FOR USA’s Statement on Passage of UN Treaty Outlawing Nuclear Weapons

Oct 27, 2020 | Demilitarization, Nonviolence, North America, Nuclear Proliferation, Peacebuilding

The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR-USA) joins peace-loving people around the world in celebrating the ratification this week of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Passage of the treaty happened on October 24, 2020, an already...

Job Posting: Director of Operations

Oct 12, 2018 | FORusa Feature, General, Job Post

The Fellowship of Reconciliation USA (FOR-USA) is a national interfaith organization headquartered in New York State. Founded in 1915, our mission is to organize, train, and grow a diverse movement that welcomes all people of conscience to end structures of violence...

FOR Names Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson as Executive Director

Sep 30, 2018 | FORusa Feature, FORusa Staff, General, Press Releases

The Fellowship of Reconciliation, the oldest interfaith peace and justice organization in North America, is proud to announce the appointment of a new executive director to guide FOR-USA’s renowned global work for progressive social change. The Reverend Dr. Emma...

Saying goodbye to Shadowcliff after 40 years

Mar 2, 2018 | General

Creative Response to Conflict (CRC) came to the Fellowship of Reconciliation in 1978 through Lee Stern, a Quaker who worked in New York City with the Peace and Social Action Program, which helped to found CRC in 1972. Lee and Ruth lived in Nyack and had worked at FOR,...

Shadowcliff memories: A community of comrades in the struggle

Mar 1, 2018 | General

When FOR asked me to write a reflection of my time at Shadowcliff, I first thought about all the different parts of the building I had worked in and roles I held there. My first job in the building was as part-time administrative coordinator for the Jewish Peace...