PEACE THROUGH ACTION USA
Be Peace. Choose Peace. Create Peace.
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What we aim to solve
The United States of America has a peace deficit. We are a nation with too many hurting people due to negative behaviors among us ranging from coarse civil discourse to microaggression to violent crime. Aggression and violence inflict a heavy toll on their victims, persecutors, and society overall. There are great economic burdens that aggression and violence place on the nation. Ultimately, our Republic is weakened. Aggression and violence are preventable. Moreover, there is a wide array of practical solutions--we call them peaceful practices--available for people to resist aggression and violence and instead choose peace. Peaceful practices are people practices. They work only when people understand, choose, implement, and sustain them. Unfortunately, too few of us regularly and consistently put peaceful practices into practice. Essentially then, we have a peaceful people deficit.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Peace Agents
Peace Through Action USA’s Peace Agents program supplies compensated servant leaders—peace agents—to U.S. communities experiencing interpersonal and intergroup aggression and violence. We serve as an intermediary—recruiting, screening, and matching people who wish to dedicate a service term focused on peacebuilding to organizations that seek to increase peace between people and groups in their communities. Peace Through Action USA raises funds for and supervises our peace agents to lower barriers to human resources that community organizations face. Our peace agents lead community peace projects with their project sponsors.
Peace Advisors
Peace Through Action USA’s Peace Advisors program matches skills-based volunteers—peace advisors—with U.S. communities experiencing interpersonal and intergroup aggression and violence. We identify people with expertise in peaceful practices, community organizing, or organization management who wish to donate a portion of their talent and time to peacebuilding. We place our peace advisors into training and technical assistance positions with our community peace projects. Some of our peace advisors coach or mentor Peace Through Action USA’s peace agents, who lead community peace projects with an organization sponsor.
Peace Promoters
Peace Through Action USA’s Peace Promoters program offers volunteer opportunities for peace-seeking people—peace promoters—to encourage peaceful behavior and reject aggression and violence between people and groups. We offer tools for peace promoters to champion peace within their social and professional networks. We make available platforms for peace promoters to disseminate messages about interpersonal peace. And, we place peace promoters into communications positions with our community peace projects.
Peace Uplifters
Peace Through Action USA’s Peace Uplifters program offers volunteer opportunities for people with faith beliefs and/or with healing capabilities—peace uplifters—to direct prayer, meditation, and healing energy and support toward the achievement of interpersonal peace. We offer tools for peace uplifters to pray for and meditate on peace. And, we place peace uplifters into spiritual or healing support positions with our community peace projects.
Peace Explorers
Peace Through Action USA’s Peace Explorers program area offers learning, sharing, and decision-making opportunities for people with desire to decrease aggression and violence and increase peace in their homes, places of work, learning, and worship, and/or their neighborhoods. We deliver these peace explorers brief learning events, short courses, and information sheets on aggression and violence prevention and peaceful practices subjects.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Peace Through Action USA is missioned to achieve peace between people and within communities in the United States of America by promoting caring action. We activate and equip Americans to implement practical peaceful solutions to aggression and violence in their communities and our country. We strive toward a nation abundant with peaceful people applying peaceful practices and creating peaceful places.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Peace Through Action USA reduces the peaceful people deficit by activating Americans to reject aggression and violence and equipping them with practical solutions to establish peace between people and groups where we live, learn, work, play, and pray. Volunteers and servant leaders who choose Peace Through Action USA as their vehicle for inspiring and facilitating peaceful practices among their fellow Americans self-select into one or more of our four peacebuilding programs. Our uncompensated volunteers and compensated servant leaders deliver capacity-building services and direct services to U.S. communities desirous of greater interpersonal and intergroup peace.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Peace Through Action USA has completed hundreds of tasks required to start a new national-scope charitable organization. Among our milestones, we have completed our first organization plan, secured status as a tax-exempt public charity, and put in place a system for receiving and accounting for financial gifts. We have designed our four peacebuilding programs, described our volunteering and service opportunities, and established the systems and tools for recruiting, placing, and supporting our volunteer and service force for peace.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Peace Through Action USA is delivering its signature peace agents program. Through that program we are supporting our first community peace project, in Calvert County, Maryland. The project has civic engagement, peaceful practices skills-building, and volunteering components. We are documenting the project and project activities with an eye toward developing a model community peace project for replication in communities nationwide.
Also, generally, through our website, enews, and social media, we promote opportunities for all Americans to do something to address the many forms of aggression and violence we encounter.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We act on the feedback we receive
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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PEACE THROUGH ACTION USA
Board of directorsas of 08/11/2023
Pamela Zeutenhorst
Robert Reeg
Peace Through Action USA
Pamela Zeutenhorst
Tracy Doyle
Danielle Haack
Michael Olaiya
Nitin Kumar
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.