► $5000 Matching Grant Opportunity

Double your Money!
Become a Sponsoring Member of The Peace Alliance

A committed Peacebuilder has stepped up to offer a $5000 matching grant to amplify our new Sponsoring Membership drive!  That means your contribution will be doubled, for the first $5000 given.  But we have to meet this goal.

Become a Sponsoring Member today or make a one-time donation! >>

Even if you have already given, please consider an additional gift so we can meet this matching grant opportunity.

Why become a Sponsoring Member of Peace Alliance & Student Peace Alliance?
If you believe it’s important to:

• Shift our culture towards peace and nonviolence
• Focus on positive, proactive and healing oriented approaches to conflict
• Support prevention and intervention efforts to interrupt cycles of crime, incarceration, and despair with at-risk youth
• Create a U.S. Department of Peacebuilding to provide a voice for peace at the highest levels of government
• Infuse smart peacebuilding approaches into U.S. foreign policy
• Advocate for innovative peace practices, such as: Restorative Justice; Conflict Resolution Education and peace curriculum in our schools, etc.
• Expand your ability to organize and speak out to your legislators.

Taking this step of becoming a Sponsoring Member raises your level of commitment to our collective work and mission to build a culture of peace — and will help us fulfill our goal to build a million+ strong person movement for pro-active peacebuidling.

Step up and JOIN US TODAY so we can even more powerfully do our work.

You can join us with as little as $5 per month, or a one-time $45 donation (or more!).

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SPECIAL INCENTIVES!

These fun incentives were generously offered by some of our supporters to everyone who joins us as a sponsoring member in the first six weeks of the drive.* All of our current monthly and quarterly donors, our Peace Partners, whom we now consider sponsoring members, will automatically be included in all the incentives below.

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EVERY NEW MEMBER RECEIVES:

Tele-course: Working for Change Without Recreating the Past With Miki Kashtan Every new member will have the opportunity to attend a powerful two-part tele-course focusing on principles of Nonviolent Communication, led by the skillful and inspiring Miki Kashtan of BayNVC. The course is entitled: Working for Change Without Recreating the Past, likely to take place in September. In this mini-series, we will explore: working with a focus on what we want to create; developing and living new models of power and leadership; transforming judgments into ways of engaging across differences with love and respect. Learn more about this course. . “Summer of Peace” Media Library – FREE UPGRADE The Summer of Peace 2013 Virtual Summit and the 2012 media library are the most comprehensive audio library of peacebuilding resources ever assembled–and as a new Peace Alliance sponsoring member, you will receive a FREE SILVER PACKAGE UPGRADE that enables you to download the audio files – a $147 value. The media library from last year’s Summer of Peace mapped peace from the inner to the international, including interviews with over 120 peacebuilders, like Arun Gandhi, Alice Walker, Jack Kornfield, Marilu Henner, and Matthew Fox – to name a few.

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RANDOM DRAWING ITEMS:

The following items will be randomly drawn for at the end of our membership drive in late July. Everyone who becomes a member* will be in the drawing to receive one of the following.

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Free 3-night stay in Puerto Rico at Casa Grande Mountain Retreat Set in a stunning valley on 107 lush tropical cuerdas less than two hours from San Juan, Casa Grande Mountain Retreat is an oasis of peace and tranquility. The former coffee plantation, now exquisitely landscaped, has 20 rooms scattered up the mountainside, each with private bath, balcony, and hammock. A fresh-water swimming pool is cradled beneath a green mountain vista. A fully equipped yoga center is used for individual and group practice. This does not include travel expense and certain date restrictions will apply.  Be sure to check the box on our membership sign-up form, stating you want to be considered in the drawing for this stay.

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Free 3-night stay in Palm Springs/Rancho Mirage, CA Enjoy a 3-night stay at this lovely desert resort in California. (You’ll need to provide the air or car travel to the resort.) This one-bedroom premium villa is an oasis in a charming small city – golf, swim, visit the nation’s largest native palm forest, much more. Exact dates based on availability, to be booked up to 90 days in advance and must be used by end of 2013. Be sure to check the box on our membership sign-up form, stating you want to be considered in the drawing for this stay. Learn more about the facility here…

Personal Coaching Session with Marianne Williamson! Marianne, one of our organization’s founders and Emeritus Chair of our Board of Directors, has generously offered a 60 minute personal or organizational coaching session via phone.  Marianne is an internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer, with many New York Times best-sellers to her credit. . Signed Copies of Marianne Williamson’s Book Healing the Soul of America Marianne also signed 10 copies of her landmark book, Healing the Soul of America (a MUST read).

Signed Walk the Line DVDs & Film Script Signed by Joaquin Phoenix Oscar nominated actor Joaquin Phoenix has generously signed 5 dvds of the acclaimed film Walk the Line as well as a signed script and signed poster from the film. We’ll be drawing for each of these separately.

Signed Copies of Body of War DVDs Signed by Phil Donahue Phil Donahue generously provided a few extra signed dvds to be included in the raffle. Phil co-directed and executive produced this moving documentary.

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Additionally, every Sponsoring Member will also be invited to attend special membership calls during the year, with staff and board, to update and get feedback. We will also send you regular reports on our activities as well as a special peace magnet.

Our minimum annual Sponsoring Membership fee is $45. You can pay it all at once, or sign-up as a Peace Partner, giving just $5 per month or any amount that you would like to contribute.

While we consider all our supporters members of this movement, our Sponsoring Members will help us grow financially so we can meet all our goals for peace.

Join us today and help create a nation and world where peace is a higher priority!

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* If you are not willing/able to contribute financially, we are still happy to enter your name into the hat for our drawing. Just email a note with your name and contact information to: [email protected] with the words “Drawing” in the subject line.