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Mark L. Carter
Senior Director of Development
National Academy of Sciences
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Gifts to the NAS Annual Fund are among the most valuable because they provide the necessary resources to initiate timely, important activities and to expand dissemination of the Academy’s work to a broader audience for greater impact.
Your unrestricted gift to the Annual Fund enables the Academy to sponsor symposia, roundtables, lectures, and forums on critical, national issues as well as to create innovative mechanisms—both in print and on the web—to share our work with the general public.
Most importantly, your unrestricted support enables the NAS to address the right question at the right time and effectively communicate the results to the right people.
Choosing to give a gift in perpetuity to the NAS Endowment provides long term financial stability for the Academy. Endowment gifts are a powerful expression of commitment. These gifts will translate into a tangible benefit to the science community and the nation at large while ensuring the financial strength and stability that is vital to achieving the NAS mission – to promote the scientific welfare of the nation.
Highlighted below are some programs of the NAS that could also use your support.
The Committee on Human Rights (CHR) began its work in 1976 by publicly denouncing the unjust treatment of eight scientific colleagues in Argentina, Uruguay, and the Soviet Union. Thirty-eight years later, thousands of appeals have been made and more than 1,000 cases have been resolved. Your gift aids the humanitarian work of the Committee and, thus, the cause of persecuted scientists around the world.
Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences (CPNAS) sponsors activities that explore the intersections among the arts, science, medicine, engineering, and popular culture. These include art exhibitions, lectures, films, concerts, the DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER), and the African American History Program. Your donation helps the NAS to fulfill its civic responsibility and ensure that these programs, offered to the public at no charge, can continue.
The Marian Koshland Science Museum engages the general public in current scientific issues with interactive exhibits, educational programs, and website that provide information to stimulate discussion and provide insight into how science supports decision-making. Academy studies are the foundation for the museum’s work that is guided by Academy members and other experts.
Located on the corner of 6th and E streets NW, the museum’s exhibits permit visitors to visualize the effects of public policy decisions on their daily lives and, more broadly, on the nation and the planet.
Distinctive Voices is a public lecture series that highlights innovations, discoveries, and emerging issues in a stimulating and engaging forum. All lectures are offered free of charge. Your gift will help to increase public education and understanding of matters involving science, engineering, technology, and health.
The Academy's Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia bring together outstanding young scientists to discuss exciting advances and opportunities in a broad range of disciplines. The symposia help to remove communication barriers between fields and encourage interdisciplinary collaborations among some of the world's best and brightest young scientists.