The New Community Project depends on domestic and international partners to host Learning Tours, provide educational and project opportunities, and to share their perspective on the world and on the Christian faith. NCP in turns works to express solidarity for their work and to support projects where appropriate.

• Central and South America
• Africa
• Asia
• United States

Central and South America

Emmanuel Baptist Church of San Salvador, El Salvador is an advocate for justice and human dignity in this Central American country. IBE (Spanish acronym) carries out development and missionary work in rural, marginalized communities. IBE hosts NCP Learning Tours and facilitates NCP grants for women's development. Want to know more? Read about Fatima, a single mother who is a key--but poorly paid--link in the global coffee trade.

In Guatemala, NCP offers periodic Learning Tours, hosted by Brethren Volunteer Service Latin America coordinator Todd Bauer as well as long-time contacts of NCP staff Tom Benevento. Todd also facilitates NCP's purchase of Fair Trade crafts from women's groups.

Fundacion SELVA is the NCP partner in Ecuador . This women-led group hosts NCP Learning Tours and Solidarity Workers, and collaborates on various efforts involving rainforest preservation, ecological education, and support of indigenous communities. Our Join the Band wristbands are secured from the Cofan people with SELVA's assistance. http://www.selvaeco.org/

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Africa

In Sudan, the South Sudan Council of Churches and the Girlchild Education and Development Associate are key program partners in Narus and Nimule, respectively, coordinating our grant for girl's education and women's development, and hosting our Learning Tours. GEDA also hosts Solidarity Workers in Nimule each summer. Paskwale Ben and his New Community Forestry receive support from our If a Tree Falls... program for reforestation efforts in Nimule and surrounding areas. (Photos and stories from the 2009 Sudan Learning Tour)

In Uganda, NCP provides a marketing outlet for Papula Paper, a women-led organization making paper products from recycled and organic materials. The group places a priority on hiring single mothers and disabled persons.

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Asia

In Nepal, NCP coordinates with Women Empowerment, a grassroots nonprofit agency working for women's dignity and girls' education. Through WE, NCP provides support of girls' education and skills training for women. WE hosts Learning Tours to Nepal.

In Myanmar (Burma), NCP works with the Myanmar Baptist Convention to support women's development projects in the southwest delta, and with various partners in the hill tribe areas to implement programs for girls' education, women's development and reforestation.

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United States

Program Partners

Gwich'in Steering Committee/Arctic Village, AK The Gwich'in people of Arctic Village, Alaska host NCP Learning Tours each summer. Participants learn about Gwich'in culture and current lifestyle, and about their reliance on the Porcupine Caribou Herd for food and identity. The Gwich'in Steering Committee is the primary advocacy group representing the Gwich'in nation.  Their focus is on preventing oil drilling along the coastal plain of the arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Colleague Agencies (National)

The National Council of Churches in Christ Eco-Justice Office This office coordinates the care for creation ministries of the National Council of Churches, providing a wide range of resources and opportunities for action. 

Eco-Justice Ministries serves as a clearinghouse for a variety of care for creation initiatives, resources and campaigns. The organization also publishes the weekly Eco-Justice Notes, essays on themes of interest to faith-based environmentalists.

Council on the Environment in Jewish Life  COEJL is the leading Jewish environmental organization in the United States. Since its founding in 1993, COEJL has helped the Jewish community make a connection between Judaism and the environment.

The Regeneration Project and its Interfaith Power and Light campaign is an interfaith ministry devoted to deepening the connection between ecology and faith. The IPL campaign is mobilizing a national religious response to global warming while promoting renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation.

Christian Simple Living outlines the elements of a 'non-conforming' 21st Century Christian simplicity and provides information and resources for living it, including how to live with less, loving our neighbors and the planet, increasing spirituality, building self-sustaining communities, staying healthy through healthy eating, exercise and good health care, and a number of other topics.

Colleague Agencies (Regional)

Faith in Place  Based in Chicago, Faith in Place gives religious people the tools to become good stewards of the earth, partnering with religious congregations to promote clean energy & sustainable farming. Their constituency includes over 200 congregations in Illinois-Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Zoroastrian, Baha'i and Unitarian.

Earth Ministry is a Seattle-based organization offering a range of congregational and personal resources and list serves. While focused on the Northwest, many of their resources are useful in any setting.

GreenFaith is New Jersey 's interfaith coalition for the environment. The group seeks to inspire, educate and mobilize people of diverse spiritual backgrounds to rediscover their relationship with the sacred in nature and to restore the earth for future generations. A wide array of resources are listed under headings of Spirit, Stewardship and Justice.

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