title: Funeral Consumers Alliance
text: # Funeral Consumers Alliance
  
  Funeral Consumers Alliance is a nonprofit federation of organizations ("memorial societies" or "funeral planning societies"), founded in 1963.
  
  Funeral Consumers Alliance operates in the United States and Canada.
  
  ## Mission
  
  The alliance's stated goal is that it is "dedicated to protecting a consumer's right to choose a meaningful, dignified, affordable funeral."
  
  Based in South Burlington, Vermont, its oldest (and founding) member is the Seattle-based People's Memorial Association, founded on January 12, 1939.
  
  