Our Crowdfunding Groups
As of this evening, Oh the Places We Go: Help Classics Grads Travel is 103% funded: $175 over our $5,000 goal!
There are not enough words to express our gratitude for you: our amazing donors and supporters. We are so humbled by each and every one of your gifts; thank you for believing in our graduate students and giving them support in their scholarly endeavors!
We still have 18 days left in our fundraiser, and are setting a stretch goal of $2,500, for a total of $7,500. Every additional donation goes toward making travel more accessible for our students, and the stretch goal of $2,500 will help fund travel expenses of 5 additional graduate students. These gifts will not only help graduate students for travel this year, but also those who need funding in the future.
Please donate if you haven't already, share, and spread the word; the more you do, the more opportunities you give to our graduate students!
In just 1 week, Oh the Places We Go: Help Classics Grads Travel has reached 97% of our goal; $4,865 in gifts! We are so incredibly humbled and grateful for all of your generous gifts. Your support means the world to us (literally) and your donations will help our graduate students immensely. From the bottom of hearts: Thank you!
We still have 23 days left of our fundraiser; any sharing of our project you can do on social media, email, or in person would be a tremendous help to our cause.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our fundraising team at utclassicshornraiser@gmail.com.
Thanks again for your support,
The UT Classics Hornraiser Team
The corona civica was a crown of oak leaves awarded by the Senate to a Roman citizen who saved the life of a fellow citizen during a battle. For your gift of fifty dollars, you’ll receive our metaphorical corona civica for feeding two graduate students for a day.
Once painted with beautiful colors, marble sculptures are one of our best preserved remnants of the Classical world. Your gift, which will pay for one student’s round trip bus or train fare to a dig site from the airport, will contribute to the further discovery and preservation of these remnants of the Classical past.
Bronze tripods were sacrificial objects awarded as prizes at athletic games and other contests. With your generous gift of $150, you too can be lauded as a winner for fully funding the equipment one student archaeologist needs for at least 2-3 trips (trowels, work boots, hard hat, dig-appropriate clothing, etc.).
According to ancient legend, the palladium was a sacred object that once protected Troy. Later it was moved to Rome, where it protected the city for centuries. Like a palladium of travel, your gift will provide safe passage for one graduate student by fully funding their travel-related expenses.
According to Homer, the divinely forged Shield of Achilles was the most beautiful and powerful piece of armor in the Trojan War. You can make a similarly beautiful gift by fully funding the travel-related expenses of three graduate students.
The highest prize an athlete could win at the Olympic Games was a simple laurel wreath. You can be the greatest victor of all by funding our entire project and completely supporting ten graduate students in their travel and research endeavors!
