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If you would prefer to donate via a check in the mail, please make sure to address the check to us at our mailing address:

Syracuse Peace Council, 2013 E. Genesee St. Syracuse, NY 13210

We particularly appreciate the monthly and quarterly pledges so please consider becoming a SPC pledger. This stable funding is crucial to our organization. You can set up a recurring monthly donation via Stripe (see above) or with your financial institutions. If you are a member of the Syracuse Cooperative Federal Credit Union, SPC’s bank, you can ask a teller to help you set up a recurring donation through an automatic transfer. For more information on how to donate, click here.

This is a good option if you are at least 70.5 years old and want to contribute from a tax-deferred retirement account. Ask your financial professional about making a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) in which a direct donation from your retirement account to our non-profit fiscal sponsor Peace Action Fund of NYS (PANYS) for the benefit of SPC while not incurring taxes. (Funds distributed directly to you from a retirement account will be taxed as income).

For most people filing taxes, donations of even $50 or more do not end up being deducted from taxes. We recommend checking here first to see if your charitable contribution will be deductible. If you prefer to make your donation tax deductible, you may mail a check written to Peace Action Fund of New York State (put “for SPC” in the memo line.) Please mail the check to the following address: Church Street Station, P.O. Box 3357, New York, NY 10008-3357

If you prefer to make an online donation that is tax deductible, please click here: PAFNYS

(Please consider adding an extra 6% to your donation; this covers our cost to PAFNYS for providing the tax deductible service.)

Since its founding in 1936, SPC has educated, agitated, and organized Central New Yorkers to pursue peace and social justice both at home and abroad. Whether standing up to war or injustice, we are immeasurably grateful to the countless Central New Yorkers who have contributed innumerable volunteer hours, financial support, and dedication over these many decades.

Recently, Trump and his MAGA coalition advanced their 2027 funding bill which allocates more than $1 trillion dollars to the Pentagon and cuts $13 billion from critical domestic programs. Internationally, the world’s superpowers continue to commit war crimes in Iran and Ukraine while arming genocides in Gaza and Sudan. Domestically, Donald Trump threatens to turn our democracy into his own AI-powered fascist fiefdom. The amount of death, destruction, and despair might feel suffocating and might even leave some feeling powerless and isolated. However, SPC is here to keep hope alive.

SPC cultivates a tight-knit community focused on securing justice, liberation, and peace through its volunteer-led committees: Beyond War and Militarism, Justice For Palestine, Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON), and Nuclear Free World. Beyond War and Militarism educates locals and city legislators regarding how surveillance technologies and militarism negatively impact Syracuse. Beyond War and Militarism assisted in preventing the Syracuse Police Department’s drone surveillance program and flock cameras which funneled data to ICE. Justice For Palestine instructs Syracusans about the Palestinian Liberation movement, arranges speaker events where award winning Palestinians like Mosab Abu Toha speak, and holds weekly street heat protests. NOON teaches the community about the Onondaga Nation, supports them in their environmental and legal initiatives, and direct community events like Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Nuclear Free World informs the community about the dangers of nuclear weaponry, helps them take action, and arranges the annual Nagasaki and Hiroshima Commemoration Day Procession. Additionally, SPC has an expansive web of connections with other social justice organizations like Urban Jobs Task Force, Alliance of Communities Transforming Syracuse, CNY Solidarity Coalition, Alliance For a Green Economy, Syracuse Police Accountability & Reform Coalition, among many others.

SPC is a volunteer-led organization and currently has just one paid staff who accomplishes a great deal with limited resources. While there always seems to be enough money for war, resources for peace and justice are hard won as our donors demonstrate. SPC depends almost entirely on individual donations to pay its staff a fair wage, keep the lights on, and effectively support our campaigns in the community.