IEEE History Center: Support the History Center

Each year many individual members of IEEE help the Center by generously volunteering their time to serve on our advisory board, the IEEE History Committee. They and others also participate in Center activities, or donate historical materials to the Center.

Within IEEE, the History Center is part of the IEEE Corporate Activities Department. It is co-sponsored by Rutgers University, where it is affiliated with the History Department of the New Brunswick Campus Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Annually the IEEE History Center is financially supported by numerous Institutions and individuals. Their generous support is greatly appreciated in helping to maintain the numerous activities of the Center.

About half of the Center's support comes from the operating budgets of IEEE and Rutgers University, and from a quasi-endowment, known as the History Fund, which was created in 1996 by major donations from the IEEE General Fund, the IEEE Foundation General Fund, and the Friends of the IEEE History Center Fund. Since then the endowment has received many donations from the IEEE Societies, IEEE Foundation, IEEE Life Members Committee and IEEE Sections, as well as from individuals and corporations. The IEEE History Center also receives support from contracts and grants. The remaining support comes primarily from contracts and grants and annual gifts from individuals.

The IEEE History Center is partnered with the IEEE Development Office in the administration of its fundraising activities.

If you wish to make a donation, you can utilize the online Donation and Pledge form. (Donations within the United States are tax deductible.)

You can not only give personally, but ask your employer and other organizations with which you are associated whether they also have a matching gifts program of their own, or whether they want to make direct contributions. Click here to learn from the IEEE Foundation more about IEEE and corporate matching gift programs.

Contributions from individuals and organizations are an important part of the Center's support. The Trustees of the IEEE History Center, which is a part of the IEEE Foundation devoted to supporting the History Center, runs two programs: a Friends Program for contributions to the annual operating budget and a Partnership Program for contributions to the Center's endowment.

The contribution categories for each of the programs is listed below. We encourage you to become a Friend or Partner. We work hard to put your contribution to good use. All contributions are tax deductible in the United States. You may use the online Donation and Pledge Form.  

• Give at the highest level you comfortably can.
• Recommend to your family and colleagues that they become supporters of the Center.
• Ask your employer to match your donation. The IEEE Foundation Employer Identification Number (EIN) is: 23-7310664
• Approach your company about making a corporate donation to the Friends Fund. The company will thus receive a tax deduction (U.S. only) and good publicity at the same time it is being a good citizen. If it's a technology-based company, it will be contributing to the positive public perception of its industry.
• Approach your company about distributing the Center's fundraising literature to its employees, establishing the Center as one of its preferred charities, and offering matching support if it does not already do so. We will be happy to provide all the literature, work within the company's guidelines, and advertise in IEEE publications the company's special program to support us.
• If you are active in one or more IEEE Societies, encourage them to contribute to the Center's endowment.
• If you are active in your IEEE Section, ask it to begin making a donation on an annual basis.

Please send donations using the online form, and direct any questions regarding the History Center's Friends and Partners programs, to:

IEEE Foundation, Incorporated
IEEE Development Office
445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331
Piscataway, NJ USA 08855-1331
Phone: +1 732 562-3915
Fax: +1 732 981-9515
e-mail: supportieee@ieee.org

Please consider making a bequest or establishing a charitable remainder trust with the Friends Fund as beneficiary. For information on these and other giving programs, please contact the Center at the above address or email us at supportieee@ieee.org.

The Advocates Association

Advocate: $25 - $99
Bronze Advocate: $100 - $249
Silver Advocate: $250 - $499
Gold Advocate: $500 - $749
Platinum Advocate: $750 - $999

The Leadership Association

Sponsor: $1,000 - $2,499
Associate: $2,500 - $4,999
Patron: $5,000 - $9,999
Leader: $10,000 - $24,999
Benefactor: $25,000 - $49,999
Council of Honor: $50,000 - $99,999