Interfaith Partners

Equal Exchange's Interfaith Program is a vibrant network of thousands of faith communities working to make a difference, together. Through the Interfaith Program, we partner with faith-based relief, development and human rights organizations and work with communities of faith as they learn about and promote Fair Trade. People of faith are living out their values through their consumer choices, and farming communities are providing for their families, greening our planet and building a better future. 

  • American Friends Service Committee

    The American Friends Service Committee is a Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice, as a practical expression of faith in action. Drawing on continuing spiritual insights and working with people of many backgrounds, they nurture the seeds of change and respect for human life that transform social relations and systems. AFSC envisions a world in which lasting peace with justice is achieved through active nonviolence and the transforming power of love. They work toward a world which includes caring, respectful economic development, including work with dignity, promoting well-being for all.

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  • American Jewish World Service

    American Jewish World Service (AJWS) is an international development organization motivated by Judaism’s imperative to pursue justice. AJWS is dedicated to alleviating poverty, hunger and disease among the people of the developing world regardless of race, religion or nationality. Through grants to grassroots organizations, volunteer service, advocacy and education, AJWS fosters civil society, sustainable development and human rights for all people, while promoting these same values and responsibilities of global citizenship within the Jewish community.

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  • Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America

    The Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America (BPFNA) works to gather, equip and mobilize Baptists to build a culture of peace rooted in justice.  As the largest network of Baptist peacemakers in the world, BPFNA celebrates and supports the peacemaking work done by Baptist churches in Canada, the United States, Puerto Rico and Mexico by raising the visibility of these efforts; bringing peacemakers together in regional and international gatherings; and providing resources, speakers and training to our members. BPFNA also actively connects with peacemakers from other traditions, faith-based and secular, to build alliances and work together toward our common goal of a more just and peaceful world.

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  • Catholic Relief Services

    Catholic Relief Services is the official overseas relief and development agency of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and carries out their commitment to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas. CRS is motivated by the Gospel of Jesus Christ to cherish, preserve and uphold the sacredness and dignity of all human life; foster charity and justice; and embody Catholic social and moral teaching. CRS promotes human development by responding to major emergencies, fighting disease and poverty, and nurturing peaceful and just societies. They also serve Catholics in the United States who strive to live their faith in solidarity with their brothers and sisters around the world. As part of the universal mission of the Catholic Church, CRS works with local, national and international Catholic institutions and structures, as well as other organizations, to assist people on the basis of need, not creed, race or nationality.

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  • Church of the Brethren

    The central emphasis of the Church of the Brethren is a commitment to follow Christ in simple obedience, to be faithful disciples in the modern world. As do most other Christians, the Brethren believe in God as Creator and loving Sustainer. They emphasize the principles of peace and reconciliation, simple living, integrity of speech, family values, and service to neighbors near and far. The Global Food Crisis Fund (GFCF) is the primary way that the Church of the Brethren assists hungry people in developing food security. Since 1983, GFCF has provided grants upwards of $400,000 annually to community development programs in 32 countries. GFCF seeks to: invest in small-scale economic development; join efforts to improve diet and health practices; champion soil conservation; and promote awareness-raising and advocacy on hunger issues.

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  • Disciples of Christ

    Disciples Home Missions, a General Ministry of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), is the enabling and coordinating division of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in congregational program and mission in North America. DHM's priorities include leader development, congregational transformation, faith formation and Christian vocations.

    Week of Compassion is the relief, refugee and development ministry fund of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the US and Canada. WOC helps North American Disciples contribute to relief and development efforts world wide. WOC also encourages and supports volunteer groups in "hands-on" mission and service opportunities in North America and abroad.

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  • Lutheran World Relief

    With 100 local partners, LWR works to improve harvests, health and education in some 35 countries each year. LWR partners train local women and men to produce local foods, dig low-cost wells and protect and restore their local environments. Some partners are small village groups on the edge of the Sahara. Others are nationwide programs that may reach across the Andes. LWR has learned that the future in health, agriculture and education often lies with the hearts and hands of women. We have learned that disaster can sometimes be prevented or withstood by effective development programs and that, when disasters do occur, LWR partners may be on the spot well before the world notices and still needed long after the crisis no longer commands front-page headlines.
    Throughout its history, LWR has worked on behalf of U.S. Lutherans. Basic support today is provided through the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America World Hunger Appeal and by The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod World Relief.

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  • Mennonite Central Committee U.S.

    The Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), a worldwide ministry of Anabaptist churches, shares God's love and compassion for all in the name of Christ by responding to basic human needs and working for peace and justice.MCC's priorities are disaster relief, sustainable community development and justice and peacebuilding. It approaches its mission by addressing poverty, oppression, and injustice, and their systemic causes; accompanying partners and the church in a process of mutual transformation; building bridges across cultural, political and economic divides; and caring for creation.MCC seeks to live and serve nonviolently, peacefully and justly in each relationship, incorporating listening and learning, accountability and mutuality, transparency and integrity.

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  • Presbyterian Church USA

    The Presbyterian Hunger Program (PHP) is a ministry of the PC(USA) working with congregations and partners around the globe to alleviate hunger and eliminate its causes. Nationally and internationally, they work with partner churches and organizations in more than 100 countries. The work they undertake supports God's vision of a community where all people have sufficient, health and culturally appropriate food.

    The Presbyterian Coffee Project offers a special link between congregations and communities to reach out to neighbors overseas not only with the prayers and offerings but with the goods and products that they purchase. PC(USA)’s fair trade practices complement their mission with farmers in Latin America, Africa and Asia as well as to their commitment to stewardship of the natural environment.

    As a ministry of the Presbyterian Hunger Program, Enough for Everyone helps Presbyterians practice greater lifestyle integrity through everyday living. Projects include the Presbyterian Coffee Project, Sweat-Free T’s, Eco-Palms, Electric Stewardship, Investing in Hope, the Global Marketplace and Just living.

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  • Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

    The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) is an independent human-rights organization. Through its Economic Justice Program, UUSC embraces a vision of economic human rights, supporting workers’ right to organize and earn a living wage – including through strategies like fair trade. Along with its 40,000 members and supporters, UUSC recognizes that economic justice is essential for securing basic human rights, alleviating local and global poverty, and achieving a more peaceful and just world.

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  • United Church of Christ

    The Justice and Witness Ministries,is one of four Covenanted Ministries in the United Church of Christ. It helps local congregations and all settings of the church respond to God’s commandments to do justice, seek peace and effect change for a better world. The work of Justice and Witness Ministries is guided by the pronouncements and resolutions approved by the United Church of Christ General Synod.

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  • United Methodist Committee on Relief

    The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is the relief and development agency of the United Methodist Church. It is dedicated to alleviating human suffering around the globe, and reaches people in more than 80 countries, providing humanitarian relief in the face of conflict or natural disaster.

    UMCOR’s goal is to assist the most vulnerable persons affected by crisis or chronic need without regard to their race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. They believe all people have God-given worth and dignity.

    While UMCOR cooperates with other aid organizations to extend their reach, they consider their most important partners to be the people they serve. They find that that successful solutions to emergency or chronic conditions begin with the affected population. UMCOR provides these survivors not only temporary relief but long-term education, training, and support.

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