As a member of Chicago Torture Justice Memorial Foundation’s Social Justice Pollinator Hive (our community of recurring donors), we’ve been busy working to close the funding gap needed to build Chicago’s historic memorial honoring survivors of police torture and the movement that fought to make reparations possible. We’re pushing hard to break ground in 2026 and we’ve been collaborating with city officials and philanthropic partners to close the rest of the gap. Just this week the Chicago City Council’s Committee on Housing and Real Estate voted to transfer the four plots of land to CTJMF for the future Chicago Torture Justice Memorial.
To get there, CTJMF is calling on individual donors to help meet a $25,000 match challenge from the Joseph and Bessie Feinberg Foundation by the end of 2025. Most of us can’t give $25K alone — but together, our Social Justice Pollinator Hive is aiming to collectively raise it.
If you’re able to donate, please include my name in the note so it’s counted toward our hive’s match. Every single dollar moves us closer. No amount is too small.
Here is the donation link for the fundraising campaign: https://givebutter.com/jXJVfs
Bill Ayers 