Links For A More Peaceful World 

The Teach Peace Foundation supports individuals and organizations working for freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

To join our team, click here. We list the following organizations to increase awareness of their good work.

Freedom From Want - Lifestyle Simplification

Food First - Highlighting root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and global poverty, with a commitment to establishing food as a fundamental human right.

The Center for a New American Dream - More fun, less stuff.
Ecology Center - Promoting environmentally and socially responsible practices through education and direct services.
The New Road Map Foundation - Promotes new ways to navigate the road of life based on a vision of a cooperative human community in a diverse yet interconnected world.

Woolman - A high school semester studies program for juniors, seniors, and 1st year postgraduates.  Through a focus on the issues of peace, justice, and sustainability, the Woolman Semester enriches a typical high school curriculum

Freedom From Want – Health Care

Breast Cancer Action - Carrying the voices of people affected by breast cancer to bring the changes necessary to end the breast cancer epidemic.
Breast Cancer Fund - Identifies and advocates for elimination of the environmental and other preventable causes of breast cancer.
Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine - Doctors and laypersons working together for compassionate and effective medical practice, research, and health promotion.

Veterans Villages - The foundation is a peaceful non-political, non-religious group of citizen who are very  
concern about the welfare of our children returning Home  from the Middle East.

Freedom From Want – Educations & Politics

ACORN - The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation's largest community organization of low and moderate-income families, with over 150,000 member families organized into 800 neighborhood chapters in 65 cities across the country.

Center for Global Peace and Democracy - An independent, non-partisan organization whose purpose is to undertake education and research on the political, economic and social crisis confronting the United States in the context of a global society.
Co-op America - Recognizes that voting with our dollars is a powerful way to change the world. Every time you spend or invest your hard-earned money you are voting -- and you have the power to vote for social justice, ecological balance and a sustainable economy.
Democracy Matters - Informs and engages college students and communities in efforts to strengthen our democracy. With campus-based chapters throughout the country, we focus on the issue of private money in politics and other pro-democracy reforms. Democracy Matters in this way encourages the emergence of a new generation of reform-minded leaders.

Educators for Nonviolence - A joint project of the Metta Center and The Dalai Lama Foundation. The organization comprises educators, students, and others who share this ideal and are interested in working together to make high quality curricula and other resources available to encourage the integration of the ideas and methods of nonviolence into any type of education system.
Greenaction - Mobilizes community power to win victories that change government and corporate policies and practices to protect health and to promote environmental justice.

The Peace Alliance - A focused effort to establish the US Department of Peace.
The Not In Our Name Project - A national network of individuals and organizations committed to standing with the people of the world. As the Not in Our Name Pledge of Resistance states, "we believe that as people living in the United States it is our responsibility to resist the injustices done by our government, in our names."

Redefining Progress - Works with partners to influence the choices individuals make, resolve pressing social and environmental issues, and pursue systemic change.

Freedom From Want – Environment

Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment - To make corporations more accountable for their behavior worldwide.
Alliance for the Wild Rockies - To save the Northern Rockies Bioregion from habitat destruction
Bluewater Network - Protecting the Earth for All Living Creatures.
Center for Biological Diversity - Working to secure a future for animals and plants on the brink of extinction, the wilderness they need to survive, and by extension the spiritual welfare of generations to come
Center for Ecoliteracy - Promotes education in the values, skills, and knowledge needed to create sustainable communities.
Center for Environmental Health - Countering environmental and consumer health hazards, and changing corporate behavior through education, litigation, and advocacy.
Clean Water Action - Working for clean, safe and affordable water, prevention of health-threatening pollution, and the creation of environmentally-safe jobs and businesses.
Commonweal - Helping adults and children with health and learning challenges, and advancing the global search for a healthy and sustainable future.

Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) - An environmental health and justice non-profit organization, promoting clean air, clean water and the development of toxin-free communities.
Earth Charter - The Earth Charter is an authoritative synthesis of values, principles, and aspirations that are widely shared by growing numbers of people
Earth Films - A non–profit production, distribution and media project that specializes in environmental and social issue documentaries.
Earth Island Institute - Developing and supporting projects that counteract threats to the biological and cultural diversity that sustains the environment.
Forest Service Employees For Environmental Ethics (FSEEE) - Holding the Forest Service accountable for responsible land stewardship: the land is a public trust, to be passed with reverence from generation to generation.
Greenpeace - A global organization focused on worldwide threats to our planet's biodiversity and environment.

Global Exchange - Promoting human rights and social justice.

Healthy Building Network - Promoting healthier building materials as a means of improving public health and preserving the global environment Rainforest Action Network (RAN).
Rock the Earth - A not-for-profit, national public interest environmental organization dedicated to protecting and defending America's natural resources through partnerships with the music industry and the world-wide environmental community.
Sierra Club - Inspired by nature, members work together to protect individual communities and the planet.
Tri Valley - Tri-Valley CAREs was founded in 1983 by local citizens concerned that nuclear weapons work at the Lawrence Livermore and Sandia Livermore Laboratories was impacting the environmental well-being of our communities.

Wildlands Project - Protecting and restoring the natural heritage of North America through the establishment of a connected system of wildlands.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Freedom of Speech - News, Media & Literacy

Culture Jammers Media Foundation (Adbusters)
Democracy NOW - A daily radio and TV news program on over 300 stations pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the U.S.
Essential Information - Includes the Multinational Monitor, GIS project, and more.
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) - Includes t
Federation of American Scientist Project on Government Secrecy - Through research, advocacy, and public education,
the FAS Project on Government Secrecy works to challenge excessive government secrecy and to promote public oversight.

Institute for Global Communications, including EcoNet, LaborNet, PeaceNet, ConflictNet and WomensNet
Literacy for Environmental Justice - Fostering understanding of environmental justice and urban sustainability in our young people, to promote the long-term health of their communities

Making Contact - A weekly international radio program utilizing voices and perspectives rarely heard in media.
Media Alliance - A training and resource center for media workers, community organizations, and political activists.
Media Education Foundation
Mother Jones - An independent nonprofit whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice implemented through first rate investigative reporting.

Pacifica News Network - Provides an outlet for the creative skills and energies of the community.
The Nation - Wages war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred.

Real Audio - Feeds of Counter Spin, Pacifica Network News, The Hightower Report, Radio Nation and much more, updated daily.

Z magazine - Znet a community of people concerned about social change.

Freedom of Religion and from Fear - Human Rights & Non-violence

ACLU - The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty. We work daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States

Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas - CSHRA is an academic initiative for the comprehensive study of human rights across the American continent.

Ella Baker Center - Arming people with the truth.
Human Rights Watch - Protecting the human rights of people around the world

El Dorado Peace & Justice Community - Promotes lasting peace through non-violent actions.

Freedom from Fear – Nuclear Weapons

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - Initiates and supports worldwide efforts to abolish nuclear weapons, to strengthen international law and institutions, to use technology responsibly and sustainably, and to empower youth to create a more peaceful world.

The Nuclear Threat Initiative - Working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

Western States Legal Foundation (WSLF) - A non-profit, public interest organization founded in 1982, which monitors and analyzes U.S. nuclear weapons programs and policies and related high technology energy and weapons programs, with a focus on the national nuclear weapons laboratories.
 

Organizations Spanning Multiple Issues

American Friends Service Committee - A non-profit, non-governmental Quaker peace movement working on a wide variety of issues that span all four freedoms.

Beyond War - Working to explore, develop, and promote effective ideas, methods and actions that will build a world in which conflicts are resolved nonviolently.

Community of Silo's Message - Based on the universal principle that says, “treat others as you would like to be treated.” Promoting nonviolence and non discrimination, peace and reconciliation, this community is in the tradition of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi.

Davis Peace Coalition - The Davis Peace Coalition is a coalition of diverse groups and individuals that support peace and nonviolence. The Davis Peace Coalition seeks foreign and domestic policies guided by a commitment to peace and justice achieved through nonviolent, democratic means.

The Friends Committee on National Legislation - Founded in 1943 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), FCNL works with a nationwide network to advocate social and economic justice, peace, and good government

Grandmothers for Peace International - Working on peace and justice issues for a better and safer world since 1982 with an emphasis abolishing nuclear weapons.

Iraq Veterans Against The War - A group of veterans who have been supporting veterans and peace since 9/11/01. They are committed to saving lives and ending violence in Iraq by an immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces.

Jewish Voice For Peace - Works to achieve a lasting peace that recognizes the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians for security and self-determination.

PAX Christi International - A non-profit, non-governmental Catholic peace movement working on a wide variety of issues that span all four freedoms.

Peace Heroes - A volunteer organization that recognizes the good work of individuals.

Peace To Come - Provides spiritual training to enable human beings to develop peace within themselves and in the world.

Physicians for Social Responsibility - Guided by the values and expertise of medicine. PSR works to protect human life from the gravest threats to health and survival.

Resource Center For Nonviolence - Center of excellence for information about alternatives to violence with a comprehensive expertise in the Israeli and Palestinian conflict.

Sacramento Area Peace Action - Works to educate and mobilize the public to promote a non-interventionist and non-nuclear U.S. foreign and military policy and to promote peace through international and domestic economic, social, and political justice.

Therapists for Social Responsibility - Psychotherapists working on local and global social actions. TSP is focused on issues such as preventive wars, the Patriot Act, corporate injustice, cuts in services and protecting the environment.

Unitarian Universalist Association - Represents the interests of more than one thousand Unitarian Universalist congregations that are working on a wide variety of peace projects.

Veterans for Peace - A national organization founded in 1985. It is structured around a national office in Saint Louis, MO and comprised of members across the country organized in chapters or as at-large members.

Win Without War - A coalition of organizations to keep American safe by advocating international cooperation and enforceable international law.

World March for Peace and Nonviolence - A peace march organization promoting unity and awareness for social justice issues.

World Service Corps - An effort to provide incentives creating thousands or even millions of volunteers.