If lack of funds is an issue:

Raise the funds you need to participate in The Practice of Peace

¨ Write a letter to your friends and acquaintances to ask for their help in sending you to this event – perhaps a donation of $10 to $25 each. In your letter, express your motivation and how the support of your community of friends is needed – and how such mutuality and support is in fact the foundation of peacemaking.

¨ Or hold a garage sale and ask friends for items to donate to the sale.

¨ Set a fundraising goal – you might consider 50% of the fees, matched by you.

In exchange, offer your support and commitment to peacemaking in your community. For example,

¨ offer to speak to local groups to share what you learn;

¨ write an article for the local newspaper;

¨ volunteer at a youth center;

¨ present a workshop in non-violence or related topics.

-- Suggestions from Susan Partnow