What is the INA Endowment?
The INA Endowment was created as a stable and sustainable fund for the purpose of maintaining INA as a world leader in nautical archaeology. Managed by the INA Foundation who wisely invests the funds and provides INA with an annual 5% (five percent) distribution, the Endowment support INA's work around the world.
What does the Endowment support?
Expeditions
Through the endowment, INA provides annual grants to support qualified researchers and scientists around the world to discover and excavate significant shipwrecks and underwater sites.
Preservation
The endowment supports the Institute's Bodrum Center and its role as the Eastern Mediterranean center for conservation, analysis, research, publication.
Sharing Knowledge
It is critical to support the research and preparation of results of INA work and the sharing this knowledge with the public and new generations of students and scholars, through distribution in print, film & multimedia and online.
Emerging Scholars
The expanded endowment will support the “behind the scenes” work to research, write, edit and prepare the results of years of dedicated work beneath the seas and in the laboratories, and ultimately to share this knowledge with the public and new generations of students and scholars, through distribution in print, film & multimedia and online.
What is the fundraising goal?
The goal is to build our nearly $5 million endowment to $30 million in the next five years and provide $1.5 million each year to enable INA and its team of researchers to fulfil our mission of seeking out the world’s most significant shipwrecks and nautical sites, many of them at risk of loss from salvage, trawling and looting, and conducting state-of-the-art scientific work aimed at preserving and sharing their unique stories.
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James P. Delgado, Ph.D.
INA President & Chief Operating Officer
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