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Stowe on the Go, A Social Enterprise that both Spreads and Supports our Mission

The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center presents Stowe on the Go: a new initiative that facilitates difficult conversations using historical objects to nurture common ground for common good. We are raising $100,000 in start-up capital to launch this venture in June.

DOUBLE YOUR DONATION TODAY. The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving will match all donations for this project up to $30,000! But we must raise the cash by April 24. Be Part of Positive Change Today.

To learn more, go to STOWE ON THE GO.

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Donations support everything you care about at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center—especially the Stowe Center’s ability to inspire social justice and literary activism in the legacy of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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 Harriet Beecher Stowe Center is 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.

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Harriet’s Backyard, AKA, the ADA Site and Structural Improvement Plan

Your donation today can help the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center preserve and enhance the lawn and gardens we refer to as Harriet’s Backyard. After consulting with community members in a series of focus groups, the Stowe Center embarked on a plan to make our unique urban greenspace more accessible with sensory and native-plant gardens, a meandering path, and meditation and contemplation seating areas. Please consider contributing to our efforts to create a common space for our neighbors, tourists, and local visitors by contributing today.

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Annual Fund

Support civic engagement at the Stowe Center. Your generosity helps us create programing that engages people of all ages with the tools necessary to participate in our democracy with a firm grounding in the historical context of social justice and literary activism.

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Planned Giving

Creating a bequest or leaving a charitable trust to the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center provides an enduring legacy of support for social justice.

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Tribute Donations

Consider a gift to the Stowe Center in memory or in honor of a loved one. Tributes may be designated in support of specific projects such as collections, Harriet’s Backyard, Stowe on the Go, or ongoing Stowe research. Tributes are fully tax deductible.

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Donation Requests

The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center is pleased to support the community through in-kind donations to non-profit organizations and schools.

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Programs at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center are generously supported in part by the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund; The Edward C. & Ann T. Roberts Foundation; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Greater Hartford Arts Council’s Travelers Arts Impact Grant Program, with major support from The Travelers Foundation; The Hartford; CT Office of the Arts, Division of Economic & Community Development; CT Humanities; Greater Hartford Arts Council; the Ensworth Charitable Foundation; the Charles Nelson Robinson Fund; the George A. & Grace L. Long Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee and our important sponsors and members like you.

Isabella Beecher Hooker

Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker (1822-1907)
An ardent member of the woman’s suffrage movement, Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker joined in the cause along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Isabella was the first child of Lyman Beecher and his second wife, Harriet Porter Beecher.

Isabella began her education at Catharine Beecher’s Hartford Female Seminary and lived with her sister Mary Perkins. In 1841 she married John Hooker, a descendant of Thomas Hooker, the founder of Hartford. John Hooker was a lawyer and an abolitionist.

In the early 1860s Isabella got involved in the woman’s suffrage movement. Isabella joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as a member of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in 1869. She was a founding member of the Connecticut Woman’s Suffrage Association. Isabella’s ideas of equality were influenced by John Stuart Mills’ On Liberty and the Subjection of Women.

In 1871, Isabella organized the annual convention of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in Washington D.C. and presented her argument before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. Her husband, John Hooker, believed in his wife and supported her activities. He helped Isabella draft a bill to the Connecticut Legislature giving married women the same property rights as their husbands. The bill passed in 1877. Isabella annually submitted a bill granting women the right to vote, but it did not pass in her lifetime.

Donation Page

Stowe on the Go, A Social Enterprise that both Spreads and Supports our Mission

Join Dedicated People Who Care about Social Justice and Positive Change

Harriet’s Backyard, AKA, the ADA Site and Structural Improvement Plan

Annual Fund

Planned Giving

Tribute Donations

Donation Requests

School Group Interest Form 2023

Group Tour Interest Form 2022