WORTH SUPPORTING
You can make it happen: Spring 2013
Jazz up the library
Mosaic Records is one of the country's pre-eminent jazz labels; your purchase of approximately 70 jazz CDs, including important box sets that cover an entire career, will enrich Department of Music jazz classes and the jazz ensembles. $1,000
Rare French law book
"Los Fors et Costumas de Bearn" (Bearn, 1775). Six parts with continuous pagination. Folio (11½" x 8½"). 1,161 pages. $5,000
A used van
Having another van would allow Youth Outreach: Undergrads Reshaping Success (YOURS), a student-run organization that provides after-school activities, healthy snacks and tutoring to residents of three mobile home courts in Ithaca, to double the number of kids they serve. $3,500 (for a van); $1,400 (a year's supply of gas); or $21,000 (total operating costs for one year)
Companion care endowment
The endowment will provide the veterinary supplies needed for College of Veterinary Medicine students to run a clinic at the Southside Community Center. Through the clinic, Ithaca's cats and dogs receive well-pet services including physical exams and vaccinations, while students gain valuable firsthand experience. $100,000
Conserve two sculptures
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Two sculptures in the collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, one by Anthony Caro and another by Harry Bertoia, need some loving attention (cleaning, patination and repair). $50,000
Spotlight the ancient Americas
Fund a state-of-the-art display case with fiber optic lighting to exhibit pre-Columbian art on the Johnson Museum's mezzanine level. $40,000
Support students' art history research
Fund the catalog for the spring 2013 seminar "Painting With Blocks: The Influence of Japanese Ukiyo-e on Western Woodcuts, 1880–1940," co-taught by Professor An-yi Pan and Nancy Green, the Gale and Ira Drukier Curator of European and American Art, Prints and Drawings. The students' curatorial research will be published in an exhibition catalog. $10,000
Digitize Cornell film history
Made by students and departments, these films were produced between the 1920s and 1970s. Subjects include historic views of the Cornell campus and Collegetown, sports, reunions and campus events. $15,000
Purchase alumni art for the Johnson Museum
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Help acquire works of art created by prominent Cornellians for the Johnson Museum's permanent collection. $10,000 and up
Internships and service learning in Africa
Support students of the Institute for African Development who are engaging African communities in ecotourism, sustainable agriculture, land security and microfinance projects through internships and service learning. $200,000
Publish a sesquicentennial collection catalog
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Help the Johnson Museum publish a new, comprehensive collections handbook to replace one compiled in 1998. A collections handbook documents the most notable works of art in the collection and is used as a guide for students, researchers, faculty and collectors worldwide. $125,000
Give faculty initial boost to start new international projects/classes
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Through a gift to the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, sponsor a seed grant fund for faculty to develop new research projects and curriculum units on international issues. Providing seed grants significantly increases faculty's success in receiving external funding through government agencies and foundations. $300,000
Latino literature
Alexander Street Press brings together poetry, fiction and more than 450 plays written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latino authors working in the United States. Nearly 800 items (poems, novels and plays) have never been published before. $32,000
Victorian collection of New York Public Library
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Purchase access to Victorian manuscripts from the Berg Collection, most of which are unavailable in any other medium. Featuring: Brontës, Hardy, Conrad, the Brownings, Dickens, Thackeray and others. $16,000
Lives during WWI
"The First World War: Personal Experiences": Scanned and searchable letters, diaries, memoirs and ephemera documenting the day-to-day experience of the First World War. $30,000
Purchase a trial pamphlet
Printed in 1802, this valuable, slim volume (116 pages) has a hefty title: "Report of the Case John Dorrance Against Arthur Fenner, Tried at the December Term, of the Court of Common Pleas, in the County of Providence, A.D. 1801. to Which Are Added, the Proceedings of the Case of Arthur Fenner vs. John Dorrance, Carefully Compiled From Notes Correctly Taken by Several Gentlemen Who Were Present During the Whole Course of the Trial." $650
Public Interest Fellowship
Help students and alumni of Cornell Law School practice (low-paying) law in the public interest by making a gift to the Public Interest Fellowships and the Public Interest Low-Income Protection Plan. One Public Interest Fellowship: $1,600
Veterinarians without borders
Expand a veterinary student's horizon by funding a six- to 10-week experience in a developing nation engaged in a hands-on veterinary experience or research project. Projects include rehabilitating wildlife, teaching farmers vaccination techniques and researching rhino parasites and promoting habitat conservation. $5,000 (one student); $100,000 (one student per year in perpetuity)
To make a gift, or for more information about these and other giving opportunities, email MakeItHappen@cornell.edu.