In brief
By sponsoring a THATCamp, you’re reaching out to scholars, developers, librarians, and cultural heritage professionals: the leaders and decision makers who are making the digital future happen in the humanities. Contact the organizers of any upcoming THATCamp if you would like to become a sponsor. Recommended sponsorship amounts for organizations are $1000 (“Level One” level), $500 (“Level Two”), and $250 (“Level Three”). (Note that individual THATCamps might choose to offer different terms of sponsorship; the sponsorship levels described here are general guidelines.) Past THATCamp sponsors include major technology companies, large private foundations, long-established scholarly associations, and prestigious universities and colleges.
Level One Sponsors — $1000+
If you support a THATCamp in the amount of $1000 or more as a Level One sponsor, you will receive
- Your logo on the THATCamp t-shirt or other merchandise
- Your logo and a link to your website here at thatcamp.org, the hub for all THATCamp activity
- Two guaranteed registrations so that two members of your organization may attend the THATCamp
- The opportunity to have your promotional / informational materials distributed at the THATCamp
- Your logo and a link to your website on the individual THATCamp’s website
Level Two Sponsors — $500
If you support THATCamp in the amount of $500 or more as a Level Two sponsor, you will receive
- One guaranteed registration so that a member of your organization may attend the THATCamp
- The opportunity to have your promotional / informational materials distributed at the THATCamp
- Your logo and a link to your website on the individual THATCamp’s website
Level Three Sponsors — $250
If you support THATCamp in the amount of $250 or more as a Level Three sponsor, you will receive
- Your logo and a link to your website on the individual THATCamp’s website
In-kind sponsors
Sponsors who support a THATCamp with in-kind donations such as space, software, or other goods will at the very least be gratefully recognized with their logo and a link to their website on the individual THATCamp’s website, with other forms of recognition depending on the level of support.
Individual sponsors
If you’d like to help out THATCamp, you can make a donation to the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media’s foundation fund. This fund contributes to the general operations of THATCamp headquarters, and it funds the annual THATCamp CHNM (also called “THATCamp Prime,” the original THATCamp). Most THATCamps ask for a $20 or $25 donation from their participants, and these voluntary donations go a long way toward supporting those individual THATCamps. By donating to CHNM, you will be supporting the THATCamp project as a whole.
THATCamp Sponsors
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has supported the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media with two two-year grants of about $260,000 apiece. This half million dollars has funded four years of support for THATCamp: the salary and travel budget of the THATCamp Coordinator, maintenance of thatcamp.org, and sundry other expenses. Moreover, in the first two years, $50,000 was designated to provide $500 fellowships to deserving graduate students and faculty in the humanities, enabling a hundred people to pay their travel expenses to THATCamps. In the second two years, a significant part of the funds enabled a major redesign and redevelopment of thatcamp.org so that it can better support THATCamp organizers and participants.
The Northeast Regional Computing Program
The Northeast Regional Computing Program has supported THATCamp New England in the amount of $12000 over four years. NERCOMP has also agreed to serve as THATCamp New England’s banker, which means that different universities and organizations all around New England can take turns hosting THATCamps. With NERCOMP’s support, THATCamp New England has been able to establish a certain amount of longevity and autonomy while still retaining its independence.
Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research has been a generous donor since 2009 in support of THATCamp Pacific Northwest, one of the earlier THATCamps. Beginning in 2011, MS Research has provided more than $20,000 in support of the whole THATCamp project, and these funds have been distributed to diverse THATCamps in micro-grants of $500 apiece (along with the welcome in-kind donation of a great many lanyards). MS Research has supported the work of Internet ethnographer and privacy scholar danah boyd, has produced such useful open source tools for the humanities as ChronoZoom, and has organized an annual Faculty Summit for the express purpose of bringing academic researchers and educators together with Microsoft’s computer scientists and engineers. We’re proud to be associated with them. Special thanks are due to Donald Brinkman, program manager for the Digital Humanities at MS Research, whose vision made this happen.
The Kress Foundation
The Kress Foundation has provided $6000 in fellowship and travel money to the Center for History and New Media to support digital training for junior art museum professionals and graduate students, especially but not exclusively at THATCamps offered in affiliation with the Museum Computer Network.
Council on Library and Information Resources
The Council on Library and Information Resources has provided $5000 in fellowship and travel money to the Center for History and New Media to support digital training for library and archive professionals and graduate students. These fellowships have ensured that scholars and information science professionals have had a chance to talk to one another about issues important to both, such as the preservation and dissemination of scholarly work and primary sources for scholarship.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a not–for–profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive of over one thousand five hundred academic journals and other scholarly content. JSTOR uses information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship, and is used by millions for research, teaching, and learning. With more than a thousand academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources, JSTOR is one of the world’s most trusted sources for academic content. JSTOR generously supported THATCamp AHA in the amount of $1000, which provided an LCD projector and other audiovisual support at the Chicago Sheraton. This support was essential in making the technology skills workshops possible. JSTOR also supported THATCamp CHNM 2012 in the amount of $1000.
Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is a publisher of award-winning online collections and videos for scholarly research, teaching, and learning. Alexander Street Press has supported THATCamp CHNM for several years, and gave $1000 in support of THATCamp CHNM 2012.
National Information Standards Organization
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) funded THATCamp Publishing 2011 in the amount of $1000, and in addition sent representatives to share their expertise about emerging ebook standards.
The Digital Library Federation
The Digital Library Federation provided funds, food, and space at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Baltimore in support of THATCamp Publishing, held as a pre-conference to the 2011 DLF Fall Forum.
Automattic
We are continually grateful to Automattic for doing such a great job with WordPress; indeed, thatcamp.org is run on WordPress multi-site. More specifically, we are very grateful indeed to Automattic for hosting THATCamp Bay Area at their own San Francisco headquarters in 2010.
In addition to sending their wonderful Lead Geo Developer Advocate Mano Marks to THATCamp CHNM 2011 to teach a workshop on working with Google Fusion Tables and other geographic data visualization tools, Google provided space and support for THATCamp Bay Area 2011 at its headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
Brandeis University
Several departments and offices at Brandeis University gave generous support to THATCamp New England 2011. The Department of History gave $1000, and the Office of the Provost, the Mandel Center for the Humanities, and Brandeis Library and Technology Services gave both funds and in-kind support.
Brown University
Both Brown University Libraries and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown have supported THATCamp New England 2010 and THATCamp New England 2011, contributing a total of $2500 over two years. Note that THATCamp New England represents perhaps the largest collaboration among universities and organizations for a THATCamp; we are particularly grateful to these organizations for working together to support an external initiative.
Chapman University
Chapman University provided over $3000 in funds and in-kind support for THATCamp Southern California 2011, where more than sixty people met to discuss and learn from one another. The terrific staff of Chapman’s Office of Academic Technology and Digital Media organized and ran the event.
Simpson Center for the Humanities
The Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington has supported THATCamp Pacific Northwest since 2009 with funds, space, staff time, and other in-kind donations.
Emory University Libraries
Emory University Libraries generously supported THATCamp Southeast 2010 with space, staff time, and even some lodging expenses. THATCamp Southeast 2010 was attended by a hundred people, including librarians and library science graduate students, faculty, posdoctoral fellows, and developers.
The American Historical Association
The American Historical Association provided meeting space for THATCamp AHA in January 2012 in conjunction with its annual meeting in Chicago. Members of AHA’s staff also helped organize THATCamp AHA, and members of the Association volunteered their time to help run the event.
Wikimedia UK
Wikimedia UK provided support for THATCamp London 2013 as well as for a GLAM-Wiki Hackathon at the British Library in conjunction with the GLAM-Wiki 2013 Conference. According to their website, “Wikimedia UK is the Wikimedia chapter covering the United Kingdom. We exist to help collect, develop and distribute freely licensed knowledge (and other educational, cultural and historic material). We do this by bringing the Wikimedia community in the UK together, and by building links with UK-based cultural institutions, universities, charities and other bodies. We also represent UK-based Wikimedians to the Wikimedia Foundation and the global Wikimedia movement.”
University of Southern Mississippi
The University of Southern Mississippi provided significant support for THATCamp New Orleans 2013. According to their website, “The University of Southern Mississippi is a comprehensive doctoral and research-driven university with a proud history and an eye on the future. In just 100 years, we’ve grown from a small teachers’ college into a premier research university that is a haven for the arts with a tradition of success in both academics and athletics.”
Individual Donors
Many, many thanks are also due to the hundreds of individual donors who have given small donations to THATCamp. Usually about one-third of all funding for a particular THATCamp comes from individual participants who willingly give $20 or $30 to support our funky little unconference: we literally couldn’t do it without you. We are also grateful to the many workshop instructors who have volunteered to teach digital skills sessions, and to all the THATCamp organizers who have dedicated a great deal of time not only to making their own THATCamp terrific, but also to sharing advice and information with other THATCamp organizers and with us here at THATCamp.org.
