ASPT Donations and Other Payments

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Featured Funds -- Greatest Need Right Now!


Donation to ASPT General Fund

Miscellaneous donations will be used where needed most as determined by the ASPT Treasurer. .
Early-Career BIPOC Research Grant Fund

Created in 2020 through contributions from ASPT members, this fund supports research grants to graduate students or other early-career scientists who identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color.

General Graduate Student Research Grant Fund

Contributions support masters and doctoral students conducting field work, herbarium travel, and/or laboratory research in any area of plant systematics. Every year we present 10-15 of these awards to promising young scientists.

Student, Sponsored Membership (Online)
$20.00
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Developing Country or Postdoc, Sponsored Membership (Online Only)
$30.00
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Charitable Contributions to ASPT: Donor Restricted Funds

Contributions can be made to any of the restricted funds in two ways. If you designate your contribution to the core fund, your donation will be added to the total invested; in future years, it can incrementally increase the payout and eventually lead to either larger or more grant awards from the specified fund. If you designate your contribution to supplement earnings, the donation will have an immediate impact resulting in an increase of the amount available for grant awards from the specified named fund. If you would like to discuss making a large contribution, please feel free to contact the ASPT President, Eric Roalson, eric_roalson@wsu.edu, to discuss your generous gift.

SHIRLEY AND ALAN GRAHAM GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANT FUND. This fund was generously endowed by the Grahams in 2002 and represents the first dedicated ASPT student research grant fund.

Graham Core Fund Donation
Graham Donation to Supplement Earnings

WILLIAM R. ANDERSON GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANT FUND. As the second dedicated ASPT student research grant fund, this fund was established in 2002 in honor of William R. Anderson through contributions from colleagues and former students.


Anderson Core Fund Donation
Anderson Donation to Supplement Earnings

ROGERS MCVAUGH GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANT FUND. Created in 2004 through contributions from his colleagues and former students, this student research grant fund honors Rogers McVaugh's dedicated, exceptional career.


McVaugh Core Fund Donation
McVaugh Donation to Supplement Earnings

W. HARDY ESHBAUGH GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANT FUND. Announced in 2011 and created through contributions from his colleagues, former students, and the ASPT Council, this student research grant fund honors W. Hardy Eshbaugh’s dedication to mentoring students.


Eshbaugh Core Fund Donation
Eshbaugh Donation to Supplement Earnings

VICKI A. FUNK GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANT FUND. The Vicki Funk Fund was generously endowed by colleagues, friends and admirers of Vicki Funk in early 2019.


Funk Core Fund Donation
Funk Donation to Supplement Earnings

ASPT ENDOWMENT FUND. is a permanently restricted fund that generates income to be used to support special Society initiatives, such as travel to meetings, workshops, and publications. Your generous contribution to the ASPT Endowment Fund benefits ASPT members and the plant systematics community.


ASPT Endowment Core Fund Donation
ASPT Endowment Donation to Supplement Earnings

Charitable Contributions to ASPT: Other Named Funds

Your contributions to any of the ASPT funds listed below will have an immediate impact resulting in an increase in the amount available for the specified purpose of the named fund.


Asa Gray Award Fund

The Asa Gray Award was established to recognize outstanding scientists for their contributions to plant systematic research. Your donation will help fund the costs associated with presenting this award.
George R. Cooley Award Fund

Established in 1956, the George R. Cooley Award may be bestowed annually by the Society upon a botanist in the early stages of his/her career who is judged to have presented the best paper in plant systematics at the Annual Meeting. Members of ASPT who are graduate students or in their first year post conferral of the Ph.D. are eligible. Contributions to the George R. Cooley Award Fund are used to help pay for the honorarium given to the awardee and other award expenses.
Grady L. Webster and Barbara D. Webster Plant Systematics Publication Award Fund

This award fund was created in 2006 by Drs. Barbara D. Webster and Susan V. Webster to honor the work of their husband and father. The Grady L. Webster Award alternates between BSA (odd-numbered years) and ASPT (even-numbered years). In 2024, ASPT will present the next Grady L. Webster Plant Systematics Publication Award, recognizing the best published paper in Systematic Botany or Systematic Botany Monographs during 2022 and 2023. Your donation to this fund will be used to support this biennial award.
ASPT Herbarium Emergency Fund

The Herbarium Emergency Fund may provide short-term financial assistance to support recovery efforts of herbaria affected by disasters (including but not limited to natural disasters and other threats to the retention or maintenance of collections).
Student, Sponsored Membership (Online Only)
$20.00
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Regular, Sponsored Membership (Online Only)
$75.00
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Developing Country Institution, Sponsored Subscription (Online Only)
$90.00
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Major Gifts

We also welcome and encourage your generous donations to the ASPT General Fund and the permanently restricted ASPT Endowment Fund.

ASPT General Fund
Gifts to the ASPT General Fund are exceptionally valuable to the Society. These unrestricted gifts are deposited in the ASPT investment account and can be drawn on by the Council to help pay for any of the wide range of initiatives that your Society engages in to promote plant systematics. A healthy General Fund helps to insulate ASPT from the volatile journal subscription revenue stream and other unanticipated financial challenges that professional societies face today.

ASPT Endowment Fund
The ASPT Endowment Fund is a permanently restricted fund that generates income that is used to support special Society initiatives, such as travel to meetings, workshops, and publications. Your generous contribution to the ASPT Endowment Fund benefits ASPT members and the plant systematics community by increasing the size of the endowment, which in turn increases the earnings that we can spend in support of Society initiatives. Because the payout percentage for endowment funds is 5%, we prefer that gifts to the endowment are at least $1,000.

If you are interested in giving to either of these funds, please contact the ASPT President (president@aspt.net) to discuss your generous gift.

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