Save Darfur Coalition
The Save Darfur Coalition's “mission is to raise public awareness about the ongoing genocide in Darfur and to mobilize a unified response to the atrocities that threaten the lives of two million people in the Darfur region.
“We are an alliance of over 170 faith-based, advocacy and humanitarian organizations. The Coalition’s member organizations represent 130 million people of all ages, races, religions and political affiliations united together to help the people of Darfur.” [1]
Cofounded by the Holocaust Museum. [2]
They helped launch the Million Voices for Darfur Campaign.
- Jerry Fowler - President
- Director of Online Communications - Andrew Burnette
Contents
People
Accessed April 2012: [1]
Directors
- Mahmoud Braima
- Bennett Freeman
- Harold Freilich
- David Emmanuel Goatley
- Steve Gutow
- Omer Ismail
- Tony Kireopoulos
- Ruth Messinger
- Joan Platt
- Bethany Robertson
- William Schulz
- Paul Schwartz
- Gloria White-Hammond
- Bradley D. Wine
Advisory Board
- Holly Burkhalter
- Shannon Sedgwick Davis
- Juan E. Méndez
- Trevor Neilson
- John Prendergast
- Pierre-Richard Prosper
- Kenneth Roth
- David Scheffer
- John Clint Williamson
Directors (2008)
Accessed August 2008: [2]
Officers of the Board:
- Chairperson: Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, M.D., My Sister’s Keeper
- Vice-Chairperson: Sam Bell, Genocide Intervention Network
- Secretary: Omer Ismail, Darfur Peace and Development
- Treasurer: Mike Edington
Directors:
- Mahmoud Braima, Darfuri Leaders Network
- Richard Cizik, National Association of Evangelicals
- Stephen Colecchi, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
- Zeinab Eyega, Sauti Yetu Center for African Women
- David Emmanuel Goatley, Ph.D., Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention
- Steve Gutow, Jewish Council for Public Affairs
- Antonios Kireopoulos, National Council of Churches
- Ruth Messinger, American Jewish World Service
- John Prendergast, ENOUGH
- Jill Savitt, Dream for Darfur
- Scott Warren, STAND, A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition
- James Zogby, Arab American Institute
Directors (accessed June 2007)
- Sam Bell, Genocide Intervention Network
- Richard Cizik, National Association of Evangelicals
- Mike Edington, Wellspring Advisors
- Marla Feldman, Union for Reform Judiasm
- Jerry Fowler, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Antonios Kireopoulos, National Council of Churches
- Crispian Kirk, NAACP
- Erin Mazursky, STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition
- Ruth Messinger, American Jewish World Service
- Michael Perry, Franciscans International
- John Prendergast, International Crisis Group and ENOUGH
- Martin Raffel, Jewish Council for Public Affairs
- David Rubenstein, Save Darfur Coalition
- William Sinkford, Unitarian Universalist Association
Organizational Members
Accessed October 2007: [3]
Executive Committee
- American Jewish World Service
- American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA Society)
- Amnesty International USA
- Citizens for Global Solutions
- Darfur Peace and Development
- ENOUGH :: The Project to Abolish Genocide and Mass Atrocities
- Genocide Intervention Network
- Jewish Council for Public Affairs
- NAACP
- National Association of Evangelicals
- National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA
- STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition
- Union for Reform Judaism
- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Members
Save Darfur Coalition: Organizational Members
Contact
Save Darfur Coalition
Suite 335
2120 L Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20037
Phone: (800) 917-2034
Fax: (202) 478-6312
Web: http://www.savedarfur.org
External links
- Yoshie Furuhash, "Save Darfur": Evangelicals and Establishment Jews, MRZine, April 28, 2006.
- Arlene Getz. "Do-Gooders Gone Bad", Newsweek, Nov 12, 2007 Issue.
Resources and articles
Related SourceWatch articles
- Olympic Dream for Darfur
- Mohamed Abdel Dayem - former researcher
