New Year, New Posner Challenge!
Although our Full Ahead Campaign officially wrapped up a few years ago, we still have some unfinished business, as not all projects and programs were fully funded. We now have the opportunity to change that, and continue Steaming into the Future with a brand new $75,000 challenge grant offered by the Posner Foundation.
Quite simply, we need to raise new funds toward this goal, and the Posner Foundation will match these pledges and contributions, dollar for dollar. Won’t you please help start 2026 in a big way and donate or make a one, two or three year pledge toward this important goal today? Your contribution will be doubled, which makes an enormous positive impact.
Now together, Full Ahead!
Full Ahead! Campaign News
A brand new $75,000 challenge has been pledged by the Posner Foundation. Your contribution will be doubled as they will match dollar for dollar. Let’s prove we’re up to the challenge.
The campaign has come to a close, but our work continues to fund the initiatives of the program. We continue to receive ongoing pledge fulfillments, bequests from the FellowShip League and other contributions.
Long-time strategic funding partner, the Posner Foundation of Pittsburgh awarded SSHSA with an incentive challenge – raise another $100,000 and we’ll match it with another $100,000.
On November 5th, just over eight months from the Challenge issue date, 120 donors supported the Posner Challenge unlocking another $250,000 to support Full Ahead! Initiatives. Thank you for your support!
SSHSA and the Full Ahead! campaign received a motivating boost to its most recent fundraising initiative. Long-time strategic funding partner, the Posner Foundation of Pittsburgh awarded SSHSA with an incentive challenge – raise another $250,000 and we’ll match it with another $250,000. The challenge was met thanks to the contributions of our members! Thank you!
“The Champlin Foundation is pleased to provide grant funding to the Steamship Historical Society of America (SSHSA) to help this important institution advance its vital mission. Champlin Foundation grants are awarded on a competitive basis and our grant to SSHSA is a reflection of our confidence in the organization’s ability to improve the lives of Rhode Islanders in significant ways.”
The Champlin Foundation is supporting Full Ahead! with a grant toward the purchase of the Ship History Center. These funds will be used for debt reduction.
The FellowShip League is SSHSA’s planned giving society. Members are those who have made a gifts to SSHSA in their will, named SSHSA as a beneficiary on the life insurance or retirement plans or any other type of future planned gift. CAPT Robert F. Wasson, Jr., CPA spent his entire career on the sea (with the exception of the two years he devoted to an accounting firm to receive his CPA credential). The 10-year member choose SSHSA and the Full Ahead! campaign as the sole beneficiary of his estate.
“Karen and I are delighted to be able to pitch in to the SSHSA ’cause’. It is a unique and noble one and we hope the strategic initiatives you are pursuing yield great results for the organization.” – Mike Fisher
After renting the building at 2500 Post Road in Warwick, the organization finalized the purchase of the Ship History Center. Read more about the acquisition here.
Campaign Brochure and Documents
