Werner Erhard Foundation

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The Werner Erhard Foundation (originally founded as The est Foundation) fostered and supported this emerging paradigm by providing financial and organizational support to individuals and groups engaged in charitable and educational pursuits – research, communication, education, and scholarly endeavors in the fields of individual and social transformation and human well-being. We see our contribution to these people and groups as an investment in the development of a new context: a world that works for everyone.

Reviewing the grants they made, one might question what a Tibetan holy man and a systems analyst have in common. A closer look reveals that the emerging paradigm shows itself in every field of endeavor: from religions to sports, from health care to art, from education to entertainment. The Werner Erhard Foundation supported a remarkable diversity of ideas, projects, and people, welcoming opportunities to provide for interdisciplinary interactions. - read more at the Werner Erhard Foundation website

2011-09-09T14:58:00.000-07:00

PHYSICS CONFERENCE
"Novel Configurations in Quantum Field Theory"

Sponsored by The Werner Erhard Foundation

January 22 through 24, 1977 San Francisco, California

The Werner Erhard Foundation Physics Conference, like the early Solvay Conferences, brought together a relatively small group of renowned physicists who experienced a close working relationship in a supportive and congenial environment outside of a university or professional society setting. This particular group of outstanding physicists had never before met together in a conference. This was the first opportunity for these distinguished physicists to participate directly with each other.

NAMES OF PHYSICS CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS
Eduard Brezin C.E.N. Saclay Gif sur Yvette
Curt Callan Universite de Paris - Sud
Geoffrey Chew University of California at Berkeley
Sidney Coleman Harvard University
Roger Dashen School for Natural Sciences Institute for Advanced Study
Richard Feynman California Institute of Technology
David Finkelstein Yeshiva University Jean-Loup Gervais Universite de Paris - Sud
Fred Goldhaber State University of New York at Stony Brook
David Gross Princeton University
Roman Jackiw, M.I.T.
T. D. Lee Columbia University
Claudio Rebbi M.I.T.
Stanley Mandelstam University of California at Berkeley
Leonard Susskind Yeshiva University
J. A. Swieca Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janiero
Steven Weinberg Stanford University
John Wheeler University of Texas
Edward Witten Harvard University

Werner Erhard Physics Conference - at scribd.com

Physics Conferences

2011-07-13T14:58:00.000-07:00

In 1977 the Werner Erhard Foundation brought together a relatively small group of renowned physicists working closely together in a supportive congenial environment outside of a university. The topic of discussion, representing the frontier of theoretical physics at the time, was "Novel Configurations in Quantum Field Theory" Richard Feynman, Leonard Susskind, Sidney Coleman and David Finkelstein were among the notable physicists in attendance. Read more about how the Werner Erhard (est) Foundation created this event.

Presentations by the Werner Erhard Foundation

2011-07-08T13:17:00.000-07:00

The Werner Erhard Foundation funded and organized public programs and national speaking tours in order to present the ideas of prominent philosophers, scientists, and theologians to the public. By 1980, the Werner Erhard Foundation had sponsored 31 of these presentations, which were attended by 57,000 people in cities throughout the US. The global thinker R. Buckminster Fuller; British philosopher Douglas Harding; an eminent leader of Tibetan Buddhism, His Holiness the XVI Gyalwa Karmapa; and a world renowned siddha yogi, Swami Muktananda were among the presentations given. Read more at the Werner Erhard Foundation website.

2011-01-30T14:58:00.000-08:00

Werner Erhard's est Training inspired est participants to fulfill humanitarian objectives. Creating a number of not-for-profit organizations, founded by Werner Erhard along with other original est staffers, notably Gonneke Spits, literally hundreds of thousands of people illustrated that the power of "the little individual" can improve communities and the world. 'The Breakthrough Foundation' gave 'Youths At Risk' a new opportunity in their lives, and fostered and funded development in Africa; people committed to work to end hunger in the world through 'The Hunger Project' and its many offshoots; the 'Community Workshop' gave ordinary citizens a new opportunity to contribute to their communities. These organizations, along with the Werner Erhard Foundation, played a hand in inspiring est Training participants to go out and make a difference in their lives, contribute to humanity, and give back to their communities, in addition to providing forums for the individual to make a difference worldwide. For more information about the Werner Erhard Foundation visit http://wernererhardfoundation.org.

2011-01-19T14:58:00.000-08:00

Jeff Bridges Works To End Hunger

From the days of doing Werner Erhard’s est Training and co-founding the End Hunger Network, which, among other things, put on the first Live Aid concert, to his role in 2010 as national spokesman for No Kid Hungry Campaign, Jeff Bridges has been passionate about making a real difference in people's lives.

“Poverty is a very complex issue, but feeding children isn’t,” he said, unveiling an initiative that suits today’s political and economic climate because it requires no new money, or programs. Federally funded programs are in place but only half the kids eligible for a government-funded breakfast receive it, and only 15 percent of kids eligible for assistance during the summer get it. Bridges has signed on with Share Our Strength, a nationally recognized nonprofit, in what he says is “like a public-relations assignment,” to publicize the gap and get governors to commit to closing it.

Bridges has been involved in the hunger issue for a long time, and in 1983 helped found the End Hunger Network, which among other things staged the Live Aid concerts in 1985 and produced the movie “Hidden in America,” about a father who can’t provide for his children, starring his brother, Beau Bridges. Asked to be more specific about what triggered his interest in the issue, Bridges revealed that it goes back to “est” and the human-potential movement headed by Werner Erhard, who challenged his followers that once they knew the facts—that widespread hunger could be overcome—they shouldn’t look to others to solve the problem but should take action themselves.

From: The Most Significant Thing He’s Ever Done - Newsweek November 12, 2010

Getting 'it" in prison

2010-11-05T18:18:00.000-07:00

In an article written in 1978 about the est Training given at the Lompoc Federal Penitentiary, writer Neal Rogin talks about the process inmates went through in gaining responsibility for their actions. This is an excerpt of that article:

What comes up for the trainees to experience is often more than uncomfortable. Take the case of Bobby. Bobby was in Lompoc for homicide. Throughout the training he wore very dark glasses and sat in the back row. The only time he took them off was when Ted (the trainer) confronted him in the Danger Process, and even then he did everything to avoid looking at anyone. "The Danger Process was really a high point in this training," Ted later told me. "It was the time when they got in touch with their tough guy acts and became a group."

It was after the Danger Process that things really began to come up for Bobby. Sometime during the afternoon of the third Saturday, I looked up and saw an empty chair in the back row. Turning toward the door, I saw Bobby moving unsteadily towards it. Joe walked over to him. They stood there for a long time. A very long time. I wondered what was going on. Joe later explained, "What Bobby was looking at, what had come up for him was whatever it was that made him kill people. He said he couldn't stand being in the room any more and that he not only wanted to get out of the training, he wanted to get out of the prison. He was literally ready to go over the wall, rather than experience what was coming up."

"I didn't press him on it. That doesn't work. I just gave him the space to look, and to communicate. He knew that this was his number, and he was able to see that he was standing at a crossroad. I pointed out to him that he was totally free to leave the training without being hassled, that it was perfectly OK with Ted for him to be there or not be there, and that this was an opportunity for him to do something he never did before, to move through the barrier he was up against and to be done with it. After four hours, he chose to stay...."

After all the trainees had become graduates, people refused to go away; the feeling of love and communication in the room was so intense that I have rarely experienced any thing like it. The graduates walked around getting to know one another, laughing, sharing, swapping stories, hugging. All differences disappeared. There was no outside or inside, no prisoners or visitors, there was just the commonly shared experience of knowing who's responsible for it all....

We were about to leave when Bobby came over to Ted and stood there, without his glasses for the first time. He moved close to Ted, took his hand, muttered and stammered something under his breath and hurried shyly away. "What did he say?" I asked. Without taking his eyes off Bobby as the inmate walked away, Ted said, "He told me he loved me."

From Getting 'it" in Prison, reprinted from The Graduate Review, June 1978

Prison Possibilities

2010-10-11T14:58:00.000-07:00

Prison Possibilities, Inc. was an independent non-profit organization established by the Werner Erhard Foundation that enabled men and women in prisons to alter their predictable futures. This organization's programs demonstrated concrete results in significantly lowering the rate of re arrest and imprisonment among those inmates who participated. A number of the inmates who participated in the programs continue to this day to make the program available to others.

For additional studies of est in Prisons see:

Earl Babbie, Ph.D., "est in Prison - General Overview", American Journal of Corrections, Nov-Dec 1977 & Jan-Feb 1978

Mark Woodard, "The est Training in the Prisons: A Basis for the Transformation of Corrections?", University of Baltimore Law Journal, 1982

Breakthrough Foundation

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The Breakthrough Foundation, an independent non-profit organization has been dedicated to changing the direction of thousands of young people's lives through the Youth at Risk Program. The project has won national acclaim for its outstanding results in turning around the lives of young people who were severely at risk for drug abuse, unemployment, and violent crime. President George H.W. Bush recognized the Breakthrough Foundation as one of his "thousand points of light."

Werner Erhard Foundation

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The Werner Erhard Foundation was established in 1973 to provide opportunities for individuals to express their commitment to altering what is possible for human beings in life. The Foundation's mission was to foster and support projects that would provide breakthroughs in fields related to personal and social development. The Foundation brought people together from all over the world to contribute to and participate in ground-breaking work in the area of human achievement and transformation.

In the nearly 20 years of its existence, the Werner Erhard Foundation provided funds for research, scholarly endeavors, and voluntary action. They supported more than 300 diverse individuals and organizations from a variety of disciplines. Working in many different fields and surroundings, these people made a profound contribution to human thinking, growth, and achievement.

Contributions from the Werner Erhard Foundation helped avert a catastrophic famine in Ethiopia, rebuild an elementary school in Mexico City following a devastating earthquake, and also made the work of Buckminster Fuller more widely known. The work of transformation and personal responsibility was brought to the former Soviet Union and the Werner Erhard Foundation launched projects such as The Hunger Project, The Mastery Foundation, and the Youth at Risk Program, which continue to be vital and active today.

Werner Erhard Foundation Website

2010-06-04T19:45:00.000-07:00

"What we create together is a relationship in which we work on making a difference in people’s lives. I welcome the unprecedented opportunity for us to work globally on that which concerns us all as human beings." Werner Erhard

The Werner Erhard Foundation was committed to bettering the human condition through non-profit, voluntary action. Many of the projects founded by the Werner Erhard Foundation have evolved into independent self-sustaining organizations that continue their work in bringing about a transformation in the quality of life on our planet.

Read more at the new Werner Erhard Foundation Website

Werner Erhard, Buckminster Fuller and John Denver

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Werner Erhard, John Denver and Buckminster Fuller in September 1980.

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Werner Erhard and Buckminster Fuller

The Werner Erhard Foundation, was established in a time of transformation and transition. Old values, ideals, and beliefs were being challenged; new ideas and insights, new ways of seeing old problems, and new solutions were coming into view.

Historians will likely view this period as an era of profound change, a time when human beings discarded old limits, explored new visions, and embraced ne realities. We are witnessing the emergence of a new and unexpected paradigm, a new model for humanity, characterized by a demand from individuals and communities for effective action, for translating the new insights into concrete results. For all of us there is the opportunity to redefine what it means to be a human being.

Werner Erhard and the Physics Conference

2009-10-11T14:58:00.009-07:00

For ten years the Werner Erhard Foundation produced an annual theoretical physics conference attended by the leading thinkers in the field. Some of the discussions later evolved into now-leading edge theories in physics, including Stephen Hawking and Leonard Susskind .

Video on YouTube

Bruce Gregory, the Senior Science Educator at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said, “I was surprised and delighted to read of the impact of one of Werner's get togethers of physicists, on Leonard Susskind (founder of String Theory) in his new book, The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics. Susskind's take on Werner Erhard: "I liked Werner. He was smart, interesting, and fun." (Still is!).

Werner Erhard and Buckminster Fuller

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Werner Erhard and Buckminster Fuller

Presentation of His Holiness the XVI Gyalwa Karmapa

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As head of the Kagyu Order of Tibetan Buddhism, which is the medium of transmission of the meditative teachings known as the mahamudra, His Holiness performed the ancient ceremony of the Vajra Crown during five presentations in four U.S. cities to more than 10,000 people in 1977. The sixteenth in an unbroken succession of Karmapas dating back to the 12th century, His Holiness heeded the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism and embodied, represented and guideed its accumulated spiritual energy.

Werner Erhard made a special trip to Sikkim, a small Himalayan province, to visit with the Karmapa. He was greeted with unreserved enthusiasm, inspired by His Holiness' boundless joy and

enlightenment and the wayswhich these qualities manifested in the people he serves. Werner invited him to be with est graduates and their friends during his upcoming visit to America. The Karmapa accepted with delight.

Werner Erhard introduced the Karmapa on four evenings sponsored by the Werner Erhard Foundation. As a special acknowledgement for est graduates, the Karmapa performed the 14th century Black Crown ceremony, in which few westerners have participated and that only he is empowered to perform. Tibetan tradition holds that a glimpse of the Black Crown ensures getting off "the wheel of life and death" in this lifetime.

The Werner Erhard Foundation in support of the world's rich spiritual and cultural heritage of transformation, presented His Holiness the XVI Gyalwa Karmapa in San Francisco on Feb 22, 1977, Los Angeles on February 26, 1977, New York on April 27, 1977, and in Boston on May 1, 1977.

International Transformation

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The support of the Werner Erhard Foundation made possible groundbreaking conversations between leaders, scholars and officials from virtually all parts of the world. in the field of human achievement and transformation As a result of this support, exchange programs were launched that provided new ground for international cooperation.

One such program was the US/USSR Project, launched in 1979 and designed as an educational exchange to explore the principles of communication, management, and creative thinking with the people of what was then the Soviet Union. After several delegate exchanges, Werner Erhard was invited to conduct the first of many courses and lectures in Moscow, under the auspices of the Znaniye (All Union Knowledge) Society—the prime vehicle for education in the (former) Soviet Union.

In 1988, the Znaniye Society took steps to extend the availability of these programs in the U.S.S.R. A brochure describing the project work stated:

“Radically new, non-traditional solutions will need to play a big role in the perestroika of our economic, social and political systems. Only solutions of this class will allow us to reach our goals. But solutions at this level demand that we break through the habitual contours of our thinking so that we can see new possibilities and new methods of addressing theses issues…

“In this regard, the technology offered by (The Werner Erhard Foundation) is of immediate and practical interest to a broad audience of Soviet people and it would be valuable to study and master its methodology and practice.”

To this end, independent of the Foundation, avenues for continuing this exchange between the people and organizations of the U.S. and the new Commonwealth of Soviet Republics. were expanded These included a series of videotapes designed to make this work widely available to the Soviet public, over a sustained period of time.

Werner Erhard and Buckminster Fuller

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Werner Erhard and Busckminster Fuller

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Gordon Starr, Starr Consulting Group - From a letter dated October 14, 2006 - http://www.wernererhard.com/letters.html

“Having not looked at a newspaper for two or three days, I was floored when I saw in the NY Times that Muhammad Yunis, who created the idea of microcredit when he started the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, has been chosen for the Nobel Peace Prize. I have been bubbling with excitement ever since.You undoubtedly know he was chosen. You may not know your role in that coming about. Here is the story. Sam Harris, a quiet, retiring and almost shy music teacher in Florida, attended a Hunger Project event in 1977, having earlier taken the est training. Like me and tens of thousands of others, he was deeply moved by the idea that “the little individual” could make a difference. He checked the little box that said “I will create my own form of participation”, and in doing so created what would become a lifetime commitment to ending global hunger. He started Results which rapidly became the largest and most effective grass roots lobbying organization in the United States for the end of global hunger. Sam (who is now Sam Daley-Harris after marrying Shannon Daley) told me this afternoon that he met you personally in 1987 and talked with you about Results. It was that same year he first met Muhammad Yunis. They have been close friends and partners ever since.The Grameen Bank took off like wildfire in Bangladesh, shattering traditional myths regarding banking, credit and the very poor. With Muhammad, Sam created the idea of the Microcredit Summit Campaign to take this success global, using many of the principles of The Hunger Project. In Washington D.C. in 1997, the Microcredit Summit Campaign was launched in a two-day event with (if I remember correctly) over 2,000 people from over 100 countries, including 14 heads of state, and of course Muhammad Unis as the source of the initiative. Hillary Clinton made an hour-long speech. Queen Sophia was there. In one breakout room, I looked in the row behind me and there was Robert McNamara. The commitment was to reach 100 million of the world’s poorest families with microcredit by 2005. It was launched with a global support structure that was brilliantly designed and robust. That launching event was profound – and Sam, then around 50, put it all together with a team of only 12 twenty-somethings, mostly volunteers, armed with only passion – no group of 12 high-powered CEO’s could have done nearly as well. Sam has been the director of the Microcredit Summit Campaign ever since. It has been outrageously successful. It put microcredit on the global stage. Sam, who is the distinction Enrollment, has campaigned for five years to get Muhammad nominated, specifically through his personal relationships with Hillary Clinton and President Vicente Fox of Mexico. While microcredit is Muhammad’s invention, and flourished under his courageous, sourceful and visionary leadership, I am clear the wide global impact it is having today would not be possible without Sam’s own visionary leadership and work in support of Muhammad and his idea. Sam asked that I let you know how profoundly you, the est training, and The Hunger Project have inspired his life and his work. Sam says that without your influence he probably would have lived his life at 4 feet tall but instead has been able to live it at 9 feet tall. He sends to you his deep appreciation and gratitude for your contribution to his life. Thank you for being the possibility of being for human beings. http://www.wernererhard.com/letters.html

The Breakthrough Foundation

2008-03-15T19:13:00.000-07:00

The Breakthrough Foundation was a non-profit training and consulting organization established in 1980. Know today as Youth at Risk, its programs continue to demonstrate that individuals have the power to produce breakthroughs in their lives, their work, and their communities. Youth at Risk has been acclaimed as effective with young people aged 16 – 20 who either have a history of violence, drugs and crime or are clearly headed in that direction.

In the face of an atmosphere of resignation and hopelessness, a new reality is being created: extraordinary results are being produced and sustained in the lives of young people who had long ago decided, “Nothing matters, and my life doesn’t count.” Professionals in the Youth at Risk field are seeing that an endless cycle of destructive behavior and punishment is not inevitable and are seeing opportunities to take action personally and directly that make a difference in their communities.

The work of the Breakthrough Foundation was made possible through the contribution of thousands of individual sponsors who invested their time and money. The “10 day Course”, a core element of the Youth at Risk Program, was developed by Werner Erhard.

Presentations of Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller

2008-02-13T14:32:00.000-08:00

The Werner Erhard Foundation sponsored "Conversations with R. Buckminster Fuller" (1976-77) and "Making the World Work for Everyone" (1979), seven presentations in seven cities in which Dr. Fuller, mathematician, comprehensive designer, architect, inventor, cartographer, philosopher, poet, and global citizen, presented information on how the individual can be effective in making the world work for everyone and exchanged views with Werner Erhard.

Werner Erhard and Buckminster Fuller

2008-02-10T21:06:00.000-08:00

From The Graduate Review – January 1979

Seeing Who We Are

When Bucky and Werner first met, they recognized the beginning of a spacious, synergistic relationship. Their relationship expanded during subsequent meetings until several months later, in 1976, the Werner Erhard Foundation sponsored a series of events which brought Werner and Bucky together on stage in four cities for day-long conversations that were attended by 7300 people.

“I didn’t know what the est training was,” Bucky relates, “but we hit it off right away. What was really beautiful about Werner was the fact that he dared to be naïve – which is the only way you can really learn. In our events he became like a child. This endeared him to me very greatly.”

Bucky’s global vision and Werner’s intention are complementary, creating a dynamic whole through the constant interplay of energies.

Bucky’s vision of transformation on the planet comes from his experience that people change when they are provided with physical alternatives, i.e. artifacts, which create an environment harmonious with the principles of the universe.

Werner talks about transforming the “beingsphere,” and the est training is designed to create a space for transformation within the individual being. Individuals, then, serve to transform society and humanity by expanding their personal transformation to levels of relationship, organization, and society.

The point at which Bucky and Werner’s philosophies converge is the issue of individual responsibility. Neither of them is interested in creating movements or followings. Neither is interested in people who want to be told what to do, but rather in people who experience their wholeness and have the courage to ask “What needs to be done?” and “What can I do?”

Bucky is an example of what one committed individual can do. His monumental accomplishments as one individual are a challenge to what we can create as an alignment of thousands of committed individuals. He is the prototype for who we are. Bucky’s 50-year experiment has been a success because we are here now to carry on the work. Our work has just begun.

- Mary Earle, 1979

The Hunger Project

2008-02-04T14:03:00.000-08:00

The Hunger Project was formed in 1977 as a grass roots organization to generate and build a consensus to bring about the end of chronic, persistent hunger. Today, ending hunger is no longer an obscure issue championed only by a compassionate few. It is now squarely on the global agenda, recieving the attention of leaders and citizens the world over. The Hunger Project recently honored it's 30th anniversary. Watch their moving tribute to the work and dedication of people all around the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43h_rUpp1ng

His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama

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The Werner Erhard Foundation presented His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, the acknowledged "Pontiff of Tibetan Buddhism," to the public in 1979 in Boston, where he discussed Buddhist philosophy with Werner Erhard.

The Werner Erhard Foundation and the USSR

2008-01-12T21:44:00.000-08:00

The support of the Foundation made possible groundbreaking conversations between leaders, scholars and officials from virtually all parts of the world in the field of human achievement and transformation. As a result of this support, exchange programs were launched that provided new ground for international cooperation.

One such program was the US/USSR Project, launched in 1979 and designed as an educational exchange to explore the principles of communication, management, and creative thinking with the people of what was then the Soviet Union. After several delegate exchanges, Werner Erhard was invited to conduct the first of many courses and lectures in Moscow, under the auspices of the Znaniye (All Union Knowledge) Society—the prime vehicle for education in the (former) Soviet Union.

In 1988, the Znaniye Society took steps to extend the availability of these programs in the U.S.S.R. A brochure describing the project work stated:

“Radically new, non-traditional solutions will need to play a big role in the perestroika of our economic, social and political systems. Only solutions of this class will allow us to reach our goals. But solutions at this level demand that we break through the habitual contours of our thinking so that we can see new possibilities and new methods of addressing theses issues…

“In this regard, the technology offered by (The Werner Erhard Foundation) is of immediate and practical interest to a broad audience of Soviet people and it would be valuable to study and master its methodology and practice.”

To this end, independent of the Foundation, avenues for continuing this exchange between the people and organizations of the U.S. and the new Commonwealth of Soviet Republics were expanded. These included a series of videotapes designed to make this work widely available to the Soviet public, over a sustained period of time.

The Werner Erhard Foundation Statement of Purpose

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The purpose of the Werner Erhard Foundation was to encourage and support research, communication, education, and scholarly endevors in the fields of human well-being and transformation, both individual and social.

The Werner Erhard Foundation provided financial and organizational support for individuals, organizations, and institutions that are contributing to the process of transformation and to the creation of the reality of a world that works for everyone.

Health and Well Being

To encourage and support practices and perceptions that enable people to become more responsible for and to expand their mental and physical health and well-being.

Education and Society

To support the art and science of education so that people are empowered by the teaching and learning process to fulfill their potential for making a difference.

Cultural and Spiritual Exchange

To support the study of the diversity of cultural and theological/philosophical approaches to human values and to make that knowledge available to the public.

Scientific Research and Conferences

To support scientific inquiry and dialogue regarding the nature of reality, understanding, and human experience.

Global Transformation

To expand the awareness of the reality of a world that works for everyone with no one and nothing left out, and to encourage individuals to participate in bringing about a transformation in the quality of life on our planet.

WERNER ERHARD FOUNDATION GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND SPECIAL PROJECTS

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A Symposium:

Issues of Consciousness and Survival

Act Together, Inc.

Alaska Oil Spill

Alia Carl, Institute for Humane Studies

American Conservatory Theatre

American Red Cross

Amigo de las Americas

Marin County Chapter

Annual Science Conferences

Physics Conference

Science Conference IV

Science Conference V

Science Conference VI

Science Conference VII

Science Conference IX

Science Conference X

Apple Family Center

Armenian Earthquake Relief

Art Nierenberg and Arthur Rittmaster

Art Against Aids

Artists for Humanity

Association for Humanistic Psychology

Bangladesh Flood Relief

Behavioral Sciences Institute

Black American Response to the African Crisis

Bodhi Community

Joseph E. Bogen, M.D.

Bread and Roses

G. Spencer Brown

Buckminster Fuller Memorial

Buckminster Fuller Presentations

California Institute of Asian Studies

California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology

California Narcotic Officers Association

CARE—Bangladesh

Carol Vaness Documentary

Center for Psychological Studies in the Nuclear Age

China Study Tour Group

Cogswell College

Community Environmental Education Program

Conference Team Development

Congressional Human Rights Foundation

Contemplative Outreach

Conversations with Buckminster Fuller

Corby Collins

Coro Foundation

Dalai Lama Presentations

Dartmouth College

Katharine DaSilva-Jain

Paul Dell, Ph.D.

Rodney Donaldson

Douglas Harding Presentations

Professor Hubert Dreyfus, University of California

Drepung Aid Project

East Bay Men’s Center Conference

East West Foundation Education Fund

Education Network

Effectiveness Training

Joan Erikson

Esalen Institute

Esalen Institute Center for Theoretical Studies

Arturo Escobar

Ethiopia Famine Relief

Exploratory Meeting on the Nuclear Deadlock

Exploratorium

Family Light Music School

Farallones Institute

Richard Feinbloom, M.D.

Film Institute of Northern California

Fernando Flores

Food for the Poor

Heinz Von Foerster and Humberto Maturana

Foundation for Mideast Communication

Friends of Buckminster Fuller Foundation

Friends of Conservation

Friends of the Marina Green

David Galin, M.A.

General Studies Theory Conference

U Golomi Govinda

Grace Cathedral

Groundswell

Guild for Psychological Studies

--in memory of Leo Zeff

Michael Harris and Harold Burszlain

Harvard Community Health Plan

Harvard University School of Medicine

Beresford Hayward, Ph.D.,

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Ronnie Heifetz, M.D.

His Holiness the XVI Gyalwa Karmapa

Homeless Community Project

Human Dolphin Foundation

Indian Society for Community Education

ISHK, Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge

Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies

Institution of Open Education

International Center for Development Policy

Erik Jansen, Doctoral Candidate, University of Southern California

John Hopkins University Press

KCTS Channel 9 Public TV, Seattle

KQED—New Perspectives

KQED—TV Public Television, San Francisco

Robert Kriegel, Director SAGAS

Latin America & North America:

Confrontation or Cooperation—

An International Conference

Living Tao Foundation

Lomi School Bulletin

Joanna Macy

Mar Vista Family Center

Margie Jenkins Dance Troupe

Marshall McLuhan Center on Global Communication

Julian Melzak, Philosopher

Metanola

Mexico Relief

Mills College

Missionaries of Charity, Mother Theresa

Michael Murphy and James Hickman

Professor Hu Mon-Yu,

Beijing Normal University

Mozambique Project

Naropa Institute

National Association for the Poor

Neuropsychology Fund of Stanford University

New Dimensions Foundation

North Bay Secondary School

North Charles Mental Health Foundation

Northern California Grantmakers

Nyingma Center

OCCUR Oakland Citizens Committee

Organize Training Center

Our Lady of Sorrow School

Outcome Study

PTV Production, Inc.

Pacific News Service

Pacific Primary

Paradigms for Research Conference

Rennie-Payne Ayers

George Pegelow

Planet Earth Foundation

Police Officers Research Association

John Poppy

Curtiss Porter

Prarambha Trust

Dr. Karl Pribram

Professor Roy L. Prosterman

Program for Public Advocates

Project Participar

Public Advocates

Rajineesh Meditation Center

Research Study on Outcome of Transformation

Daniel Rohrlich

Rolf Institute

Clinica Msr. Oscar A. Romero

Charles Rosen, Researcher

Kobori Nanrei Roshi

Richard Baker Roshi

Tachibana Dalid Roshi

Rural Development Institute

San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco Ballet

San Francisco Chamber Orchestra

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

San Francisco Opera

San Francisco Performing Arts Center Foundation

San Francisco Symphony

Saul-Paul Sirag, Physicist

John Searle, Ph.D.

Search for Common Ground

Charlette Seiver

Shakespeare and Company

Sidney Rittenberg

Si Hai Li

Sovianut

Dr. Frederic Spiegelberg

Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship

St. Francis Center

Stanford Research Institute

Swami Dayananda Saraswali

Swami Muktananda World Tour

Synergy Seminars

The Breakthrough Foundation

The Cambridge Friends School

The Capp Street Foundation

The CareGivers Project

The Center for Visual Arts

The Holiday Project

The Hunger Project

The Hungry Planet, LDT.

The Improvement Association of the 8th District

The John Davis Lodge Center for International Studies

The Laughing Man Institute

The Mastery Foundation

The Point Foundation

The Spiritual Institute of America

The Tides Foundation

The Windstar Foundation

Theodore Roszak, Ph.D.

Tibetan Orphan Project

Transpersonal Psychology Institute

U.C. Regents, Phillip Lee Scholarship

University of California

University of California and Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge

University of California, French studies Program

University of California, Lawrence Hall of Science

University of California, San Francisco, Dept. of Medicine

University of California, San Francisco, J. Donald Cohon, Ph.D.

University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing

University of California, Santa Barbara, Dept. of Religious Studies

University of California, Davis

University of Massachusetts Medical Center Committee for the Arts

University of Oregon

University of the Philippines

University of the World

University of Washington, Law School Foundation

US/Costa Rica Presidential Advisory Commission

US/USSR Exchange, Jim Terr

Vajradhatu

Visual Communications

Volunteer Centers of California

Volunteer Project

Washington, D.C. Youth at Risk

Jeffrey A. Weiss, Ph.D.

Wharton International Films

Michael Wiese

Windstar Journal

World Institute on Disability

World Without War Council, Inc.

Zen Center, San Francisco

ABOUT THE WERNER ERHARD FOUNDATION--OVERVIEW

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Founded by Werner Erhard in 1973

More than $3.9 million in grants were distributed. The work supported includes projects which have:

-Provided emergency relief to Mexican earthquake victims.

-Supported shipment of more than $5 million worth of famine relief supplies to Mozambique

-Provided $90,000 in relief for Cambodian famine victims.

-Provided funding for Professor Hu Mon-Yu’s work in China in establishing a new model for elementary education.

-Made possible high-level educational exchanges and work with leading management institutions in Russia.

-Provided funding for the World Institute on Disability to support handicapped participation in the 1984 Olympics.

-Supported Project Participant.. to increase voter participation of the Hispanic community in California.

-Provided financial support for Dr. Humberto Maturana’s work on human cognition.

-Provided funding for Dr. Roy Prosterman’s work at the University of Washington on development and hunger issues.

-Provided funding to carry on the work of R. Buckminster Fuller.

-Produced and funded 10 annual science conferences for leading international scientists.

-Raised $56,000 for the Red Cross relief effort for San Francisco earthquake victims.