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Causes: Interfaith Coalitions, Religion
Mission: Founded to address global and local issues of peace and justice, promote understanding of other faiths, search for peaceful approaches to life among neighbors, and encourage greater appreciation of creation and natural world through cooperation with faith communities and other groups.
Programs: Interfaith paths to peace provides programs, events, workshops, memorial services, film screenings, peace vigils, and meditation programs to promote interfaith understanding and peacemaking. Ipp delivers its mission through three different platforms: educational programs, peacemaking programs, and collaborative programs. We are the community first responder for any faith-related crisis. Ipp has a diverse community faith and social justice board of directors that are passionate and committed to the mission of the organization. . Our educational programs are developed to build a better world for future generations by bringing accurate and unbiased information to the community. These activities include spirituality u. Educational series which promotes interfaith literary and combats intolerance and religious violence. Our weekly meditation programs provide a form of health and wellness of the mind and body to those in our community, especially in the crime-prone areas of our community. Ipp monthly third thursday luncheon program focuses on the importance of peace, justice, and human rights in our community. Ipp quarterly sisters in conversation program offers the opportunity to empower women of different faiths to explore and discover the unity amongst the diverse faiths and traditions. All these programs encourage our members to become effective peacemakers, practitioners of their faiths, and empowerment. . Our peacemaking programs foster peace, understanding, and cooperation in our community. Ipp offers this program through interfaith prayer service for world peace, community interfaith peace and harmony concert, interfaith iftar, community interfaith thanksgiving dinner, and the bobby ellis memorial candlelight vigil and walk to eradicate hunger in our community. As the first community faith responder to global or national faith crisis, ipp holds peace vigils at a moment's notice by engaging faith and community leaders to unite and stand strong as a community. All of these events offer a diverse setting with community leaders to engage and promote the message of peace, hope, understanding, and cooperation in our community. . Our collaborative programs allow us to work with other community organizations and businesses to continue peace and understanding in our community. The hope and healing: a community celebration of life has been in collaboration with hosparus, a suicide prevention awareness program, and the muhammad ali center. The national day of prayer interfaith celebration is the partnership with signature healthcare; the hunger walk is in conjunction with dare to care.