Provides support where it’s needed most.
As an unrestricted fund, The General Fund breathes life into bold new ideas that benefit our community. Ideas like The Seismic Record, SSA’s newest journal and two grant programs — Global Travel Grants and Community Grants Program — that supports members’ initiatives that further our mission. The fund has always supported the Annual Meeting—the most important gathering in our field worldwide. It helps members stay connected to one another and keeps the exchange of information going.
Four years ago, SSA received an unrestricted gift of nearly $1.6 million from the estate of Clarence Allen (1925-2021), a prominent seismologist and professor from Caltech. The donation was used to establish a special fund with one important goal: grow to at least $3 million so that it can serve as a self-supporting funding source for SSA grants in perpetuity.
The SSA Board of Directors has continued to contribute surplus funds each year to the SSA Fund. Today we are so close to reaching our goal. As we prepare to celebrate nearly 120 years of advancing seismology together in 2026, SSA invites donations of $120 or more to help us raise the last $50,000 to cross the finish line.
From now through 31 December 2025, all who give $120 or more to the General Fund will have the opportunity to be thanked publicly on our online Donor Honor Roll (as well as our Annual Report next spring).
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Sue Bilek