Bridging the hearts and minds of all people.
For All of Us
Building Peaceful Bridges is a nonprofit organization supporting people of all faiths whose mission is to foster multicultural relationships by assisting in the integration of newcomers into American society and educating communities on the challenges facing newcomer populations through their stories.
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Gather for Good 2025
We are grateful to our generous donors, sponsors, guests, mentors and families (see above) and everyone who made the our 7th Annual Gather for Good evening on November 12th so special. BPB has big goals and your generosity is making a direct and lasting impact.
Your support is enhancing the well-being of all of our families as they adjust to life in America and ensures we can continue to offer rent and food support, educational needs, job hunting tools and medical resources to the families we mentor.
We invite you to watch this year’s video, Let Your Dreams Soar. The theme of this year’s Gather for Good event brings newcomer dreams alive through visualizing them as kites soaring high. Our newcomer family dreams need solid donor support and strong advocacy to remain viable.
Gather for Good Campaign
Because of our Bridge Builders’ immense generosity, we have raised $120,000 toward our overall Gather for Good campaign goal of $150,000 before the end of the year. We raised $60,000 on the night of the Gather for Good dinner.
We’re 80% of the way to our goal. Help us meet and exceed it this year!
You can also help by donating funds or food on Giving Tuesday, which is December 2nd this year. We will accept nonperishable food at the Glenview Community Church on that day. Stay tuned for details!
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Stories
Ahlam Al-Jebory Mahmood fled her home in Iraq after being kidnapped for her work running a humanitarian center near Baghdad during the war in Iraq. In 2008, she was a refugee in Syria working as a “fixer”–providing Western media with trustworthy information and contacts to help get the news out. She not only supported her husband and two children through her work with foreign journalists but set up a makeshift school for displaced girls. She was working as an unofficial leader of the refugee community in Damascus until she was arrested and imprisoned for her work. The story of her incredible journey from Baghdad to Damascus to Chicago is told in the multi-award-winning book A Disappearance in Damascus by Deborah Campbell, now optioned for screen by Terry George, director of Hotel Rwanda. LEARN MORE.
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Sponsor a refugee family by supporting Building Peaceful Bridge's Mission through a monetary donation.
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Engage with a newcomer family; assist with English language studies or for citizenship, or prepare a welcome box
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Gather for monthly luncheons. Meet neighbors and refugees from around the world. Hear speakers address issues relevant to today's refugees.
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1400 Patriot Blvd | P.O. Box 535 | Glenview, IL 60026 | (847) 242-1596
Building Peaceful Bridges is a 501(c)(3) organization. EIN: 83-2282738.
Your donation is tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. Up to 91% of funding goes directly to help refugee families.
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