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Washington, DC 20011
Fax: (202) 545-8873
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NAFCM's Tax ID Number is: 521-902-647
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Attn: Joanne Galindo
NAFCM
P.O. Box 3263
Washington, DC 20010
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National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports community mediation centers throughout the United States.
Community mediation offers constructive processes for resolving differences and conflicts between individuals, groups, and organizations. It is an alternative to avoidance, destructive confrontation, prolonged litigation or violence. It gives people in conflict an opportunity to take responsibility for the resolution of their dispute and control of the outcome. Community mediation is designed to preserve individual interests while strengthening relationships and building connections between people and groups, and to create processes that make communities work for all of us.
Organizational Goals
NAFCM serves as a national voice and an advocate of community mediation in legislative, policy-making, professional, and other arenas.
- Promote the values, understanding, public awareness, and practice of community mediation and collaborative problem solving.
- Educate private and public funding sources about the experience, breadth, benefits and applications of community mediation and develop financial resources for community mediation.
- Serve as a national clearinghouse of information on the development and practice of community mediation.
- Foster communication and mutual assistance among members in such areas as training, funding, technology, and program and policy development.
- Create and maintain a national directory and database for community mediation.
- Encourage and promote regional and national collaborative projects among community mediation programs.
- Promote and encourage collaboration between community mediation programs and non-dispute resolution organizations at both the local and national level.
- Develop and maintain ties with national, regional, state, and other dispute resolution and related organizations to enhance the growth of community mediation.
- Support research, program evaluation, mediation theory development, innovation, and quality in community mediation.
- Recognize and celebrate volunteers in community mediation.
- Develop local and national community mediation leadership.
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