A Call to Protect Lives
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Transform Aid to Solidarity
At the start of 2025, the world shifted. Overnight, the humanitarian and peacebuilding sector was thrown into chaos by abrupt, sweeping cuts to U.S. aid funding. These cuts have rippled across the entire sector, endangering lives and dismantling the very programs that offer safety, dignity, and hope. The United States has defaulted on its commitments, and governments in Europe are following suit.
In response, NP's launching a $4 million emergency campaign to sustain our critical, life-saving programs through this crisis. We need your support—because lives depend on it.
Together, you and our entire community of supporters can fund this protection and peace.
Your gift today isn’t just a donation—it’s a stand for humanity, for dignity, for protection when it is needed most.
Where Your Support Will Go
$2,000,000
Protection in South Sudan
A country already battered by violence is now facing an even graver crisis as funding dries up and fears of civil war grow. Without urgent support, we will be forced to shut down all field sites by April, leaving entire communities without protection. If we don’t act, they will be abandoned.
$650,000
Youth Peacebuilding in Minneapolis
We provide mentorship to young people at risk of being involved in violence in their community. By working with the most at-risk young people in this community, we enable a path away from gang activity. But funding for this project ends in September and the Trump administration has stopped all new funding.
$450,000
Bridge Building in Rural Minnesota
For the last three years, with local, rural partners we’ve seen how unarmed civilian protection can create spaces for the community to work through difference, without escalating to violence. If we want peace in this country, investing in building bridges among rural communities is essential. There is a loud call to scale up this work but our current funding ends in May.
$350,000
Safety and Solidarity in San Diego
LGBTQ individuals and communities of color have suffered targeted violence for years. Leaders in these communities have asked NP for support to build holistic safety. To do this we train leaders in practical protection, teaching communities how to keep themselves and each other safe while interrupting cycles of violence —but without funding support, this vital work will stop.
$350,000
Fundraising and Communications
It will be some time before we can depend on traditional funding sources and institutional support and the most likely scenario is that it will get worse before it gets better. We will not solve these problems with business as usual approaches. NP needs strategic infusions of resources to build outreach, communications and reorganize NP’s resourcing in a way that will allow for continued independence and implementation.
$200,000
Myanmar Program
In one of the most complicated conflicts in the world, amidst airstrikes, ground attacks and constrained access, the Myanmar team is working with churches, community leaders, military actors and armed group leaders to ensure everyday civilians caught in the crossfire have a path to safety. We train community leaders to identify the warning signs of escalating violence and create plans in their villages to find a safe place.
This is a moment of reckoning.
We are living in a time where the very foundation of human rights and civilian protection is being challenged. As scary as this feels, it also creates a unique opportunity for meaningful change. We will not operate from a place of fear or be paralyzed by scarcity. We will not give up and let violence and oppression be the way forward. We will stand in solidarity and accompaniment with those who need it most.
And we know that while today it might be someone else who needs help, tomorrow it might be ourselves. Our best way forward is in community with one another, creating spaces of belonging and inspiration where we have opportunities to contribute and where we can keep each other safe. Would you join us?