Dear DSpace Community,
Our 2010 DuraSpace sponsorship program continues to strongly develop. As of
today, we have a total of $214,000 in financial support committed by our
community members. The list of contributors so far can be seen below. This list
includes those institutions which have formally initiated the process. There
are a few who we have verbal commitments from that are not yet listed.
In addition to supplying the funds to cover about 25% of our operating costs on
an on-going basis, the Sponsorship Program is designed to provide us with a
large number of active partners in our mission to preserve the world's
intellectual, cultural and scientific information by providing technologies and
services that help to ensure that digital content is accessible over the long
term.
In order for us to maintain our 501(c)(3) status as a non-profit organization,
we must show that we are not funded by only a few large companies or
institutions. Launching a new sponsorship program is these economic times is
particularly challenging, but as our grant funding winds down it is imperative
to our success as a sustainable independent organization. We have passed the
two-thirds mark towards reaching our first-year goal of $300,000 in just four
months.
Please keep those emails and sponsorship forms coming! The DSpace community has
been very generous and we really appreciate it. In general we have sent
sponsorship packets and follow up emails to your library directors. Anything
you can do to help nudge your institution along to sponsor would be greatly
appreciated!
If you would like to learn more about the sponsorship program you can view the
materials we have sent out to the community at
http://duraspace.org/sponsorship.php.
If you have questions, please feel free to email me.
Valorie Hollister
Director of Community Development, DSpace
DuraSpace
[email protected]
14 Gold Sponsors
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Arizona State University Library
Columbia University Libraries
Cornell University Library
Indiana University
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Johns Hopkins University
MIT Libraries
NC State Libraries
Stanford University Library
Tufts University Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Chicago Libraries
University of Michigan
University of Toronto
University of Virginia Library
9 Silver Sponsors
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Oxford University
Northwestern University
Rice University Library
University of Guelph Library
University of Minnesota Libraries
University of New South Wales
University of Prince Edward Island, Robertson Library
University of York
York University Libraries
10 Bronze Sponsors
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Malmo University
Markus Library, The Rockefeller University
MBLWHOI Library
Northeastern University Library
New York University
University of Hawaii at Manoa Library
University of Manitoba Library
University of Notre Dame
University of Southern Queensland
University of Technology Sydney Library
3 Other Gifts
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Digital Humanities Observatory
Kansas State University Library
Vanderbilt University Libraries
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