{"id":391,"date":"2014-08-13T02:23:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T02:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=391"},"modified":"2025-09-01T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:04:00","slug":"contributions-and-donations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/contributions-and-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Donations and Contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-784 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1-150x138.jpg\" alt=\"Logo of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (colour version)\" width=\"150\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1-150x138.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Contributions and Donations<\/h2>\n<p>You may donate in several ways, as convenient, to support our activities and mission.\u00a0 We welcome contributions in funds and in kind for our nonprofit organization.\u00a0 Donating funds could be done securely online<\/p>\n<p>1) via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mightycause.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MightyCause<\/a> :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mightycause.com\/organization\/Research-Group-On-Manuscript-Evidence-A-New-Jersey-Non-Profit-C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mightycause.com\/story\/B5lidg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RGME Annual Appeal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2)\u00a0 via <a href=\"https:\/\/paypal.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PayPal<\/a>, Venmo, ApplePay, Pay Later, or Debit or Credit Card:<\/p>\n<form style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"6U78DPSWPVFEC\" \/><br \/>\n<input title=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" alt=\"Donate with PayPal button\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donate_LG.gif\" type=\"image\" \/><\/form>\n<p>3) Check, Cash, and\/or Non-Cash Donations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">For these other ways, please<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>see the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/7057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Donation Form<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>or contact our Treasurer or Director:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Contact Us<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Note<\/em>:\u00a0 For a statement about the purposes for which we collect your information, see our<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/rgme-privacy-policy-statement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RGME Privacy Policy Statement<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Aims<\/h2>\n<p>Your donations will mostly support our program activities, because the Research Group runs principally through volunteer contributions.\u00a0 Donations in funds and in kind make it possible<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to continue to hold events,<\/li>\n<li>to provide almost all our publications (including this website) freely, and<\/li>\n<li>to advance with research projects and publications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may direct your donations toward specific purposes, to Named Funds, and in Memory or Hono(u)r of teachers, friends, mentors, and others.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome your contributions, which may be tax-deductible.<\/p>\n<h2>In Funds and In Kind<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-784 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1-150x138.jpg\" alt=\"Logo of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (colour version)\" width=\"150\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1-150x138.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>You could help in various ways, as suits your preferences.\u00a0 Money, time, materials, expertise, advice, and the like.\u00a0 All to the good.<\/p>\n<p>We invite you to join our mission and to contribute to our activities, with funding, expertise, services, supplies, and other resources, as you like.\u00a0 Our unusual approach is grounded on volunteer contributions to run the organization, approach the fund-raising, and organize the activities and research projects.\u00a0 This vision means that donations of funding principally sponsor the activities and projects.<\/p>\n<p>Some donations are designated specifically for our endowment.\u00a0 While the endowment remains small in scale, the other contributions mean that it does not, even in a Plague Year or Two (2020\u20132021), claim extraction for whatever purposes.\u00a0 Not least because we keep the running costs to a minimum.\u00a0 The generous contributions in expertise, materials, resources, and the like (generously in &#8220;kind&#8221;) continue to provide functions and features which money on its own might not be able to buy.<\/p>\n<p>Funding alone does not produce our results, but it is an essential ingredient for undertaking, promoting, and accomplishing them.<\/p>\n<p>We ask your support to maintain and to expand our innovative educational organization. Our reach includes not only established academic spheres, but also other realms of experience.\u00a0 They include &#8220;Independent Scholars&#8221;, mothers or fathers returning to work or to research as the children grow, and others in the wider world.<\/p>\n<p>Donations in funds and in kind are easy to make.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11549 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rose20-n-8-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rose20-n-8-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rose20-n-8.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Donations in Funds and in Kind support our Organization and Activities<\/h2>\n<p>Powered by Volunteers, Donors, and Contributors, the Research Group depends upon voluntary contributions for its existence and momentum.<\/p>\n<p>As the year 2021 advances, we renew our Annual Appeal for donations in funds and in kind. Details of our current activities, plans, needs, and wishes are conveniently summed up in this year&#8217;s Agenda, which summarizes our activities, plans, and requests:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/15483\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 Agenda<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We encourage your help through donations in funds and in kind for the mission and activities of our nonprofit educational corporation.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/18433\/?tmstv=1699490350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Donation Form<\/strong><\/a> provides information for your choices, including by check.\u00a0 The Box at the right here offers online choices as well.\u00a0 Easy.<\/p>\n<p>Please let us know if you wish to support specific purposes among activities, or to honor individuals (teachers, mentors, colleagues, friends, spouses\/partners, others) whose inspiration deserves recognition and record.<\/p>\n<p>The Form also has the place to indicate Donations in Kind. Examples include time, materials, and expertise. There are many ways in which to help, according to your abilities and interests.<\/p>\n<p>The concise Agendas for our Open Business Meetings describe some of those ways and offer suggestions.\u00a0 They are newly gathered (2021) in a place of their own on our site:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/agendas-and-appeals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agendas and Appeals<\/a>.\u00a0 In recent years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/20240\/?tmstv=1756752518\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 Agenda &amp; Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2025-annual-appeal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 Annual Appeal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/18913\/?tmstv=1756752675\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2024 Agenda &amp; Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/17651\/?tmstv=1681936739\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2023 Report for Business Meetings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/17659\/?tmstv=1682086899\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2023 Business Meeting Agenda<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/16731\/?tmstv=1681348204\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 Congress Business Meeting Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/16741\/?tmstv=1681347003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 Congress Business Meeting Agenda<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/15483\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 Agenda<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can see the advances, as momentum gathers.\u00a0 So glad that you help!<\/p>\n<p>And so, we seek funds and we also welcome other contributions for our work, in kind, in services, with expertise, and the like.\u00a0 These varieties of contributions and donations have paved the way for our accomplishments so far.\u00a0 Some are described in the review of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Anniversary Year of 2014<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 More are revealed among our <a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/news\/news-views\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News &amp; Views<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/profile\/publications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Publications<\/a>, including our blogs.<\/p>\n<p>Such combinations of assistance may nourish and sustain our future achievements.\u00a0 Please join our activities!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Your Donations to the Research Group Do Not Disappear Into Overheads<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/logo2-with-border.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1667\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/logo2-with-border-232x300.png\" alt=\"Web Logo of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/logo2-with-border-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/logo2-with-border-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/logo2-with-border.png 617w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>Please know that your donations to our organization do not &#8220;disappear&#8221; into the maintenance of an unwieldy infrastructure with overheads draining resources away from the primary activities which our nonprofit structure is designed to foster. The Research Group, without a substantial endowment ($450.00 to date), and without buildings, regular income, and paid staff, continues to function mostly through volunteer contributions of time, services, and expertise. Some of those contributions are full-time and nearly full-time. Every contribution helps.<\/p>\n<h2>Donations &amp; Contributions<\/h2>\n<p>You could help, as you wish, in ways that suit your abilities and interests, including time, expertise, services, materials, and funds.<\/p>\n<p>Your donations will be used to support our organization and its activities, to develop an Endowment, or even to establish Named Funds.<\/p>\n<p>You may designate specific purposes for your sponsorship or gifts, including Named Funds, which may be established for special objectives and\/or in honor or in memory of friends, family, colleagues, or mentors.<\/p>\n<h3>1.\u00a0 Online Donations<\/h3>\n<p>You may donate to the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence via PayPal (Button at the Top).<\/p>\n<p><em>Please note<\/em>: Such services retain fees for transactions (see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/us\/smarthelp\/article\/FAQ4103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rates for Nonprofit Business Accounts<\/a>).\u00a0 However, they observe that, if you wish, it can be possible to cover that fee in your donation, so that you can make it possible for the Research Group &#8220;to receive 100% of the intended amount&#8221;. We appreciate that extra help, too.<\/p>\n<p>It is helpful that these services handle the transactions, while we might concentrate upon the organization itself and its mission.<\/p>\n<p>We thank you for your generous support. Ways to donate online:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mightycause.com\/organization\/Research-Group-On-Manuscript-Evidence-A-New-Jersey-Non-Profit-C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mightycause.com\/story\/B5lidg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RGME Annual Appeal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"SXL845KTMT8AJ\" \/><br \/>\n<input title=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" alt=\"Donate with PayPal button\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donate_LG.gif\" type=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"SXL845KTMT8AJ\" \/><\/form>\n<h3>2.\u00a0 Donations by Check, Cheque, or Money Order<\/h3>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/18433\/?tmstv=1699490350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Donation Form<\/strong><\/a> provides information for gifts by other methods, such as by check.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, your donations may be wholly tax-deductible.\u00a0 Please let us know if you wish a receipt of tax-deduction for your records.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n<h3>3.\u00a0 Expertise, Services, Materials, Time, Resources<\/h3>\n<p>Questions and suggestions about our work and our activities are welcome.\u00a0 An <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/6121\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Appeal Letter<\/a> signed by Trustees tells about our needs, and describes some easy ways to help.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<h3>Over to You<\/h3>\n<p>We look forward to your participation, in constructive ways as suit your wishes, interests, expertise, pocketbook, and volition.\u00a0 Our interests and activities welcome a wide range of expertise, within the academic world and beyond in the wider world.<\/p>\n<p>Please let us know if you wish to contribute expertise, services, supplies, and other materials.<\/p>\n<p>We would be glad to learn of your interests.\u00a0 It is easy to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Contact Us<\/strong><\/a>, to join our activities, and to support our mission.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1482 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P9046648-floral-border-lower-1024x327.png\" alt=\"Floral border from 15th-century Book of Hours, with photography copyright Mildred Budny\" width=\"1024\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P9046648-floral-border-lower-1024x327.png 1024w, 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