Sponsored Projects
The Washington Peace Center's Fiscal Sponsorship Program provides a vital service to organizations without 501(c)(3) status. Once approved into the program, these organizations are able to carry out fundraising that provides their donors with a tax-deductible donation.
If you want sponsorship for your project, email us at info@wasingtonpeacecenter.org. To donate to any of these projects, click here and be sure to write the project name in the "Purpose" field.
• DC Area Books to Prisons Project provides a critical link between citizens who are incarcerated and those outside prison walls by sending donated reading material to prisoners and educating the public about issues surrounding prisoner education and literacy.
• Marbury Plaza Concerned Tenants Association works to empower the tenants in the Marbury Plaza Apartment in SE DC after the landmark settlement they reached with the building owners.
• Coop Incubator DC creates a space where low skilled workers, formerly incarcerated people, and unemployed people coming out of job training programs are able to gather together to form their own work cooperatives
• C.H.O.I.C.E.S., the Committee for High School Options & Information on Careers, Education and Self-Improvement, is a local counter-recruitment organization that actively works in high schools in the DC area.
• Witness Against Torture, fighting to close Guantanamo and end torture.
• CUAllies, advocating for GLBTQ students at Catholic Unviersity.
• Students for a Democratic Society, DC Chapter.
• Civilian-Soldier Alliance (formally DCOI), an all-volunteer organization of civilians working with veterans and active-duty service members to build a GI resistance movement towards a just foreign policy.
• Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Committee, marking the days when the US dropped the bombs on Japan.
• Native Youth Alliance, a Native American-led organization dedicated to the preservation of Native American culture and spiritual ways
• COyou, Inc. (Changing Ourselves) works in underserved neighborhoods as a link to information and resources that create individual, ecological and economic growth and development opportunities.
• Proposition One Committee, a grassroots movement for disarmament of nuclear weapons and
the conversion of nuclear and other arms industries to provide for human and environmental needs.
• Center for Torture Accountability (CTA/TAC), is dedicated to ending the culture of impunity that enables and nourishes all systems of torture.
• Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House, a home for the Catholic Worker community in DC.
• Voters for Peace, a shared project of national, state and local participating groups.VotersForPeace is educating, organizing and activating voters to end the occupation of Iraq and prevent future wars of aggression.
• Ecolocity, a grassroots group that exists to empower residents and groups in the Metro DC area to build environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable communities.
• Left Turn is a national network of activists engaged in exposing and fighting the consequences of global capitalism and imperialism. Their publication, Left Turn Magazine, serves as a resource to grassroots movements by reporting on and analyzing local and global struggles for justice.
• Safe Schools Action Network is a nationwide grassroots organization committed to empowering all students, educators and communities in building inclusive safe schools.
• The Institute for Tsunamic Justice is developing the People’s Defense Network by focusing in on specific cases of police misconduct, malicious prosecution, and judicial misconduct as a matter of policy and practice in Washington, D.C., South Carolina, and Georgia.
• I SAW! The Experience of Learning in DC implements a program of community based education projects with local middle school students with outcomes promoting a social good, high intellectual value and creative artistic vision.
• You-Nique Servies raises social awareness by providing a media platform for people who live in DC communities plagued by poverty and violence.
