In 2005 your Board of Directors established The Chase Fund to financially support projects that would propel your Society into a digital future. Thanks to your generosity those projects have now been completed. The purposes of this letter are to review what has been achieved with your donations and to outline the project plan and costs for the next five years.
Donations from members alone were used to deliver the following results:
- Built and furnished a USPCS conference room at the American Philatelic Center: $33,000.
- Paid for a third of The 1851 Issue: a Sesquicentennial Retrospective: $10,000.
- Created a new website and kept it updated: $32,500.
- Created the “WebChronicle™”, fully searchable and containing all issues: $32,500.
- Provided online cover censuses of the 1847 issues and PM Provisionals: $24,000.
- Provided online scans of the Postal Laws & Regulations: $2,000.
- Sponsored students in the Young Philatelic Leaders Fellowship for fouryears: $20,000.
- A generous donation from the David T. Beals Charitable Trust provided these results:
- Acquired and preserved at the APRL the Tom Alexander postal history archive: $24,400.
- Provided online scans of 2,800 pages of the Travers Papers: $12,300.
Any level of financial support to the Chase Fund For the Future of U.S. Classic Philately will make a difference. Suggested levels of giving are:
- Platinum Level – Lead gift – $15,000
- Gold Level – $5,000
- Vermeil Level – $2,500
- Silver Level – $1,000
- Benefactor Level – $500
- Sponsor Level – $250
- Contributor Level – $100
Wayne Farley is our fundraising chairman.
You can set up your giving plan however best meets your individual situation. Monthly, quarterly, annually – over one year or over multiple years – just contact the Chase Fund Chairman Wayne Farley at his e-mail address (link is in his name) or via post at 1 Westwood Drive, #304, St. Clairsville, OH 43950-1053 and let him know what you would like to do.
