Who We Are

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is a nonprofit foundation with more than two decades of experience and a firm dedication to understanding and sharing Lincoln’s legacy with the world.

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What We Do

With your support, the Lincoln Presidential Foundation recognizes, creates, and funds ambitious people, places, and projects inspired by Lincoln’s life and leadership and what he called the “unfinished work” of freedom and democracy.

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Our Impact

Lincoln Leadership Prize honorees
(including four Heads of State)

Papers of Abraham Lincoln digitized with Foundation support

Visits to exhibits sponsored by the Foundation

Students benefiting from Field Trip scholarships

Artifacts in our one-of-a-kind Collection

Funds raised for programs and projects

Featured Events

Four Score Speaker Series: Dr. Mark Pohlad

February 22, 2023 - Join us on Wednesday, February 22th from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. CT for an engaging program led by Prof. Pohlad as he takes us through a visual slideshow examining several of the artworks and photographs made of the Sixteenth President.

Four Score Speaker Series: Candice Shy Hooper

March 21, 2023 - Join us on Tuesday, March 21st from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. CT for a discussion with author and historian Candice Shy Hooper on her book, Delivered Under Fire: Absalom Markland and Freedom’s Mail.

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