Peace Development Fund

Peace Development Fund

The Peace Development Fund is a non-profit public foundation, based in Amherst, Massachusetts. Its mission statement describes it as working "to build the capacity of community-based organizations through grants, training, and other resources as partners in the human rights and social justice movements. [Mission Statement, Peace Development Fund. Reprinted in "PeaceDevelopments", Peace Development Fund, spring 2007, p.4.]

The fund was co-founded in 1981 by Bob Mazer and Meg Gage, and originally focused on funding grassroots anti-nuclear organizations. They soon expanded to fund groups opposing the Reagan administrations policies in Central America, and later to low-income community organizing not necessarily related to war-and-peace issues. This last led to a broadened board of directors: as Meg Gage put it in 2007, "…to build a stron peace and social justice movement, you have to connect with people of color… I'm very proud of the large, diverse board we built.""Building a Strong Foundation", "PeaceDevelopments", Peace Development Fund, spring 2007, p.4.]

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