Grants

Between the years 1973 and 1991, the Werner Erhard Foundation granted nearly $4 million to more than 300 projects in the areas of international relations, health and well-being, education, science, and cultural and spiritual exchange.

These grants enabled people to initiate or continue pioneering research, and provided for documentation and dissemination of unique methods and programs. Most of the organizations receiving grants were leaders in the development of personal and social consciousness.

Grant Recipients include:

A Symposium: Issues of Consciousness and Survival

Act Together, Inc: Support to produce a one week workshop, "Making Programs Work - The Youth Empowerment Workshop" - a workshop for high risk youth to empower them in their desire and ability to succeed in their lives.

Aging Health Policy Center, School of Nursing, UCSF

Alaska Oil Spill

Alia Carl, Institute for Humane Studies: To support the project, "Value is Relationship, Money is Agreement"

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

Arthur Nierenberg and Arthur Rittmaster: Support to create, develop and implement a workshop for disabled persons; to empower them to transform the context in which they live their lives from one of exclusion to one of inclusion.

Art Against Aids

Artists for Humanity

Association for Humanistic Psychology: Grant to be used in the area of humanistic theory and research.

Bangladesh Flood Relief

Behavioral Sciences Institute: To support a project to study and document the work of Paolo Friere. (with Dr. Ron Zeller)

Black American Response to the African Crisis

Bodhi Community: To support Bodhi programs such as Zazen.

Joseph E. Bogen, M.D.: To support investigation into any possible relevance of various mathematical systems for the study of consciousness.

Beijing Normal University

Bread and Roses

G. Spencer Brown

Buckminster Fuller Memorial

Buckminster Fuller Presentations

Mathew Budd, M.D.: Support to conduct a detailed analysis of a psychosomatic disease group, to make the group more widely available and to publish the results for the medical community to see the power of this work.

California Institute of Asian Studies

California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology: Support for the conference, "Transpersonal Frontiers"

California Narcotic Officers Association

California Newsreel - "The Human Side of Production"

CARE—Bangladesh

Carol Vaness Documentary

Center for Psychological Studies in the Nuclear Age

Center for Education and Communication, Inc., Boston, Ma.

China Study Tour Group

Cogswell College: Support to enable 50 econimically disadvantaged youths to acquire skills needed for rewarding careers in engineering technology.

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

Effectiveness Training

Exploratory Meeting on the Nuclear Deadlock

Exploratorium

Family Light Music School

Farallones Institute

Feinbloom, Richard M.D.

Film Institute of Northern California

Fernando Flores

Food for the Poor

Foundation for Mideast Communication

Friends of Buckminster Fuller Foundation

Friends of Conservation

Friends of the Marina Green

David Galin, M.D.

General Systems Theory Conference

Joan Goldsmith

U Golomi Govinda

Grace Cathedral

Groundswell

Guild for Psychological Studies

Heinz Von Foerster and Humberto Maturana

Michael Harris and Harold Burszlain

Harvard Community Health Plan

Harvard University School of Medicine

Beresford Hayward, Ph.D.

Ronald Heifetz, M.D.: Support for completion of the academic phase of a training program in international conflict resolution, to develop the knowledge and technology for catalyzing breakthroughs in the field of peacemaking.

His Holiness the XVI Gyalwa Karmapa

Homeless Community Project

Hoover Institute, W.W.Bartley, III (to support research and publishing The Collected Work of F.A.Hayek)

Human Dolphin Foundation

Hungry Planet, Ltd.

Indian Society for Community Education

ISHK, Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge

Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies

Institute of Open Education

International Center for Development Policy

Erik Jansen, Doctoral Candidate, University of Southern California

John Hopkins University Press

Mary King

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

The Laughing Man Institute

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

Metanoia: Seed money for the planning and funding process in preparation for the development of a film on breastfeeding for women in Third World countries.

Mexico Relief

Mills College

Missionaries of Charity, Mother Theresa

Michael Murphy and James Hickman

Professor Hu Mon-Yu

Mozambique Project

Naropa Institute

National Association for the Poor: General support to establish community organizations to bring people out of poverty.

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

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Organize Training Center

Our Lady of Sorrows School

Outcome Study

PTV Production, Inc.

Pacific News Service

Pacific Primary

Paradigms for Research Conference

Gordon Pask - The Point Foundation

Rennie-Payne Ayers

George Pegelow

Physics/Consciousness Research Group

Planet Earth Foundation

Police Officers Research Association

John Poppy

Curtiss Porter

Prarambha Trust

Dr. Karl Pribram

Roy L. Prosterman

Program for Public Advocates

Project Participar

Public Advocates

Rajneesh 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

Theodore Roszak, Ph.D.

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

Charlotte Selver

Shakespeare & Company: General support to foster the theatrical community through training programs and the development of theater as a transformational experience.

Sidney Rittenberg

Si Hai Li

Sovianut

Dr. Frederic Spiegelberg

Saul-Paul Sirag

Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship

St. Francis Center

Stanford Research Institute

Anthony J. Sutich, Ph.D.

Swami Dayananda Saraswali

Swami Muktananda World Tour

Synergy Seminars

Jan Tangen

Windstar Journal

World Institute on Disability

World Without War Council, Inc.

John Woods

Zen Center, San Francisco

Werner Erhard and His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet

Werner Erhard and Buckminster Fuller

In 1988 Werner Erhard was presented the Mahatma Gandhi Humanitarian Award: “In honor of your notable effort to end the starvation and hunger suffered by millions throughout the world and for drawing broad public awareness to the value of integrity in our everyday lives.”