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Support SPOHP

Through your generosity, SPOHP can preserve irreplaceable voices, provide life-changing student experiences, and bring these histories to broader audiences.  

For nearly six decades, the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program has gathered, preserved, and promoted living histories from people of all walks of life. This work matters because the voices in our archive—and the stories and experiences they share—are not replaceable. Your support helps ensure that future generations can continue to hear these voices from the past, document the histories unfolding around us now, and create new opportunities to learn through meaningful, hands-on work. 

Your gift helps carry this work forward. Donations to SPOHP support student research, fieldwork, and internships; training workshops; scholarship and creative activities that bring our archive to life; digitization of fragile legacy recordings; public programming; and the long-term preservation of one of the nation’s most significant oral history collections.  

If you would like more information about additional giving opportunities in SPOHP, please contact Director Jamin Wells at jamin.wells@ufl.edu.  

What your Support Makes Possible

Gifts to SPOHP help us: 

  • train students in the theory, ethics, and practice of oral history through courses, internships, and fieldwork  
  • support community-engaged research and public humanities work across Florida and the Southeast  
  • preserve and process interviews for long-term archival care and public access 
  • digitize fragile legacy and early born-digital materials before they become inaccessible  
  • activate the archive through scholarship, exhibitions, documentaries, and public programming 

Funds You Can Support

Henry J. Alvarez Memorial FundSupports student experiences in oral history, including internships, fieldwork, and other hands-on research and training opportunities. 

Make a Gift SPOHP General FundProvides flexible support for the program’s highest priorities, helping SPOHP respond to emerging opportunities, support students and innovative programs, maintain equipment and operations, and meet the evolving needs of a dynamic oral history program.  

Make a Gift SPOHP Fund for Collection SupportSupports archival stewardship, including processing, digitization, preservation, and collections management. 

Make a Gift

Contributions by check can be made at any time. Please make checks payable to “UF Foundation” with the fund name referenced in the memo line and mail them to: 

UF CLAS Development, PO Box 117300, Gainesville, FL 32611 

To learn more about the various ways you can make a gift, including pledges, employer matching, and a variety of planned giving opportunities, please visit https://advancement.clas.ufl.edu/ or contact Advancement by phone 352-294-1971. 

The University of Florida Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)3 organization; therefore, your gift may be eligible for a charitable income tax deduction.