The Fund's first program is
the new National Violence Reduction Initiative,
a program being developed in the United States.

The Fund is being developed to finance peace related programs and products including:

• Organizational program and material development and enhancement • Educational products (curricula, multimedia, workshops) • Books • Web applications (e-learning, information, resources) • Audio productions (PSAs, educational audio, podcasts) • Video productions (PSAs, documentaries, independent feature films, television programming, web video, DVD) • Conferences and symposia • Research

The Cascadia Peace
Development Fund is coming.

"There is no time left for anything but to make peacework a dimension of our every waking activity."

— Elise M. Boulding

Norwegian-American
Quaker Sociologist. Academic, and Author

we decided to help finance a future in which "the practical programs and principles of peacebuilding are the bedrock of our personal, national and global interest and investment?" What if we helped provide the funds to "take the field of peacebuilding from the margins of the political and societal dialogue and bring it to its rightful place: Central to our policymaking, investment and understanding?"1

Practical peacebuilding is a human enterprise we must encourage and support. There are few other enterprises which provide the opportunity to give one's life meaning and value while engaging in one of the greatest opportunities to improve all life on Earth. The Cascadia Peace Development Fund supports this effort by investing in programs and materials grounded in effective and sustainable best practices in peacebuilding.

NOTE:

1) Quoted from the mission of the Peace Alliance (United States) — part of an international initiative to establish departments and ministries of peace in governments throughout the world.

There is no higher pursuit nor noble a cause then to invest ourselves and our wealth in
Peace.