Our March e-newsletter doubles as our spring Friends Campaign fundraising appeal. Most of our programming promoting religious tolerance, as you know, is free and open to the public. Generous donations from loyal supporters like you are instrumental in sustaining these program offerings that way.

Youth outreach--to high school students, in particular--remains at the core of our educational mission. Our Embracing Tolerance essay contest, for instance, engaged literally hundreds of greater Houston high school students in stating their own cases supporting religious pluralism. Our Sacred Sites Quest (SSQ) enlists a much smaller multifaith group from about a dozen different Houston high schools in a much more intensive, more sustained way.

Meanwhile, our bridge-building, tolerance-promoting efforts among our adult constituencies continue apace. We will co-sponsor more such adult educational programs upcoming in March and April (e.g. see below), and are already planning a full slate of similar events for next year.

Won't you please join us--especially if you didn't already in response to our fall fundraising appeal by mail--in supporting the work of our Center? The simplest, easiest, fastest way to contribute is by clicking on the "Make a Contribution" hotlink on the top right of our Boniuk Center webpages.

Your charitable donations are fully tax deductible, of course, to the extent allowed by law. If you prefer not to donate online, you are also welcome to mail a contribution directly to our office at the mailing address below.

My next newsletter will focus more on newsworthy upcoming events than on a Boniuk Center Friends Campaign fundraising appeal like this one. Without the generous funding that our Boniuk Friends so graciously provide, however, we wouldn't be able to offer as many of those program opportunities as we do.

So thanks again to all our loyal contributors for your previous gifts--or those yet to come. Thanks also for actively supporting or otherwise participating in the work of the Center in countless less tangible ways, as well.

Sincerely, Mike Pardee
Executive Director