DONATIONS &
THE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM
International Institute for Sport
and Olympic History
Bronze statue of ROCKY
by Thomas Schomberg
Bronze statue of ROCKY
by Thomas Schomberg
The funds from the endowments will be budgeted by the Board of Directors and used for:
An endowed gift is FOREVER.
Such a gift IMMORTALIZES either the benefactor or the party named by the endowment.
The endowment PERPETUALLY honors or memorializes a person, company or group.
Endowments can be made in memory of (or) in honor of an individual such as a parent, spouse, deceased child or teacher/coach/friend whose influence has had an important impact upon the donor's life. The benefactor names the endowment in perpetuity, for example a $1 million donation for a subject endowment could be named in the following ways....
The IISOH has a list of subjects which can assist potential benefactors in selecting topics to endow. The list is merely a suggestion and benefactors may combine topics or create new ones to satisfy their philanthropic goals. A named endowment will provide the Institute with funds that will be used to expand that specific subject area only. For example: money generated from a baseball endowment will be used to acquire baseball material for the Library and/or baseball artifacts for the Museum. Those funds will not be used for other subject areas such as football or tennis.
Go here to see the Subject List for ideas to assist you.
The Endowment Program has very specific goals in key areas. These major endowment areas are...
Rooms would house specialized collections and would be identified -- such as a BOXING room, or as study rooms, meeting rooms, or other specialized use in the Library, Museum or the Theatre.
Click to see an image of some of the statues we want to acquire for the Sculture Garden collection.
a1. Discus Thrower, (Discobolos). British Museum copy.
a2. Discus Thrower, (Discobolos). Vatican Museum copy.
a3. Discus Thrower, (Discobolos). National Museum in Rome copy no.1.
a4. Discus Thrower, (Discobolos). National Museum in Rome copy no.2.
a5. Seated Boxer. National Museum in Rome copy.
a6. Standing Athlete with strigil, aka The Scraper, (Apoxyomenos) Vatican Museum copy.
a7. The Wrestlers, (Pankratiasts). Uffizi Palace copy.
a8. Rocky statue. Original bronze statue, number 3 of 3 made by Thomas Schomberg.
a9. Zeus throwing a thunderbolt, (Zanes at Olympia) National Museum of Greece copy.
a10. Standing Discus Thrower, (Discobolos by Naukydes) Vatican Museum copy.
a11. The Fillet Binder, (Diadoumenos) New York Museum copy.
a12+. Other statues from ancient or modern eras of the Benefactors choice, such as works from the studios of R. Tait McKenzie or Joe Brown.
The SCULPTURE GARDENS are designed as outdoor "rooms" of the Museum and will be located throughout the campus. Each garden area will have a single statue to be highlighted and landscaped with shrubbery, trees, annual flowers, benches, lighting and possibly a water source such as fountains. The gardens would be adjacent to the library, museum and theater while surrounding the planned restaurant & patio cafe. The idea is to draw the community to the facility on a regular basis to meet, lounge, contemplate, read or eat. The benefactor's donation will pay for the cost of acquiring bronze copies of the statues and all landscaping costs, with the balance going into the General Endowment Fund for pertpetual care and security.
The Institute plans to have an international-style indoor/outdoor restaurant with a patio/garden cafe. Sliding doors will open from the restaurant onto a landscaped, terraced patio leading into the Sculpture Gardens. A seperate building from the Museum, the restaurant and cafe will be a focal point for socializing within the Institute's environment, emphasizing healthful living, fitness, leisure and recreation. Nearby we plan age-appropriate playgrounds for children, an outdoor life-size European chess board and pieces, and other recreational amenities that will lead towards the sports complex. The proposed plan will allow the Museum grounds to literally become a living museum.
a. Playgrounds.... $ 100,000 minimum to $ 1 million.
Various Playground areas with age-appropriate equiptment for children.
The playgrounds are an important part of the Institute's Research mission for topics ranging from equiptment & ground-impact safety to social & cultural studies on children at play. We plan to actively encourage manufacturers of playground equiptment to use our facility for research.
b. Recreational & Sports facilities -- outdoors....$ 100,000 minimum to $ 1 million.
The vast portion of the campus will be covered with sports and recreational facilities that will be essential to the educational and research missions of the Institute. These facilities will include tennis courts, basketball courts, Swedish parcourse, jogging path, bicycle trail, fields for baseball, bocce, football, soccer, rugby, cricket, lacrosse, archery, golf, field hockey, volleyball/beach volleyball and swimming. Each facility can be a naming opportunity for benefactors.
c. Recreational & Sports facilities -- indoors....$ 100,000 minimum to $ 30 million.
The indoor facility is essential to the educational and research missions of the Institute for such sports and activities as basketball, badminton, bowling, volleyball, fencing, gymnastics, wrestling, boxing, judo, martial arts, indoor track, weight lifting, bodybuilding & strength training, swimming, handball, racquetball, squash, physical education, dance, and academic classroom areas for subjects such as sports medicine, athletic training, sports architecture, facility design and planning. Great flexibility exists in the design of this indoor facility, including the possibility of an indoor/outdoor natatorium for the swimming and diving subject. Each room or designated area can be a naming opportunity for benefactors, as well as the building itself.
d. Ancient Greek Stadium and ZANES.... $ 500,000 to $ 10 million.
Leading into the ancient Olympic stadium stood a number of bronze statues called ZANES (pronounced as "zah - nays"). These statues were erected by athletes who were caught cheating in the Olympic Games. The cheating athlete was fined by the Elian Judges and had to pay for the bronze statue themselves. At the base of each statue was an inscribed apology from the athlete. This aspect of ancient Greek humility was a reminder to all who entered the stadium that such deeds as cheating could be remembered for generations. It was the ancient version of "play fair" and "follow the rules -- or else." Our mission will be an appeal to modern athletes to sponsor their own statue -- as a humble apology to posterity for whatever transgression that they might have done. The athlete/benefactor or their family writes their own apology, with final approval from the IISOH Board of Directors. The apology will be inscribed into stone and attached to the base of the bronze statue. The athlete's statue may be funded by fans but cannot be erected without the athlete's written approval -- or the meaning is lost. A donation of $ 500,000 funds one bronze ZANE statue.
The Institute plans to construct a replica of the ancient stadium at Olympia, Greece. That stadium is essentially a 200 yard track inside a sloped oval bowl. Our plan calls for sloped grassy sides without seats, no lights and few amenities. A very simple design that would allow us to teach school students about the ancient Olympic Games as well as sport in ancient civilizations, it could still seat thousands of people on the slopping sides. Other ancient Greek stadiums had rows of marble seats, such as the ancient stadium at Athens which was rebuilt for the 1896 Olympic Games. We plan no such structure. Our stadium will be similar to the one in Elis, Greece -- very simple. With a $ 10 million donation the benefactor can name the stadium.
Programs such as planned conferences, educational activities, seminars, exhibitions, publications or other activity that is carried out as part of the Institute's program.
For example -- we would like to bring busloads of school children to the Institute on a given day, teach them the history of baseball by taking them outside to the fields to play three innings of baseball with the 1876 rules, then 2 innings with the modern rules. After the game we would like to give them a free lunch in the restaurant, let them visit the Museum, then give each child a free book or poster before we send them home on their buses. We plan an educational program for every sport. This is the endowment that will fund such programs.
Undesignated donations go to this fund. The interest that is generated will be used wherever it is needed by the Institute in a manner to be determined by the Board of Directors.
Not an endowed area. This is the fund from which the Institute operates on a daily basis, for such expenses as employee salaries, benefits, utility costs, etc. Memberships from the general public, small cash donations, entrance fees, advertising income from publications, profits from the sale of goods or services, and other sources of income go into this fund. The Treasurer is the custodian and disburses money in accordance with directions from the Board of Directors . Any excess may be invested for future use or added to one of the endowed areas of the Institute, or spent in accordance with the directions of the Board of Directors.
Donations of materials may be made to the Library or Museum and are a significant source of the Institute's growing collections. We encourage you to donate anything from a single book to an entire library; from a single poster to complete collection of thousands of items. We are seeking medals, coins, stamps, pins and other memorabilia for the Museum's collections. Publishers may make large donations of overstock material, remainders, hurt books or skids of returns. Manufacturers may donate excess stock, out of date inventory, etc. Donations are tax deductable.
See this page for more details....Donate Books and Collectables.
Contact:
Mr. Harvey Abrams, President
International Institute for Sport and Olympic History (IISOH)
PO Box 175
State College, PA, USA 16804
email to: Olympicbks@aol.com
This page was updated January 9, 2010
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