Support the Kirk Center

For more than three decades, The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal has formed students, scholars, teachers, and civic leaders in what Russell Kirk called the Permanent Things—moral imagination, ordered liberty, and reverence for our civilizational inheritance.

Your generosity sustains this work at Piety Hill in Mecosta, Michigan and across the country through seminars, fellowships, publications, and educational programs.

When you give to the Russell Kirk Center, you help cultivate new generations prepared not merely to argue for conservatism, but to embody it with wisdom, character, and gratitude.

The Russell Kirk Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization and contributions are tax-deductible.

The Kirk Center’s financials and recent IRS Form 990 are available at Candid.

More Ways to Give

Donate via Cash or Credit Card

The simplest way to support the Center is to make a secure online gift.

  • One-time or recurring gifts
  • Tribute gifts in honor or memory of a loved one
Check

Supporters of the Center may also make checks payable to:

The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal

P.O. Box 4, Mecosta, MI 49332

If you would like your gift designated for a specific program or fund, please include a note in the memo line.

Wire Transfer

Wire transfer instructions.

Make a Bequest or Planned Gift

A bequest to the Russell Kirk Center is a profound way to secure your legacy and ensure that the Permanent Things are preserved for future generations. Donors may give through their:

  • Will
  • Living trust
  • Retirement account beneficiary designation
  • Life insurance policy

A simple bequest language example: “I give to The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, a nonprofit organization located in Mecosta, Michigan, the sum of $_____ (or _____% of my estate) to be used for its general purposes.”

If you have already included the Center in your estate plans, we would be honored to know so we may express our gratitude! Here is information about the Russell Kirk Legacy Society.

For confidential assistance, please contact rklegacysociety@kirkcenter.org.

Employer Matching Gifts

Many employers match charitable contributions made by their employees and retirees—often doubling or even tripling your gift.

You may check with your employer’s human resources department to see if they offer a matching gift program. If your company provides matching funds, request a matching gift form and send it to the Center along with your contribution. We’ll take it from there.

Other options include:

  • Donor Advised Funds

  • Stock Gifts

  • IRA Charitable Rollover
    Thank you for your support of the mission and vital educational programs of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal!

 

 


By remembering the Russell Kirk Center in your estate planning, you become a member of the Russell Kirk Legacy Society.

There are a number of ways you can support the Russell Kirk Center as it seeks to recover, conserve, and enliven those enduring norms and principles that Russell Kirk called the Permanent Things. We invite you to join your legacy with Russell’s by remembering the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in your estate plans.

Learn More about the Legacy Society

2024 Year in Review

To find out what programs and achievements donations to the Russell Kirk Center made possible, see the Kirk Center’s 2024 Report.