How Your Gift Helps The Library & Museums
Your gifts to the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums help support the preservation of the Hayes Home, library and museum and the beautiful grounds. Gifts allow HPLM to continue the wide variety of educational programs held here each year including lectures, concerts, tours for school children, and continuing education for history teachers. Since the early 20th century, the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums has been a pioneer in the historic preservation of the life and times of our nation's highest elected officials. Your support allows us to continue our high standards of preservation and to continue to be is the nation's premier library for Hayes scholars, The Gilded Age, and Ohio genealogy.
Buildings and Grounds
Maintenance of the 25 acres property and its buildings requires thousands of dollars each year to cover labor and equipment costs and gifts are critical to its continuation.
Educational Programs
Donors and Sponsors are needed for us to provide year-round educational programs for both young and old alike.
Endowment Fund
The Rutherford B. Hayes Library and Museums’ Endowment supports one-third of the annual operating budget.
Your donation of money or property allows for ongoing support to the Library and Museums. The endowment is structured so that the principal amount is kept intact while some of the investment income is released each year.
The endowment was first funded by the President’s son, Webb Cook Hayes in 1916, when he founded the Nation’s First Presidential Library and Museum.
Events
Donors and Sponsors are needed for us to provide year-round events for both young and old alike. We hope you support our efforts to host community events.
Exhibits
Help us maintain our permanent and temporary collections and provide for new and exciting exhibits.
Hayes Home
Help us maintain and preserve Rutherford and Lucy Hayes' home and all of the artifacts in it.
Manuscripts Fund
This helps the Hayes Presidential Library purchase original documents, diaries, letters, and records and become a partner in preserving the past for the future.
Library/ Genealogy
Help support the acquisition of new materials, maintenance of computers and other equipment available for patron use, as well as the Ohio Obituary index.
Operations
A gift to the Operations Fund benefits each and every area of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library and Museums, including all educational events and programs, the beautiful grounds of Spiegel Grove, the Hayes Home, the Library and Museum. We appreciate you investing in our efforts.