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Guiding Principles
We help young people become leaders with life-changing acts of kindness! The acts of kindness selected safeguard life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Service learning experiences range from first-hand experiences delivering solutions to the root causes of poverty to education bringing people to new levels of awareness.
What We Are 1. A Christ-centered organization that is a source of hope and inspiration that a more peaceful world is possible. 2. We educate with age and audience appropriate acts of kindness.
3. We help transform from a world based on greed, pain and
cruelty to a world based on generosity, compassion and love. 4. We provide solutions so that conflicts are settled justly. 5. We construct our programs to be "for something" rather than "against something." Certainly we are against behaviors that hurt people, but the point is far more can be accomplished by focusing our efforts to be "for the children."
What We Are Not - Partisan. - Violent. - Anti-democratic. - Anti-American, anti-Arab, anti-Israel, etc. - An organization that values life outside our country differently than life inside our country. - Unilateralist (e.g., we support multilateral cooperation but not efforts masked to advance the New World Order). - Supportive of burdening future generations (e.g., nuclear waste or programs that pass on financial burdens to young people). - An organization of people that will only help people that believe what we believe.
How Guiding Principles Are Applied To Program
Students working on service learning projects have unlimited options of creating acts of kindness provided their project complies with our guiding principles. To ensure that we deliver on our objectives, specific deliverables are specified in advance (click here to see the 2012 Success Plan). There are many efforts that help make our world a better one and to be successful we have to say no to requests that we allocate our resources to efforts not in the Success Plan.
To be a Teach Peace Foundation program the following is required:
1. A return on energy proposal must be submitted in writing to the board of directors. We need a brief statement of what is to be accomplished, the resources required, and the benefits that will result. 2. The funding must be identified. 3. The person who will lead the effort needs to be identified. 4. The program being proposed must have the ability to scale beyond a local area.
As a general rule before submitting a proposal, a good first step is to review the existing deliverables and review all guiding principles to ensure alignment.
For more information please send a message to contact@teachpeace.com.
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