Sponsors and Donors
Thanks to our generous sponsors, we are able to raise awareness to the history of enslaved Africans in Poughkeepsie by establishing educational programs, historical markers, and community organizing.
To sponsor our growth, please mail checks to:
Celebrating the African Spirit
P.O. Box 1189
Poughkeepsie, NY 12602
Additional thanks to:
Vassar College alums, Mary Ellen Weisl Rudolph, VC of 1961, and James N. Rudolph, for underwriting one Vassar student position this summer with CAS through their collaboration with the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.
The Vassar College Community Engaged Learning Office
Eileen Doherty and Frank Doherty for donating cement for CAS’s future memorial
The Anne and Abe Effron Fund of the Community Foundations
We could not do it without you.
Our sponsors and donors have made opportunities a reality, such as:
The Annual Frederick Douglass 1858 Speech Commemoration
CAS and the Mid Hudson Anti-Slavery History Project’s 2027 Project, will largely fund student assistance on building a bibliography and resources for greater awareness about the complicated history of New York State abolition of slavery in 1827
Upcoming historical markers, events, and more.
