Support our work
Your gift helps a language live on
We rely on donors and grants to fund field expeditions, publications, multimedia projects and support for communities working to keep their languages alive. Contributions are 100% tax-deductible.
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. EIN 41-2183857.
Why give to Living Tongues
We document languages others have missed
We focus on vulnerable languages with very little documentation and little transmission to younger generations.
We publish with communities
We co-publish with emerging scholars and with the community members who contribute to our projects.
We keep Living Dictionaries free
Your gift keeps the platform free for every community that wants to put its language online.
Other ways to give
Mail a check
Make checks payable to Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages and send them to:
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages4676 Commercial St. SE #454
Salem, Oregon 97302
USA
Leave a bequest
A gift in your will can be cash, stock or other assets, a set amount or a share of your estate. It has no effect on your finances today, can be changed at any time, and has no minimum. Suggested wording:
“I give, devise, and bequeath to the Living Tongues Institute For Endangered Languages, a Delaware, nonstock, nonprofit corporation, or its successor organization, the following assets [specific assets, dollar amount, percentage, or residuary].”
Questions about bequests or other planned giving? Write to us and Dr. Gregory D. S. Anderson will be glad to help.
Get involved
Join the movement
Giving is one way to help. Here are the others.
Build a Living Dictionary
Start a free online dictionary for your language, with audio, photos and video, and invite your community to build it with you.
Volunteer, intern or work with us
We have no paid positions at this time. Internships are posted when they open; our interns have annotated recordings, studied phonetics and edited Living Dictionaries.
Document or learn a language
Free guides we wrote for community language activists, teachers and learners.
Find funding for your project
Grants and fellowships for language documentation and revitalization. We do not fund individuals or organizations ourselves.
Watch, follow and share
Films from the field, news from our projects, and new dictionaries as they go online.
Have a question?
How many languages are there? Why do they disappear? How do I start a career in language documentation?
