Since 1951, the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) has been New York State's preeminent organization devoted to protecting civil liberties and civil rights. You can help counter threats to fundamental freedoms – including personal privacy, the freedoms of speech, association and religion, and the right to due process before the law – and by supporting the NYCLU's work. Our legal, legislative, educational and community organizing efforts depend on donations from engaged supporters. Join us in defending liberty and justice.
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- DeSilver Society: Leave a Legacy of Giving
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- Monthly Membership Program: Guardians of Liberty
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- Fundraiser Toolkit
- Sponsorship Opportunities
- Michael Friedman Fund for Voting Rights
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Gifts of Stock to the NYCLU
Why make a gift of stock? If you itemize your tax returns, gifts of securities entitle you to a federal income tax charitable deduction. In the case of appreciated securities, you may deduct the full fair market value of your gift once you have held onto the securities for at least one year. You are permitted to carry any unused deduction forward for up to five additional years. In addition, you will avoid paying capital gains tax on the stock you donated to the NYCLU Foundation. Download the form.
DeSilver Society: Leave a Legacy of Giving
Gifts in Memory or Tribute
Monthly Membership Program: Guardians of Liberty
Employer Matching Gifts
Appreciated Securities/Stock Gifts
Fundraiser Toolkit
The NYCLU has developed a fundraising toolkit to make it as easy as possible for you to be an NYCLU fundraising ambassador. No fundraiser is too small (or too large), and we do our best to provide support to all fundraisers in any way we can. Learn more and see our step-by-step toolkit here.
Sponsorship Opportunities
To sponsor the 2020 ACLU and NYCLU LGBT & HIV Project Reception, click here.
To sponsor the 2020 Sing out for Freedom Concert, click here.
Michael Friedman Fund for Voting Rights
Michael Friedman was a brilliant theater composer who was deeply committed to civil liberties and civil rights. Known for his work on Gone Missing, which he created with the theater company, The Civilians and Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, he also wrote music and lyrics for Fortress of Solitude and Love’s Labour’s Lost for Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater among many others. After the 2016 election, Michael created The State of the Union Songbook, a body of songs based on interviews with voters. Michael frequently donated his music to the NYCLU’s annual Broadway Stands Up for Freedom Concert.
To honor his memory, his parents, John and Carolyn Friedman, and his sister, Marion Friedman Young, created the Michael Friedman Fund for Voting Rights to support the ACLU’s and NYCLU’s voting rights work.