We're remembering our many blessings and ask you to partner with us for  a new year.

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Dear
John,
On this last day of a most difficult year, we at the Russell Kirk Center remember our many blessings and ask you to join with us in renewed dedication to our mission of teaching afresh for a new generation those Permanent Things Russell spent his life renewing.

The Kirk Center has for 25 years taken up that task and sought to strengthen the intellectual formation of each generation in the principles and institutions that nurture America’s civil social order. We are grateful for the support of our friends and benefactors.

As you know, there are certain tax advantages to giving on this last day of the calendar year. If you are inclined, we ask that you remember the Kirk Center today and in the New Year.

Your support will help to ensure that students and teachers will continue to come to Piety Hill, participate in seminars, research and write in the historic Kirk library, and generally benefit from the kind of academic community they seek at their schools but seldom find.

In this way young conservative minds will be formed at the Kirk Center and readied to make the case for the kind of higher, more imaginative form of conservatism that is much needed today.
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If you haven't yet seen it, Kirk Center co-founder Jeff Nelson toured online guests through Russell Kirk's personal library and offered an explanation of how the many thousands of volumes are organized during our 25th Anniversary Virtual Gala.
We are seeking today and over the next several weeks to raise $35,000 to complete the Anniversary Campaign ([link removed]) we launched this past October. This will allow us to start strong in 2021 and prepare for some exciting new programs, including an initiative aimed at high school students and teachers seeking to defend the American experiment in order and freedom from a host of enemies.

Won’t you join with us? Thank you for your consideration and best wishes.

Happy New Year from Mecosta,

Annette Y. Kirk, President
The Russell Kirk Center

P.S. The CARES Act provides new tax benefits to donors at all levels. For filers who claim the standard deduction, you can deduct up to $300 ($600 per couple) in additional charitable gifts. In 2020, there is no limit on the amount of charitable contributions that can be deducted from your income. This provides an additional benefit for an end-of-year donation to the Center’s 25thanniversary campaign. Thanks again for your dedication to educating the next generation of conservative minds!
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