Sangha Jewels – We Thank You!

July 31, 2025

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Results & Gratitude
BZC’s Peer-to-Peer Fundraiser
June–July, 2025

Our 2025 Peer-to-Peer Fundraiser is now complete. Thank you to our incredible community of supporters! We’d like to share the results and what it means for our sangha going forward.


In June and July, 2025, our sangha came together and raised $12,226 through 13 individual fundraising pages and 127 total donations. While we didn’t reach our original goal, what we accomplished together during this challenging time for Brooklyn Zen Center (BZC) speaks to the strength and compassion of our community.

Whether you donated, fundraised, shared posts, offered encouragement, or held us in your thoughts – thank you. Community support comes in many forms, and we’ve felt all of them during this campaign.

The messages you shared on our fundraising pages also helped cheer us all on. Here are just a few examples:

“We’re with you!”
“Supporting you all!”

“May the sangha grow and flourish. We all needrefuge and caring community in these times.”

Thank You! These words, along with so many others, reminded us that we’re not alone in this work.

To those who contributed financially: your gifts are being put to immediate use helping BZC stabilize and continue serving our community.

To those who couldn’t contribute financially but supported in other ways: your presence, your shares, your words of encouragement, and your continued participation in our programs matter just as much.

To those of you who created pages and reached out for donations: you stepped up and advocated for BZC and on behalf of our sangha during a vulnerable time – a profound gift in itself.

Moving Forward: With your support we continue to diligently address our challenges while serving the dharma. Your continued engagement with BZC – whether through programs, volunteering, membership, or simply showing up – is what makes this sacred work possible.

With boundless gratitude,

Brooklyn Zen Center, Staff & Board