- We educate residents of Ashland and the Rogue Valley on relevant issues and organize for public advocacy and civic action.
- We help individuals acquire the skills of nonviolent living.
- We foster cooperation among organizations that share our fundamental values and extend to them our resources as needed.
Programs
- Ending war
- Demilitarizing the federal budget
- Education for nonviolent living and action
- Uncle Food’s Diner And associated services
- Rogue Liberation Library
Non-Profit Sponsorships
Peace House offers other organizations the advantage of an IRS-recognized public charity if those organizations are compatible with our values and if they intend either to fulfill their mission within a relatively short time or intend to apply for their own 501(c)(3) recognition. This service has given a boost to several now-established organizations, such as. We have been the initial sponsor for the following organizations:
- Southern Oregon Time Co-op
- Vision Quilt
- Southern Oregon Pride
- Ashland Culture of Peace Commission
- Keeping Ashland Women Safe (K.A.W.S.)
- Jackson County Fuel Committee Building initiative
- Ashland Peace Wall Project
- Rohyinga Film Project
- Josephine County Council of Elders (currently)
Information Services (more listings at https://peacehouse.net/information-services/)
- Weekly email publication “Community Updates, Actions & Events”; also posted on Peace House Facebook https://www.facebook.com/PeaceHouseAshland and shared to approximately 30 local Facebook groups
- Shelters (2020)
- Free meals https://peacehouse.net/uncle-foods-diner/
- Older information Meals and Resources in Ashland keyed to map
- Jackson County COVID-19 Prevalence – Interactive information updated weekly
- Almeda Fire information & resource listings – posted Saturday 9-12-2020 & more current updatesfor
Collaborations
Peace House at times partners with other organizations for peace or justice work. In these collaborations we provide volunteers, money, and our public relations capability, but we do not take primary responsibility for the work in the Rogue Valley.
- Single payer universal health care in Oregon
- Reasonable gun regulation
- Ending indiscriminate and warrantless surveillance of the domestic population
- Annual observance of the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Prison Reform
- Passage of the H.R. 1299 Berta Caceres Human Rights in Honduras Bill Bill
Organizational Partners
- Access
- Ashland Citizen’s Peace Commission
- Ashland Emergency Food Bank
- Cease-fire Oregon
- First Methodist Church of Ashland
- Health Care for All Oregon
- The Food Angels
- Jackson County Fuel Committee
- Josephine County Council of Elders
- Keeping Ashland Women Safe (K.A.W.S.)
- One Sunny Day Initiative & Green Legacy Hiroshima
- Oregon Humanities
- Oregon Action
- Rogue Valley Veterans for Peace, Chapter 156
- Rural Organizing Project
- Southern Oregon Jobs for Justice
- Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
- Southern Oregon Climate Action Network (SOCAN)
- Southern Oregon Friends Meeting
- Southern Oregon PRIDE
- Southern Oregon Climate Action Network (SOCAN)
- United Nations Club, Southern Oregon University (SOU club directory)
- Vision Quilt
- Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
- Statewide:
- Health Care For All Oregon (HCAO) Website
- Rural Organizing Project
- No DAPL
- Unite Oregon
- Peaceworks
National:
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Peace Action
- World Beyond War
- Southern Poverty Law Center