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  • Six Ways to Save the planet – and Ourselves

    Update | September 19, 2019
    This is powerful: hundreds of thousands of people across the globe will participate in a #climatestrike this week through creative, grassroots campaigns and actions. This dramatic momentum will push the demand to reduce carbon emissions. It will raise awareness, and it will spur commitment to change–change that must happen in business and industry, in schools and local communities, and especially policy change by national governments.
  • Special Diabetes Program for Indians

    Update | February 7, 2018
    Diabetes affects Native Americans at a higher rate than any other U.S. racial or ethnic group. In recent years, the disease has begun to afflict Native children, as well as adults.
  • Checking Our President on North Korea

    Update | October 6, 2020
    President Trump and other U.S. leaders seem almost eager for a war with North Korea, with their tough talk and tweeted taunts. South Korean efforts to pause both military exercises and North Korean provocations while building small pockets of trust around the Winter Olympics are the first encouraging signs in months.
  • Countering White Supremacy

    Advocacy Resource | June 12, 2020
    We are called to stand up for justice and love in our communities and with our elected leaders. Here are some ways we can do that.
  • What We're Reading on Yemen

    Update | June 14, 2017
    On the eve on President Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia, voices opposed to US complicity in the Saudi war in Yemen are multiplying. Sens. Todd Young and Chris Murphy spoke out on the Senate floor, Rep. Pocan spoke up in the pages of the Washington Post, and numerous experts published articles opposing the Saudi arms deals.
  • The Moral Imperative to Welcome Refugees

    Statement | September 29, 2016
    Today the global community faces the worst refugee crisis since World War II, with upwards of 60 million people displaced worldwide. Syrian refugees alone, either internally displaced or seeking resettlement, total approximately 12 million.
  • Updates

    Page | January 28, 2025
  • FCNL at Yearly Meetings

    Event |  -
    How is Spirit moving through your yearly meeting? Through FCNL’s virtual “travel” to yearly meetings, we join in meeting for business and meeting for worship, hear leadings and concerns, and share the broader work of the Religious Society of Friends as it manifests through FCNL’s advocacy.
  • Setting Legislative Priorities

    Page | January 4, 2024
    A distinctive feature of the Friends Committee on National Legislation is our practice of asking Quakers around the country to help shape our work.
  • Seeks Series

    Update | December 2, 2020
    This Spring, an unconventional Friend in Washington joins FCNL at 205 C. St. Joey Hartmann-Dow is a Young Adult Friend from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, currently collaborating with FCNL to create a series of comic books about lobbying.