Friends of the Jepson Herbarium

Friends of the Jepson Herbarium
Jepson Herbarium
1001 Valley Life Sciences Bldg
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-2465

Gifts to the Annual Fund - all gifts of $50 or more qualify as an annual membership

Individual Membership ($50)
You will receive The Jepson Globe, discounts on Weekend Workshops, and a week of priority workshop registration

Family Membership ($65)
Your family will receive The Jepson Globe, discounts on Weekend Workshops, and a week of priority workshop registration

Sustaining Membership ($200)
You will receive all Individual Membership benefits and acknowledgement in the Jepson eFlora.

Lifetime Membership (pledge minimum $250/year for $5,000 total)
You will receive all Sustaining Membership benefits and invitations to special events, where you can share your ideas with the Director and Jepson Curator.

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A new initiative!
For this special anniversary year, we found ourselves wishing there were recordings of Willis Linn Jepson sharing his knowledge of the California flora. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could see Jepson in the field and hear his thoughts on taxonomy and identification?

This wish inspired a new initiative for the 75th anniversary—a video series featuring Jepson eFlora authors who have continued Jepson's work.

Travel with these authors from the field to the microscope, as they share how they translate their concepts of species and evolution into the taxonomic treatments that we all use. Understanding this process will help all of us better interpret the keys and descriptions written by the authors. We will be developing instructional videos for some of the most challenging plant groups in California!

To kick off this series, the Convening Editor of the Jepson eFlora, Bruce G. Baldwin, will share his detailed knowledge of Asteraceae! He will provide tools to learn the specific features needed to identify the many taxa in California. This knowledge will be available to you anytime and anywhere!As part of this initiative, we will also be capturing the expertise of other Jepson eFlora authors, including Travis Columbus, Poaceae; Tom Parker and Michael Vasey, Arctostaphylos; Leigh Johnson, Polemoniaceae, and more! Once complete, each series will include four hours of content, indexed, and available on YouTube where you will be able to skip to the taxa that are important to you, pause, and watch key moments again.

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Help capture the knowledge of Jepson eFlora authors and make it widely available to all who are interested in California floristics and conservation.

Sponsorship levels

$75–Help us reach our BigGive goal of $10,000 to develop one workshop.

$1,000–Have your name listed as a sponsor for one workshop.

$5,000–Support the travel expenses of the instructor to capture live video in the field and have your favorite taxon highlighted.

$10,000–Support the full production of one workshop that will provide in-depth training delivered by a Jepson eFlora author and make a guest appearance in one of the videos!

This new series of virtual resources will be modeled after the Jepson Videos(78 videos about native California plants) and the Survey Course in Twelve Parts, 86 videos that provide an introduction to botany, ecology, and conservation biology.

Gifts to Endowment Funds help support the Herbaria in perpetuity.

Gifts of any size may be designated to one of the endowment funds of the herbaria. Support the infrastructure and care of the collections with a gift to Herbaria Futures (please use the Member form).

For gifts to other endowment funds, please contact Staci Markos.

For more information on how to contribute with gifts from a donor-advised fund (to the UC Berkeley Foundation), with IRA distributions, beneficiary designations, and estate gifts, please contact Staci Markos.

Sample language for a bequest to the University and Jepson Herbaria.

More information about the Jepson Herbarium can found at: https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/jeps/

All gifts are tax deductible as prescribed by law.

UC Berkeley Foundation tax ID#: 94-6090626

For more information call Staci Markos at (510) 643-7008 or e-mail smarkos@berkeley.edu

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