About Us
The Tony Blair Faith Foundation aims to promote respect and understanding about the world's major religions and show how faith is a powerful force for good in the modern world.
Faith is vitally important to hundreds of millions of people. It underpins systems of thought and of behaviour. It underpins many of the world's great movements for change or reform, including many charities. And the values of respect, justice and compassion that our great religions share have never been more relevant or important to bring people together to build a better world.
But religious faith can also be used to divide. We have seen throughout history and today we still see how it can be distorted to fan the flames of hatred and extremism.
The Tony Blair Faith Foundation is a response to these opportunities and challenges. We will use the full power of modern communications to support and step up efforts at every level to educate, inform and develop understanding about the different faiths and between them.
More about our work:
Schools Programme
Face to Faith is designed to improve young people's religious literacy, which is a vital skill in an increasingly complex, global society. It offers an authentic and meaningful environment in which students can develop multi-faith understanding through dialogue with those of different faiths and none.
University Programme
As a way of considering questions about how faith and gloabalisation interact and can benefit society, the Foundation is working to build a global conversation between universities around the world over the next few years where students will come together to discuss these questions and to take the lessons of the academy into the wider world.
Faiths Act
Faiths Act is the Foundation’s multi-faith social action programme, which mobilises people of faith to work together on issues of health and global poverty, in order to help achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. Our initial focus is the eliminating of deaths of malaria.
Faiths Act in Africa
Our programme in Africa aims to support and enhance multi-faith work in healthcare and its integration into national health plans.
Faiths Act around the World
A global movement of grassroots action mobilising ordinary people of faith across the globe to raise awareness and funds to help eliminate deaths from malaria. The movement is spearheaded by our Faiths Act Fellows, thirty young leaders of faith from the UK, USA and Canada who are spending 10 months as ambassasdors for the Millennium Development Goals.