Why I Give

Two sustaining donors on why they support North Star Fund:

Chris Wang, Donor since 1984
Read why Chris gives

Marcela Hahn, Donor since 2003
Read why Marcela gives

Other Ways to Give

The work for social justice takes many forms—and so do the ways of financially supporting it.

Find out how to donate appreciated stock, real property, make a bequest, and more.

North Star Fund was founded in 1979, when the city was still struggling its way out of a fiscal crisis. Cutbacks in city services were hitting low income communities first and hardest. Three decades later, we find ourselves on the brink of another financial crisis.

Year in and year out, donor activists trust us to research, select and support New York’s most effective and creative community groups working to further equality, economic justice, and peace.

Donate securely online

You can make a one-time donation or set up a regular, re-occuring donation to North Star Fund:

Or send a check, made payable to North Star Fund, to:

North Star Fund
520 Eighth Avenue, Suite 2203
New York, NY 10018-6656

Resources for Social Change

Through North Star Fund, activists receive funding to cover the fundamentals of organizing—trainings, meetings, phone bills, websites, printing, salaries, office rent. And they get technical assistance and training on subjects such as working with the media, lobbying elected officials, and building sustainable organizations. This is democracy in action, and it can’t happen without your help.

North Star Fund Grantees in Action

Brandworkers International organizes workers in the retail and food industries to enforce labor laws and improve working conditions.		Rights for Incarcerated Prisoners with Psychiatric Disabilities (RIPPD) uses grassroots advocacy to ensure that criminal justice officials observe the human rights of prisoners struggling with mental illness.

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