Partners & Sponsors
The Duke Human Rights Center @ the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
The Duke Human Rights Center @ the Franklin Humanities Institute brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, staff and students to promote new understandings of and action on human rights.
The Pauli Murray Center grew out of the Pauli Murray Project, a effort sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center. DHRC at FHI continues to support the Center’s staff and programming.
Trinity Church Wall Street
Trinity Church Wall Street uses the tools of philanthropy, our convening power, and our voice to advance Trinity’s mission goals of building neighborhoods, leadership, and capacity. Trinity is partnering with the Pauli Murray Center to build our capacity in the areas of organizational structure and leadership, fundraising and fiscal management. This has allowed the Center to support our senior leaders, craft a plan for growth, expand our fundraising knowledge and develop mission-aligned HR policies.
National Trust for Historic Preservation - African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund
The National Trust named the Pauli Murray Family Home a National Treasure in 2015 and has been a partner in our work ever since. They have assisted us in gaining national recognition and visibility. In 2019, the Center was also part of the second group of grantees to receive support from the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. This support has allowed the Center to complete a long-term plan for programming and engagement.
National Park Service
The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice is the recipient of an African American Civil Rights Grant from the National Park Service to rehabilitate the historic Pauli Murray childhood home. Architect Patricia Harris is working with the Center to create a safe, historically aligned and accessible site through renovation of the existing home and the addition of the rear rooms which were unsalvageable due to decades of water damage.
Perkins and Will
Architectural innovator Perkins and Will is partnering with the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice to develop a Welcome Center to be a thought-provoking, inclusive space for personal reflection, inspiration and community gatherings. We will use the power of design to inspire joy, uplift lives, and strengthen the spirit of community. The project is an integral part of Perkins and Will’s social purpose commitment program that provides pro bono professional services to local communities. Perkins and Will partners on projects that address critical human needs such as affordable housing, food scarcity, healthcare, and education.
Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain, through grants, employee donations, and volunteerism has supported the Pauli Murray Center since 2015. Early gifts from Iron Mountain were catalytic in the Center’s preservation efforts at the historic site. The transformation of the Murray/Fitzgerald historic home was nothing short of miraculous, enabling the Center to demonstrate its capacity to activate Pauli Murray’s legacy at her childhood home. This was crucial to the Center’s efforts to achieve the National Historic Landmark designation. The Center has also partnered with Iron Mountain to share our story at the Out & Equal Conference in 2018.
Marion Stedman Covington Foundation
Supporting preservation at critical moments is the focus of the Covington Foundation’s work. The Pauli Murray Center is the beneficiary of this forward thinking strategy. Support from Covington allowed the Center to respond to extensive water damage caused by runoff from Maplewood Cemetery and to stabilize our 1898 historic house.
St. Titus’ Episcopal Church/ Johnson Service Corp / Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina
The Pauli Murray Center works closely with Episcopal churches and organizations. Each year we partner with St. Titus’ Episcopal Church to plan the annual Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray service honoring her status as a saint. The Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina has supported our efforts from the beginning, providing the seed money that made our first strategic planning process possible and now supporting our partnership with the Johnson Service Corp to support the next generation of faithful leaders.
SW Central Durham Quality of Life Project / Self Help Ventures Fund
There would be no Pauli Murray Center without the visionary efforts of residents from the West End and Lyon Park Neighborhoods and the SW Central Durham Quality of Life Project (QOL) they helped create. With a loan from Duke University, they set up a land bank at Self-Help Credit Union to purchase property for redevelopment in affordable housing. History, community celebrations, and traditions was also one of their areas of concern. These converged at the historic Pauli Murray childhood home. Funds from the land bank were allocated to the purchase of the historic property, saving the house from imminent demolition. QOL and the Pauli Murray Center work together to document, preserve, and share neighborhood stories and the local legacy of activism.
The Pauli Murray Center is a proud member of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. Together is with other museums and historic sites, we have committed to using dialogue as a strategy to connect history to contemporary human rights issues. The Center has participated in both the Civil Rights and Immigration working groups at the Coalition.