Foundation Beyond Belief (FBB) is excited to announce the American Humanist Association (AHA) as the first Beyond Belief Network National Partner. Beyond Belief Network is FBB’s collective of over 125 freethought organizations putting compassionate humanism into action through community volunteering and charitable fundraising. Many Beyond Belief Network organizations are affiliates of the American Humanist Association, and this new partnership between FBB and the AHA will further encourage and highlight humanist volunteerism throughout the United States. In particular, the new partnership between FBB and the AHA seeks to emphasize the importance of humanist action on social justice issues. Together FBB and the AHA now call on all humanists to stand up for equality. Let’s create positive change and broadcast to the ...

We have an update from one of our Nepal Earthquake Disaster Recovery beneficiaries, Gurkha Welfare Trust, on the quake-resistant construction methods they have used in the recovery effort since the April 2015 Nepal earthquake. The April 2015 earthquake was the worst natural disaster to strike Nepal since the 1934 earthquake, killing more than 14,000 people, injuring more than 21,000, and causing 20 billion dollars in damage. Foundation Beyond Belief launched a Humanist Disaster Recovery Drive and thanks to your compassion and generosity was first able to distribute $45,000 in June 2015 to The Women’s Foundation Nepal and Society of Humanism Nepal to aid in the immediate aftermath, and so far $15,000 of another $30,000 in 2016 and 2017, to Gurkha Welfare Trust to ...

When Conor Robinson first began planning for the launch of the Humanist Service Corps, he assumed that he would need to spend at least three to five years on the ground in Ghana to ensure program stability. Thanks in large part to the efforts of our incredible inaugural team and the reliability of Songtaba's staff, that estimate proved to be very conservative. After being in Ghana only one year, he has returned to the United States to focus on recruiting, training, and fundraising for the program. This is a necessary pivot as the program enters its second phase of development: solidifying and expanding HSC's Ghana office while working to identify the location and partner organization for the second Humanist Service Corps office. Cleopatra Blacke and Wendy ...