Small Planet Fund
The Small Planet Fund was started in 2002 by Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé. The mission of the fund is to support grassroots democracy movements worldwide which address the causes of hunger and poverty. The Fund is a project of RSF and is overseen by Anna Lappé.
Read more about this topic: Small Planet Institute
Famous quotes containing the words small, planet and/or fund:
“The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone’s life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)
“ET phone home.”
—Melissa Mathison, U.S. screenwriter, and Steven Spielberg. ET, ET The Extra-Terrestrial, realizing he can contact his home planet (1982)
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—Daniel Goleman (20th century)