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What’s New with the Muste Building
Moving on: The recent engineering survey of our building revealed serious structural problems which would be very costly to address. After investigating several alternatives, consulting with architects and engineers, and engaging in a great deal of deliberation and personal and organizational soul-searching, the Muste Institute board has voted to move toward a sale of the property and the purchase of a new and accessible home for the Institute and our movement tenant organizations. While we are saddened to leave our current home, we look forward to new opportunities, and a chance to refocus our energies and resources on strengthening all of our program work, including our mission of providing low-cost office space to grassroots groups dedicated, as we are, to nonviolent social change. Please help: Contributions toward our sheltering mission for grassroots organizing are badly needed; please indicate "sheltering" on your check or online donation form. These donations will be earmarked specifically toward providing affordable and functional office and meeting space for our movement tenants. Give now. Challenge grant: Thanks to an outpouring of support, we received a $10,000 challenge grant from a generous anonymous donor to help pay for the engineering survey. The enthusiastic response from new donors won us this important grant, even though we fell a bit short of our $20,000 goal, raising a total of $14,559. We greatly appreciate your contributions and hope you'll continue to support the Muste Institute. |
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