Contact the Gage Foundation. Phone: (315) 637-9511
Sally Roesch Wagner, Executive Director

The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation is dedicated to educating current and future generations about Gage's work and its power to drive contemporary social change. At the heart of the mission is the story of Matilda Joslyn Gage, a progressive visionary of women's rights and an often unacknowledged leader who, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, wrote the arguments, inspired the passions and organized the political action of the 19th century woman suffrage movement in the United States. Gage lived in Upstate New York in the village of Fayetteville, a suburb of Syracuse, where the Gage Home is preserved as an historical site by the Foundation. The above information is adapted from the Foundation's website, http://www.matildajoslyngage.org/, which contains extensive information about Gage and the Foundation's work.

Ways to Contribute at the Gage Foundation:

  • Assisting with the Historic Structure Report: researching all articles related to Gage on the Post Standard site (new)
  • Helping with Gage Foundation publications
  • Assisting with detailed historical research: inter-library topics, analyzing letters (obscure, but fun and exciting)
  • Junior Docent Program - working with school-aged children to recreate and interpret historical period, and events (through costume and performance)
  • Creating period costumes: researching design and actual construction
  • Help with Fundraising
  • Physical Restoration - helping with maintenance and construction
  • Curriculum Development - Underground Railroad Course
  • Gage Foundation Website - help to maintain and update
  • Grant Application Writing - assist Sally by researching opportunities and drafting proposals
  • Participating in Salons - events involving music, poetry, literature, or art, recreating the period genre