American Battlefield Trust

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011

Signed

Aug 1, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$16,900,528

Major Activities

Activity 2

Membership:the civil war trust is a membership-based organization. During the course of 2011, while many non-profit organizations continued to experience declining membership, cwt was able to recruit enough new members and reactivate lapsed members to maintain approximately 53,000 active members for the entire year. Each quarter, every member receives our 48-page magazine, hallowed ground, as free educational membership benefit. The magazine highlights how their direct support helps preserve endangered civil war battlefield land, advances the cause of education about the key period in our nation's history, and educates them directly on historical elements of importance about the civil war and land preservation. Cwt depends upon its members to help fulfill its battlefield preservation and education missions every year through their dues payments, as well as additional charitable gifts. Cwt also has a major donor society, as a subset of its overall membership, called "the color bearers," comprised of those members who make dues payments of $1,000 or more annually. Total membership in this group was approximately 925 individuals at the end of 2011. In 2011, cwt also generated approximately 60,000 new facebook "fans," opening up a new pool of potential donors and supporters.

Activity 3

Education:in 2011, cwt's education department hosted its 10th annual teacher institute in nashville, tennessee. More than 140 teachers from across the country participated in this 3-day professional development experience, offered free of charge. The department also held smaller, regional teacher institutes lasting 10 days each in gettysburg, pennsylvania, and boston, massachusetts, with between 40 and 50 teachers in attendance at each. The education department created a new civil war curriculum for elementary, middle and high school teachers and made it available free of charge on our web site. Our travelling trunk program made available three trunks of civil war teaching tools and activities that traveled the country throughout the school year. Department staff also facilitated the opening of the mine run: payne's farm battlefield interpretive trail, and released the book the civil war 150, which encourages people to visit and do particular things in association with and on civil war battlefields during the on-going 150th commemoration of the civil war.

Filer

EIN

54-1426643