Thank you for making a donation to The Drinking Gourd Project. Your gift will help establish a permanent African American and Abolitionist Heritage Tour in Concord, and provide educational resources for Concord schools and community groups.

Make a donation online

By selecting the ‘donate’ button below, you will be taken to PayPal, our secure online payment partner, to make your gift. If you would like to indicate how you would like us to use your donation, please do so in the ‘payment notes’ section.

To mail your donation, please send it to:

The Drinking Gourd Project
c/o Concord Carlisle Human Rights Council
P.O. Box 744
Concord, MA 01742

We are a tax-deductible, non-profit organization. All members receive our newsletter, Climate for Freedom. To help fund this project, please send checks made out to The Drinking Gourd Project/CCHRC, to Concord-Carlisle Human Rights Council, P.O. Box 744, Concord, MA 01742.

Call us at (978) 369-6365 .

Your donation will go a long way and can:

• Pay the costs to Save the Caesar Robbins House.
• Establish a permanent African American and Abolitionist Heritage Tour in Concord.
• Provide training for the Concord guides.
• Provide educational resources for Concord schools and community groups.
• Provide trail markers, maps and training for town guides.
• Create an iPod download to accompany self-guided African American and Abolitionist tours.
• Researching and documenting Concord’s African American and Abolitionist history.
• Creating educational resources and tools for schools and community groups.
• Providing a marker for Peter Hutchinson’s unmarked grave site in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
• Present Concord’s three elementary schools with a framed copy of the Petition to Lincoln to Abolish Slavery signed by over 150 Concord school children, together with a copy of Lincoln’s handwritten response.