As a Quaker-governed organization, the Fund provides research, content and knowledge to equip advocates and organizers concerned with building peace, establishing justice, and creating a sustainable planet.
Our work on these issues is grounded by Quaker faith and practice, as expressed in our core values and the principles of anti-racism, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusiveness.
Every day, people in our communities experience the frustration and indignity of struggling to pay rent and put food on the table. By most measures, the United States is a country of wealth. Yet, for many people, the economy isn’t working.
We seek a country where everyone can thrive and experience true abundance.
While the U.S. government is critical to national and global efforts to meet the challenge of climate change, if it is going to be part of the solution, we need strong leadership. Our moral obligation to address climate change and protect vulnerable communities transcends partisanship. We must change the conversation on climate change to pave the way for meaningful solutions to deal with this crisis.
We seek a world where the climate crisis is addressed with justice and our earth is restored.
Gun violence is a public health crisis that our country has been facing for decades. We know we can do better for our children.
We seek a society where we can feel safe in our communities without the risk of violent death.
Right now, U.S. migration policy criminalizes basic human phenomena and imposes violence on vulnerable people.
We seek a country marked by migration justice, where people can migrate to the United States regardless of their wealth or skill levels. Read the Quaker Statement on Migration to learn more.
Everyone loses when people are locked away. Incarceration denies the opportunities for rehabilitation and healing that are necessary for a person to fulfill their potential. This is a loss not only to the individual and their family, but to society as a whole.
We seek a transformation of our current criminal legal system, which today is used principally as an instrument of retribution — a policy contrary to our Quaker beliefs. Violence interruption programs are a key way to increase the peace.
Friends are called to help build a foundation for peace in the world. When crises break out in the Middle East, the United States too often turns to violence first.
Political grievances contribute to instability and violence. We seek lasting peace in the region, which will require engagement with all stakeholders and an end to U.S. complicity in the violence.
The federal government should be accountable to Native American tribes, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians. It has a trust responsibility to protect and enhance tribal self-determination and economic prosperity.
We seek a way forward to right relationships.
Decades after the Cold War, the drive to build nuclear weapons continues, energized in no small part by the policies of the U.S. government.
The faith of Quakers is grounded in the belief that there is that of God in every person. The awful power of nuclear weapons indiscriminately threatens all people.
We seek a world free from the threat of nuclear weapons.
As Quakers, we have a vision of a world free of war and the threat of war. U.S. foreign policy needs to stop being overly militarized and instead prevent, mitigate, and transform violent conflict. War is not the answer. There are alternatives.
Check out a discussion of how our Quaker testimony of peace applies to one specific conflict.
As Psalm 34:14 calls us, we seek peace and pursue it.
Since September 11, U.S. presidents have expanded our country’s military presence around the world. The result has been a ballooning military budget, a legacy of torture and other unlawful mistreatment, indefinite detention at Guantanamo Bay, the use of drones to kill people far from traditional battlefields, and the deaths of thousands of civilians. We can dismantle our structures of militarism.
We seek a world free from war and the threat of war.
The damaging effects of money on our politics are clear. When money pours into our elections, the voices of average Americans are silenced. Voter suppression, too, continues to threaten our democracy.
We seek a world where every voice is heard and every vote is counted.
“I became a sustainer right out of college to remain connected to a faith community that was speaking up for justice. Working as an FCNL Advocacy Corps organizer in 2017-18 reinforced my commitment. I saw how my support helped create change in public policy and in the lives of other young adults.”
— Jonathan Jae-an Crisman, Los Angeles, CA
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