donations

Dear AAVSO Members,

Tis the season
If you’re like many people, you do your major giving toward the end of the year. I think part of the reason is we get caught up in the spirit of the season. The shopping, planning and gift giving is all part of the fun. It feels good. Making a donation to your favorite non-profit organization feels good too.

To help support our 2011 Centennial Celebration the AAVSO is offering special commemorative T-shirts in exchange for your $50.00 donation to the AAVSO. This was a limited edition run of 200 shirts only (update: about 130 left as of May, 2011). Once they are gone they are gone. We will never produce these collector items again.

The end of the year is typically the busiest time for donations to non-profit organizations like the AAVSO. Not only is it the holiday season when gift giving comes front and center, but people tend to take stock of how the year has turned out financially, and if all is well they write a check to their favorite cause.

2008 Benefactors

2007 Benefactors
 

Supernovae Society ($20,000 or more)
Doleman, Margaret (In honor of Dorrit Hoffleit)

Directors’ Circle ($5,000-9,999)
Feibelman, Walter, Estate of
Williams, Thomas R.

Patrons ($2,500-4,999)
Baldwin, Marvin E.

Advocates ($1,000-2,499)
Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc.
ANONYMOUS
Beaman, Barry B. and Carol J.
Bedient, James
Billings, Gary
Chapman, Carol

AAVSO 2009 Benefactors

Supernovae Society     $20,000 or more
Doleman, Margaret
Henden, Arne and Linda

Novae Society    $10,000 - 19,999
Kran, Michael
William Brown Albrecht Trust

Directors' Circle    $5,000 - 9,999
Hodgson, Elizabeth A. (from estate of William Hodgson)
Menke, John and Megan
Williams, Thomas R.

Patrons    $2,500 - 4,999
Starkey, Donn R.

Advocates    $1,000 - 2,499