Our work is accomplished through the primary financial support of our members. Consider becoming a member to support programs that make peace and social justice a focus of full-time effort!

Donation/Membership Information

Membership is tax-deductible and includes:
  1. A one-year subscription to the NewPeople, published monthly.
  2. Invitations to all Thomas Merton Center sponsored events.
  3. Invitation to the annual New Person Awards and the Thomas Merton Award Dinner.
  4. Countless opportunities to participate in campaigns and projects that are changing the world for the better!
Memberships are $45 for one year | Student or low-income memberships are only $15 for one year.

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Donate To A Project of the Thomas Merton Center

Look below to find which project you wish to donate to:

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    Economic Justice Committee
    The Economic Justice Committee is a new project sponsored by the Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh’s primary site for peace and social justice activism for nearly forty years. The Committee is dedicated to issues of labor solidarity, workers’ rights, and economic justice. 

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    Anti-War Committee
    The Thomas Merton Center Anti-War Committee (AWC) emerged in opposition to the imminent invasion of Iraq in January of 2003. Highlighting the erroneous reasons that the Bush administration offered to justify invading Iraq, the AWC, together with Pittsburgh Organizing Group, planned what became the largest antiwar mobilization in Pittsburgh since the anti-Vietnam War protests.

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    Book 'Em
    Book 'Em is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization that sends free educational books and quality reading material to prisoners and prison libraries in Pennsylvania and across the country.
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    Code Pink
    CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities.

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    Conscience
    The mission of this project is to support any individual, who by an act of conscience, objects to personally participating in combat activities of our nation's military forces.

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    Demilitarize Pittsburgh
    Aims to research, expose and confront the powerful corporate interests behind the war machine. Demilitarize Pittsburgh researchers the contracts and practices of local war profiteers, produces educational materials, organizes educational events and protests, and coordinates direct community outreach.

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    Fed Up!
    FedUp! is the Pittsburgh chapter of the Human Rights Coalition dedicated to upholding the rights of prisoners through providing resources and support, exposing injustices, and building relationships with people in prison and their advocates. We are a organization of concerned citizens, people in prison and their loved ones. Our focus is on high level security facilities in Pennsylvania.

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    Fight For Lifers West
    An advocacy group for Pennsylvania Lifers and their families. We try to educate the general public about Life WithOut Parole, implement change in the judicial system, work with other advocacy groups, and offer emotional support to lifers, family and friends of lifers.

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    Food Not Bombs
    A radical movement of people dedicated to community organizing through food sharing. Members share vegan meals with hungry people in Pittsburgh two days a week as well as protest war, poverty, occupation, the globalization of the economy, restrictions to the movements of people, and the destruction of the Earth.

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    In Sisterhood
    An oral history project designed to raise awareness about influential leaders in the women's movement during the late 1900s and their collaborative efforts to promote equality for women in our region.

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    Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition
    Raises awareness and support for the ongoing crisis in the Darfur region of the Sudan by rallying support for action to end the genocide. This group organizes events in Pittsburgh and lobbies congressional and senate offices in support of legislation to improve protection for the people of Darfur and bring perpetrators of war crimes to justice.

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    Pittsburgh Tote Bag Project
    The Pittsburgh Tote Bag Project collects gently used and new tote bags for distribution to food pantries throughout the region. We strive to make the food distribution process more dignified by providing reliable bags in which groceries can be transported home. We also hope to reduce the number of disposable bags used by the food pantries.

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    Roots of Promise
    Uniting our spiritual integrity with actions for peace and social justice affiliated with Network of Spiritual Progressives Pittsburgh Chapter (NSP) - An Interfaith Movement of the Tikkun Community welcoming to "spiritual but not Religious" secular people as well. Tikkun: To heal, repair and transform the world.

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    Westmoreland Marcellus Citizens Group
    The Westmoreland Marcellus Citizens Group (WMCG) consists of volunteers from all over Westmoreland County representing small townships and municipalities. Our mission is to educate citizens on the impacts of Marcellus Shale hydrofracturing on the health, natural environment, air, water, and land of each community as well as the long-term economic impact.