07/11/2023
Hello, good friends! It's been a minute, but we're back, and we've come to a conclusion. Our conclusion. We will be dissolving Purple at the end of our fiscal year, Aug 31, 2023.
We’ve had a good run:
・We started in 2012 as Michfest Fever, raising money for tickets to Michfest for womyn who couldn’t afford it on their own.
・In 2013 we formed the non-profit, Purple, to continue that project and foster others. We got our 501c3 exemption in 2015.
・After Michfest ended, we served as the fiscal sponsor from late 2016 through early 2018 for the We Want The Land Coalition as they sought their own 501c3 status and commenced the monumental task of buying and maintaining The Land "for women, for girls, forever.”
・Then, in late 2019, we created the Le***an Legacies Endowment at MSU Libraries Special Collections to make the wealth of le***an materials there more accessible, and by last year—as always with your support and help—we had raised the funds needed to make the endowment operational.
At this point, we womyn of Purple feel that our work is nearly done.
We are so grateful for the support of our community throughout. THANK YOU!
There remains one more push to get out the word about the existence of the le***an archives held in MSU Special Collections and the possibility for "scholars," broadly construed, to apply for a travel grant through the Le***an Legacies Endowment to study those materials. For that, we will again need your help; we’ll be posting information for you to please share widely.
It is also our goal to raise whatever funds we can for the endowment as we fold up. The university holds endowment funds as an investment and uses the interest on the funds to issue travel grants under the terms of the endowment, so the larger the endowment, the more grants it can issue and the more accessible to our community the le***an archives can be made.
And locally, in Lansing, we’ll be throwing a party to celebrate. Stay tuned for details soon.
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
