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  • Quaker Lobby Believes Foreign Aid Budgets Being Unfairly Targeted and Cut

    Press Release | July 17, 2023
    FCNL, in conjunction with more than 50 other organizations dedicated to promoting peace while advancing and protecting human rights, warned that the recently approved cuts are a sure-fire recipe for instability, heightened insecurity, and suffering.

  • Our Approach

    Page | July 26, 2023

    Because our lawmakers are making decisions about people’s lives, we must be ready to work with them, regardless of party or agreement on all issues. We meet both policymakers and advocates where they are and seek opportunities to work together where there is common ground.

  • Celebrating Quaker Changemakers

    Update | 

    For Quakers, faith is not practiced only in a particular building, on a particular day of the week. We are invited to let our lives speak, to demonstrate our beliefs with each decision and action.  

  • Faith Leaders to DHS: Bring Juan Back Home

    Press Release | December 9, 2020
    Washington D.C. - Following news that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) beneficiary Juan Manuel Montes was deported, faith leaders join the #JusticeforJuan campaign to demand answers and call for his return home.

  • Advocacy Teams at Five Years: Now in 42 States

    Background | February 25, 2021
    The first teams were launched in 2015. Today, we have more than 120 teams stretching across 42 states, engaging Congress to end endless wars.

  • The Failures of The War On Terror

    Background | August 31, 2022
    The Friends Committee on National Legislation believes the U.S. War on Terror—the use of war and other military means to defeat terrorist groups—is based on a flawed proposition. It is simply not possible through the use of armed force to eliminate armed groups who engage in terrorism.

  • Designate and Donate from Your Retirement Plan

    Page | December 16, 2020

    How It Works

    • Contact the plan custodian or account holder about a TOD (Transfer on Death) or beneficiary designation form.
    • Designate FCNL to receive all or a portion of the assets held in the retirement plan.

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  • Take a Stand for Peace and Get Rid of the Draft

    Update | April 16, 2021
    Peace is more than a buzzword. For Quakers and advocates across the world, it is a calling, a way of life that affirms our faith, our morals, and our collective humanity. And throughout U.S. history, few things have challenged that commitment to living in peace more than the military draft.

  • The Electoral College Should be Abolished

    Background | October 20, 2020
    On July 6, 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that states have the power to require presidential electors to vote for their party’s candidate for president. One of the plaintiffs as a “faithless elector,” was Esther Little Dove John, a member of the FCNL General Committee and from Sierra Cascades Yearly Meeting.

  • Faith Community to Congress: Reduce Funding for Unchecked Immigration Enforcement

    Letter | November 20, 2018
    FCNL joined thirty-six national, faith-based organizations calling on Congress to rein in funding for unchecked, unaccountable detention, deportation, and border enforcement policies.