7 Key Goals for 2006-2009

1. Weaving Indra’s Net: Cultivate a greater sense of our interconnection throughout the BPF community, and an understanding that BPF is comprised of many people: members, chapters, staff, board, and more.

2. Diversity: Commit to becoming a more diverse and culturally competent organization that deeply recognizes the value of difference and unity.

3. Sustainability: Ensure sustainable use of our energy and efforts: spiritual, physical, emotional, financial, and material.

4. Transformative Peacework: Develop a more clearly defined and supported Peacework Program that emphasizes the link between internal and external peacemaking.

5. Transformative Justice: Support the evolution of the Prison Program into an innovative Transformative Justice Program that integrates practice and action, and addresses systemic injustice through community solutions like the Coming Home Initiative.

6. Community: Create and sustain vibrant groups of compassionate activists who come together to deepen their inner and outer practices, using resources generated by the BPF community.

7. Telling Our Story: Increase BPF’s visibility and our capacity to communicate effectively about the contributions of socially engaged dharma to the peace and justice movement, both within our own network and to the general public.