Friends for a Non-Violent World
Participate in some March Goodness!
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You can help FNVW convert the usual March Madness into March Goodness.

We're among 32 progressive non-profits selected nationwide for matching funds through Razoo.com. 

The 4 organizations with the most donors--$10 and up-- will get some of a $5,000 match.

Can we count on you to add to our donor count?

How?  Click here.

Want more details?  Keep reading.

Razoo.com and GiveMN, the team that coordinated a 24-hour on-line giving campaign last October, are hosting "March Goodness," coinciding with the "March Madness" basketball tournament, for progressives nationwide.  Here's how it works:

 32 small nonprofits will compete to see who can get donations from the most people.  It's not the dollar amount that matters, it's the number of unique donors. FNVW stands to win a portion of $5,000 in award money if we can get enough people to contribute online through Razoo.com between March 15 and March 30.  That's today through Tuesday, March 30.

Please spread word about FNVW's good work among your friends, neighbors, relatives, and co-workers. If you are on Facebook, we'd love for you to put March Goodness on your page.  If you Twitter, today would be a terrific time to TWEET!  Donations as small as $10 count toward our total.

If you believe FNVW's transformational workis important in helping build peace through justice, please take this opportunity to give as much as you can, and give FNVW a piece of $5,000 in award money.

"What specifically would your nonprofit do with the award money?"

That's the question that Razoo.com asked the 32 Minnesota non-profits--including FNVW--which they chose for their March Madness on-line fundraising campaign.

Here is what we told them:

Friends for a Non-Violent World is a Minnesota-grown, Quaker-inspired organization which promotes and creates transformational change on an individual, family (broadly defined), institutional and societal level.  We are supported almost entirely by individual contributions, Quaker Meetings and other faith-based groups, and the dedicated efforts of hundreds of volunteers.

Our programs animate our mission in four vital arenas:

  1. AVP Group Hug
    Alternatives to Violence Project brings intensive weekend workshops on non-violent conflict resolution and non-violence life skills into five prison and jail settings.  AVP transforms the lives of incarcerated people, impacted families, and all of our communities.  AVP is starting negotiation with two new state prisons: Shakopee Women and Moose Lake Medium Security Men.  We are stepping up our community workshops in order to train more volunteer facilitators.  A larger pool of community facilitators means we can hit the ground running once these facilities invite us in.
  2. Peace Education Program continues our unique Ways of Peace conference series.  Through this series we invite our members and the broader community to actively examine non-violence in major faiths and in secular
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    traditions. (Stay tuned for "Ways of Peace II: Non-Violence in the Traditions of Islam" this October!)

  3. Peace in the Precincts transforms the political process to make justice, sustainability and peace the principles by which to measure candidates.  Peace in the Precincts sponsored 3 resolutions at the February 2nd Precinct Caucuses, and has incubated innovative grassroots electoral strategies since 2003.

  4. People Camp provides families of all types and individuals a community in which to live, work and learn non-violence each summer.  It's a week of experiential workshops, cooperatively-run camp functions, music and
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    recreation in a northern Minnesota camp setting.

We are a widely diverse base of volunteers and supporters, unified by our belief in the power of justice, sustainability and peace to transform our world. As always, our work is a reflection of your support, suggestion and generosity.

Please visit us on the web at www.fnvw.org, or call me at 651/917-0383.

 

For peace through justice,

Erika Thorne

Interim Executive Director