FCNL Education Fund

The FCNL Education Fund, a 501 (c)3 nonprofit, promotes civic engagement through education and training to achieve a peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

The Fund covers a range of peace and justice issues determined every two years by more than 200 Quaker meetings, churches, and organizations. 

FCNL Ed Fund's Mwandeyi Kamwendo leads training

As a Quaker organization, the Fund provides research, content and knowledge to equip people who are concerned with organizing and advocating to build peace, establish justice, and create a sustainable planet.

The Fund works with two other national, nonpartisan, Quaker nonprofit organizations: Friends Committee on National Legislation, a 501(c)(4), and Friends Place on Capitol Hill, a 501(c)(3).

Peace flag

Through our Young Adult Program, the Education Fund has provided training for generations of young people from a wide range of backgrounds on policy issues, advocacy, and other forms of civic engagement. It includes support for the Program Assistant Fellowship, the Advocacy Corps, and Spring Lobby Weekend, an annual young adult advocacy training program. Many Young Adult Program alumni now lead organizations committed to justice and peace. 

The Education Fund also supports our nationwide Advocacy Teams Network. The Network is made up of more than 1,500 Quakers and friends across the country organized into over 135 local teams who build relationships with their members of Congress and use their power as constituents to make change in Washington. 

Indigenous Land Acknowledgement

As we bear witness and lobby in solidarity with Native Americans, we also honor the Nacotchtank tribe on whose ancestral land the FCNL, FCNL Education Fund, and Friends Place on Capitol Hill buildings stand. They are also known as the Anacostans, the Indigenous people who lived along the banks of the Anacostia River, including in several villages on Capitol Hill and what is now Washington, D.C. By the 1700s, the Nacotchtank tribe had merged with other tribes like the Pamunkey and the Piscataway, both of which still exist today.