PI Launches Fund Drive - We Need Your Support!
The Poverty Initiative has launched our first ever 6-week grassroots fundraising drive. In the first three weeks, we have raised over half of our goal of $40,000. WE NEED YOUR HELP TO REACH OUR GOAL!! Each dollar you generously give will help support our Poverty Scholar in Residence and programs for this year.
We Need Your Support!
Poverty Initiative has blossomed. This year – our fifth and most successful year – we celebrate:
- The Poverty Scholar-in-Residence program initiated in 2004 by bringing Willie Baptist, a formerly homeless father and organizer among the poor for over 40 years. This grew into our Poverty Scholars Program training more than 250 leaders representing some 50 organizations throughout the country;
- Reigniting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign by equipping Poverty Scholars – low-income organizers, faith leaders, media makers and community leaders – with tools, space for exchange and ongoing support;
- Our impact on Union Theological Seminary’s curriculum that has grown into nearly a dozen semester-long courses for seminarians and local Poverty Scholars including two Spring 2010 courses – Poverty and Poor People’s Movements and Gospel of Paul: Poverty and Spirituality – co-taught with Union faculty and PI’s Willie Baptist and Liz Theoharis;
- Immersion courses where seminarians, faculty, and Poverty Scholars travel to epicenters of American poverty to study the plight and fight of front-line organizations;
- Carrying out MLK’s vision of a New Freedom Church of the Poor through preaching, Bible Studies, and work with congregations to create new relationships between people of faith and the poor based on respect, mutual support and justice.
We Need Your Support!
Please join us in this cutting edge approach to ending poverty.
Sincerely,
The Poverty Initiative
A New and Unsettling Force: Reigniting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign - a Poverty Initiative original publication is 