The Barrington Dunbar Fund Committee educates Friends on the needs of the Black and Latin American sectors of the community and stimulates Friends' concern and cooperation in responding to the needs of the wider community. It also administers the Black Development Fund as the money is made available to the committee.
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) promotes lasting peace with justice, as a practical expression of faith in action. Drawing on continuing spiritual insights and working with people of many backgrounds, AFSC nurtures the seeds of change and respect for human life that transform social relations and systems.
The Alternatives to Violence Project is a grassroots, volunteer program dedicated to reducing violence in our lives, in our homes, in our schools, in our prisons, in our streets and in our society.
Violence comes in many forms--from put-downs and dismissal of ourselves and others to the taking of human life. Most people are exposed to some form of violence daily. Often we knowingly or unknowingly inflict violence on others. Interpersonal violence represents failed human interaction.
