As 2025 draws to a close, Learning Life is working to raise $5,000 in grassroots donations to help fund and grow the Family Diplomacy Initiative (FDI) in 2026, including monthly international family diplomacy dialogues in March to November, a new, email Family Diplomacy Dispatch, and our growing Facebook group with 19,700+ members worldwide.

Please contribute $100, $250, $500, $1,000 or what you can to support the Family Diplomacy Initiative. Donations are 100% tax deductible in the USA. Individuals contributing $250 or more, and organizations contributing $1,000 or more can get a tax deduction, or sponsor benefits. Please contact us at email@learninglife.info if you wish to sponsor FDI.

Thank you for your support!

P.S. Help spread the word about FDI with this social media message you can simply copy and share:

Like family? Want to help build a world that better supports families? Then, support family diplomacy! Give $100, $250, $500, $1,000, or what you can to the Family Diplomacy Initiative. Thank you! https://givebutter.com/dHBOGc

Paul Lachelier, Ph.D.

Founder & Director

Learning Life

Why support family diplomacy? Read on...

Family is by far the most valued relationship in people’s lives across the world, surpassing work, politics, leisure, friends, and religion, according to the World Values Survey. At the same time, families are affected by the wide range of challenges societies face, from poverty and war, to climate change, gender-based violence, and the internet. Despite the family’s vulnerability and value worldwide, seldom are families invited to participate in decision-making alongside business, labor and government, or engaged to connect people across the world’s cultural, economic and political divides. Family is thus a culturally powerful yet largely untapped force for a more caring world.

Launched in 2016, Learning Life’s Family Diplomacy Initiative (FDI) is an ambitious, grassroots effort to connect, train and empower a growing international corps of volunteer family diplomats (FDs) to participate in decision-making at local to global levels. We envision a world more connected and caring because every family has one or more FDs networked with families and fellow FDs across the globe, and these citizen diplomats together advocate effectively for the needs, concerns and aspirations of families worldwide via nonprofits, businesses, media and governments.

Since 2016, FDI has connected 19,700+ people to family diplomacy via Facebook, and engaged over 1,000 people in dialogues and trainings to bring attention to the issues facing families worldwide. You can help grow family diplomacy for a more caring, connected world by donating at this page today.

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