HELP FUND THE FUTURE
For over 40 years, The Center for Understanding in Conflict has trained people to resolve disputes through empathy and connection. As demand grows across communities and sectors, your support helps expand access to our programs, fund participants with differing resources, and adapt our teaching to meet urgent needs. Together, we can bring people together—one conversation at a time.
When Gary Friedman and Jack Himmelstein founded the nonprofit Center for Understanding in Conflict more than 40 years ago, their vision was simple but bold: to bring a deeper, more human approach to conflict resolution.
Since then, the Center has improved lives and communities around the US and abroad by training more than 10,000 nonprofit and corporate leaders, lawyers, law teachers, judges, human resources personnel, and mental health providers in the understanding-based approach to conflict resolution and mediation.
In 2026, the need for conflict resolution is greater than ever. To continue to respond to this expressed need, our board – led by chair Hansa Patel – launched our first capital fundraising campaign last year. Our goal is to raise $100,000 by the end of this year to further develop new ways to apply our model beyond traditional mediation, evolve our approach to address issues of access, equity, and implicit bias, and provide scholarships and financial support to those for whom cost is a barrier.
Your gift to CUC today will provide attendee scholarships, program development, teacher training assistance, community outreach, and more. We hope you will join us in building a brighter future
for this work.
You can also send gifts via check to:
The Center for Understanding in Conflict
829 Sonoma Avenue
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
EIN# 94-2768666
Please consider checking with your financial advisor about tax-incentive giving and with your employer about potential matching!
Contributions of any amount will significantly impact our ability to expand training opportunities, evolve to meet future demands and provide pathways for those seeking to train with the Center, to whom financial concerns are a limitation.
Your donation is tax-deductible within the guidelines of U.S. law. To claim a donation as a deduction on your U.S. taxes, please keep your email donation receipt as your official record. The PayPal Giving Fund will send it to you upon receiving your donation. We also participate in employer gift matching through Benevity and several giving programs, including the PayPal Giving Fund on eBay, Nextdoor, and HumbleBundle.
The Center for Understanding in Conflict is a charitable organization recognized as tax-exempt by the IRS under Section 501(c)(3). We appreciate your interest in supporting our efforts to bring the understanding-based approach to conflict resolution and mediation wherever it is needed through training and professional development. Please note that within the United States, we are only able to accept contributions from the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, New York, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming. If you would like to support the Center and reside outside these locations, please get in touch with [email protected]
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