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Peace-building -- Societies, etc. -- Endowments -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Emily check. endowments

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Agape Foundation Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-237
Abstract

The Agape Foundation was a non-profit public foundation, which raised and distributed funds to groups working for nonviolent social change. From its formation in 1969 by a group of pacifists and anti-war activists in Palo Alto, California, the Agape Foundation provided millions of dollars to nonviolent, grassroots organizations throughout the western United States. It was headquartered in San Francisco. In 2010 the Agape Foundation merged with the Peace Development Fund.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1970-2010

Gandhian Foundation Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Gandhian Foundation
Abstract

Founded in 1958 in New York City as a trust fund exclusively for religious, charitable, and educational purposes. On December 20, 1990 the Foundation was reorganized and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to provide fiscal sponsorship to the Scholarship Project of Training for Change, a Philadelphia-based social change training center.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1958-2000