National Practicum Sites
BTI Listing of Peacemaking Organizations
in North America
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. In particular, Amnesty International campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience; ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners; abolish the death penalty, torture and other cruel treatment of prisoners; end political killings and “disappearances”; and oppose human rights abuses by opposition groups. Amnesty International has around a million members and supporters in 162 countries and territories.
US Office
322 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10001
Phone: + (212) 807-8400
Fax: + (212) 463-9193 (212) 627-1451
Email: admin-us@aiusa.org
Web Site: www.aiusa.org
Campaign for Forgiveness Research
Campaign for Forgiveness Research is a non-profit organization that seeks to deepen the meaning of forgiveness and build roads towards reconciliation. With support received from a variety of sponsors, A Campaign for Forgiveness Research sponsors research projects that help to heal individuals, families, communities and nations, by offering a place for sharing personal stories.
Campaign for Forgiveness Research
P.O. Box 842018
Richmond, VA 23284-2018
Phone: (804) 828-1193
Fax: (804) 828-1193
Email: glodek@templeton.org/
Web Site: http://www.forgiving.org
Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict
In May 1994 Carnegie Corporation of New York established the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict to address the looming threat to world peace of inter-group violence and to advance new ideas for the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict. An operating program of the Corporation, the Commission is co-chaired by Corporation president emeritus David A. Hamburg and Cyrus R. Vance, former U.S. secretary of state. It has a membership of sixteen eminent international leaders and scholars with long experience in conflict prevention and resolution.
This organization might be of interest to BTI.
Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict
Carnegie Corporation of New York
1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite 715
Washington, DC 20036-2103
Phone: (202) 332-7900
Fax: (202) 332-1919
Email: pdc@carnegie.org
Web Site: www.ccpdc.org
* Catherine Blount Foundation – “A Journey of Light”
The mission of the Catherine Blount Foundation is to facilitate the demonstration and teaching of the healing power of forgiveness so individuals, groups and governments can attain the change of perception that will allow them to heal old hurts and injustices and find peace. Aba Gayle lost her teenage daughter was brutally murdered, but she has miraculously found her faith and began her journey toward forgiveness, which included developing a relationship with her daughter’s murderer.
Catherine Blount Foundation – “A Journey of Light”
P.O. Box 4952
Santa Rosa, CA 95402
* Phone:
* Fax:
Email: abagayle@pacbell.net
Web Site: http://www.catherineblountfdn.org
Center for International Policy
The Center for International Policy was founded in 1975 to promote an U.S. foreign policy that reflects democratic values. Through research, education and direct public advocacy, CIP works to define and put into practice a more sympathetic, reconciliatory, farsighted and non-militaristic approach to the developing world.
Center for International Policy
1755 Massachusetts Ave NW
Suite 312
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 232-3317
Fax (202) 232-3440
Email: cip@ciponline.org
Web Site: http://www.ciponline.org
Centre for Peace in the Balkans
Centre for Peace in the Balkans is a non profit Toronto based corporation whose members are actively engaged in the collection of information and materials related to the region. Its goal is to scrutinize the cultural and geopolitical assumptions behind the West’s flawed Balkan strategy and providing support and alternative solutions to the conflict management process in the Balkans. The Centre is also working towards eliminating the discriminatory practices, which currently exist in Canada for individuals from Balkan region.
Centre for Peace in the Balkans
P.O. Box 1500-1292
Toronto, Ontario
M9C 4V5
Canada
Phone: (416) 201-9729
Fax: (416) 201-7397
Email: scontact@balkanpeace.org
Web Site: http://www.balkanpeace.org
Christian Peacemaker Teams
Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) is an organization committed to reducing violence by challenging systems of domination and exploitation. The Christian Peacemaker Teams are working closely with the Mennonite Churches, Church of the Brethren and Friends United Meeting, as well as other Christians. CPT has worked in Haiti, the Middle East, Bosnia, Chechnya, Colombia, Mexico, Canada, and the USA. In all locations, CPT responds to invitations from grassroots movements seeking to rectify injustice in nonviolent ways.
Christian Peacemakers Teams
PO Box 6508
Chicago IL, 60680-6508
Phone: (312) 455-1199
Fax: (312) 432-1213
Email: cpt@igc.apc.org
Web Site:http://www.cpt.org/
Clergy Coalition to End Executions
The Clergy Coalition to End Executions is an international interfaith coalition that fosters new alternatives in dealing with the death penalty and advocates for the end of execution. The CCEE receives moral support from the World Council of Churches and the National Council of Churches.
Clergy Coalition to End Executions
The Rev. Melodee A. Smith
139 Grant Street,
P.O. Box 147
Grantsville, MD 21536
Phone: (301) 895-4522
Fax: (301) 895-4524
Email: msmith@clergycoalition.org
Web Site: http://www.clergycoalition.org
** Coalition for Diversity & Reconciliation
The Coalition for Diversity & Reconciliation is an organization that undertakes projects, which raises the awareness on identity, creates new opportunities and demonstrates models of reconciliation. The Coalition focuses on educational projects such as essay contest, starting a book club, creating web pages and establishing a diversity section at the public library. The team is working with the YMCA in establishing and maintaining study circles.
Coexistence Initiative
Coexistence Initiative is a non-profit organization that provides resources for those working in community rebuilding, reconciliation, conflict resolution, multiculturalism and war studies. The Coexistence Initiative seeks to catalyse a global awareness of, and commitment to, creating a world safe for difference. To achieve this mission, the Initiative develops and promotes programs for positive coexistence among people who are different.
Coexistence Initiative
477 Madison Avenue, 4th Floor,
New York, NY 10022 USA
Phone: (212) 303-9445
Fax: (212) 980-4027
Email: info@coexistence.net
Web Site: http://www.coexistence.net
Dallas Peace Center
Dallas Peace Center is a dynamic nonprofit organization that believes wholeheartedly in grassroots activism, progressive democracy and reconciliation. The mission of the Dallas Peace Center is to promote peace through action, education, dialogue and research for peace and justice. All our active campaigns are volunteer-driven and each project is constantly changing to meet current world situations.
Dallas Peace Center
4301 Bryan Street, Suite 202
Dallas, Texas 75204
Phone: 214-823-7793
Fax: 214-823-8356
Email: admin@dallaspeacecenter.org
Web Site: www.dallaspeacecenter.org
East Timor Action Network
The East Timor Action Network was founded in November 1991 to support self-determination and human rights for the people of East Timor in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 1960 United Nations General Assembly Resolution on De-colonization and Security Council and General Assembly resolutions on East Timor. Our primary focus has been to change US foreign policy and raise public awareness to support self-determination and now genuine independence for East Timor.
ETAN Washington Office
Washington Organizer
1101 Pennsylvania Ave., SE
Washington, DC 20003
Phone: (202) 544-6911
Fax: (202) 544-6118
Email: karen@etan.org (Karen Orenstein)
Web Site: http://www.etan.org
* End Violence Project
End Violence Project is a non profit organization created by Mahin Bina and a group of people with the shared vision of ending violence without violence. We provide educational programs, seminars, symposium and support group discussions. The most important approach that we use is to train and equip inmates and ex-offenders to live a non-violent life and possibly become End Violence spokespersons. The End Violence Project has received national recognition for focusing on ending the cycle of violence and including the inmates and ex-offenders as an inherent part of the process.
End Violence Project, Inc.
P.O. Box 41948
Philadelphia, PA 19101
Phone: (610)-527-2821 (800) 732-0999
* Fax:
Email: MBEVP@aol.com
Web Site http://www.endviolence.org
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Fellowship of Reconciliation is a nonviolent, interfaith, tax-exempt organization, which promotes nonviolence and seeks to replace violence, war, racism and economic injustice with nonviolence, peace and justice. FOR has members from many religious and ethnic traditions and is within the framework of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), with over 40 countries affiliated. Since 1915, The Fellowship of Reconciliation has carried on programs and educational projects concerned with domestic and international peace and justice, nonviolent alternatives to conflict and the rights of conscience.
Fellowship of Reconciliation
P.O. Box 271
Nyack, NY 10960
Phone: (845) 358-4601
Fax: (845) 358-4924
Email: for@forusa.org
Web Site http://www.forusa.org/
Foundation for Middle East Peace
The Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to provide information on Israeli-Palestinian conflict and assist in the process of reaching peaceful solutions for the future security of Israelis and Palestinians. FMEP publishes bimonthly a Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories that provides up-to-date information on Israel’s settlement policies as well as the ongoing negotiations with the Palestinians over the future of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem.
Address:
Foundation For Middle East Peace
1763 N St. NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 835-3650
Fax: (202) 835-3651
Email: info@fmep.org.
Web Site: http://www.fmep.org
* Friends Committee to Abolish the Death Penalty
FCADP advocates for the abolition of the death penalty in the United States, by fostering a better communication and support among concerned Friends. FCADP also encourages anti-death penalty activism among Friends and others; it nurtures the process of victim-victimizer reconciliation in the light of God’s love.
Friends Committee to Abolish the Death Penalty
1501 Cherry Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Phone: (215) 241-7137
* Fax:
Email: fcadp@aol.com
Web Site: http://www.quaker.org/fcadp/
Fund for Reconciliation and Development
The Fund for Reconciliation and Development is a non-profit organization that has worked for more than fifteen years to bring about normal diplomatic, cultural and economic relations with Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. FRD was the first and it remained as the only American non-governmental organization specializing in mutual understanding and cooperation with these three countries. FRD began similar work with Cuba in 1998.
Fund for Reconciliation and Development
Fund for Reconciliation & Development
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 727
New York, NY 10115
Phone: (212) 367-4220
Fax: (212) 367-4366
Email: usindo@igc.org
Web Site: www.usirp.org
Healing Center for Survivors of Political Torture
Affiliated with the California Institute of Integral Studies, the Healing Center for Survivors of Political Torture is an accredited institute of higher learning in San Francisco, which provides mental health and social services free of charge to survivors of political torture. Survivors of political torture need to be coached in a specialized process of healing because remembering and confronting the trauma can have severely deleterious effects, including retraumatization.
Healing Center for Survivors of Political Torture
9 Peter Yorke Way
San Francisco, CA 94109
Phone: (415) 241-1562
Fax: (415) 703-7222
Email: terrilynz@aol.com
International Forgiveness Institute
Established in 1994 as a private, non-profit organization, the International Forgiveness Institute was an outgrowth of the social scientific research done at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For the first couple of years, the IFI primarily answered scholars’ inquiries about setting up research programs on forgiveness. We plan to accelerate our action-oriented programs, as we help individuals, families, and communities to explore and implement forgiveness for the purpose of restoring healthy emotions, rebuilding relationships, and establishing more peaceful communities.
International Forgiveness Institute
Communications Center
6313 Landfall Drive
Madison, WI 53705
Phone: (608) 231-9117
Fax: (608) 262-9407
Email: webmaster@forgiveness-institute.org
Web Site: http://www.forgiveness-institute.org
International Reconciliation Coalition
The International Reconciliation Coalition (IRC) informs and strengthens the rapidly growing worldwide network of Christians who are applying the biblical principals of confession, repentance, reconciliation and restitution to conflicts both corporate and personal. Individuals, churches and organizations support IRC. As a network we are sensitive to the needs of the 700 plus members.
We want to build relationship with godly stewards who feel called support John and Julie Dawson, this office and its staff. If you are interested in contributing to the IRC, know others who would like to learn more about the work, or want to present the ministry to your local church please contact.
International Reconciliation Coalition
P.O. Box 3278
Ventura, CA 93006-3278 USA
Phone: (805) 642-5327
Fax: (805) 642-2588
Email: ircio@pacbell.net
Web Site: Http://www.reconcile.org
Jewish Peace Fellowship
Jewish Peace Fellowship is a Jewish voice in the peace community and a peace voice in the Jewish community. We are a nondenominational Jewish organization committed to active nonviolence as a means of resolving conflict, drawing on Jewish traditional sources within the Torah, the Talmud and contemporary peacemaking sages like Martin Buber, Judah Magnes and Abraham Joshua Heschel.
Jewish Peace Fellowship
P.O. Box 271
Nyack, NY 10960
Phone: (845) 348-4601
Fax: (845) 358-4924
Email: jpf@forusa.org
Web Site: http://www.jewishpeacefellowship.org/
* Journey of Hope … From Violence to Healing
The Journey of Hope…From Violence to Healing is a non-profit organization led by murder victims family members who support alternatives to the death penalty. The purpose of the Journey is to spotlight murder victims family members who do not seek revenge and have chosen the path of love and compassion for all of humanity. Forgiveness is seen as strength and as a way of healing.
Journey of Hope … From Violence to Healing
P.O. Box 210390
Anchorage, AK 99521-0390
Phone: (877) 924-4483 (toll free)
* Fax:
Email: Bill@journeyofhope.org
Web Site: http://www.journeyofhope.org
Middlesex Community College
Since 1996, the Middlesex Community College develops a program to assist the Phnom Penh community of Cambodia in dealing with issues on Conflict Resolution.
Middlesex Community College
Economic and Community Development
591 Springs Rd
Bedford, MA 01730
Tel: (781) 275-3534
Fax: (781) 275-0741
Email: falcettaf@middlesex.cc.ma.us
Web Site: http://www.middlesex.cc.ma.us
Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation
Members of Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation (MVFR) is a non-profit organization defined by a common experience: the murder of a loved one. We share values in response to homicide, the core of which is opposition to the death penalty. We honor the lives of our lost loved ones not by supporting more killing, but by working to fashion a criminal justice system that holds murderers accountable for their actions, protects the public, reduces violence and helps both individuals and society heal in the aftermath of homicide.
Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation
2161 Massachusetts Avenue,
Cambridge, MA 02140
Phone: (617) 868-0007
Fax: (617) 354-2832
Email: mvfrliz@yahoo.com
Web Site: http://www.mvfr.org/
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty is a coalition of organizations and individuals committed to abolish capital punishment, by informing, mobilizing and advocating for a public policy that will reject the state’s use of homocide as an instrument of social policy.
Interns are needed to identify those most in need of assistance by researching and providing case profiles of those condemned to die, to provide a voice for those silenced by the system by engaging in both legal and/or non-legal writing for NCADP publications and releases, and to help get the word out by assisting with information clearing house operations.
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
1436 U Street NW, Suite 104,
Washington, D.C. 20009.
Phones: (202) 387-3890; (888) 286-2237
Fax: (202) 387-3890
Email: info@ncadp.org
Web Site: http://www.ncadp.org
Nazareth Project
Nazareth Project, Inc. promotes a Christian ministry of healing, peace and reconciliation in the Middle East through support of health care services. By providing medical care to all individuals in the spirit of Christ without regard to religious or ethnic background, the organization bears witness that wholeness and healing for humanity is most completely found in Jesus of Nazareth.
Raises funds to support health care initiatives in the Middle East. Current support goes to Nazareth Hospital in Israel and St. Luke’s Hospital in Nablus, the West Bank. Both of these hospitals serve (and employs) all people without regard to religious or ethnic backgrounds. They also provide care to all who enter their doors with no distinction for those unable to pay for care or who do not have health insurance.
Nazareth Project, Inc.
12-B South Seventh Street,
Akron, PA 17501-1331
Phone: (717)859-1389
Fax: (717) 859-1437
Email: nazproj@redrose.net
Web Site: http://www.nazarethproject.org
Project Hearts and Minds
Project: Hearts and Minds, Inc. is a volunteer non-profit, non-governmental organization. Many of us are war veterans. We seek to put a human face on the tragedy of war. Since 1992 we have worked together, in a non-partisan way, to establish on a person-to-person basis an evolving and healing relationship of friendship and reconciliation with countries where the United States has been at war. Our present focus is Vietnam.
Project Hearts and Minds
P.O. Box 252
Thornwood, NY 10594
Phone: (973)328-5311
Fax: (973) 887-7644
Email: kelsey@email.njim.net
Web Site: http://www.users.interport.net/m/k/mklweb/illyria.com/www.illyria.com/pham.html
Reconciliation Ministries Network
The Reconciliation Ministries Network is an evangelical Christian, tax-exempt mission, which puts its efforts in advocating the reconciliation of humanity divided by race and poverty. Its vision is to perform cross-cultural ministry, especially the African American Church, and to develop strong relationships with their pastors.
Reconciliation Ministries Network
5608 Bradford Ave.,
Chattanooga, TN 37409-2211
Phone: (423) 822-1091
Fax: (423) 822-1091
Email: Info@ReconciliationNetwork.org
Web Site: http://www.reconciliationnetwork.org/
Reconciliation Mission
Reconciliation Mission is a non-profit organization that seeks to dissect the concept of race, to deconstruct its convergence with the concept of colonial expansion; that of assigning human worth and social status by using a race as a model for humanity. Its task is to offer training for local disciple teams for the purpose of instructing their members to promote an anti-racist policy and develop a pro-Reconciliation ministry.
Reconciliation Mission
P.O. Box 1986
Indianapolis, IN 46206-1986
Phone: (317) 713-2445
Fax: (317) 635-3700
Email: chaskett@cfc.disciples.org
Web Site: http://www.disciples.org/cfc/reconcil.htm
Reconciliation Networks of Our World (RNOW)
RNOW is a global, international, trans-denominational and grass-roots fellowship of Christians networking as ambassadors of reconciliation. Out of this bonding an international team is forming to facilitate the vision of reconciliation and unity of the world-wide Body of Christ. Christians of diverse backgrounds come together in reconciliation events and activities, where spiritual bonding often occurs.
Reconciliation Networks of Our World
2839 Whippoorwill Court
Tucker, GA 30084-3085 USA
Phone: (770) 934-7955
Fax: (770) 414-8610
Email melanielatham@hotmail.com
Web Site: http://www.reconciliationnetworks.org/
Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project
Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project seeks to build a powerful coalition of faith-based activists. Nationally, it works with official religious bodies to develop strategies and to promote anti-death penalty activism within each faith tradition. At the grassroots level, the project links with individuals and faith communities, establishing “covenant” relationships to foster local abolition efforts.
Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project
c/o Criminal Justice Program,
American Friends Service Committee
1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Phone: (215) 241-7130
Fax: (215) 241-7119
Email: information@deathpenaltyreligious.org
Resource Center for Non-Violence
The Resource Center for Non-Violence is a twenty-five year old peace and social justice organization dedicated to promoting the principles of nonviolent social change and enhancing the quality of life and human dignity. It offers a wide-range of educational programs in the history, theory, methodology and current practice of nonviolence as a force for personal and social change. The Resource Center has an international focus, with interns coming from Bosnia, Herzegovnia, as well as from California. Our programs focus on places as far as the Middle East and as near as Southern Mexico and our own neighborhood.
The Resource Center for Nonviolence in Santa Cruz, California, offers an Internship Program in which persons interested in learning more about nonviolent community organizing come and join in the work of the Center’s staff and supporters. Interns take advantage of college field-study or extramural education programs, vacation times, or other transitional periods in their lives to come and live in Santa Cruz, participate in the day-to-day activity of the Resource Center, plan and help direct community service programs with the staff, pursue their own studies in the Center’s extensive library of literature on Nonviolence, as well as participating in the Center’s wide variety of public education events. When possible, they are also provided with low-cost communal housing at the Center.
Resource Center for Nonviolence
515 Broadway
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Phone: (831) 423-1626
Fax: (831) 423-8716
Email: bookstore@rcnv.org
Web Site www.rcnv.org
Restitution Incorporated
Restitution Incorporated is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting healing between offenders and victims by helping offenders make restitution for their crimes. We believe that every offender has a gift that can be used to give back to the victim or to the community that has been harmed. Rather than returning offence or harm, rather than dreaming of revenge, they stop the evil at themselves, they exhaust its venom.
Restitution Incorporated
106-E Melrose Place
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516
Phone: (919) 932-7680
Fax: (919) 932-7680
Email: comments@restitutioninc.org
Web Site: http://www.restitutioninc.org/
Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution
Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR) was organized in 1972, growing out of the labor-management mediation and arbitration movement. SPIDR performs three primary functions. It guards the standards and ethics of the field of dispute resolution and collaborative decision-making. It seeks to develop the intellectual and professional roots of the field to educate the public about various dispute resolution procedures that were available in order to clarify the expanding role of the conflict resolver; and it supports its members and provides them with tangible and intangible membership benefits.
Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution
1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Third Floor
Washington, D.C. 20036
Phone: (202) 667-9700
Fax: (202) 265-1968
Email: spidr@spidr.org
Web Site: http://www.spidr.org/
* Trauma Research, Education and Training Institute
Trauma Research, Education and Treating Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing psychotherapists’ and other trauma workers’ abilities to provide effective ethical treatment for survivors of traumatic life experiences. Our mission is to pursue work through programs as professional training, community education and research on the psychological impact of trauma on survivors, the impact of this work on both therapists and clients, and effective interventions with therapists and clients.
Trauma Research, Education and Training Institute
22 Morgan Farms Drive,
South Windsor, CT 06074
Phone: (860) 644-2541
Fax:
Email: info@tsicaap.com
Web Site: http://tsicaap.com/treati.htm .
Veterans Vietnam Restoration Project
The VVRP is a small non-governmental organization (NGO). Our primary mission is to provide American veterans and others with opportunities to return to Vietnam for humanitarian service. We operate under the premise that returning to Vietnam, working directly on community projects and returning to places where they served helps veterans heal the legacy of our war. We are very proud of our part in the peace process and reconciliation.
Veterans Vietnam Restoration Project
P.O. Box 369
Garberville, CA 95542
Phone: (707) 923-3357
Fax: (707) 923-3357
Email: tpowers@sonic.net
Web Site: http://www.vvrp.org
Victim Offender Reconciliation Program
The Victim Offender Reconciliation Program of the Central Valley, Inc., (VORP) advocates to offer an alternative process to judges, police and probation officers in dealing with criminal offenses. Meetings are arranged between offenders and their victims providing the opportunity for communication, responsibility, restitution and reconciliation. VORP offers a very practical total or partial substitute for jail or prison incarceration.
Victim Offender Reconciliation Program of the Central Valley, Inc.
2529 Willow Avenue
Clovis, CA 93612
Phone: (559) 291-1120,
Fax: (559) 291-8214
Email: vorp@fresno.edu
Web Site: http://www.vorp.org/
* Visions of Peace with Justice in Israel/Palestine
Visions of Peace with Justice in Israel/Palestine is an organization that works to promote a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians based on mutual respect, justice and equality. The peace we envision is one in which Jews and Palestinians share the land of Israel/Palestine and its resources, acknowledging and respecting each other’s rights as equal citizens and neighbors, free from violence and able to develop their own futures with full respect for human and civil rights.
Visions of Peace with Justice in Israel/Palestine
44 Cypress St.
Brookline, MA 02445
Tel: (617) 984-0532
* Fax: (617)
Email: info@vopj.org
Web Site: http://www.vopj.org
Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation
WWFOR is a faith-based pacifist organization, which works on a variety of peace and justice issues. WWFOR is affiliated with local chapters, the national FOR and the international Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation
225 North 70th St.
Seattle, WA 98103
Phone: (206) 789-5565
Fax: (206) 789-5565
Email: wwfor@connectexpress.com
Web Site: http://www.scn.org/wwfor/
Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance
The Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance is a non-profit, tax exempt educational foundation. The mission of the Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance is to celebrate the healing power of forgiveness worldwide through the establishment of the first global holiday, International Forgiveness Day, to be celebrated annually by every country on the first Sunday of August, in or before the year 2005. As a grass-roots networking organization, we are committed to generating increased interest and support for our various programs from national leaders, mayors, community church organizations and individuals.
We also provide detailed material and seminars on the power of forgiveness.
Robert W. Plath, Founder
International Forgiveness Day
20 Sunnyside Ave., Suite A268
Mill Valley, CA 94941
Phone: (415) 381-3372
Fax: (415) 381-3372
Email woodyk@mediaone.net
Web Site http://www.forgivenessday.org
World Relief Corporation
World Relief Corporation is a non-profit organization that works with the church in alleviating human suffering worldwide in the name of Christ. World Relief Corporation’s mission is accomplished by the way in which we shape collective values; by our response to the hungry, refugees, other homeless persons, and victims of war and disaster; and by our empathy with those who live with little hope or under oppression.
World Relief Corporation
P.O. Box WRC
Whaton, IL 60189
Phone: (630) 665- 0235
Fax: (630) 665-4473
Email: pbaarendse@wr.org
Web Site: http://www.worldrelief.org
World Vision International
World Vision International is a global partnership of Christians whose mission is to follow our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in working with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation, seek reconciliation and justice, and bear witness to the good news of the kingdom of God.
World Vision International
800 West Chestnut Ave.
Monrovia, CA 91016
Phone: (626) 303-8811
Fax: (626) 301-7786
Email: info@wvi.org
Web Site: http://www.wvi.org/