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Agape Foundation Records
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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore 19081-1399
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
Overview and metadata sections
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.
The collection consists of administrative information regarding peace and social justice organizations to whom they considered awarding grants and loans.
This is an unprocessed collection. The Records of the Agape Foundation remain in the order in which they were donated. Files from Acc.2016-049 were rearranged in the order of years, from the oldest (1970s) to the newest (2016).
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these records.
Gift of Agape Foundation, 2010 [Acc. 10A-033, Acc. 10A-035]; 2015 [Acc. 2015-032]; 2016 [Acc. 2016-049].
This collection is unprocessed. This finding aid was created by Jean Turner, 2011; updated by Joshua Chang and Wendy Chmielewski, July 2015; updated by Theresa Ng'andu '19, August 2016; and updated by Wendy E. Chmielewski September 2018.
- Periodicals, such as folios and newsletters were removed from the files, and relocated to the SCPC retired periodical sections
- Photos were removed and can be found in the SCPC Photograph Collection
- CDs were removed and moved to the SCPC AV Collection
Organization
Subject
- Social justice -- Societies, etc. -- Endowments -- History -- Sources
- Peace-building -- Societies, etc. -- Endowments -- History -- Sources
- Charities -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- Sources
- Endowments -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- Sources
- Endowments -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Publisher
- Swarthmore College Peace Collection
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research use.
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All or part of this collection is stored off-site. Contact Swarthmore College Peace Collection staff at peacecollection@swarthmore.edu at least two weeks in advance of visit to request boxes.
- Copyright to the records created by the Agape Foundation has been transferred to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Copyright to all other materials is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
- Use Restrictions
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None.
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