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:
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.
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
traditions. (Stay tuned for "Ways of Peace II: Non-Violence in
the Traditions of Islam" this October!)
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.
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
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