[Durham INC] Pauli Murray Center consider a gift by Dec 31 deadline matching grant
Laura Drey
lauradrey at ncrrbiz.com
Sun Dec 30 18:15:31 EST 2012
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> From: Barbara Lau <balau at duke.edu>
> Date: December 30, 2012 5:15:29 PM EST
> To: "balau >> Barbara Lau" <balau at duke.edu>
> Subject: If you haven't had the chance, PLEASE CONSIDER A GIFT TO THE PAULI MURRAY CENTER
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> Pauli Murray Center
> for History and Social Justice
> Pauli Murray Project
> P.O. BOX 541
> Durham, NC 27702
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> December 30, 2012
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> Dear Friends,
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> Activist, attorney, author, priest and saint, and hometown hero. Those words describe one single – and singular – person, the Reverend Doctor Pauli Murray. We are proud to claim her as one of Durham’s most accomplished daughters. Join us in sharing her story, saving her childhood home and continuing her work for freedom and justice.
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> One of our most ambitious projects is the renovation and transformation of Pauli Murray’s childhood home at 906 Carroll Street in Durham into a center for dialogue, education, arts and social activism: The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice.
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> Please Consider a Gift! Double Your Impact!
> Preservation Durham is acting as our fiscal agent on this project so please make your checks payable to Preservation Durham with PMC in the memo line. To give online, go to: http://preservationdurham.org/support-us/donate/ and under special instructions, list Pauli Murray House.
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> Your support as a donor, a program participant, a volunteer, and an interested citizen is so important to our efforts. We hope you feel a connection to Pauli’s vision for peace and reconciliation and to the many people whose lives are reflected in Pauli’s experience of struggle…and liberation.
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> 2012 was an exciting year for us: Community dialogues about race, activism and history; Celebrations of Pauli’s elevation to sainthood by the Episcopal Church; Women walking from Durham to Chapel Hill; Creation of a 3 year strategic plan and more than 20 public presentations, media appearances on radio and television and news articles about our work. Most importantly, we are on the road to establishing the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice as a non-profit organization.
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> But critical work needs to be done on the foundation of the house before we can create a new space for learning and community engagement. As Pauli writes in Proud Shoes,
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> “In a few years Grandfather’s Homestead on the Hillside was …a basin for drainage from the cemetery hill. During bad weather we were mired in from constant flooding which settled under the house and rotted the foundations….”
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> The City of Durham has allocated funds (approximately $70,000) to be used for a new drainage system that will address the age-old water problem in the City-owned Maplewood Cemetery. And then we need to tackle the sagging roof and leaning chimneys. Stabilizing the house is a critical first step.
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> You can help! Any gift you make up to $20,000 will be matched -- Double your impact! Our goal is to raise a total of $55,000 to shore up our aging 1898 historical asset, the house. Several friends of the project have stepped up to offer these matching gifts. Can you make a donation by December 31?
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> Without your help, we will lose our battle to save the house of our hometown sister. Won’t you send a check or make a gift online today? Mail your check, postmarked December 31 to Pauli Murray Center, P.O. Box 541, Durham, NC 27702
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> With thanks for your dedication to the cause,
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> Barbara Lau Mayme Webb-Bledsoe
> Executive Director Board Chair
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> Pauli Murray Project/Pauli Murray Center for history and social justice Leadership Team
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> Farad Ali
> Philip Azar
> Cynthia Brown
> Rev. Dwyian & Stephanie Davis
> Ray Eurquhart
> Mary McClintock-Fulkerson
> Brooks Graebner
> Alexis Pauline Gumbs
> Joe Harvard
> Paula Januzzi-Godfrey
> Mary Hawkins
> Rhonda Jones
> Sherry Kinlaw
> Robin Kirk
> Michelle Lanier
> Charmaine McKissick-Melton
> Eunice O’Neal Sanders
> John Parker
> Victoria Joyner Phillips
> Courtney Reid-Eaton
> Rebecca Reyes
> John Schelp
> Jeanette Stokes
> Carl Webb
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> Barbara Lau
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> Director, Pauli Murray Project
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> www.paulimurrayproject.org
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> 919/613-6167
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> To build a better Durham the Pauli Murray Project engages a diversity of residents to lift up the vision
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> and legacy of activist, scholar, feminist, poet, and Episcopal priest Pauli Murray in order to tackle enduring
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> inequities and injustice in our community.
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> To join our mailing list, please send your email to balau at duke.edu
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> Look for us on Facebook
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> Office Address:
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> Smith Warehouse, Bay 5, 1st Floor
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> 114 S. Buchanan Blvd.
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> Durham, NC 27708
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> Mailing Address:
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> Box 90403
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> Durham, NC 27708
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