North American Affiliates

Affiliates of URI in North America

For individuals and organizations who are in alignment with the Purpose and Principles of URI, becoming an Affiliate of our region will help expand mutual awareness of interfaith peacebuilding in the US and Canada. If you would like to join our growing community, there is no fee involved, only a simple application process. 

Individual Affiliates of URI in North America
As of September 24, 2012

Margie Coles, WA
David (Sky) Enroth, WA
Donna Gleason, Islamorada, FL
Miranda Hovemeyer, IL
Jonathan Lace, NJ
Phil Lane, Jr, BC - facebook.com/phillanejr
Fay Loomis, NY
Stream Ohrstrom, MD - onecircle.net
Aimé Pingi, Amos, Québec

Organizational Affiliates of URI in North America
As of September 5, 2011

20,000 Dialogues
Washington, DC
Contact: Daniel Tutt
Mission: 20,000 Dialogues is a campaign designed to bring people of different faiths together using films about Muslims to stimulate discussion and promote understanding. It's an educational outreach project of Unity Productions Foundation, a non-profit filmmaker with a mission to promote peace among some of the world's spiritual and cultural traditions. Part of that mission is to help people understand who Muslims are in a wider social and historical context.

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Cascadia Center at Camp Brotherhood
Mount Vernon, WA
Contact: John Hale
Mission: Camp Brotherhood is an inclusive interfaith organization that offers facilities for educational, spiritual and experiential programs. We foster harmony in the human family by inviting dialogue and reaching out to religious, spiritual and secular groups, communities, youth, families and individuals of all abilities. We promote interaction between racial, ethnic, international and cultural groups, seeking to bring peace and reconciliation by increasing mutual understanding and compassion. We express our commitment to community as we extend superior hospitality in our serene retreat setting not only for Camp-sponsored programs, but also to those qualified non-profits and public agencies who utilize these grounds.

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The Center for Peace through Culture (CPC)
Monterey, MA
Contact: Barbara Boughton
Mission:

• To promote psychological peace, or peace in thought and action, beginning with the individual, expanding to the community and spreading out into the world.
• To develop and support events and programs embodying peace through culture, the natural outcome of creative people collaborating to better the world.
• To serve as an educational center for psychological peace and peace through culture through virtual and in-person workshops and services for youth and adults.
   
  

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Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution (CRDC)
George Mason University, Arlington, VA
Contact: Alex Cromwell, Director of Youth Programs and Office Manager
Mission: The Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution (CRDC) engages in practice, education, and research concerning peacebuilding in conflicts where religion and culture play a significant role in both destructive conflict and peacebuilding. CRDC specializes in entrepreneurial engagement with partners, students, and supporters, who share the goal of promoting emerging networks of indigenous and global peacebuilders, mobilizing support for them, and creating linkages between peacebuilders, citizen diplomats, and policy makers.

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Circle Legacy Center
Washington Boro, PA
Contact: Victoria Valentine
Mission: The Circle Legacy Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and empowering the First Nations’ Peoples of the Americas.

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The Compassionate Listening Project
Indianola, WA
Contact: Leah Green
Mission: We teach heart-based skills to create powerful cultures of peace in our families, communities, in the workplace, and in the world.
 
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Friends of Arava Institute
Harrisburg, PA
Contact: Dan Schacter
Mission: The mission of the Friends of the Arava Institute is to actively campaign for, and provide funding to, the educational and operational expenses of the Arava Institute, while helping the program grow its academic, research, student enrollment and facilities to meet the future needs for environmental leadership in the region…and around the world.

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Global Family
Nevada City, CA
Contact: Carolyn Anderson
About: Global Family, founded in 1986, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We are an international network of individuals and groups who choose to experience themselves as members of one human family and who desire to actualize their life purpose through joining with others in compassionate action for the benefit of all.
          Global Family is working with a variety of aligned organizations, teams and projects serving to co-create a new world of hope and possibility. Global Family's function within this matrix is to share the principles and practices of co-creation to "flatten hierarchies" within teams, businesses and organizations thereby fostering creative expression and cooperation.

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GreenFaith
Highland Park, NJ
Contact: Rev. Fletcher Harper
Mission: GreenFaith's mission is to inspire, educate and mobilize people of diverse religious backgrounds for environmental leadership. Our work is based on beliefs shared by the world’s great religions - we believe that protecting the earth is a religious value, and that environmental stewardship is a moral responsibility.

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How to Boil A Frog from Fools Bay Entertainment
North Vancouver, BC
Contact: Jon Cooksey
About: Fools Bay Entertainment is the production company for the comedic documentary, "How to Boil a Frog", which presents personal solutions for global sustainability.  Jon Cooksey is the film's writer and director.

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I am Jerusalem
Orange County, CA
Contact: Sande Hart
Mission: I Am Jerusalem represents Jews, Christians and Muslims all over the world, whom each have Jerusalem as a sacred place in their hearts. An organization founded by three spiritual women, Muslim, Christian and Jewish, who believe that one symbol and image can serve to remind us all that peace and reconciliation must come from the realization that we share a common ground that cannot be denied.
 
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Interfaith Council of Bainbridge Island / North Kitsap County
Bainbridge Island, WA
Contacts: Rev Jaco B. ten Hove and Patricia Lahtinen
Who we are: An association of many different faith groups in the Bainbridge Island/North Kitsap area, sharing, respecting and celebrating our different religious traditions and seeking common, faith-based ground in working together for the good in our community and beyond.

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Interfaith Unity News
Aurora, ON
Contact: Rev Terry Weller
Mission: The Interfaith Unity Newsletter is a free publication of Interfaith and Inter-Spiritual activities, news, and resources, in Toronto, Southern Ontario, Nationally and Internationally.


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International Interfaith Council
Chesapeake, VA
Contacts: Cuneyt Terzi - Gaby
Mission: We are a growing diverse group of Called Men and Women of Faith, who envision unity, harmony, peace and justice under one God by whatever name we understand that name to be.
 
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The Levantine Cultural Center
Los Angeles, CA
Contact: Mr. Jordan Elgrably, Artistic Director
Purpose:  Levantine Cultural Center champions a greater understanding of the Middle East and North Africa by presenting artistic and educational programs that bridge political and religious divides. In a search for common ground, the Center fosters discussions among artists and thinkers and offers classes and workshops that serve diverse ethnic communities.

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 The Listening Center
Long Beach, CA
Contact: Kay Lindahl
Purpose: To explore the sacred nature of listening. Listening is a creative force that transforms relationships. Listening to yourself elicits full self-expression - speaking from your soul. Listening is being fully present - to spirit, to self, to others. Listening is a sacred art.
 
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Lotus Center for All Faiths
Buckingham, VA
Contact: Swami Jyoti
Truth is One - In order to have a better world we must learn to think of the globe as a whole. Whatever problems we face, there are also solutions.

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National Peace Academy
Shelburne, VT
Contact: Dot Maver
The Four Cornerstones: education, research, practice, policy. 
Modeling the Principles and Processes of Peace: In fulfilling its purpose, the National Peace Academy is a principle-based, learning institution that strives to embody and reflect the principles and processes of peace that are shaped by the definition contained in the Earth Charter: "...peace is the wholeness created by right relationships with oneself, other persons, other cultures, other life, Earth, and the larger whole of which all are a part."

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The Network of Spiritual Progressives
Berkeley, CA
Contact: Rabbi Michael Lerner
Mission: To create a new bottom line in America of love, kindness, generosity, ecological sensitivity and wonder at the grandeur of creation.
 
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One Life Alliance
Faber, VA
Contact: Kia Scherr
Mission: To inspire and encourage the conversation about oneness and the sacredness of life. It's not about what you can do - it's about who you can be.
 
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R Star Foundation - see also the Video
Laguna Beach, CA
Contact: Rosalind Russell
Mission: In the Alchemy of collaboration becoming equal partners creating wholeness and sufficiency for everyone,  the R STAR MINISTRIES is dedicated in bridging the gaps that have left people, especially women and children, isolated and disempowered.  Through simple acts of connecting resources with people who need them most, we are changing the world one heart at a time, which will create world peace.

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Peace Chats
Lancaster, PA
Contact: Ruby L. Taylor, MSW
Mission: To increase grief, mourning and healing awareness; Increase peace in all communities; Enhance access to grief and healing resources; Reduce feelings of isolation.
 
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Scarboro Missions Home - Interfaith Dialogue - Golden Rule
Toronto, ON
Contact: Paul McKenna
Mission: Our mission is to promote interfaith relations from local to global levels. One of the main ways we do this is through our Golden Rule Poster which features the Golden Rule in 13 religions. We have also produced educational materials to accompany the poster.
 
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Spiritual Heritage Education Network Inc. (SHEN)
Waterloo, ON
Contact: Shiv D Talwar
Mission: To provide easy access to the thinking and findings of those enlightened beings (prophets, sages and seers), who have spent their lives studying the nature of humankind and its relationships in the universe.
Purpose: Clear communication of the spiritual principle that this universe, comprised of the animate and the inanimate, is an indivisible whole connected and pervaded by its ground of being through and through.
 
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Surrey Neighboring Faiths Program
Surrey, BC
Contact: David Dalley
Mission: The Surrey Neighbouring Faiths Program builds community capacity
for multifaith learning and dialogue with a focus on children and families.
About: The Surrey Neighbouring Faiths Program is a free, multifaith program for families of children aged 4-6 years. The Program encourages children to value their own cultural, ethnic, and religious identities. Further, it offers experiences for children to learn to respect and appreciate other peoples’ identities, and to feel a sense of belonging in the broader community. The program welcomes participants from all religious backgrounds, as well as those with no religious affiliation.
 
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The Interfaith Observer (TIO)
San Francisco, CA
Contact: Paul Chafee
Mission: The Interfaith Observer is a monthly electronic journal created to explore interfaith culture locally and globally. It provides historical perspectives, surveys current interreligious news, and otherwise suggests maps and sign-posts for newcomers. It offers a context to explore and respond to the unique diversity and close proximity of religious, spiritual people today. The Observer is designed for general readers… anyone interested in the subject. But articles will be filled with references and links for those who wish to pursue a particular subject.
        Along with examining our spiritual and religious differences, the journal will inquire into shared core values, survey interreligious news, offer various perspectives on the unparalleled religious diversity enveloping humankind, reflect on theological and spiritual issues, and perhaps develop a social network for interfaith activists focused on service.
        A long-term goal is to help grow connective tissue between large interfaith ventures and stakeholders and the rest of us. We will promote the major institutional players. And provide space for the creative little guys all over the map who are doing wonderful new things.

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We, the World
New York, NY
Contact: Rick Ulfik
Mission: We, The World is a global collaboration of individuals, organizations, coalitions and campaigns to maximize and accelerate social change. With an emphasis on local action/global participation, We, The World’s programs, initiatives and the WE campaign are designed to be a catalyst for a world that works for all.

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Women of Spirit and Faith
North America
Contact: Kathlyn Schaaf
Mission: Women of Spirit and Faith exists to invite the many brilliant threads of feminine spiritual leadership into relationship and to support emerging patterns for transformation.

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