Spring Lobby Weekend

Each year more than 400 students, recent grads, Quakers, and young adults gather to learn and lobby Congress at FCNL’s Spring Lobby Weekend.

Spring Lobby Weekend Participants Holding Love They Neighbor Sign
Jannifer Domenick

Spring Lobby Weekend 2023

March 25-28, 2023 | Washington, D.C.

Save the date for Spring Lobby Weekend 2023. This four day conference will bring together hundreds of students, recent grads, Quakers, and young adults to learn about their power as advocates and lobby Congress.

Spring Lobby Weekend 2022

Spring Lobby Weekend 2022 particpants walk to White House holding "love thy neighbor" signs
DAG Photo

March 12-15, 2022
More than 400 advocates gathered in-person and online for our first-ever hybrid Spring Lobby Weekend. We heard from powerful speakers about the decades-long effort to create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Together, we discussed the stories we bring to our advocacy, practiced how to lobby, and learned from each other and experts about our policy ask: urging Congress to enact a pathway to citizenship for all 11 million of our undocumented neighbors.

Virtual Spring Lobby Weekend 2021

Spring Lobby Weekend 2021

March 20-22, 2021
Hundreds of young adult advocates from all around the U.S. brought a clear and compelling message to Congress: Our country needs urgent action to end the crisis of systemic racism and militarization in policing.Hundreds of young adult advocates from all around the U.S. brought a clear and compelling message to Congress: Our country needs urgent action to end the crisis of systemic racism and militarization in policing.

Virtual Spring Lobby Weekend 2020

Spring Lobby Weekend 2020 participants

March 29-31, 2020
Hundreds of young advocates from all around the U.S. brought a clear and compelling message to Congress: now is the time to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, mitigate the damage already being done by climate change, and protect vulnerable communities by passing carbon pricing legislation.

Spring Lobby Weekend 2019

That Was Powerful

March 23-26, 2019
Five hundred young advocates from all around the U.S. brought a clear and compelling message to Congress: Reject increased funding for immigration detention and deportation. Invest in alternatives to detention and expand accountability.

Spring Lobby Weekend 2018

Spring Lobby Weekend participants holding sign that says "build bridges, not walls"
Jennifer Domenick

Marcy 23-26, 2018
Right before a major spending vote in Congress, 425 young adults came to Washington, DC from across the U.S. to lobby for a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers without hurting border communities or immigrant families.