Easter Offering Recipients
The Easter Offering grants help these organizations continue the work they do every day to assist those in need and act as the voice of the marginalized and oppressed. You can give to the Easter Offering online here.
2022 Easter Offering Grant Recipients
Thanks to the generosity of over 500 donors, the Marble Easter Offering raised 99% of its 2022 goal of $220,000. Those helped include the UNICEF program alleviating critical health and hunger needs in Afghanistan, an organization helping asylum applicants at our southern border, and several organizations meeting the hunger challenges in New York City.
Gratitude abounds from Easter Offering recipients. Keabetsoe Sekoboto, director of Setshabelo Family and Child Services which Marble has long supported, wrote: “Blessed is the hand that gives because it will receive abundantly. We are trusting the Lord to continue giving us the wisdom to be good stewards of these resources.” She noted: “Each year SFCS has gained a stronger presence in Botshabelo and in South Africa and it is because of stakeholder partnerships that we are able to strengthen parents and preserve families in the best interest of children.” The grant comes at a difficult time for South Africa where the unemployment rate for those 15-24 is 64 percent.
“The staff of Green America wanted you and your Marble Collegiate Church Community to know how much we appreciate your support of our organization and our Climate Victory Gardens campaign,” wrote Kathy Harget of Green America, a first-time recipient of a Marble Easter Offering grant.
Over 1 million New York City residents are food insecure. “Your support, and that of the entire Marble Collegiate congregation, means so much to our clients as they move from life on the streets to the stability and security of a home of their own,” wrote Ann Marie Walker of Urban Pathways.
Gratitude has been the basis of the Marble Easter Offering for more than five decades. Al Minderman, a virtual member of Marble’s congregation and one of the newest members of the Marble Benevolence Committee, observed: “As a new member of Marble, living in the Midwest, I was grateful to have an opportunity to learn first-hand about challenges faced by people in urban areas. The most impressive thing I witnessed was the gratitude expressed by recipient organizations. More importantly, I saw the strong desire by individuals to show their gratitude, and use the help from Marble, not as a handout, but a hand up, that they can use to help lift themselves to a better tomorrow”.
View the 2022 Easter Offering Recipients
As Acts 4:32 reported: “The whole congregation of believers was united as one—one heart, one mind! They didn’t even claim ownership of their own possessions. No one said, “That’s mine; you can’t have it.” They shared everything. - Acts 4:32 (MSG)
2021 Easter Offering Grant Recipients
Blanton Peale Institute
Books for Kids
Bowery Mission
CASA
Center for Hearing and Communication
Center-Sunset Park
Church of Holy Apostles
Daniel's Music Foundation
Emmaus House
Episcopal Actors' Guild
Find Aid for the Aged
Food Bank for New York City
Fresh Youth Initiatives
GrowNYC
Global Kids
Harlem Family Institute
Health Advocates for Older People
Housing Plus
LIFT-Legal Information for Family
Little Sisters of the Assumption
Lutheran Ministries in Higher Education
Mt. Sinai Hospital-Adolescent Health Center
National Alliance on Mental Illness NY (NAMI)
New York Cares
One World Girl
Osborne Association
Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS)
Promise Project
Safe Passage Project
Search and Care
Trinity Community Connection
Tyler Clementi Foundation
Urban Outreach Center/Jan Hus
Urban Pathways
Visions - Services for the Blind
Women for Afghan Women
Al Amana Center
My Brothers Workshop
Poor Peoples Campaign
Thistle Farms
Engage Burkina
International Justice Mission
Partners for Relief and Development
Setshabelo MES/Mould Empower Serve
South Africa HIV/AIDS Collaboration
P.S.30 Tutorial and Cultural Program
2020 Easter Offering Grant Recipients
Blanton Peale Institute
Bowery Mission
Books for Kids
CASA
Center-Sunset Park
Center for Hearing and Communication
Coalition for the Homeless
Cornelia Connelly Center
Fresh Youth Initiative
GrowNYC
Harlem Family Institute
Housing Plus
Institute For Music and Neurologic Function
LIFT - Legal Information for Family
Little Sisters of the Assumption
Lutheran Ministries in Higher Education
Mt. Sinai Hospital - Adolescent Health Center
National Alliance Mental Illness NY (NAMI)
New York Cares
One World Girl
Pets are Wonderful Support (PAWS)
Promise Project
Safe Passage Project
Trinity Community Connection
Tyler Clementi Foundation
VISIONS - Services for the Blind
Women for Afghan Women
My Brothers Workshop
Partners for Relief and Development
Poor Peoples Campaign
Setshabelo
MES
P.S.30 Tutorial and Cultural Program
2019 Easter Offering Grant Recipients
Bowery Mission
Center for Family Life in Sunset Park
Center for Hearing and Communication
CUCS-Center for Urban Community Services
Children's Haven
Church of St. Luke in the Fields
Citizen's Committee for Children of NY
Cornelia Connelly Center
Episcopal Actors' Guild of America
Food Bank of New York
Fortune Society
Global Kids
Greenpoint Reformed Church Hunger Program
GrowNYC
Harlem Family Institute
Health Advocates for Older People
Holy Apostle Soup Kitchen
Jan Hus
LIFT-Legal Information for Family
Mt. Sinai Hospital-Adolescent Health Center
Muslim Community Network
National Alliance of Mental Illness of NY (NAMI)
New York Cares
One World Girl
Operation Exodus Inner City
Osborne Association
Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS)
Promise Project
QSAC, Inc.
Reaching Out Community Services
SMART-Sisterhood Mobilized for Aids
Search and Care
Strive International
VISIONS-Services for the Blind
Sunrise Movement
Al Amana Center/International-RCA Onam
Engage Burkina
International Justice Mission
MES
St. Thomas Reformed Church
Habitat for Humanity
P.S.30 Tutorial and Cultural Program
2018 Easter Offering Grant Recipients
Al Amana Center
Blanton Peale Institute
Books for Kids Foundation
Bowery Mission
Center for Family Life in Sunset Park
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)
Cristo Rey NY High School
Daniel's Music Foundation
Engage Burkina
FIND-Aid for the Aged
Fresh Youth Initiatives Inc.
Getting Out and Staying Out
Habitat for Humanity New York
Harlem Family Institute
Health Advocates for Older People
High Water Women Foundation Inc.
Housing + Solutions
International Justice Mission
Jericho Project
MES
My Brothers Workshop Inc.
Mustard Seed Communities
Osborne Association
Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS)
PS 30 Hernandez/Hughes
QSAC, Inc.
Room for All
Safe Passage Project
Search and Care
Setshabelo Family and Child Services
Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Collaboration (SAHAC)
Strive International
Thistle Farms Inc.
Trinity Community Connection
Tyler Clementi Foundation
Vision Services for the Blind
Thank You from our Easter Offering Recipients:
The Easter Offering recipients have been chosen and all grant awards have been sent out. We have amassed quite a stack of thank you letters from the many grateful organizations whose missions and outreach will continue to flourish from grants provided by your generous support. Read what a few of them have to say below.
Thank you Marble Collegiate Church for supporting our efforts to provide food, clothes, shelter, and, most importantly, the love the young people who come to us so desperately need means so much. The summer brings an influx of kids looking for a safe haven from the dangers lurking on the street. As a result, we have a difficult time providing life-saving help to every child who needs us. That is why this support is so important to us. Again, thank you for your generosity. May God bless you.
- Kevin Ryan, President, Covenant House New York
Our hungry neighbors come to us for food and we treat them with dignity. In our pantry, they choose for themselves from fresh, healthy, and high-quality food on our shelves... Our bilingual councilors work in partnership with people to develop long-term solutions to the root cause of hunger... We also work with people to transition them into the workplace. Last year over 150 of our clients found work in partnership with Madison Strategies. Our fabulous Chef Training Program provides work skills for those not quite job-ready... Nearly 75% of the graduates find work or continue their education... Thank you for the support from your congregation.
- Stewart Desmond, Executive Director, West Side Campaign Against Hunger
On behalf of the students, residents, staff, and Board of the Center Against Domestic Violence, the oldest non-profit organization established to provide residential services for those made homeless by domestic abuse, thank you for your generous support of our Camp Excel Program. It is because of you that we are able to provide exceptional residential services to youths and domestic violence survivors and their children. We appreciate having Marble Collegiate Church as an ally in the effort to end domestic violence.
- Miguel Ramirez, Program Development Associate, Center Against Domestic Violence
Thank you for helping us continue our mission to create a lasting culture of kindness with your generous grant... We will continue to use a combination of research, advocacy, and education to measurably improve the quality of life for young people subjected to bullying, harassment, and humiliation.
- Sean M. Kosofsky, Executive Director, Tyler Clementi Foundation