Membership history and purpose: 

The membership of the New Netherland Institute, first organized in 1986 as Friends of the New Netherland Project and subsequently as Friends of New Netherland, supports the work of the New Netherland Project and the functions and activities of the New Netherland Institute. Significant financial assistance comes directly from membership fees and donations and from government agencies, corporations, foundations, and societies, both in the United States and abroad. The New Netherland Institute is a not-for-profit membership corporation organized under New York State Education Law and is registered with the U.S. Treasury Department as a tax-exempt 501 (c)(3) organization, see the Institute's latest  Form 990. For past years see the archive. A copy of the Institute's latest annual report may be obtained from the Institute directly or from the Office of the Attorney General, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.

Members, their contributions, and benefits of membership:

Membership composition:

The membership of the New Netherland Institute is open to all and demonstrates a wide diversity of backgrounds, education, and interests. Although some members are, for example, historians, genealogists, or linguists by profession, most have joined because of their interest in areas such as Netherlandic or American colonial history, genealogy, language and literature, and popular or material culture. Some were born in the Netherlands, or are descendants of the early settlers of the eastern seaboard.  Although much of the membership is clustered here, many members reside across the United States, in Canada, and elsewhere, in particular the Low Countries.

Membership fees, donations, and volunteer activities:

These contributions support the work of the Project and the Institute. They ensure that an essential and unique resource, which provides new insights into the early history and culture of one of this country's most important regions, is accessible to scholars and ultimately to the public at large.

Membership benefits:

Individual members receive special invitations to the Rensselaerswijck Seminar and other regularly scheduled and special events, where they have the opportunity to meet others with interests similar to their own; have a free subscription to the Institute's English-language quarterly newsletter De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius; and new members receive a framable copy of the 1667 Pieter Goos map of New Netherland.

Benefits of the family membership include all of the above. Family members receive single copies per family of the newsletter and invitations to events, which extend to all members of the family.. New family memberships entitle the family to receive one framable copy of the 1667 Pieter Goos map of New Netherland, which will be mailed to the address of record.

Benefits of the organization membership include all those of the individual membership.New organization memberships entitle the organization to receive one copy of the 1667 Pieter Goos map of New Netherland, which will be mailed to the address of record. In addition, at no extra cost, the organization may provide the New Netherland Institute with up to three names and addresses of members of that organization to receive all New Netherland Institute mailings. They will be considered Affiliate Members of the New Netherland Institute. All those associated with the organization are welcome to attend the Seminar and other regularly scheduled and special events.

Non-members may subscribe to the print edition of De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius @ $ 20.00 per year.

Membership fees:

Membership fees largely support a small office staff, responsible for all administrative matters generated by the functions and activities of the New Netherland Project and the New Netherland Institute. Several regular and occasional volunteers have assumed some of the tasks or share these responsibilities.

The annual New Netherland Institute membership fee is $35.00.

The annual fee for an entire family or for an organization is $60.00.

Members joining in the last quarter of any calendar year (October, November, December) will be considered as having paid in full throughout the following year.

You may join by completing the printable membership form or register online.

Please become a member now!

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Donations:

Donations are received in response to the New Netherland Institute's Annual Appeal and in the form of Private, Corporate, Institutional, and Government Grants.

Donations of any size are much needed to match the National Endowment for the Humanities' challenge grants to the New Netherland Project and to support the functions and activities of the New Netherland Institute. Contributions may be made to the Institute's general funds, or to benefit a specific function or activity of the New Netherland Project or the New Netherland Institute.

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The New Netherland Institute acknowledges all donations individually by surface mail. All contributions are recognized annually in the August/September issue of the Marcurius and on the Circle of Friends page.

Contributions to the New Netherland Institute are fully tax deductible.

The New Netherland Institute is a not-for-profit membership corporation organized under New York State Education Law and is registered with the U.S. Treasury Department as a tax-exempt 501 (c)(3) organization, see the Institute's latest  Form 990. A copy of the Institute's latest annual report may be obtained from the Institute directly or from the Office of the Attorney General, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271. .

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Volunteer Activities:

Many essential tasks in the New Netherland Institute are performed by members who donate their time and expertise on behalf of the New Netherland Project and the New Netherland Institute.

Members of the New Netherland Institute may volunteer their time and talents by serving on the Institute's Board of Trustees or participate as member in one of the Board's committees.

Your expertise is particularly needed but not limited to the areas of publicity and fund raising.

Occasional assistance in the Institute's office on the 8th floor of the New York State Library, Cultural Education Center, in Albany, will be gratefully accepted.

Please write to the New Netherland Institute, Box 2536, Empire Plaza Station, Albany, NY 12220-0536,

or call the Institute at 518-486-4815 (Ms. Bonnie Urso, office associate, Tuesdays and Wednesdays)

or 518-408-1212 (Ms. Marilyn Douglas, vice-president, New Netherland Institute, Tuesdays and Wednesdays).

E-mail:  burso@mail.nysed.gov; mdouglas@mail.nysed.gov