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  • FCNL Joins Interfaith Coalition in Drafting Carbon Pricing Principles

    Background | December 4, 2019
    FCNL joined 20 faith-based organizations in drafting and endorsing a set of principles on carbon pricing. We believe that these principles can help guide policymakers as they work to advance climate legislation.

  • National Security Experts Warn Against Deployment of Dangerous New Nuke

    Letter | October 23, 2019
    Along with dozens of coalition partners and national security experts, FCNL sent Sen. Jack Reed (RI), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, a letter urging him to support a provision in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that bars deployment of new low-yield nuclear warheads.

  • Lobbying and Advocacy During Summer Recess

    Update | September 30, 2019
    FCNL constituents visited local congressional offices across the country this summer while Congress was home for the August recess. Working with staff from our Washington office, volunteers organized more than 129 lobby visits or in some cases just dropped by congressional offices.

  • Changing the Blank Check for War

    Background | June 13, 2019
    With the Trump Administration taking threatening steps toward Iran and Venezuela, and U.S. forces involved in dozens of conflicts around the world, it is clearer than ever that Congress must act to take back its constitutional authority over war. This authority is guaranteed in Article I of the U.S. Constitution, but for too long, Congress has ceded this power to the executive branch.

  • Immigration: Build Bridges, Not Walls

    Background | April 2, 2018
    Every person is a child of God. No matter someone’s religion, country of origin, race, or wealth, we are called to acknowledge that divine spark and encounter each other with respect and compassion.

  • FCNL Joins With 21 Other NGOs to Oppose Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons

    Letter | May 16, 2018
    On May 4, FCNL and 21 other organizations wrote to the Senate asking it to deny funding for a dangerous and destabilizing new “low-yield” nuclear warhead for the Navy’s submarine launched ballistic missile that would increase the chances of nuclear war. Read the letter below.

  • End Food Insecurity by Not Taking Food Away from People

    Update | December 20, 2018
    As House and Senate negotiators were reportedly nearing a deal on the farm bill, some 400 Quakers and friends lobbied hard to ensure that the final bill includes strong protections for SNAP (food stamps). They were in Washington, DC, for FCNL’s Annual Meeting and Quaker Public Policy Institute, Nov. 29 to Dec. 2, 2018.

  • Breaking the Militarism Mindset: The Pentagon Budget

    Update | November 29, 2017
    Today, U.S. taxpayers are giving as much money to the military as they did during the Vietnam War’s height. The Pentagon budget rivals military spending in the last years of the Cold War. And, unless we can change their minds, members of Congress are going to give the Pentagon even more.

  • 26 Organizations Urge Ambassador Haley to Support Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding

    Letter | February 28, 2017
    The Prevention and Protection Working Group – a coalition of organizations dedicated to improving U.S. Government policies to prevent violent conflict, avert mass atrocities, and protect civilians – write to urge Ambassador Haley to support for the United Nations’ critical work on conflict prevention and peacebuilding.

  • Organizational Statement of Support

    Statement | May 9, 2017
    The following is a statement of support for the Elie Wiesel Act from dozens of national and state-based nongovernmental organizations.