A Special Challenge Grant Opportunity

The Mammel Foundation has generously offered $50,000 of challenge money to inspire you to make a donation this year. To qualify for the challenge, your gift must be received by December 31. Thank you!

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This year the Cather Center proudly completed a nationwide “Big Read” of My Ántonia, and what an inspiring journey it has been! Across communities large and small, readers and students gathered to rediscover one of the most enduring works of American literature. 

Thanks to your support, we provided more than one thousand free copies of My Ántonia to students, teachers, and book clubs. Together, we sparked conversations about Indigenous peoples, the American frontier, the settlement experience, and the power of historical reflection through Willa Cather’s prose. 

Our work doesn’t stop here. With your help, we will expand the reach of this program through continued: 

• Traveling exhibits that bring Cather’s life and subjects to schools, libraries, and cultural organizations across the country;
• Engaging public readings and talks from Cather experts and talented actors to connect her literature to our lives today;
• Programs that put books in classrooms to allow all students access to the literary treasures that reflect our national story. 

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Only through your generosity do 90,000 people annually, including readers abroad, experience Cather’s work.

Will you make a gift today to sustain and grow these vital programs? 

Willa Cather believed that great novels were often taken for granted and seldom read. When you give to the Cather Center, you help ensure that her work is ever present—and that future generations continue to learn, reflect, and be inspired by her enduring literature.