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Former Center Board of Trustees President, Bruce Gallagher accepts grant check from Pacific Life Foundation President, Robert G. Haskell during January 26, 2009 Grants Reception at Pacific Life headquarters in Newport Beach.
Our thanks to the Foundation for their generous support!
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The San Diego Archaeological Center is honored to announce the receipt of a $10,000 Grant from Pacific Life Foundation. This Grant will help to support "Quenching Our Thirst" Culture, Environment and Change, a traveling exhibit, educational program and recyling campaign in collaboration with I Love a Clean San Diego. The Pacific Life Foundation announced over $3.4 million in grants to over 200 nonprofit agencies in Southern California. Overall, the Pacific Life Foundation has committed to provide $5.5 million in charitable funding throughout 2009. This grant continues the support for this important project that was initially funded by Pam Slater Price's Community Fund. (See Below.)
The Center is honored to have the support of the Stephen and Mary Birch Foundation to support ASI - Archaeological Site Investigation Program that the Center is developing with the help of archaeologists, researchers, educators, Interns and the USD Non-profit Management Group. The Center is seeking support from other foundations and individuals to fully fund this exciting educational program. Our sincere thanks to the foundation for their initial support. The Stephen and Mary Birch Foundation generously donates to programs and not for profits nationwide. Of special note, the Foundation funded the Stephen Birch Healthcare Center at Sharp Memorial Hospital, the Mary Birch Women's Hospital in San Diego and the Birch Aquarium Museum in La Jolla.
The Center received a $7,100 grant from Las Patronas to fund capital purchases for the facility.
The grant funded the acquisition of a mounted LCD Projector with electric wall screen and podium with sound system for the Center’s newly renovated Culture Classroom and access code security locks for the Center’s curatorial vaults. All of these items have been installed, and have helpd to expand our ability to present public lectures and video/film presentations in the Culture Classroom.
According to Center Director, Cindy Stankowski “This grant will dramatically increase our ability to improve and expand our school and public presentations that focus on the field of archaeology. Our newly installed state of the art curatorial vaults will benefit from the added security that Las Patronas has so generously funded. The volunteers from Las Patronas, Lise Wilson and Claudia Johnson, who conducted the site visit, were enthusiastic and impressed with the scope of the Center’s work and advocated on our behalf to secure the grant. We are grateful for their understanding of the needs of the Center and the great impact that these capital purchases will have on our programming and security."
The San Diego Archaeological Center announces the award of a $10,000 grant from County Supervisor Pam Slater-Price’s Community Projects Grant Program to support a portion of a new project “Quenching Our Thirst – Culture, Environment and Change.” This traveling exhibit, educational program and public awareness campaign explores the marked transformation in the archaeological record that has occurred due to our need to “quench our thirst.”
The central theme of the project focuses on the fact that 1 BILLION water bottles are thrown away in California each year and that “today’s trash is tomorrow’s archaeology.” Beginning with graceful Native American ollas used to store water and ending with the staggering amount of single-use beverage containers that are exhausting landfill space; this project traces how everyday objects reflect and impact the culture and the environment in the San Diego region, The Center is partnering with I Love a Clean San Diego to present this important exhibit, educational program and recycling campaign.
The Center is honored to receive this grant and appreciates the passionate commitment that Supervisor Slater-Price has demonstrated toward protecting and preserving the environment in San Diego. By educating the public about the impact that humans have on the archaeological record over time, we hope to provide a model from which important lessons in history, culture, population growth, technology and most importantly, environmental stewardship may be gleaned.
Additional underwriting support is being sought from community partners to fully fund the project.
For more information on how you can support this important project, please and email: Marie Andersen, Director of Development.
