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Thank You for Your Support!
- Donate online make your tax deductible donation with a credit card on Union's secure server - just select "Poverty Initiative" in the "Designation" pull-down menu after you enter the amount of your donation. You can make a one time or recurring donation (weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually).
- Checks payable to "Union Theological Seminary." Please enter "Poverty Initiative" in the memo line.
Mail to:
Poverty Initiative
3041 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
- Call (212) 280-1439 with questions or to discuss giving options.
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How Your Donation Helps:
$25 - Provides local transportation within New York City for Poverty Scholars
$50 - Provides communication (including website, blogs, conference calls, listservs, etc) for Poverty Scholars between Strategic Dialogues and other gatherings
$100 - Provides print materials, DVDs, and other resources for the Poverty Scholars to take home from the Train-the-Trainers Strategic Dialogue Sessions
$250 - Provides a community meal for the Poverty Scholars
$500 - Sponsors ONE Poverty Scholar to participate in the Strategic Dialogue focused on Re-Igniting the Poor People's Campaign at Union Theological Seminary
$1,000 - Sponsors TWO Poverty Scholars to attend a Leadership School
$2000 - Sponsors ONE seminarian or budding religious leader for a work study position with the Poverty Initiative
$1,500 - Sponsors an Art Exhibit ans Art Opening in James Chapel at Union Theological Seminary
$3,500 - Sponsors ONE seminarian or budding religious leader for a field education internship with the Poverty Initiative
$5,000 - Sponsors ONE Poverty Scholar for one full year/ 160 hours of leadership development training
$50,000 - Sponsors a Leadership School for 100 religious and community leaders
A New and Unsettling Force: Reigniting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign - the Poverty Initiative's newest original publication is 
