Ways to Donate

Donations support our programs and services. By making a contribution, you ensure that the programs and internships of the Zen Peacemakers are sustained throughout the year.

We greatly appreciate unrestricted gifts as that gives us the greatest flexibility in funding our work. If you wish your gift to be used for a specific project, please contact us.

There are various ways to support our work in peacemaking around the world.
Please browse through the paragraphs below or link directly to the item you wish to see on the following list:

Gifts

• Cash donation
• Pledges
• Securities
• Real Estate
• Tangible Personal Property
• Charitable Life Income Trust
• Insurance Policies, Collections and Other Assets
• Bequest by Will
• Inquiries
• Matching Gifts

Special Programs

• Contact Anne Seiki Bull to donate Airplane Mileage.

Some of our Current Projects

• Providing training and projects in Socially Engaged Buddhism.
• Developing the Maezumi Institute for study and training in Zen, Peacemaking, Social Enterprise, Multi-Faith and the Arts.
• Developing the Zen Peacemaker Sangha, a movement of Zen and Peacemaking.

PLEDGES:

We welcome pledges payable to fit a convenient payment schedule for you.

SECURITIES:

Registered securities, together with a gift letter, should be sent unassigned to our office. Stock powers or bond powers, endorsed with signature guaranteed by bank or broker, should be forwarded under separate cover. Of course, if you choose, you make simply ask your broker to contact our office for easy transfer instructions.

REAL ESTATE:

Send a deed, naming "Zen Peacemakers, Inc." (our legal name) as the owner of the property by registered mail to our office.

TANGIBLE PERSONAL PROPERTY:

Call or write our office to arrange for delivery or pick-up of items of tangible personal property.

CHARITABLE LIFE INCOME TRUSTS:

Contact out office for assistance in the establishment of a tax-saving charitable reminder trust that will pay you or a beneficiary income for life.

INSURANCE POLICIES, COLLECTIONS, AND OTHER ASSETS:

Please name "Zen Peacemakers" as owner and/or beneficiary.

SUGGESTED WORDING FOR A BEQUEST BY WILL:

"I hereby give, devise and bequeath to the Zen Peacemakers, a non-profit New York charitable corporation, the sum of $______ (or the following described property or securities), the principle and income to be used in such manner as its Board of Trustees deems best to carry out its work and effect its purposes." (Other wording will allow you to restrict your gift to a specific purpose, provide a named or memorial gift, or provide a bequest of the estate residue.)

MATCHING GIFTS:

Employers frequently match their employees' charitable gifts and this has proved to be of special benefit to the Zen Peacemakers. Please take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to increase your gift significantly.

GIFTS OF ALL KINDS

to the Zen Peacemakers are gratefully accepted and are deductible for personal or corporate tax purposes to the fullest extent of the law.

ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE AND INQUIRIES TO:
Anne Seiki Bull
Zen Peacemakers
177 Ripley Road
Montague, Massachusetts 01351

E-mail: seiki@zenpeacemakers.org
Phone: (413) 367-2080 ext. 3#
Fax: (413) 367-2065

Thank you so much.
We are immeasurably grateful for your help and recognition.

Zen Peacemakers, Inc. is a non-profit 501c(3) charitable New York corporation