GRANTS

While the Dalai Lama Foundation is not primarily a grant-making organization, we do make a small number of modest grants each year.  Grants through June 2005 are listed below.

Summer Institute on Nonviolence and Social Change

The Missing Peace Art Project

Ethics in Russia

Tibetan Prisoners Fund

Women of Tibet Film Project

Contemporary Tibetan Art

Sera Mey Tsawa Khangtsen Project

Tsunami Relief

Ahimsa Center / Summer Institute on Nonviolence and Social Change. This institute is designed for K-12 educators and administrators who are keen to take a leadership role in addressing growing violence in schools through education about nonviolence and social change. The institute, held in July 2005 at California State University, Pomona, included professional development and lesson plan development.

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Committee of 100 for Tibet /The Missing Peace Project.  This project is bringing together over 70 artists to create an exhibition which will open up new ways of seeing our common humanity for adults and children around the world when it begins touring in 2006.

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DLF Ethics in Russia Project.  Andrey Tarentyev, head of the St. Petersburg, Russia, committee of the DLF, is leading an initiative to mail free copies of the Russian translation of the Ethics for the New Millennium to community, secondary school, college, and prison libraries across Russia, for the purpose of promoting the general ethical development of civil society. In addition, the project will distribute Russian-language copies of the DLF’s Study Guide to organizations and individuals with an interest in forming Study Circles for in-depth study of the book. Andrey and his team have located a database of approximately 30,000 libraries, and also 10,000 school libraries, in Russia, and they expect that number to double. The seed grant from the DLF will enable the project to get off to a real start with 2,500 copies..

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International Campaign for Tibet / Tibetan Prisoner’s Fund. ICT, which has actively worked on behalf of Tibetan political prisoners for years, has recently established a fund for the support of former prisoners who have gained their freedom..

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Frame of Mind Films / Women of Tibet film project.  This project consists of three one-hour documentary films revealing potent historical moments of past and contemporary Tibet. The films touch on themes of women's endurance and their struggle for freedom, social justice, peace, and human rights. The Women of Tibet film project is scheduled to air on the PBS national network in 2006.

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Mechak Center for Contemporary Tibetan Art. Mechak is Tibetan for an iron edged tool used for creating sparks. It is the mission of Mechak Center to promote and cultivate contemporary Tibetan art that has the potential to ignite a renewal of Tibetan culture.  Mechak is a non-profit group whose vision is to create a community of Tibetan artists from what is right now individuals making art in different parts of the world, isolated from each other and largely unaware of each other’s work. The logical extension of this work will be the building of artistic and cultural bridges to artists working inside Tibet.

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H. Pointner Tibetan Medical Centre at Sera Mey Monastic University. The H. Pointner Medical Centre is located at Sera Mey Monastery next to Tsawa Khangtsen.  It is staffed by Drs. Daniel and Kris Rikleen and other medical professionals as available.  It provides health care for the monks of Sera Mey and Sera Je monasteries and for the local Tibetan community in Bylakuppe.

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Sarvodaya / Tsunami Relief.  Sarvodaya is Sri Lanka’s largest and most broadly embedded people’s organization, with a network covering 15,000 villages, 34 district offices, over 100,000 youth, and the country’s largest micro-credit organization with a cumulative loan portfolio of over one billion Sri Lankan Rupees.  It has been operational for almost 50 years.

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