Dear friends,

Each year on Giving Tuesday, we look back at the organizations who have helped and/or inspired us. We are blessed to have such great companies around us working tirelessly for a better, more just, and more beautiful world. Below is our list of organizations that we uplifted in Cold Readings, as well as organizations who have helped us this year.

This Giving Tuesday, we ask you to consider supporting one (or more!) of the organizations we highlighted this year. Thank you so much. Please take care of yourselves and each other.

Peace, power, and love to you,
Theater in Asylum

Theater in Asylum’s 2025 Giving Tuesday List

• The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has been at the center of nearly every major civil liberties battle in the U.S. for over 100 years. With immigrant rights, trans justice, reproductive freedom, and more at risk, the ACLU is in courts and communities across the country to protect everyone’s rights. Donate here.
• The Electronic Intifada is an independent online news publication and educational resource focusing on Palestine, its people, politics, culture and place in the world. Founded in 2001, The Electronic Intifada has won awards and earned widespread recognition for publishing original, high-quality news and analysis, and first-person accounts and reviews. The Electronic Intifada’s writers and reporters include Palestinians and others living inside Palestine and everywhere else that news about Palestine and Palestinians is made. Donate here.
• The Episcopal Actors Guild provides emergency aid and support to professional performers of all faiths and none who are undergoing financial crisis. Donate here.
• The Envision Freedom Fund works alongside impacted communities to dismantle the oppressive and interconnected criminal legal and immigration systems. With freedom as our guiding principle, they invest in innovative campaigns and programs that aim to win long-term, transformative change, while meeting the urgent needs of community members in the present. Donate here.
• The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music is a multi-faceted arts space showcasing evolving folk and traditional music and art from New York City, the Americas, and the world. Their programming supports artists, fosters multi-generational community, and provides enrichment and education about our shared musical heritage. Donate here.
  
• The Lower East Side Girls Club. The Lower Eastside Girls Club connects young women and gender-expansive youth of color throughout New York City to healthy and successful futures through free, innovative year-round programming and mentoring. Donate here.
  
• Make the Road New York builds the power of immigrant and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice. Donate here.
• National Queer Theater is an Obie-award winning innovative theater collective dedicated to celebrating the brilliance of generations of LGBTQ+ artists and providing a home for unheard storytellers and activists. By serving our elders, youth, and working professionals, NQT creates a more just future through radical and evocative theater experiences and free community classes. Donate here.
• The Trans Justice Funding Project is a community-led funding initiative founded in 2012 to support grassroots, trans justice groups run by and for trans people in the United States, including U.S. territories. They make grants annually by bringing together a panel of six trans justice activists from around the country to carefully review every application they receive. They center the leadership of trans people organizing around their experiences with racism, economic injustice, transmisogyny, ableism, immigration, incarceration, and other intersecting oppressions. Donate here.

Dear friends,

Each year on Giving Tuesday, we look back at the organizations who have helped and/or inspired us. We are blessed to have such great companies working tirelessly for a better, more just, and more beautiful world. Below is our list of organizations that we uplifted in Cold Readings, as well as organizations who have helped us this year.

This Giving Tuesday, we ask you to consider supporting one (or more!) of the organizations we highlighted this year. Below, see a loosely categorized list of heroes who are:

• Making and spreading theater
• Providing direct relief to those in need
• Advocating for a Better World

Thank you so much. Please take care of yourselves and each other.

Peace, power, and love to you,
Theater in Asylum

Making and spreading theater

• The Anthropologists is dedicated to the collaborative creation of investigative theatre that inspires action. Rooted in research and community engagement and shaped by physical theatre techniques, they’re committed to exploring current social topics from an anthropological perspective in order to break down and unleash cultural discoveries. Donate here.
• Arte y Maña is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to provide Puerto Rican communities with tools of the arts that promote social well-being, solidarity, leadership, and working as a collective. Donate here.
• The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music is a multi-faceted arts space showcasing folk and traditional music and art from New York City, the Americas, and the world. Their programming supports artists, fosters community, and provides enrichment and education about our shared musical heritage. Donate here.

Providing direct relief to those in need

• Direct Relief. Direct Relief is a humanitarian aid organization, active in all 50 states and more than 80 countries, with a mission to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergencies – without regard to politics, religion, or ability to pay. Donate here. 
• Episcopal Actors’ Guild. The mission of the Episcopal Actors' Guild is to provide emergency aid and support to professional performers of all faiths and none who are undergoing financial crisis. We are also dedicated to helping emerging artists advance their careers through scholarships, awards, and performance opportunities. Founded in 1923, EAG is not only a nonsectarian charitable organization, we are also a membership organization and we welcome the participation of all those who are interested in celebrating the talent and dedication needed to sustain a career in the performing arts. We hold several events each month with all proceeds being used to support performers in need. Donate here.
• International Rescue Committee. Everyone deserves the safety and security of home. But right now, in places like Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine, conflict and disaster have left millions of families living in temporary shelters, lacking basic supplies and in urgent need of emergency aid.  The IRC is there, working in over 40 countries to provide rapid relief like food, water and medical care where it’s needed most, along with the critical long-term support families need to survive, recover and rebuild their lives. Donate here.
• Sanctuary for Families is New York’s leading service provider and advocate for survivors of domestic violence, sex trafficking and related forms of gender violence. Every year, we empower thousands of adults and children to move from fear and abuse to safety and stability, transforming lives through a range of comprehensive services and advocacy. Donate here.

Advocating for a Better World

• Jewish Voices for Peace is the largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the world. We’re organizing a grassroots, multiracial, cross-class, intergenerational movement of U.S. Jews into solidarity with the Palestinian freedom struggle, guided by a vision of justice, equality, and dignity for all people. Donate here.
• The Urban League of Greater Cleveland is a community-based organization focused on eliminating the racial, economic, and societal barriers that prevent Black Americans and other underrepresented/underserved communities of color from achieving their full potential. Ultimately, our imperative is to ensure that EVERY member of our community has equitable civil rights, access to education, workforce development, and economic empowerment. Donate here.
  

Dear friends,

Each year on Giving Tuesday, we look back at the organizations who have helped and/or inspired us. We are blessed to have such great companies working tirelessly for a better, more just, and more beautiful world. Below is our list of organizations that we uplifted in Cold Readings, as well as organizations who have helped us this year.

This Giving Tuesday, we ask you to consider supporting one (or more!) of the organizations we highlighted this year. Below, see a loosely categorized list of heroes who are:

• Making and spreading theater
• Providing direct relief to those in need
• Empowering people and communities

Thank you so much. Please take care of yourselves and each other.

Peace, power, and love to you,
Theater in Asylum

Making and spreading theater

• The Anthropologists is dedicated to the collaborative creation of investigative theatre that inspires action. Rooted in research and community engagement and shaped by physical theatre techniques, they’re committed to exploring current social topics from an anthropological perspective in order to break down and unleash cultural discoveries. Donate here.
• The Boxcutter Collective is a politically active crew of puppeteers, artists and performers committed to using art to create a hopeful reimagining of our reality. They believe cultural change precedes political change and are committed (and compelled!) to use their weirdo-puppet skills to create new accessible art for collective transformation. Donate here.
• The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music is a multi-faceted arts space showcasing folk and traditional music and art from New York City, the Americas, and the world. Their programming supports artists, fosters community, and provides enrichment and education about our shared musical heritage. Donate here.
• National Black Theatre. NBT’s mission is: 1) To produce transformational and dialogue-generative theatre that successfully shifts inaccuracies around African Americans' cultural identity by telling authentic, intersectional stories of Black life. 2) To use theatre as a means to educate, enrich, entertain, empower and inform national consciousness around the social issues impacting our communities. 3) To provide a courageous and supportive space for artists of the Black diaspora to hone their entrepreneurial spirit and articulate the complexity, beauty and artistic excellence intrinsic in how we experience the world through their craft—acting, directing, producing, creative placemaking, designing and/or playwriting. Donate here.

Providing direct relief to those in need

• Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides independent, impartial medical humanitarian assistance to the people who need it most. MSF cares for people affected by conflict, disease outbreaks, natural and human-made disasters, and exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries. Donate here.
• The TEARS Foundation, an international organization that seeks to lift the financial burden from families that have lost a child by providing funds to assist with the cost of burials or cremation services. They also provided access to grief support groups and peer companions, as well as other forms of bereavement care. For more information or to make a donation, click HERE.
• TLC NYC, a heroic organization working on the front lines, welcoming asylum seekers to NYC and connecting them with resources. Team TLC NYC is an all-volunteer organization proudly committed to providing basic needs and support to asylum seekers and migrants. They aim to make the lives of those seeking a better place to live safer and brighter. Team TLC NYC is an affiliate group of Grannies Respond / Abuelas Responden, Inc." Donate here.
• Resilience Force is a national initiative to transform America’s response to disasters by strengthening and securing America’s Resilience Workforce—the millions of people whose work, heart and expertise make sustainable recovery from disasters possible. Disasters are now a fact of life in America. Every year, they increase in frequency and impact. Disasters are changing all of our lives, and no one is more important in shaping how we plan for them than the people we depend on to prepare, respond and recover. It’s the work of the Resilience Workforce (many of whom are migrants with limited legal protections) that allows us to adapt and thrive. Learn more and potentially donate here.

Empowering people and communities

• GreenLatinos is an active comunidad of Latino/a/x leaders, emboldened by the power and wisdom of our culture, united to demand equity and dismantle racism, resourced to win our environmental, conservation, and climate justice battles, and driven to secure our political, economic, cultural, and environmental liberation. Donate here.
  

Dear friends,

What a year 2022 has been! Through times of great struggles, we’ve seen so many incredible organizations step up to support communities and fight for what’s right. We are inspired by these groups and want to help amplify the great work they do, as we do throughout the year in our Cold Readings series.

This Giving Tuesday, we ask you to consider supporting one (or more!) of the organizations we highlighted this year. Below, see a loosely-categorized list of heroes who are:

• Making and spreading theater
• Providing direct relief to those in need
• Working for a more peaceful planet
• Offering legal support and encouraging civic engagement
• Empowering people and communities
• Working to make our housing, healthcare, and education systems more equitable

Thank you so much. Please take care of yourselves and each other.

Peace, power, and love to you,
Theater in Asylum

Making and spreading theater

• The Anthropologists is dedicated to the collaborative creation of investigative theatre that inspires action. Rooted in research and community engagement and shaped by physical theatre techniques, they’re committed to exploring current social topics from an anthropological perspective in order to break down and unleash cultural discoveries. Formed in 2008, past provocations have included: “why do Americans need so much stuff?” (EXCESS – a dance play inspired by The Cherry Orchard) and “who gets access to food?” (GIVE US BREAD, hailed by The New York Theatre Experience as “a thoroughly entertaining and thought provoking play mixing elements of dance and stylized movement to create a piece that is wholly within its own hybrid Anthropologists genre.”) Their work has been described as “eerie and weird in the best way” (Culturebot) and “incisive, even necessary work for the present moment.” (Culture Catch). Donate here.
• The Boxcutter Collective is a politically active crew of puppeteers, artists and performers committed to using art to create a hopeful reimagining of our reality. They believe cultural change precedes political change and are committed (and compelled!) to use their weirdo-puppet skills to create new accessible art for collective transformation. Donate here.
• The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music is a multi-faceted arts space showcasing folk and traditional music and art from New York City, the Americas, and the world. Their programming supports artists, fosters community, and provides enrichment and education about our shared musical heritage. Donate here.
• National Black Theatre. NBT’s mission is: 1) To produce transformational and dialogue-generative theatre that successfully shifts inaccuracies around African Americans' cultural identity by telling authentic, intersectional stories of Black life. 2) To use theatre as a means to educate, enrich, entertain, empower and inform national consciousness around the social issues impacting our communities. 3) To provide a courageous and supportive space for artists of the Black diaspora to hone their entrepreneurial spirit and articulate the complexity, beauty and artistic excellence intrinsic in how we experience the world through their craft—acting, directing, producing, creative placemaking, designing and/or playwriting. Donate here.

Providing direct relief to those in need

• Hispancic Federation's direct aid Hurricane Relief Fund is on the ground in Puerto Rico providing emergency relief services and essential supplies to the communities most affected by the hurricanes, most recently Hurricane Fiona. They also work with people living in Florida and the Dominican Republic. Hispanic Federation works through their network of community-based nonprofits serving Latino and immigrant communities to provide essential disaster relief services to those most in need. Donate here.
• Spanish Sin Pena is a Spanish language program for Lantinx folks learning/re-learning the language, and they are currently mobilizing to go to Puerto Rico to participate in relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona. Donate here.
• Ukrainian Emergency Performing Arts Fund. Support the artists who stayed in Ukraine during in this time of war. Viktor Ruban and the team of Ruban Production ITP made a decision to create “Ukrainian Emergency Performing Arts Fund” on the basis of non-profit CO “Impulse Transformation Platform”. They opened two separate accounts in EUR and USD to collect funds. These donations will allow them to provide emergency microgrant help of 8000 UAH (approximately 250€) to each Ukrainian artist (dance and theater domain) in the independent arts scene staying in Ukraine, upon their request. Donate here.
• USA for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Established by concerned American citizens, USA for UNHCR is a non-profit organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C. USA for UNHCR envisions a world without refugees, and works to protect and empower refugees by providing in-person support, food, shelter, and care to those displaced by crisis and conflict. Learn more about USA for UNHCR’s campaign to support Ukrainian refugees and donate here.

Working for a more peaceful planet

• The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation was founded in 1982 to pursue denuclearizing actions and achieve a just and peaceful world. Believing that peace is more than the absence of war, the NAPF serves as a forum for the study of human flourishing. Through publications, lectures, activism, and legal actions, the NAPF fosters a community committed to the protection of humanity’s future. The NAPF works with distinguished politicians, activists, artists, scholars and scientists to build an ongoing library of utopian ideas and a toolkit for practical activism. Donate here.

Offering legal support and encouraging civic engagement

• Represent Women’s mission is to strengthen our democracy by advancing reforms that break down barriers to ensure more women can run, win, serve, and lead. Even following several "record"-breaking election cycles for women candidates, women continue to be underrepresented at every level of elected office. More women in elected and appointed positions at every level of government will strengthen our democracy by making it more representative, reviving bi-partisanship and collaboration, improving the deliberative process, encouraging a new style of leadership, and building greater trust in our elected bodies. Donate here.

Empowering people and communities

• Building Trades for Worker Democracy is a grassroots organization working to democratize unions and engage rank and file members with the larger struggle. This organization is just getting started and donations right now can be sent via Venmo to Chris Schroth. Venmo: @chris-schroth
• El Nido de Esperanza is a non-profit organization that seeks to break the cycle of poverty by changing the first 1,000 days of a child’s life. They work with families from pregnancy through the child’s third birthday. They believe in tackling poverty neighborhood by neighborhood and empowering the mamas. Community matters- particularly when you are a new immigrant mama. Knowledge matters- particularly when you didn’t have strong role models growing up. Donate here.
• The mission of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center is to provide high-quality legal services to low-income immigrants, and to advocate for human rights. Las Americas is based in El Paso, Texas providing free and low-cost legal services to immigrants and refugees in West Texas and New Mexico. We have served over 30,000 people from over 80 countries since 1987. Las Americas provides legal representation through both attorneys and accredited representatives through the Department of Justice. Donate here.
• The National Black Doll Museum of History and Culture owns a collection of over 7,000 Black dolls, some dating back to the late 1700s - one of the most significant collections in the world. Unable to have visitors or run workshops during the pandemic, it was unfortunately forced to close in 2020. The National Black Doll Museum was the only brick-and-mortar museum in the U.S. devoted to the art, craft, history and preservation of Black dolls. The Museum’s collection is so significant that the Smithsonian once attempted to acquire it. The city of Attleboro, MA, has acquired a large piece of land earmarked for cultural development and is keen to welcome a brand new and improved National Black Doll Museum to relocate to this new site. Donate here.

Working to make our housing, healthcare, and education systems more equitable

• The Center for Reproductive Rights is a global human rights organization of lawyers and advocates who ensure reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights for the dignity, equality, health, and well-being of every person. Donate here.
• Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world. They are roughly 450 people of 70-plus nationalities who are country experts, lawyers, journalists, and others who work to protect the most at risk, from vulnerable minorities and civilians in wartime, to refugees and children in need. They direct their advocacy towards governments, armed groups and businesses, pushing them to change or enforce their laws, policies and practices. They partner with organizations large and small across the globe to protect embattled activists and to help hold abusers to account and bring justice to victims. Human Rights Watch is currently working all over the world, most recently notably Iran. Donate here.
• The Kwek Society is focused on supplying Native students and communities the period products they need to maintain their dignity and celebrate their strength and their moon times. They collaborate with schools and Native programs across North America, in rural areas, suburbs and cities, to eliminate period poverty among Native Americans. We educate about moon time as a time for celebration and we work to support the dignity and strength of all we serve. Donate here.