Advancing Hope | Dismantling Hate: Campaign for the Interreligious Society
Case For Support
We need an interreligious society—one where people of every religion and no religion—have an equal voice in public life and are able to flourish together.
With your support, ICJS can do the urgent work to equip people to:
- dismantle religious bias,
- champion religious diversity in public life, and
- build stronger, more inclusive communities.
Read the Case for Support (PDF)
Through Advancing Hope | Dismantling Hate: Campaign for the Interreligious Society, you can invest in ICJS to deepen our impact, expand our reach, and amplify our important public voice. Thanks to the generosity of 72 early supporters, we have already raised $5.6M toward our $7M goal.
Now, gifts made before June 30th will be matched with a Challenge Match Fund (up to $75,000). This fund is made possible by a committed—and interreligious—group of Campaign donors who have pledged to give a second gift when others donate.
Together we can help build a multireligious democracy for everyone.
Join with us.
Campaign Priorities
Go Deeper
Offer our successful interreligious education and encounter programs to more of our core audiences—teachers & educators; congregations, clergy, chaplains; and civic and nonprofit professionals.
Offer our successful interreligious education and encounter programs to more of our core audiences—teachers & educators; congregations, clergy, chaplains; and civic and nonprofit professionals.
Go Broader
Reach new audiences with partnerships and targeted programs, including museum and library partnerships, dialogues and workshops on urgent topics, and “Character Virtues for a Shared Civic Life: An Islamic Approach” — a broad communication campaign.
Reach new audiences with partnerships and targeted programs, including museum and library partnerships, dialogues and workshops on urgent topics, and “Character Virtues for a Shared Civic Life: An Islamic Approach” — a broad communication campaign.
Get Louder
Bring our expertise to the public square with public scholarship and media projects, as well as more digital outreach.
Bring our expertise to the public square with public scholarship and media projects, as well as more digital outreach.
Expand Our Building
In our renovated and expanded Bunting-Meyerhoff Center, we’ll welcome more participants and staff in our Library and offices and in a new dedicated and welcoming prayer and reflection room.
(News update: This is now fully funded by Harvey M. Meyerhoff Fund and the France-Merrick Foundation.)
In our renovated and expanded Bunting-Meyerhoff Center, we’ll welcome more participants and staff in our Library and offices and in a new dedicated and welcoming prayer and reflection room.
(News update: This is now fully funded by Harvey M. Meyerhoff Fund and the France-Merrick Foundation.)
Campaign Curious?
Learn more about the ideas behind the campaign.
How to Give
Donate today
Donate online today or mail a check (address below).
Donate online today or mail a check (address below).
Make a pledge or use your Donor Advised Fund
Multiply the power of your gift by making a multi-year pledge.
Multiply the power of your gift by making a multi-year pledge.
Make a Legacy Gift
Plan today to make a gift in the future by naming ICJS as a beneficiary in your will or retirement account.
Plan today to make a gift in the future by naming ICJS as a beneficiary in your will or retirement account.
This is not just interfaith work, it is civic work.
Thank you to our Donors and Campaign Committee
Leadership Donors
Patricia K. and Michael J. Batza, Jr.
The Bendit Family Fund
Ellen & Ed Bernard
Rick Berndt
Mary Catherine Bunting Foundation
Marilyn Duker and Dale McArdle
France-Merrick Foundation
Gallagher LLP
David & Barbara B. Hirschhorn Fndtn
Earl and Darielle Linehan
Irfan Malik & Family
Harvey M. Meyerhoff Fund
Charlie & Peggy Obrecht
The Richman Foundation
Anne Stone
William J. and Lisa L. Stromberg
Whiting-Turner Contracting Co
Major Gift Donors
Lisa and Don Akchin
Atapco | Dan Hirschhorn
Jean Baker
Diane Abeloff & Emile Bendit
Julia Nickles Bryan and Charles Bryan
Meghan K. Casey
Tazeen and Shoaib Hashmi
Hecht-Levi Foundation
Lee Hendler
Jeff and Shelly Hettleman
Kenneth D. Karpay
Kristen and David Kinkopf
Dr. Joseph M. Langmead
Larry Moscow and Cindy Paradies
Brenda Brown Rever
Lee and Nancy Sherman
Zalatimo Family
Anonymous (2)
Community Circle
Jean Baker
Thomas M. Brown and Susan Weingast
Nancy Bryant, Bryant Financial Advisory
Lisa and Paul Budlow
Jack & Cynthia Cavanaugh
Clinton Daly
Alan Edelman
Mike & Pam Flinton
Tazeen and Shoaib Hashmi
Ellen Heller and Shale Stiller
Dr. Joseph M. Langmead
Brent Laytham
Christopher & Betsy Leighton
Most Rev. Denis J. Madden
Anna-Maria Gonzalez Palmer
Ajmel Quereshi
Heather Miller Rubens and Brian Rubens
Rabbi Steven Schwartz & Dr. Gail Jacoby
S. Qaisar Shareef
Rabbi Deborah Wechsler
Campaign Steering Committee
Co-Chairs
Lee M. Hendler
Kristen Kinkopf
Irfan Malik
Honorary Co-Chairs
Charles F. and Margaret M.H. (Peggy) Obrecht
Members
Patricia K. Batza
Daniel Hirschhorn
Kenneth Karpay
Tazeen Hashmi, M.D.
Lee Sherman
William J. Stromberg
Omar Zalatimo, M.D.
Heather Miller Rubens, Ph.D., Executive Director & Roman Catholic Scholar