Washington D.C. Partners

Busboys and Poets
Busboys and Poets restaurant, performance space and coffeehouse features dynamic events and a bookstore operated by Teaching for Change. Busboys and Poets, located in the historic U Street district of Washington, D.C., is a venture of peace activist Andy Shallal of Mimi's and Cafe Luna.

Industry Ears
Industry Ears is a consortium of entertainment and broadcast industry professionals with more than 60 years of experience dedicated to revealing truth and promoting justice in media.

Lakeland College
As a liberal arts college offering both undergraduate and graduate degrees, Lakeland provides students with an education that is broad in scope, comprehensive in spirit and focused in at least one area of study.

Men Can Stop Rape
Men Can Stop Rape mobilizes male youth to prevent men's violence against women. We build young men's capacity to challenge harmful aspects of traditional masculinity, to value alternative visions of male strength and to embrace their vital role as allies with women and girls in fostering healthy relationships and gender equity.

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Since its inception in 1976, NCADP has been the only fully staffed national organization exclusively devoted to abolishing capital punishment. NCADP provides information, advocates for public policy and mobilizes and supports individuals and institutions that share their unconditional rejection of capital punishment.

Peace Cafe
Co-founded by restaurateur Anas (Andy) Shallal, Mimi Conway of the Jewish Community Center and Ari Roth of Theater J, the Peace CafÈ promotes Arab and Jewish dialogue and improved understanding. Since its inception in 2000, the Peace Cafe has become the largest Arab-Jewish dialogue group in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. See the video on WashingtonPost.com

S.A.L.S.A.
The Social Action & Leadership School for Activists (SALSA) of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) offers affordable evening classes in Washington, D.C., to make organizations more effective.

Search for Common Ground
Founded in 1982, Search for Common Ground works to transform the way the world deals with conflict, away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem solving. They work with local partners to find culturally appropriate means to strengthen societies' capacity to deal with conflicts constructively: to understand the differences and act on the commonalities.

Sentencing Project
The Sentencing Project is a national organization working for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing law and practice and alternatives to incarceration.

Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
The Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) is a national organization advancing the interests of Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese Americans through leadership development, capacity building and community empowerment.

TransAfrica Forum
TransAfrica Forum serves as a major research, educational and organizing institution for the African American community offering constructive analyses of issues concerning U.S. policy as it affects Africa and the Diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America.

United Nations Association of the National Capital Area
UNANCA uses their unique position in the national capital to reach out to national and local citizens, opinion leaders and our government to educate, mobilize and inspire Americans to support the principles and vital work of the United Nations, to strengthen the United Nations system, to promote constructive United States leadership in that system and to achieve the goals of the UN Charter.

WHUT
Started in 1980, Howard University Television is the first African American owned and operated noncommercial television station in the United States. The station is the principal channel for diverse programming in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

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