THANK YOU! For your past support and interest in our

Mission to Promote Peace through Cultural Exchange.

As we approach this special time of year, the holidays remind us at FAF that we owe each of you a debt of thanks.

Your support for FAF, or your travel with a group on one of our cultural programs, even your general interest in our mission to create peace through mutual understanding - it is all of what makes us who we are. 

Thank you.

Because of your interest, involvement, or support: we are strong; we have impact.  Hundreds of thousands of people and communities around the world know more about each other, care more about each other, and want to find peaceful ways of communicating with each other because you support us.

(Pictured from left to right, construction crew from the International Relief Friendship Foundation, the Chinese youth delegation to the annual Youth Assembly at Fairleigh Dickinson University during their Leadership Seminar there, and a view of the Women, Water, and Food Security Conference in Calcutta - all led by FAF in 2010!)

Please consider Annual Support to Friendship Ambassadors Foundation at this time:

As volunteers, friends, attendees, group travelers, or sponsors - you helped FAF move from good to GREAT in 2010.  You have helped us teach youth leaders that global development 'lifts all the boats in the water,' you helped us demonstrate how people sharing arts and culture can bring communities closer together, and how volunteer service around the world shows our best and most positive side to those who need us the most but know of us least.

With your tax deductible, direct support this Holiday Season, we will make our Great strides greater in 2011.

Please, right now, go to: NETWORK FOR GOOD and contribute generously, today!

In recent emails, you saw how our small nonprofit organization accomplished much beyond its perceived capabilities. We would not have accomplished any of this without the trust, participation, and assistance at every level provided to our small staff by our big-hearted, enlightened sponsors who understand their place in making the world a more cooperative, better one for all.

In 2010, you and we showed how our supporters and our team can do much more than anyone expected.  How, in essence: 1 + 1 can equal 3:

· Women, Water, and Food Security Conference, Calcutta - FAF's logistical team connected women in the developed and developing world around the very basic issues of our planet's existence: food and water security in the coming decade;

· Haiti Relief - Through FAF's benefit concert in Washington D.C., we brought together hundreds of middle school youth in two orchestras along with the World Childrens' Choir, over 200 young people from coast to coast, to help UNICEF-USA offer service to earthquake-stricken children in Haiti;

· The Rights of the Child - FAF's team prepared the conference at the UN where hundreds of teens and religious leaders confronted this urgent issue;

· Disarmament and the Health - With donor support, FAF was able to offer service to two UN conferences, in Mexico and Australia, confronting these timeless issues;

· Building shelter for the needy in Latin America - FAF coordinated these efforts - with a commitment to do more in 2011.  FAF helps teens grow and learn through international service worldwide;

· FAF's most successful Youth Assembly to date - The foundation created and directs a powerful, free platform for global youth leaders to discover a better world through the success of 8 comprehensive Millennium Development Goals;        

and of course ....

· Our ongoing and amazing cultural exchanges, well-attended concert tours, and service projects - the core of FAF's work that brings people together to find mutual understanding, global cooperation, and peace.  From Peru to Japan, Costa Rica to the Philippines, our participants discovered that their very own lives were changed forever, for the better.

(Pictured, right to left: A concert in Buenos Aires, from above; singing for the 'poorest of the poor' in the Philippines, and a well-earned break on tour in Latin America)

All this because we worked together, with you supporting us, or keeping us in your best thoughts.  It all helped.  It all mattered.  It all changed who we are and made the world a better place in 2010.  Your world. Our world. 

Your support in 2011 will ensure that FAF continue to serve in the 'soft' but important areas of peace- and development-building through interpersonal sharing, understanding, and cooperation between and among all the peoples of the world.

SO PLEASE,

Patrick Sciarratta

Executive Director, FAF

For the entire FAF team

P.S.  All FAF financials are posted on www.guidestar.org for full transparency.  After 37 years of nonprofit service in your name, we want to share all we are with you on every level, all year long.  Thanks again.