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In the fall, the Board made grants to seven organizations out of an unprecedented
pool of 53 applicants. These seven groups addressed a broad range of peace
and social justice issues including canceling Third World debt, working
against the death penalty in California and supporting leadership training
for young environmentalists of color. Agape remains committed to supporting
organizations that confront root causes of violence and oppression.
Commemorating the tenth anniversary of her mother’s death, former
Agape Board member Sarada Tangirala and her two sisters established a
fund in her memory, the fifth of the Foundation’s commemorative funds.
The Visala Tangirala Memorial Fund made its first grant in 2002 to the
Filipino/American Coalition for Environmental Solutions.
After the death of Alice Hamburg in 2001, the Agape Board of Trustees
unanimously decided to rename the Emergency Fund the Alice Hamburg Emergency
Fund in her honor. Alice and other activist women started the Fund in
1991 to support organizations opposing the Persian Gulf war. Eleven years
later the Fund continues to operate, and in 2002 made grants to six peace
and justice efforts. Four of these used the funds to organize against
the planned United States invasion of Iraq. The remaining two addressed
issues of economic injustice.
None of these achievements would have been possible without the generosity
of time and resources made by our Board of Trustees, Board of Advisors
and donors. The Foundation remains extremely grateful for the personal,
spiritual and financial involvement of all those in our larger community.
In these challenging times, finding and helping promising nonviolent efforts
towards social change remains a critical priority for the Agape Foundation.
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