As a grass-roots focused organization, it’s important to use our resources to maximum effect.
Our headquarters are in a beautiful but rent-free, donated space in Arlington.
Almost everyone in the organization and the affiliates is an unpaid volunteer.
Our legal work, our graphics designs and our accounting are done for us pro-bono. We find that this not only lowers the costs, it also raises the quality – people contributing their talents and their time.
But sometimes it’s about money.
We’re low budget.
We’re transparent.
We’re very very thrifty with your money.
Here’s what we’re doing that costs money right now:
- Printing a storybook of an ancient Silk Road legend, with illustrations by hip Istanbul artist Murat Palta
- Buying paint, brushes stencils and other supplies for street artists who are painting Rumi quotes on blast walls in Kabul
- Putting up metal placards to help our local activists tell the story of an underwater city in Neapolis, Greece and a historic city wall in Cologne, Germany
And some more ambitious projects:
- Creating a boardwalk to keep people off the archaeological ruins and the fragile Roman salt flats (and coincidentally also the turtle breeding grounds) on the beach of Pavlopetri, while allowing them to enjoy the sights
- Conserving the tomb of the Prophet Nahum in Kurdistan
We need your help to make these things possible.
We promise to use your every dollar thoughtfully and carefully.