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“The Agape Foundation Fund for Nonviolent Social Change is a non-profit public foundation founded in 1969 out of opposition to the war in Southeast Asia. Pacifists, World War II conscientious objectors and anti-Vietnam War activists founded it in order to build a movement that seriously challenged the Pentagon and the American culture of violence. The Foundation’s purpose is to fund nonviolent social change organizations committed to peace and justice issues. Unlike social services that aid and assist individuals, social change efforts confront the root causes of social problems by challenging the responsible systems and institutions.” From Agape Foundation website in early 2000s.

Agape Foundation started in 1969, and raised and distributed funds to nonviolent social change groups for over 40 years. In 2012, the Foundation merged it’s resources with the Peace Development Fund, and closed its doors.Agape peace prize logo

In January 2017, after the election of Trump as President, about a dozen former board members, staff, and friends met in San Francisco to socialize/commiserate/and–of course–organize. We’re all mostly have our hands full with other organizations, but we decided that an online calendar would be a good place to start sharing the events we are working on and/or hear about.

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Among the recipients of Agape Foundation grants were such organizations as Activist San Diego, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Amnesty International, Environmentalists Against War, Not In Our Name, Pacifica Reporters Against Censorship, the Rainforest Action Network, the Ruckus Society, the Tides Foundation & Tides Center, the War Resisters League, and Witness for Peace. To view a list of additional noteworthy grantees of the Agape Foundation, click here.

Stories/news from Agape Foundation history