ThiAn alert from the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom US

Dear WILPF Member,

 

Please be on the lookout for our pastel YELLOW envelope in your mailbox in the next few days. Don’t toss it accidentally! In the shadow of Mother’s Day, and its Peace origins, consider a larger gift than usual to honor your mother, or a woman mentor who has inspired your path as an activist.

 

WILPF women across the country are opposing ICE and war in Venezuela to Gaza to Iran. We’re holding the line on environmental and human rights. We’re protesting, delivering mutual aid to neighbors, advocating on Capitol Hill and at the UN, and creating new pathways for people to mobilize with WILPF such as our School of Peace & Freedom National Teach-Ins. Please give a bit more so we can scale up action from local to national to global. Mail your check in the return envelope or give generously online at our secure donor link below.

Our WILPF US movement is growing and so is our collective power to act. We are strengthening our foundation while mobilizing more people more quickly – to build peace, to protect democracy, for cross-generational power building. This is an urgent call for your support in these chaotic times.

 

In 2026, WILPF US has one shared funding goal—to raise $250,000 to support more organizing and activism nationwide.

 

An ambitious goal, because we are being called on to do so much more. With your support, we will succeed to deliver more advocacy campaigns and tools, activist training and coordination, rapid response, and care for organizers – so we can scale up our collective action and push back against these harmful times. To build peace, to protect democracy.

 

Please give so we can continue this important work with you.

 

  • $50 helps produce educational events such as webinars with expert speakers 
  • $100 funds resources such as an intern to help coordinate WILPF’s activism nationwide 
  • $250 supports local to global advocacy such as our Peace is/Peace is Not campaign that takes back the Administration’s narrative on peace. Because Peace is Not War. 
  • $500 enables WILPF to scale its impact nationally, such as producing a people’s tribunal on Gaza to hold the US government accountable for complicity in the genocide. 

 

We must keep up the momentum – now, for the next three years of this Administration, and beyond – to prevent more war and to protect our democracy.

 

WILPF US is mobilizing at every level. We remain anti-war at our core. We are committed to protecting democracy. And we are grounded in sisterhood and solidarity—lifting our peace builders and allies in the fight. Give now, knowing that every contribution strengthens our shared work. Organizing, recruiting, and showing up are equally valued ways to contribute. Thank you for all that you continue to do. Together, we are:

 

  • Growing our movement – welcoming new people who are searching for a place to act
  • Empowering young leaders – supporting youth-led organizing and leadership
  • Building cross-generational power – we are seasoned organizers and emerging leaders working side by side

 

Together, we are stronger in resisting authoritarianism, shaping justice, and building peace. Please donate to our Spring Appeal today. 

 

Our work is made possible by people like you. Invest in peace! Please donate today at www.tinyurl.com/wilpfus2026 or mail WILPF a check in the donation envelope in your mailbox*. Thank you for your generosity and for all you do for peace.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

WILPF US Development Committee

Martha Collins, Jan Corderman, Marybeth Gardam, Mary Hanson Harrison, Eileen Kurkoski, Nancy Price


PS. Consider building a long-term legacy for peace! In addition to your gift today, we invite you to consider strengthening our peace movement for the long term: You can give through your retirement account (including Required Minimum Distributions), donate stocks, or include WILPF US in your will or estate – so feminist peace work continues for generations to come.

 

*Make your check to WILPF US and mail it to WILPF US, P.O. Box 13075, Des Moines, IA 50310.  


If you need a tax deduction, make your check payble to WILPF US/PDF. (Our fiscal partner, the Peace Development Fund, deducts 7.5% of your gift for handling fees. Consider giving directly to WILPF without a tax deduction, or consider adding 7.5% so WILPF gets the full amount you intend.)


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