribute to the Center’s endowment with unrestricted gifts, or contribute to one of the five programs of the Center (Lectures Series, Society of Public Humanities Fellows, Public Humanities Community Events, Hoverter Course, or the Teachers as Scholars program).



In December 2007 the Center for Public Humanities (CPH) was awarded a $200,000 National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) Challenge Grant, a prestigious, competitively sought-after award given to no other liberal arts college in the nation that year.  This three-year Challenge Grant will match $1 to every $3 of gift awarded to either the Center for Public Humanities or the Academic Humanities Enrichment Fund. You can see that your gift then becomes even more valuable.

For more information about giving support, please contact: Jon Stuckey, Director of Development, Messiah College, Box 3013, One College Avenue, Grantham PA 17027, (717) 766-2511 ext. 3631, jstuckey@messiah.edu.

For information about the School of the Humanities, please contact: Peter K. Powers, Academic Dean, School of the Humanities, Messiah College, One College Avenue, Grantham PA 17027, (717) 766-2511 ext. 7376, ppowers@messiah.edu.