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Annual Reports: 2001: Gifts, Grants, and Pledges Report
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For
the fourth consecutive year, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
set new records in fundraising. Gifts, grants, and pledge payments
in 2001 totaled $39 million (excluding the $151.5 million transfer
of assets from the DeWitt Wallace Fund for Colonial Williamsburg),
representing the second largest gift total, after 2000, in the Foundation’s
history. The Foundation’s annual fund, the Colonial Williamsburg
Fund, finished the year with a record $10.7 million in cash gifts,
an 11 percent increase over the prior year. The number of donors
increased to ninety-seven thousand, 11 percent higher than the previous
record of eighty-seven thousand, also set in 2000, while the number
of first-time donors to the Foundation increased 1o percent to nearly
twenty-four thousand. By year’s end, gifts, grants, and pledges
to the Campaign for Colonial Williamsburg reached $275 million,
55 percent of the target goal of $500 million by the conclusion
of the campaign on December 31, 2005.
In
2001, Colonial Williamsburg created an additional recognition level for
donors who make unrestricted gifts to the Foundation. Donors who annually
give $5,000 or more are recognized as part of the Raleigh Tavern Society.
Raleigh Tavern Society members whose annual gifts reach $7,500 become
members of the Apollo Room Circle, while those making gifts of $10,000
are considered Keepers of the Key. Last year, the Foundation created a
new giving level, the Innkeepers, for those who give $20,000 in unrestricted
annual support. Twenty-eight benefactors became charter Innkeepers in
2001.
Colonial Williamsburg designates several additional donor societies.
Friends who contribute from $2,500 to $4,999 become Colonial Williamsburg
Associates and donors of from $1,000 to $2,499 are Colonial Williamsburg
Burgesses. The Colonial Williamsburg Assembly is the recognition
level for donors of from $500 to $999. In addition, Colonial Williamsburg
identifies those donors of from $250 to $499 as members of the Capitol
Society, and friends giving from $100 to $249 belong to the Duke
of Gloucester Society. Colonial Williamsburg also acknowledges support
from friends who make bequests or life-income gifts to the Foundation
as members of the W. A. R. Goodwin Society.
With
donation of an object having an appraised value of $5,000 or more, or
an annual gift of cash or securities valued at $1,000, one joins the Friends
of Colonial Williamsburg Collections, formed to provide new acquisition
support for Colonial Williamsburg’s collections of art and antiques.
In 2001, the Friends purchased a pair of folk art portraits, a quilt,
and a rare album of prints.
In 2001, Colonial Williamsburg’s Raleigh Tavern Society travel
study program was expanded to include other special donor societies.
One trip took travelers to New York City in January at the time
of the Winter Antiques Show where Colonial Williamsburg was the
featured exhibition. In April, twenty-seven benefactors journeyed
to Holland to view gardens, museums, and historic homes, and in
December tour members traveled to Bermuda to explore the historical
links between Bermuda and Williamsburg.
A
special benefit available to donors who make gifts of $100 or more is
the hospitality center located in the eighteenth-century St. George Tucker
House, just off Palace Green in the Historic Area. The house is open daily,
staffed by eighty-five knowledgeable volunteers who offer tours, refreshments,
and assistance in planning visits. At certain times during the week, musicians
and artisans are on site to perform and demonstrate their crafts. St.
George Tucker House volunteers welcomed thirteen thousand visitors in
2001.
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