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Your donation to the Willa Cather Foundation makes a difference to our mission. Scroll through our slide show to see how your contribution helps—each one of your gifts matter!

Your gifts help preserve Willa Cather-related artifacts and documents in our Special Collections & Archives—an invaluable educational resource for visiting scholars.

Our annual Spring Conferences, organized around different topics, are a chance for Willa Cather scholars and enthusiasts from around the world to return to Red Cloud each June.

Our "American Bittersweet" exhibit at the National Willa Cather Center allows the display of important Cather-related items from our permanent collection for visitors like you.

Because of your donations, the original wallpaper that Willa Cather purchased and hung in her attic bedroom can now be restored and preserved at her Childhood Home.

The Willa Cather Foundation provides several annual scholarships to students, teachers, and visiting scholars thanks to your generous donations and bequests.

Because of your support, we are able to provide quality year-round programming, theater, and performances at the Red Cloud Opera House.

We now have over 8,000 items in our collection and preservation of our growing collection of documents and artifacts depends on your donations.

A kolache-making workshop at a recent Spring Conference emphasized a tasty and enduring aspect of Czech culture—a prevalent and important part of much of Willa Cather's literature.

The Red Cloud Opera House, restored in 2003 with donations like yours, began a revitalization of downtown Red Cloud and is now an important rural cultural center.

Our 63rd annual Spring Conference celebrated 100 years of "My Ántonia" with a large number of attendees and a gathering of Pavelka descendants at their family farmstead.

The engaging speakers and attendees at our Spring Conferences expand our educational mission and provide valuable scholarly focus on Willa Cather and related topics.

Revitalized through your donations, the Red Cloud Opera House and National Willa Cather Center represent successful historic preservation in rural Nebraska.

With your support and participation we are able to offer year-round exhibits in the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery for regional artists and group shows.

The ongoing preservation of the Willa Cather Childhood Home, a National Historic Landmark, relies upon the support of generous donors like you.

The Willa Cather Memorial Prairie is 612 acres of untilled grassland and provides unlimited opportunity for conservation education and natural exploration.

Through your generosity we can host authors and speakers at the National Willa Cather Center—a vital part of our educational mission and outreach.

Our educational mission expands outreach to teachers and students for group tours, curriculum guides, and other programming.

Thanks to your support, visiting artists can come to Red Cloud and display in our gallery. IMAGE of the Dane church in Webster County © Richard Dickson (2019)

The Pavelka Farmstead will be restored thanks to your gifts. Its inspiration as the setting for the Shimerda farm in "My Ántonia" makes this an important American literary treasure.

Our bookstore sells Willa Cather and related books and a variety of gifts and specialty items. [Members receive a discount on all purchases.]

Because of your generous support to the Willa Cather Foundation, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author's enduring legacy is preserved for present and future generations.

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If you would like to make a gift or pledge in support of our Campaign for the Future, please click here.

The National Willa Cather Center is the registered tradename of the Willa Cather Foundation, a not-for-profit, tax-exempt charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Tax identification number: 47-0485401.

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The National Willa Cather Center is the registered tradename of the Willa Cather Foundation, a not-for-profit, tax-exempt charitable organization (Tax ID # 47-0485401) under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Funding has been provided to Willa Cather Foundation from the National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act of 2021. NEH is committed to Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP).

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