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 specifically honor the people of Nacotchtank, who were decimated as a result of European colonization. Also known as the Anacostans, they lived along the banks of the Anacostia River and in several villages in and around Capitol Hill. 

By the 1700s, the Nacotchtank had merged with other peoples, including the Pamunkey and Piscataway, who still exist today. 

The buildings of FCNL, FCNL Education Fund, and Friends Place on Capitol Hill stand on their ancestral land. 

Read a reflection on this land acknowledgement.