Support the Humanities: Flora Scroop-Reid Childcare Bursary

The Flora Scroop-Reid Childcare Bursary Fund is designed to support NHC residential Fellows with young children by offsetting a portion of the cost of preschool childcare during their fellowship year. This fund aims to ease the financial burden on parents, allowing them to fully engage in their academic or professional commitments without sacrificing the quality of care for their children. Your support for this important fund directly impacts our scholars, ensuring that they can balance their family responsibilities with the demands of their fellowship.

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Please consider making a gift to make it possible for the Center to supplement these much needed resources for a Fellow in next year’s class.

About Flora Scroop-Reid

In 2016, NHC Fellow Daniel Scroop and literary scholar Julia Reid lost their beloved three-year-old daughter, Flora, shortly after concluding their year at the National Humanities Center.

Flora took great joy in life. Coming to North Carolina was an adventure for her, and it was here that she began to blossom into her own person, attending daycare for the first time just across the road from the NHC.

Daniel and Julia understood that finding and funding childcare in a new city is challenging and often presents a significant financial hardship to scholars living on a fixed income during their time at the Center. Therefore, in memory of Flora, the couple established a childcare bursary in 2019 to help defray preschool childcare costs for a Fellow and their family every year.

The National Humanities Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and all gifts are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by IRS regulations.