Stanley Foundation
The Stanley Foundation is based in Muscatine, Iowa and was founded in 1969.[1]
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Since 1969 the Foundation has been financing "educational meetings" among UN NGO groups and foreign policy conferences in support of détente with Soviet participation. Its meetings, once or twice yearly, have been held generally in the Church Center for the U.N., or in the offices of the Arms Control Association in Washington, D.C. This NGO Consultation Group established a Steering Committee of 12 to 15 people for which the Zill report was compiled.
The Foundation media programs include a radio program, "Common Ground," 39 programs of 30-minutes broadcast over 50 National Public Radio stations. The foundation also sponsors regional news media conferences for 50 to 60 reporters in the print and electronic media based in cities with a population of 500,000 to one million.
The Zill report noted the Stanley Foundation was planning some 10 conferences in 1982 for up to 50 people - UN diplomats, businessmen, labor leaders, U.S. government officials and academics-to work on recommendations for changes in U.S. foreign policy. One of these, scheduled for March 26-27, in New York, was to bring 50 "Congress people and staffs to learn about the role of the U.N. in arms control."