Service For Peace is an international not-for-profit organization that brings diverse groups together in service in order to cross barriers of race, religion, class, creed, or national origin, and address urgent social needs.
We advocate:
- Service - Diversity - Community - Peace
- Leadership - Partnership - Learning -Transformation
Make One Kind Act a Day
On October 14th, SFP will launch the 40 Days of Kindness initiative. Join this initiative by making one kind act a day for 40 days.
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Kids get back-to-school backpacks in Louisville, Kentucky
For the fifth year, SFP-Louisville organizes and sponsors the annual Back-Pack Angel Giveaway for students. This month more than 500 children received their new backpacks and school supplies.
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Grants Available – 2009 Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service
Service For Peace is pleased to announce a Request For Proposals (RFP) for the 2009 Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and 40 Days of Peace.
Service For Peace (SFP) is a lead agency of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) in promoting the 2009 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service (MLK-DOS) and the 40 Days of Peace starting on January 19 2009.
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SFP wins a 2nd 3-year grant from CNCS for MLK Day
We have great news from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) that Service For Peace will be awarded the MLK Day 2009-2011 Grant.
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SFP Volunteers Receive Honors for Their Work in an After-School Program
Five students from the University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, Connecticut, were honored recently for their efforts with an after school program called Unique and Unified. Representing Service For Peace in this endeavor, the students spent time with children at Marina Village, a family complex, in Bridgeport’s South End, assisting younger children with reading and tutoring programs.
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Earth Day Service with Wal-Mart and SAMS Club
In Celebration of Community Pride 2008, Service For Peace organized a special Earth Day Service project with Wal-Mart and SAMS Club.
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40 Days of Peace comes to a Close
People from 112 cities, 51 states, 5 continents and 11 countries sign up at www.40daysofpeace.org pledging to be peaceful for 40 days starting from MLK Day on January 21st.
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Basketball For Peace
The concept of the Basketball for Peace project in DC with the Anacostia School community was to organize peace game exhibitions that would bring together inter-gang members of students with histories of conflict onto the same teams and have these teams play other teams with similar composition.
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SFP chapters and partners engage 70,691 volunteers in 747 projects for Martin Luther King Day.
Service For Peace sub-grant partners and chapters engaged 70,691 volunteers in 747 projects in 12 cities in “Advancing the Dream for Peaceful Communities.”
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40 Days of Peace
The 40 Days of Peace initiative brings together individuals, families, community organizations, neighborhoods and law enforcement agencies to promote greater cooperation and harmony in our communities.
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Communities of Peace
Service For Peace believes that the spirit of community can be nurtured through service programs and other activities that bring people together. By providing opportunities for diverse groups of volunteers and partners to work together to address the needs of others, we provide a relational base and natural forum for cooperation and friendship.
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Neighborhood Peacemaker Award
Do you know a family member, friend or neighbor who helps to improve your community? Maybe they have worked to bring different groups of people together, helped to keep your neighborhood safe or provided a service that you feel deserves recognition. Now you can honor them with a nomination for the Neighborhood Peacemaker Award.
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US Chapter Plans Major Projects for 2008
Through three main targeted projects, Service For Peace (SFP) is piloting five major expansion locations (Chicago, IL; Miami, FL; Louisville, KY; Washington DC; and Fairfield County, CT) to promote 40,000 volunteers towards meaningful service projects and transformational learning experiences throughout the 2008 year. The major project components are: Communities of Peace, Partners for Peace, and Project Peace.
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Service For Peace Wins USAID Approval
The good news continues, and this time it comes from the US Agency for International Development (USAID). In late August, Service For Peace received a letter of acceptance of SFP’s application to join the ranks of Private Voluntary Organizations that are qualified to apply for grants from USAID.
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SFP Celebrates UN International Day of Peace
This year, once again SFP chapters from all over the world joined the IDP celebration. Peace Day projects were held in Ukraine, Thailand, Ivory Coast, Bulgaria, U.S.A., Moldova, Israel, Sierra Leone, Ghana, The Philippines, Japan, Taiwan, Province of China and Nepal.
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SFP Statement on Human Rights
December 10, 2008 will mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On that date in 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Declaration "as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...
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SFP-Nepal Runs 2 Simultaneous GPM Camps This Summer!
Twenty university students from South Korea joined 30 students from Nepal for the 14th annual GPM camp in Nepal which took place from June 26th through July 12th, 2008.
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SFP Granted Consultative Status with ECOSOC
Service For Peace received more good news in June. On the last scheduled day of its 2008 session, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations of the UN's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) decided to recommend SFP and 11 other civil-society groups for consultative status with the Council. SFP was awarded special status which means that SFP staff members can attend Council meetings and circulate statements.
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Upcoming GPM Camps around the world
This summer SFP chapters around the world are organizing about 15 Global Peacemaker Camps. Four of them will be in English and are accepting international applicants. These will be held in Ukraine, North Korea, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.
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Service For Peace Celebrates Global Youth Service Day 2008
For the 5th year, Service For Peace celebrated Global Youth Service Day in many corners of the world: Ivory Coast, USA, Thailand, South Korea, Israel, Palestine, Sierra Leone, Guatemala, Ukraine, Bulgaria and others. Here are the reports from each location where SFP leaders and volunteers held an initiative for Global Youth Service Day.
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SFP-Austria Leads a Program in the Middle East
SFP-Austria brought 15 youth leaders from 8 European countries to Israel and Palestine for a 5-day service-learning and leadership training program.
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The Middle East Celebrates Martin Luther King Day
As the Martin Luther King Day of Service becomes increasingly well known across the United States, it is also becoming established in other nations around the world. This year, Service For Peace observed the holiday with service projects in Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
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Ceremony of the completion of 40 houses with heating system
November 23 was a very significant day for the South Korean chapter of Service For Peace. On that day, in the village of Keum Cheon Ri, North Korea, 30 SFP volunteers gathered together with 10 members of the North Korean government to celebrate the completion of 40 new houses, complete with heating systems.
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Service For Peace Celebrates International Volunteer Day
The International Volunteer Day was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1985. Since then, governments, the UN system and civil society organizations have joined volunteers around the world to celebrate the Day on 5 December. This year, when so many of the world’s conflicts and tensions are related to religious differences, Service For Peace decided to focus on projects that would bring together people of different faiths. Here are a few highlights.
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SFP Celebrates UN International Day of Peace
Every year, Service For Peace chapters throughout the world organize a wide array of projects to promote the International Day of Peace. Here is a selection of this year’s activities.
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The 10th Project in North Korea
Service For Peace passed an important milestone in October when the South Korean chapter conducted its tenth project in North Korea.
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UN Approves Service For Peace Application
In late July, the SFP National Office received very welcome news from the United Nations. Juan Carlos Brandt, Chief of the NGO Section of the UN’s Department of Public Information (UNDPI) informed SFP Board Chairperson Heather Thalheimer that SFP's application to be associated with the Department had been approved by the Committee on NGOs.
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SFP and the UN
Millenium Development Goals (MDGs)
Service For Peace is committed to furthering the UN Milenium Development Goals and it is involved in many UN project programs. Read more
- Addressing UN MDG Goal #2 Universal Primary Education
- Elementary education and adult literacy - the bridge to other UN MDGs in community
- Dominican village of Frasquito Gomez as a model MDG village
- A "package of interventions," focusing on health, agriculture and sanitation and working with local experts
- The international service project started in 2005
International Day of Peace in the Philippines
Click here to read about our project in North Korea.
To donate specifically to this project click the button below and then select North Korea Peace Villages when prompted to specify program.
