Organizations Filed Purposes:
Creating Friendships for Peace (CFP) promotes peace and understanding in divided communities by bringing together teenagers with future leadership potential from both sides of a conflict, encouraging lifelong friendships among them, and extending these friendships to their families and friends.
Creating Friendships for Peace, Inc. (CFP) promotes friendships among teenagers from divided communities and extends those friendships to their families and friends.
Creating Friendships for Peace (CFP) provides a two-year program for Cypriot high-school students. In Year One, selected teens attend peace camps in Cyprus, learning about each other's history and culture. In Year Two, the same teens are eligible to attend a month-long living experience in the U.S. with an American host family. During this month, the teens share a bedroom with a member of the other community of the same gender and develop a deeper understanding of each other. They discover what they share in common and learn the lesson of reconciliation.Our program in Cyprus is referred to as the Cyprus Friendship Program and includes our independent volunteer Cypriot Coordinators who manage our Year One workshops, projects and week long summer peace camps, all funded with Cypriot resources. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Cypriot Coordinators also managed the Year Two program in 2020, much of it virtual. Almost all of CFP's expenses for the Cyprus Friendship Program are related to the travel and insurance costs for the teen pairs who come to the U.S. As of the end of 2020, CFP has paired and trained 524 Cypriot teens in the United States and 476 in Cyprus.
Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, CFP was unable to host teens from Israel/Palestine in 2020 and did not have a Coordinator infrastructure in Israel as exists in Cyprus. As a result, CFP is developing two projects which will result in teens coming to the U.S. in 2022. These projects will include a volunteer CFP Coordinator team.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Betsy Small | Cyprus Program Coordinator | 10 | $0 |
| Tamera Drozd | Middle East Program Coordinator | 10 | $0 |
| Kim Bell | Transportation Coordinator | 10 | $0 |
| Melody Stone | US Area Coordinator | 10 | $0 |
| Rebecca Stirn | US Area Coordinator | 10 | $0 |
| William Dean | US Area Coordinator | 10 | $0 |
| Linda Ziglar | Chairman | 25 | $0 |
| Donna Suddeth | Director/Treasurer | 5 | $0 |
| Sharon Moore | Director | 1 | $0 |
| John Mckinney | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Tom Mccarthy | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Michael Liatsos | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Mary Kurucz | Director/Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| Simge Kahvecioglu | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Tamra Haas | Executive Director | 10 | $0 |
| Susan Elliott | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Warren Belmar | Director | 1 | $0 |
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