NEH Challenge: GBH Media Library and Archives

Racing Against Time

With nearly one million audio, video, film and digital assets dating to 1947, GBH has one of the nation’s most important public media archives, chronicling many of the most critical cultural and historical events of our time. This rich record of American history—news, arts and culture, science, children’s programming and more—is increasingly vulnerable to deterioration and must be preserved for future generations.

In 2018, GBH received a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to preserve and digitize the most at-risk items in the GBH archival collection—83,000 media resources—and ensure that future media assets are properly preserved as they are created. Gifts made through 2023 in support of the GBH Media Library and Archives will be leveraged by the NEH challenge grant, securing preservation and future access to one of America’s most significant collections of public media for generations of scholars and citizens to come.

For more information about including Media Library and Archives in your estate plans, please contact:
Julie Hallowell
Director of Gift Planning and Endowment
gift_planning@wgbh.org
800.220.7122

GBH Voices and Equity Fund

Inspiring Positive Change

Core to fulfilling GBH’s mission is responding to the needs and interests of minority and under-served communities—shining a light on inequities and injustice, providing information and educational support, and creating opportunities for participation and expression. Through our work, we aim to foster greater awareness and appreciation for diverse perspectives; share untold narratives; provide spaces for all voices to be heard; and support families and communities—with the intent of inspiring positive change.

We are committing to a plan moving forward that will fully integrate Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access at GBH, making it a part of everything we do.

Gifts to our newly-established GBH Voices and Equity Fund will allow us to sustain our ongoing commitments to diversity, equity, inclusion and access, help launch innovative new work, and allow us to respond quickly to needs and opportunities as they emerge.

For more information about including GBH’s efforts toward Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access in your estate plans, please contact:
Julie Hallowell
Director of Gift Planning and Endowment
gift_planning@wgbh.org
800.220.7122

GBH Planet Future Fund

Amplifying Climate and Environmental Issues

Since its inception, GBH has engaged its audiences around the most important and pressing issues facing Boston, the nation, and the world. The health and well-being of our planet, and the urgent need to mitigate the effects of climate change are areas of critical importance that GBH has long been committed to addressing.

The GBH Planet Future Fund (PFF) supports programs across the organization that amplify climate and environmental issues with an eye toward illuminating practical, equitable, and sustainable solutions to the current climate crisis, both locally and nationally.

GBH Trustee Lynn Dayton and her husband Bruce launched the GBH Planet Future Fund (PFF) with a lead challenge gift to encourage others to join them in growing the fund, which supports all aspects of the research, development and production of films, digital content, and educational and outreach activities.

For more information about including environmental programming in your estate plans, please contact:
Julie Hallowell
Director of Gift Planning and Endowment
gift_planning@wgbh.org
800.220.7122