Building Credibility
Being part of an established organization like Middle East Fellowship will help lend you the credibility you need to work towards effect change within your own community.
Tax Exemption
Middle East Fellowship is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Becoming a local chapter in our network means that donations given to your group will also be tax deductible. This makes it much easier to fundraise for any of your projects or programs.
Collaborative Efforts
Middle East Fellowship believes strongly in the value of cooperative work. There are many organizations working toward peace and justice in the Middle East, and we think it's vitally important that we work side-by-side with these groups to achieve our shared visions and goals.
So we encourage our chapters to connect and network with other worthy organizations, such as: Sabeel, Churches for Middle East Peace, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Every Church a Peace Church, Tikkun or other responsible, faithful and socially conscience groups.
Access to Speakers
Middle East Fellowship regularly helps set up tours across North America for prominent speakers to discuss key issues, such as the Iraq war, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, U.S. foreign policy, spirituality and politics, nonviolence and peacemaking.
Access to Resources
In addition to helping provide you with educational materials and providing your group with free copies of Middle East Witness, our quarterly magazine, we can help set you up with a Middle East Fellowship e-mail account and an ?egroupware? account, which provides a system for storing information about your contacts, memos and upcoming events securely online.
We can also help you set up a website for your local chapter and an e-mail list that will allow you to send announcements and reminders to your chapter?s members. We can even help you set up a password-protected online forum where your members can communicate with each other throughout the week. This is a great way to keep members involved in the spaces between meetings. They might have suggestions for the next meeting's agenda, have articles they want to share or have events they would like other members to attend.