As a Quaker organization, FCNL Education Fund, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, reflects historic Quaker testimonies on peace, equality, simplicity, and integrity in our practices and values.
Through its domestic and foreign policy legislative programs, the fund analyzes existing and proposed federal government policies that impact people’s lives and relate to the concerns of the Religious Society of Friends. This includes addressing root causes of conflict and injustices and supporting environmental stewardship.
The Education Fund works to strengthen democracy and civic engagement by educating, training, and mobilizing people across the country to engage with the policy process and build relationships with their members of Congress.
For those within and beyond our network, we provide resources and trainings in the Quaker principles that underpin our approach, and in the anti-racism, anti-bias, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion commitments that are foundational to the peaceful, just, and sustainable world we seek.
Through its communications program, the fund uses print and digital tools to educate and encourage people to be engaged in the civic and democratic processes that are the foundation of the United States.
Explore FCNL Education Fund’s financial documents.
FCNL Education Fund, established in 1982, is funded by the generosity of annual, monthly, and planned gifts from a network of thousands of individual supporters, grants from charitable foundations, and its own endowment.
Mission
The FCNL Education Fund builds a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world through civic education, research, training, and nonpartisan policy advocacy grounded in Quaker principles. We partner with two other Quaker organizations, the Friends Committee on National Legislation and Friends Place on Capitol Hill, to advance our shared vision of the world we seek.
Friends Place on Capitol Hill
In 2019, the FCNL Education Fund assumed management of Friends Place on Capitol Hill, formerly known as the William Penn House. Friends Place, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit, promotes civic engagement from a learning and hospitality center on Capitol Hill.
The house can accommodate visitors to the U.S. Capitol and host participants to training programs on advocacy and civic engagement. It is located at 515 East Capitol Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003, six blocks from the Capitol.
Quaker Welcome Center
The FCNL Education Fund operates the Quaker Welcome Center, located across the street from the Hart Senate Office building. The center is a place for nonpartisan dialogue, advocacy training for young people, and worship.
The first floor of the Quaker Welcome Center provides a living room-style meeting space and a conference room. The entrance to the center is the garden at 245 2nd Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002.
Green Buildings
When FCNL Education Fund finished renovating its main building in 2005, it earned a notable honor: 245 2nd Street became the first green building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Now, FCNL’s drive to minimize its environmental footprint has earned it a platinum rating, the highest level for a green building.
Two other buildings owned by the fund — the Quaker Welcome Center and Friends Place — are not LEED-certified. However, they were renovated by the same architects following the green building principles used in its main building.
The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program is used by the U.S. Green Building Council to measure and define what makes a green building.
Attribution
Emily Sajewski / FCNL