Endowment Fund for Americana

BECOME A MEMBER of Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture (1900-present) by making a Tax-Deductible Donation to the Endowment Fund.

Americans have long held as true that the study of American history is not only a worthy endeavor it is a critical one. Only after knowing and understanding our past can we insure positive change for the future.

We, at Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture, believe that there exists no better record of the history of America and Americans than in our popular culture. There we will find the hopes, needs, dreams, and desires of the people.

Through the careful analysis of our twentieth and twenty-first century American popular culture, we can more clearly understand where we have been and who we have been and thus consciously consider where we want to go, who we want to be, how we want to live, and what public policies we want to endorse as twenty-first century Americans. This process will also help us formulate our identities and find our political, sociological, and spiritual direction.

We hope that you will support us in our study of the popular culture of our American past by donating to our Endowment Fund, managed by our Board of Directors. Your donations will build invested principal, and the interest will be used to fund such activities as scholarly research, office operating costs, a website, web design, web hosting, email services, Film Americana, Press Americana, Magazine Americana, and Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture.

In addition to our scholarly pursuits, we believe that creative writers are the creators of our future popular culture; thus we support exceptional artists by publishing their work in Review Americana: A Literary Journal and Press Americana. By donating to the Endowment Fund, you will also be supporting outstanding American creative writers.

Please remember that Americana is a non-profit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) corporation and, as such, donations are tax deductible!

Become a Member of Americana

When you donate to Americana, you will become a member of a professional organization and receive a newsletter containing current events in the popular culture world, advance articles that have not yet been published on the site, advance articles that have not yet been published in the journal, and articles that are reserved for the newsletter alone.

Bronze Donations $20-$50 = six months of membership, six months of the monthly newsletter

Silver Donations $51-$100 = one year of membership, one year of the monthly newsletter

Gold Donations $101-$200 = two years of membership, two years of the monthly newsletter

Platinum Donations $201-$500 = three years of membership, three years of the monthly newsletter

Diamond Donations over $501 = lifetime membership, lifetime subscription to the monthly newsletter

You can use Paypal by clicking on the donate buttons above, or you can mail your donation to our street address:

Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture
The Endowment Fund
7095-1240 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, California 90028-8903

The fund is managed by our Board of Directors, so you can be sure that your money is being spent wisely on activities that further our knowledge of American popular culture and thus of American history.

Leslie Wilson, Ph.D., Chairman

Melissa Croteau, Ph.D.
Randy Fallows, Ph.D.
Alex Weinberg
Don Wilson