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Seeking a secure peace with freedom and justice, built on world citizenship and effective global governance.
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History The Stanley Foundation and its work grow out of a Midwestern family’s commitment to build a world in which there is a secure peace with freedom and justice.
C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley created the Stanley Foundation in 1956. Max Stanley was a professional engineer, businessman, and world citizen. His deep concerns about global security and international organizations in an increasingly interdependent world were reflected in his extensive writing and speaking. Betty Stanley shared her husband’s interest in world affairs. She supported the arts, encouraged environmental responsibility, and worked to improve education.
The initial Board of Directors consisted of the two founders and their children. Max Stanley served as president until his death in 1984. Programming began modestly. Policy dialogue work started in 1960 with the Strategy for Peace Conference, and the first conference on the United Nations of the Next Decade was held in 1965. The Foundation’s first paid staff member came on board in 1967. Project Enrichment, the initial community education program, began in the Muscatine schools in 1971.
Over the years, programming has grown, changed, and expanded, with periodic reviews and adjustments to update priorities and sharpen focus. Foundation staff has increased in numbers and capabilities.
Following Max Stanley’s death, Richard H. Stanley became president of the Foundation. Like his father, Dick is a professional engineer, businessman, and world citizen. In 1989, a two-tier governance structure was established to facilitate Foundation continuity and greater family involvement. In 1999, the position of Board chair was created. Many third-generation family members are now engaged in the work of the Foundation. The Board has become more active in setting strategic priorities and directions. Family involvement is a vital element of Foundation governance.
In 2007, Vladimir P. Sambaiew became Foundation president, capping a distinguished 30-year career as a Foreign Service Officer in the US Department of State. Dick Stanley continues as Board chair.
Today the Foundation focuses on advocating and advancing principled multilateralism in the conduct of world affairs. Drawing upon its strong Midwestern roots, the Foundation supports an international system based on rules and norms that can meet pressing peace, security, and other global challenges. To this end, it continues active interactions with governments, international institutions, and nonstate actors. Foundation operations and programming are conducted from its Muscatine, Iowa, office.
The Stanley Foundation maintains a long-term, independent, and nonpartisan perspective while promoting collaborative approaches and multilateral solutions. It seeks a secure peace with freedom and justice, built on world citizenship and effective global governance.
The Foundation is an Iowa nonprofit corporation, classified as a private operating foundation under the rules of the Internal Revenue Service. It carries out its own programming rather than making grants to other organizations. Its endowment income, supplemented by program and activity income, funds its work.
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