Quaker House of Fayetteville

What Quaker House of Fayetteville does

Quaker House of Fayetteville is a nonprofit social services organization founded in 1969 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, adjacent to Fort Liberty (formerly Fort Bragg), the largest US military installation. Its mission is to provide counseling, advocacy, and educational resources to active-duty service members, veterans, reservists, National Guard members, military families, and young adults navigating military service decisions. The organization operates three core programs: the GI Rights Hotline (where two of its counselors answer over one-third of all calls to the national GI Rights Network), no-cost confidential individual counseling with a licensed clinical social worker addressing moral injury, domestic violence, sexual assault, and combat trauma, and a peace/conscience/moral injury advocacy program that includes workshops, webinars, and public education. The organization also publishes an educational catalog of books, guides, and videos on conscientious objection, moral injury, torture ethics, and the costs of the military-industrial complex, available through its online shop and on Amazon.

The business model is overwhelmingly donation-driven, with counseling and advocacy services provided free of charge to clients. Secondary revenue comes from the sale of educational publications ($3-$20 per item), event fees (e.g., a $20 Peace Race, tiered 50th Anniversary Luncheon pricing), and merchant affiliate channels. The organization is governed by an independent board and has no parent company. Its leadership includes Director Wayne Finegar (as of 2022). Distribution is omnichannel: in-person and online counseling, the GI Rights Hotline (1-877-447-4487), an e-commerce shop, and grassroots marketing through Facebook, X (Twitter), email newsletters, and Quaker community networks.

The organization maintains strategic affiliations with the GI Rights Hotline Network, Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), multiple North Carolina Quaker yearly meetings (Fayetteville Friends, Piedmont Friends Fellowship, North Carolina Yearly Meeting-Conservative), the Quaker Initiative to End Torture (QUIT), and Friends Churches of North Carolina. With 1-10 employees and 50+ years of operational history, Quaker House occupies a specialized niche as a faith-based, mission-driven counseling and peace advocacy organization serving the military community in the Fayetteville/Fort Liberty corridor. Revenue is not publicly disclosed, and the organization is not venture-backed.

Name

Quaker House of Fayetteville

Legal name

Quaker House of Fayetteville, Inc.

Website

https://quakerhouse.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1969

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Quaker House of Fayetteville is a 1969-founded nonprofit in Fayetteville, NC, near Fort Liberty, providing free counseling, GI Rights Hotline support, and peace education to active-duty service members, veterans, and military families. It is funded primarily by donations and small publication sales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Military and Veterans Support Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131), Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Faith-Based Social Services & Community Outreach (Food Pantries, Shelters, Counseling) (BPAGAJAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Human Rights & Anti-Discrimination Organizations (BPAGAFAB)

Keywords

• Military counseling services
• Peace advocacy education
• Conscientious objection support
• Veteran support services
• Nonprofit publishing

Headquarters

HQ city

Fayetteville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Charitable Contributions: Quaker House relies primarily on donations from individuals and organizations to fund its free counseling services and advocacy programs. The website prominently features a Donate button, indicating donations are a primary funding source.
2. Product Sales: Sale of educational books, guides, and videos on peace advocacy, conscientious objection, moral injury, and military-related topics. Products range from $3 to $20.
3. Event Fees: Some events such as the Quaker House Peace Race charge $20 registration fee. Other events are free with optional contributions.
4. Event Ticket Sales: 50th Anniversary Celebration Luncheon offered tiered pricing: Limited Income $0-$10, Complete Cost $25, Contribution Level $50+, Service Members and Veterans Free.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Quaker House of Fayetteville provides free, confidential counseling to active-duty service members, veterans, reservists, National Guard members, and their families dealing with issues including domestic violence, sexual assault, and moral injury. It also staffs the GI Rights Hotline — providing counselors who answer over one-third of all calls to the national network — and conducts peace advocacy, conscience education, and moral-injury awareness programming, supplemented by a catalog of educational books, guides, and videos.

Product overview

Quaker House of Fayetteville is a non-profit peace advocacy and military support organization that offers three interconnected service programs: the GI Rights Hotline (providing counselors who answer over a third of calls to the national GI Rights Network), Individual Counseling (no-cost confidential counseling for service members and families dealing with moral injury, domestic violence, and sexual assault), and Peace/Conscience/Moral Injury Advocacy (education and presentations on conscientious objection and moral injury). The organization also publishes educational resources including the Conscientious Objection Resource Guide, books on moral injury and military issues, and historical video collections documenting their 50+ years of peace work. All publications are available for purchase through the organization's shop and on Amazon.

Differentiator

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Functional benefit

Products and services

• GI Rights Hotline Telephone hotline service providing counselors who assist active-duty, reservist, and National Guard service members with harassment, discrimination, conscientious objection, and military discharge matters; available globally via 1-877-447-4487.
• Individual Counseling No-cost, confidential, individual counseling with a licensed clinical social worker for active-duty service members, veterans, reservists, National Guard members, families, partners, and former spouses, addressing domestic violence, sexual assault, and moral injury.
• Peace, Conscience, and Moral Injury Advocacy Advocacy programming educating the public, service members, and families about conscientious objection and moral injury, including presentations, workshops, and published resources on supporting those with moral injury.
• Conscientious Objection: Is This for You? Resource Guide (2nd Edition) Teacher's Resource Guide (priced at $20) for talking to young adults about conscientious objection, including Selective Service registration, CO claim documentation, draft board simulation, and a 60-slide PowerPoint deck.
• Help for Moral Injury: Strategies and Interventions Book (priced at $12, 50 pages) by Cecelia Yocum, PhD, providing strategies and interventions for helping individuals dealing with moral injury — a wound of the soul caused by disconnect between deep moral values and participated events.
• Extra Casualties Book (priced at $3, 31 pages) detailing the hidden costs of a war-oriented society connected to the industrial sector and the military-industrial complex.
• Patience & Determination Collection of essays and resources (priced at $3, 54 pages) examining attitudes toward torture enacted by government agencies, published in association with the Quaker Initiative to End Torture (QUIT).
• Study War Some More Pamphlet (priced at $5, 67 pages) providing a short but serious critical discussion of the causes of war for those who work for peace.
• Yes to the Troops. No to the Wars. Book (priced at $10, 240 pages) by Chris McCallum telling the 40-year history of Quaker House from 1969 to 2009, covering service to the military community and peace advocacy near Fort Liberty.
• 50th Anniversary Videos Two 30-minute videos on one DVD (priced at $10): 'Conscientious Peacemaking Since 1969' reviewing peace advocacy history, and 'Stories of Gratitude' featuring people assisted by Quaker House.

Quantifiable outcome

• Answering over 1/3 of all GI Rights Hotline calls nationwide
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

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Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Cross Creek Park VenueminorOthers · 12 March 2022Host venue for 'Stand for Ukraine' vigil and rally coordinated by Quaker House on March 12, 2022.
• GI Rights Hotline NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerQuaker House provides two counselors to the GI Rights Hotline, answering over a third of all calls that come into the Network. The hotline takes calls from active-duty, reservist, and National Guard service members anywhere stationed in the world. Examples of issues addressed include harassment, discrimination, conscientious objection discharges, and medical discharges.
• Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFCNL's Sarah Freeman-Woolpert conducted advocacy workshops with Quaker House in March 2019 to help improve advocacy skills through building relationships with elected representatives. The partnership focuses on Authorizations for Use of Military Force and other peace issues.
• Fayetteville Friends MeetingcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint hosting of advocacy workshops and events. Fayetteville Friends is a member of North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative) and holds worship services at Quaker House.
• Chapel Hill Friends MeetingminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint hosting of advocacy workshop sessions in Chapel Hill, NC on March 2, 2019 as part of an 'Advocacy Weekend' with Quaker House.
• Piedmont Friends Fellowship/Yearly MeetingminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerQuaker House participates in PFF/PFYM Spring Retreats and shares history and impact work with former directors at these Quaker gatherings.
• North Carolina Yearly Meeting-ConservativeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAffiliation with Quaker yearly meeting body; participates in combined events like the Friends Gathering at Quaker House in April 2025.
• Friends Churches of North CarolinaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerParticipate in combined Quaker gatherings and events including the April 2025 Friends Gathering.
• Friends Fellowship of North CarolinaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerParticipate in combined Quaker gatherings and events.
• Quaker Initiative to End Torture (QUIT)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-published 'Patience & Determination' on torture ethics with QUIT in 2009.
• Holiday Inn I-95minorOthersVenue for 50th Anniversary Celebration Luncheon on September 21, 2019 in Fayetteville, NC.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Give an Hour: Give an Hour provides free mental health services to veterans, service members, and their families via a volunteer provider network. It overlaps with Quaker House's free counseling model and military mental health focus, though at much broader national scale.

Direct peers

• About Face: Veterans Against the War: About Face is a veteran-led organization countering military recruitment and supporting veterans questioning service. Its mission on conscientious objection and post-service transition overlaps with Quaker House's CO and moral injury work.
• American Friends Service Committee (AFSC): AFSC is the national Quaker-affiliated peace and social justice organization, offering GI counseling programs, peace education, and veterans support. As a Quaker-rooted peace organization with overlapping program areas, AFSC is the closest institutional peer in mission and method.
• Veterans For Peace: Veterans For Peace is a veteran-led anti-war organization with similar peace advocacy and veteran support work. Its membership base and community organizing model complement Quaker House's counseling and education programs.
• Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL): FCNL is the Quaker lobbying organization that already partners with Quaker House on advocacy workshops. It shares the same faith-based peace testimony mission and operates in overlapping policy and community organizing spaces.
• War Resisters League: War Resisters League runs the War Resisters International GI Rights Hotline and conducts conscientious objection counseling, directly overlapping with Quaker House's hotline participation and CO resource guide mission.
• Center on Conscience and War (CCW): CCW provides direct counseling and legal support to conscientious objectors and GI resisters, overlapping directly with Quaker House's GI Rights Hotline work and conscientious objection educational publishing. Both serve the same military-affected population on the same core issue.
• Courage to Resist: Courage to Resist supports military resisters, conscientious objectors, and GI dissidents through counseling and legal aid. It overlaps with Quaker House on hotline-style GI rights support and discharge-related advocacy.

Broad incumbents

• CodePink: CodePink runs high-visibility anti-war and peace campaigns with mass mobilization tactics. It shares the anti-war and anti-torture mission elements of Quaker House but focuses on public protest rather than direct counseling.
• Peace Action: Peace Action is a large grassroots peace and disarmament advocacy organization with national scope. It overlaps with Quaker House on anti-war policy advocacy and education but operates at much greater scale across multiple campaigns.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/QuakerHouseFay
• Facebookfacebook.com/quakerhousefayetteville
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/quaker-house-of-fayetteville

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Profiles1 record

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