Philanthropy
NAPEX distributes the profits from its annual show in support of numerous philatelic organizations and initiatives. Recent grants and donations include:
- $250 sponsorship of five $50 AAPE
Youth Champion of Champions special awards
(ongoing, annual)
- $12,500 to the American Philatelic Research Library for
a study carrel
- $1,500 sponsorship of the Smithsonian National Postal
Museum's
Alphabetilately exhibit
- $1,000 sponsorship of an NPM/NAPEX scholarship to Ryan Ellis for his research
project “Disinfected Mail: Disease, Panic and the Post
Office in Late 19th Century America” (2010)
- $1,000 unrestricted gift to the American Philatelic Society in honor of
the late Charles J. Peterson (2009)
- $750 publication grant
for The Philately of Twentieth Century Postwar
Reconstruction by
Stephen Luster
- $1,000 unrestricted gift to the American Philatelic Society in honor of
the late Nicholas Carter (2008)
- $750 publication grant
for Watermarks on Postage Stamp Paper by Louis E. Repeta
- $5,000 for a tree at the American Philatelic Center,
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania (June 2007)
- $1,000 unrestricted gift to the Smithsonian National
Postal Museum in honor of
the late W. Wilson Hulme (2007)
- $250 unrestricted gift to the American Philatelic Society in honor of the
late Milton Mitchell (October 2004)
- $1,000 unrestricted gift to the American Philatelic Society in honor of
the late Howard Schloss (June 2004)
- $250 unrestricted gift to the American Philatelic Society (October 2002)
- $500 unrestricted gift to the American Philatelic Society (October 2001)
- $200 unrestricted gift to the American Philatelic Society (May 2000)
