“What programs can I support to help Mount Vernon preserve its unique legacy and all-American traditions?”
At the outset of the 21st century, the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association established three key strategic goals for Mount Vernon—each resulting in associated programs for which we seek significant support.
Just as the legacy of our Founding Fathers grows decade by decade, the priorities of Mount Vernon, as one of our nation’s most venerable historic landmarks, continue to evolve due to the forward-thinking leadership of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association.
The organization plans to thrive as a public charity as it has during the past 150 years, guided by the determination and generosity of its board of directors: the Ladies who make possible the fulfillment of Mount Vernon’s mission through their management, personal financial support and gracious fundraising efforts.
We will continue to welcome more than one million visitors annually to the estate and offer them an unforgettable educational, cultural, and aesthetic experience. They already enjoy a mansion tour, museum, orientation and education centers, and numerous indoor and outdoor exhibits and interpreters—including exhibits and first-person interpreters who convey the life experiences of Washington’s family, acquaintances and enslaved workers.
But there is much more work to be done – and the support of Americans like you, who feel a profound love of country, will help us continue living up to the centuries-old legacy that is George Washington.
This unequaled legacy is part man and part myth, hence Mount Vernon’s recent campaign to encourage Americans of all stripes to “Discover the Real George Washington.”
Our objective: telling the true stories of Washington’s unprecedented accomplishments and his selfless choices that benefited the entire nation by securing liberty and assuring our beloved democratic form of government.
In addition to gratefully receiving support for our preservation and education programs, we always welcome support for our endowment. Such funds serve as any charity’s “rainy day fund,” which can be especially valuable in the wake of catastrophic events like the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, that temporarily devastated the Washington, DC tourist industry on which Mount Vernon relies.
Please help us finance all or part of one of these critical Mount Vernon initiatives or our endowment. We want to continue bringing the undying goodness and lessons of George Washington’s life to all corners of America—your home, sweet home.
