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Support the Muste Institute A.J. Muste left a great political legacy, but no endowment: the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute has always raised the funds needed for our work by asking supporters like you to contribute. Each year the Muste Institute uses your contributions to provide grants for more than 30 social justice projects across the country and around the world. Your support goes to bolster our sponsorship program, helping groups raise the money they need for their organizing work. Your donations keep alive the literature and lessons of peacemaking history by allowing us to publish classic and little-known writings and speeches on nonviolence, and to put them in the hands of students, scholars and activists. Your dollars keep our building going to provide a secure and vibrant home for grassroots activism. You can donate using the Just Give button at the top of this page, or by sending a check payable to the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, 339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012. Contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Read a November 2007 letter from the A.J. Muste Board Read a May 2007 letter from the groups we support Read a November 2006 letter from World War II resisters Read a June 2006 letter from former board member Rebecca Libed Read a November 2005 letter from board member Peter Muste Read a June 2005 letter from board member Carol Kalafatic Other
Ways You Can Help If you are making up your will, we hope you will consider leaving a bequest to the Muste Institute to ensure the continuation of our work in the future. A suggested simple wording to use in making bequests is: "I bequeath dollars ($ ) or ____ percent of my estate to the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, Inc., a charitable, not-for-profit organization located at 339 Lafayette Street, New York, New York, 10012, to be used for its general purposes." To discuss other types of bequests, such as those directed toward a specific purpose, or if you are interested in setting up a donor-advised fund or an endowment to benefit a particular project or issue area, please contact our office for more information. Through one such bequest, longtime Muste Institute supporters Harrop and Ruth Freeman helped us establish the Freeman Internship program, which since 1995 has provided a stipend for student interns at the War Resisters League, the largest secular pacifist group in the US, and where A.J. Muste himself was principally involved at the end of his life. Annual gifts from a generous donor have supported nonviolence work in Latin America through our NOVA Fund (formerly Sheilah's Fund East) since 1999. In 1994, several donors helped establish the International Nonviolence Training Fund, which continues to make grants to nonviolence training projects outside the US. If you would like to learn more about bequests, endowments, donor-advised funds or other planned giving options, we encourage you to contact Institute executive director Murray Rosenblith at 212-533-4335 or info@ajmuste.org. | ||||