Jacob Leisler Institute
Jacob Leisler Institute Spring intern, Riley Denaker, began her internship at the Institute on Thursday, January 26. Ms. Denaker, who comes via SUNY-New Paltz, will be interning on Thursdays during the Spring 2017 semester for school credit. She is currently pursuing degrees in the French language and early American history. …
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January 3, 2017 Dear Friends of the Jacob Leisler Institute, Greetings as we start a New Year and our third year as a growing and viable organization dedicated to the study of early New York history. It has been a busy year for Institute Director Dr. David Voorhees and me and the Executive Committee in general as we moved forward to make the Institute better known and better financed. …
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As 2016 comes to a close, we look back with pride at the Leisler Institute’s many accomplishments during the past year. The Institute became fully operational, expanded its holdings, hosted numerous researchers, engaged our first student intern, and produced several articles and talks. None of this could have happened without the support of a great Board of Trustees and the encouragement and financial support of friends and colleagues. We look forward toward a new year of expanding horizons and …
2016 Year End Appeal Building on Our Vision At the completion of the Institute’s second full calendar year we added considerably upon the successes of our first year. The Institute continued to expand its archival holdings relating to Jacob Leisler and his world, as well as to include a wider range of materials relating to the former Dutch territory of New Netherland under English rule. This resulted in an increasing number of researchers making use of the Institute's holdings—including …
January 17, 2016 Dear Friends to the Jacob Leisler Institute, It gives me great pleasure as we start a new calendar year to look back at the Institute’s first year of existence and recall all of our accomplishments. We can be proud that, with your help, we are “off the ground and running” and looking forward to the New Year where we will, and must, continue to address our challenges and advance our mission. I should note that Board Member Ruth Piwonka’s experience with start-up processes …
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We are coming to the end of the first full calendar year for the Jacob Leisler Institute and in that time we have accomplished much to be proud of. In April the Institute received its IRS determination letter indicating that we qualify as a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. In September we were notified that our application for New York State Charities Registration had gone through. …