Donations support everything you care about at the Stowe Center for Literary Activism—especially the Stowe Center’s ability to inspire social justice and literary activism in the legacy of Harriet Beecher Stowe and all who advocate hope and freedom then and now. 

By donating today, you help the Stowe Center offer ongoing programing that facilitates civil discourse on difficult and important topics such as racial justice, gender inequities, and strategic resistance. 

Your donation continues the generous legacy of Katharine Seymour Day, Harriet’s grandniece, who rescued both Harriet Beecher Stowe’s and Mark Twain’s homes and helped to preserve them for future generations. Day’s generous endowment continues to help sustain the Stowe Center’s ability to preserve and interpret Stowe’s legacy. Day’s philanthropy continues today. We could not do the important work we do without your support. 

Thanks to the generosity of donors like you the Stowe Center is for Literary Activism able to offer impact filled programing that ranges from scholarly and community lectures and discussions to school programing that introduces children to ideas of civic engagement. Every single gift matters! If you care about change for good donate today! 

All programs at the Stowe Center for Literary Activism are supported in part by generous sponsors and supporters like you, the Connecticut State Legislature, administered by the Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts; Connecticut State Historic Preservation Office, Historic Restoration Fund; Balgley Family Charitable Foundation; Norman and Nancy B. Beecher; J. Walton Bissell Foundation; CT Humanities; Ensworth Charitable Foundation; William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund; Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and the Love Your Block program; The Hartford; George A. & Grace L. Long Foundation; Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee; Maximilian E. and Marion O. Hoffman Foundation; McDonald Family Foundation; William and Alice Mortensen Foundation; National Trust for Historic Preservation; Neighborhood Assistance Tax Act Program, Connecticut Natural Gas; Roberts Foundation for the Arts; Charles Nelson Robinson Fund; Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee; and Travelers.