Help Meet NHF's Endowment Challenge
Maine Community Foundation
President Henry Schmelzer (r)
congratulates David Weiss in front
of the Alamo Theatre.
Northeast Historic Film was honored in September 2008 with a $25,000 endowment challenge grant from the Maine Community Foundation. This is a one-to-one matching opportunity: to support our endowment we will raise another $25,000 in new funds by June 2010, resulting in $50,000 of endowment dollars.
Executive Director David Weiss says, “Endowment donors are those who have the longest perspective on the value of the historical and cultural resources created by NHF. An endowment is money that is never spent; the donations are carefully invested so that earnings help support the programs of the organization indefinitely.”
Your gift to match the Maine Community Foundation endowment challenge is needed, particularly in these times, for institutional security. Donated operating funds, project grants, and earned income do not provide the level of assurance required to guarantee the permanent preservation of our region’s historical record. A guaranteed source of funds provided by an endowment demonstrates commitment to the long term.
Please give today with a donation of cash, a pledge, or a memorial gift. Call David Weiss at 207-469-0924, or email. Endowment Donors will receive permanent recognition in the Alamo Theatre lobby and on www.oldfilm.org.
Ways to Give: www.oldfilm.org/pledging
Alamo Theatre Facade Before & After,
NHF Photo
Thanks to the generous support of friends, members, a $20,000 gift from the Davis Family Foundation, and a Maine Community Enterprise grant awarded by the Town of Bucksport, Northeast Historic Film was able to complete the renovation of the Alamo Theatre's facade in December. Personalized bricks purchased by donors to the project have been installed around the Theatre's Main Street entrance.
Click on the image above to see a larger image of the new brickwork.
Update: Due to popular demand the campaign has been extended. New personalized bricks can now be purchased that will be placed around the interior of the Alamo Theatre's front door. Bricks can be purchased through our online store.
Northeast Historic Film has been awarded a $12,600 cash grant by the National Film Preservation Foundation to preserve three reels from The Joan Branch Collection. The films were shot by Joan Branch's father, Joseph Swan and her grandfather, Forest Colby, who lived in Bingham, Maine and was Maine Forest Commisioner and State Senator in the early 1900s. Joan's father, Joseph Swan, was an investment banker whose company, Swan Culberston and Fritz, are credited with bringing the New York Stock Exchange to China. The films NFPF has funded for preservation include home movies and travelogues of a time when they were living in Shanghai from 1931 to 1936. The grant will provide new 16mm Black and White negatives, Black and White and Color prints and BetaSP and DVD copies .