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The Fetzer Institute uses its philanthropic resources to create programs exploring and advancing the power of love, forgiveness and compassion.

Where we come from
Established by American broadcast pioneer John E. Fetzer (1901–1991), the Institute is a private operating foundation with financial assets of over $360 million. We use these assets to conduct programs that support our mission: To foster awareness of love and forgiveness in the emerging global community.

Mr. Fetzer held a keen interest in the relationship between the inner life of spirit and the outer life of service in the world. He founded the Institute on the belief that efforts to address the world’s critical issues must go beyond political, social and economic strategies—and address the psychological and spiritual roots of these issues.

What we do
The Institute advances love and forgiveness as powerful forces that can transform the human condition. Through the formation of our advisory councils, we carry out our mission by understanding the motivations and preconditions of exemplary cases of love and forgiveness in the world. From these examples, we develop projects to grow an even greater awareness of love and forgiveness in action in individual and community life.

The Institute’s work rests on a deep conviction that each of us has power to transform the world by strengthening the connection between the inner life of mind and spirit with the outer life of service and action. While the Fetzer Institute is not a religious organization, it honors and learns from a variety of spiritual traditions.

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