Generating Peace: Agape Awards Prize to Powerhouse Peacemakers On Thursday, September 18, 2008, on the eve of the UN International Day of Peace, the Agape Foundation awards its annual Peace Prize to powerhouse peacemakers across generations. It is never to soon, or too late, to change the world! Click here for tickets to the event or here for press information. Enduring Visionary Award  Madeline Duckles, 92. From her early organizing against McCarthyism to international advocacy on behalf of war-injured children in Vietnam to present-day campaigning against U.S. military interventions in Iraq and Iran, Madeline Duckles has helped spark broad-based movements for change over three generations. She was a leader in Women Strike for Peace, mothers whose innovative demonstrations against nuclear testing were credited by President Kennedy with inspiring adoption of the Limited Test Ban Treaty. AGAPE -- Powering Up the Peacemakers! For 39 years, the Agape Foundation has supported small and emerging social justice organizations across California. An early funder of many transformative organizations including Amnesty International and the United Farm Workers, Agape supports creative and effective organizing for peace, justice and sustainability. Unlike other foundations whose grantors are wealthy philanthropists, Agape raises its money from individual donors with median gifts of only fifty dollars. Agape funds only social justice work, which currently receives less than 10% of all grantmaking. Click here to make a difference; any small donation fuels an array of change-making organizations. Finalists for Rising Peacemaker Prize Recognizing a new Northern California peacemaker who has made a critical difference towards progressive change within the last five years; winners to be announced at the ceremony. Rae Abileah, national organizer with Code Pink, a women-initiated grassroots anti-war group. Roni Krouzman, founder of Next Generation, which inspires children as young as elementary school to work against the root causes of war.  Elizabeth Sy, founder of Banteay Srei, an organization empowering young Southeast Asian women at risk of or engaged in sex work. See stories about previous Agape Peace Prize winners Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth (HOMEY) and Elizabeth Stinson, Director of the Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County, helping youth resist military recruitment.
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