Mission
WAYS OF PEACE Community Resources renews justice and kindness across lines of diversity and throughout the life cycle. Our name and mission derive from timeless Jewish and interfaith principles of sustaining / empowering the poor, visiting the sick, burying the dead, and consoling the bereaved — “for these are ways of peace” beyond crisis and conflict.
WAYS OF PEACE facilitates transformation through compelling programs, unique publications, and life-changing consultations. Our core initiatives — Sacred Undertaking and Generous Justice — address the spiritual, social justice, and sustainability challenges of death and money, respectively. Building upon these core initiatives, How to Mourn AND Organize brings together timeless wisdom of prophets, sages, activists and artists in dialogue with contemporary best practices for responding to hatred and violence. We seek to foster empathy as an essential component of progress toward social and economic transformation.
WAYS OF PEACE is a social microenterprise, the outgrowth of decades of service in both the United States and Israel. At least ten percent of net staff compensation is contributed forward to other organizations that renew justice and kindness across lines of diversity.
WAYS OF PEACE fosters the dialogue between generations that is essential for learning the lessons of history. We celebrate life's renewal in affirming the covenant of our ancestors, just as we understand vulnerability and loss to be integral to the cycle of life.