Giving Opportunities

If a gift completely funds one of the series listed below, the donor may name the series. If a donor would like to endow a series covering a different subject matter, the Press team would be happy to discuss the opportunity. All of the endowments will allow books to be added to the funded series in perpetuity.

Establish or contribute to a new series endowment

Children’s Multicultural Series—$400,000 goal
Help children gain a positive view of their own culture and the cultures of other children with a gift to the Children’s Multicultural Series. The series will support 2 to 4 titles per year, including the special marketing efforts to promote the titles, the hiring of independent artists and translators, and the four-color production costs necessary to make this series noteworthy.
Example Titles:
-Coyote and the Sky: How the Sun, Moon, and Stars Began
-The First Tortilla: A Bilingual Story
-Powwow's Coming

Worlds of Wonder: A Children’s Science Series—$400,000 goal
Instill in young readers the thrill of science with a gift to the Worlds of Wonder: A Children’s Science Series. This series focuses on science subjects observable by children and makes them both comprehensible and engaging at a level appropriate to their understanding. It is also the aim of this series to provide adults, particularly parents and grandparents, with accessible and stimulating books they can share with children. This series will support two exceptional four-color titles per year. Funds will also support the production costs and special marketing efforts for the series titles.
Example Titles:
-Death Stars, Weird Galaxies, and a Quasar-Spangled Universe: The Discoveries of the Very Large Array Telescope
-The Voyage of the Beetle: A Journey around the World with Charles Darwin and the Search for the Solution to the Mystery of Mysteries, as Narrated by Rosie, an Articulate Beetle

Native American Series—$250,000 goal
Promote histories, cultures, and languages of the native peoples of the Americas. You can help ensure that these are not lost or forgotten. This series will support at least two titles per year.
Example Titles:
American Indian Literary Nationalism
Dictionary of Jicarilla Apache

Art and Photography Books—$500,000 goal
Showcase New Mexico’s world renowned and spectacular traditions in art, photography, sculpture, and all other forms of artistic expression that inspire the creative peoples who live and produce art in the Land of Enchantment. The funds given to this series will help to support two to three titles per year, including marketing efforts and production costs.
Example Titles:
Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery
Eye of the West

Grow an existing series

Paso por Aquí Series—$250,000 goal
Support Hispanic literary recovery such as the previously published

• Defying the Inquisition in Colonial New Mexico: Miguel de Quintana’s Life and Writings, Francisco A. Lomelí, ed.; Clark A. Colahan, ed.
• Fray Angélico Chávez: Poet, Priest, and Artist, Ellen McCracken
• Historia de la Nueva Mexico, 1610: A Critical and Annotated Spanish/English Edition, Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá; Miguel Encinias, ed.; Alfred Rodríguez, ed.; Joseph P. Sánchez, ed.
  

Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series—$171,000 FUNDED
This popular series supports 2 to 4 books per year and began as a $100,000 gift.

• Tiempos Lejanos: Poetic Images from the Past, Nasario García
• In Company: An Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960, Lee Bartlett, ed.; V. B. Price, ed.; Dianne Edenfield Edwards, ed.
• Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral, Ursula K. Le Guin, Translator

Give to the General Endowment-$3,200,000 goal

Support new publishing directions, individual nonseries titles, and special marketing and promotional efforts. Money for the general endowment can come from your gifts of any amount not earmarked for a particular series or project. The bulk of this endowment will come from a $2,400,000 gift whose donors may have the opportunity to name the UNM Press building which is visible from I-25.

Sponsor individual books

The long-term plan is to pull all necessary book subsidies from endowment funds, but until an endowment is fully funded, those monies cannot be accessed. In the meantime, a variety of books still need financial support. Subjects cover the full range of UNM specialties. Requested gift amounts can range from $2,500 to over $60,000 depending on the needs of the project. Contact Christina Frain to discuss books that currently need assistance.

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