Help Us Keep Our Mission Alive

Pgh Prison Book Project appreciates donations of any amount, which all go towards packing, mailing and purchasing books. For $5 a month you can send packages to 3 people a month! Just 50 people paying $5 can meet a full week of mailing costs. All donations to Pgh Prison Book Project are tax-deductible.

To donate click on the button below to go to Thomas Merton Center's Donation Page and select Pittsburgh Prison Book Project!

Checks can be made out to "The Thomas Merton Center" with "Pittsburgh Prison Book Project" as the memo and mailed to:

The Thomas Merton Center
1256 Franklin Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15221

Suggested Donation Amounts

  • $5 – Send books to 3 people!

  • $25 – Send a bulk box! Cover the cost of one box filled with packages for 15 people!

  • $100 – New Book Purchases! When we’re able to fill our all requests we’re able to spend additional funds on purchasing in demand books that don’t get donated to us including legal dictionaries, African history, wiccan, business and real estate books!


    Thank you for helping to provide books - and freedom- to the men and women in Pennsylvania prisons. We hope, with your support, to soon be able to fill all of the requests we receive each month.