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==Description== ==Description==
According to the foundation's web site it is a non-profit, organization established to "fund the implementation of scientifically proven stress-reducing modalities" for "at-risk populations" including veterans with PTSD, inner city students, American Indians, homeless men and incarcerated men and women. DLF also funds research to "assess the effects of the program on academic performance, ADHD and other learning disorders, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, cardiovascular disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, and diabetes".<ref> About Us, retrieved Feb 22 2012 </ref> The Orange County Register reported in 2005 that the DLF was launched "to provide the program to schools"<ref>Larsen, Peter (August 10 2005) ''Orange County Register'', Tapping into TM, </ref> A 2011 ] described DLF as offering "TM at no cost to troubled students, veterans, homeless people, prisoners and others"<ref>{{cite web|title=Look Who’s Meditating Now|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/fashion/20TM.html?pagewanted=all|accessdate=22 November 2011|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/63OaTU45y|archivedate=2011-11-22|quote=Mr. Brand was the M.C. at a benefit for the David Lynch Foundation, an organization that offers TM at no cost to troubled students, veterans, homeless people, prisoners and others.}}</ref> via ] for the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program in venues such as public, private and ] in the United States and abroad.{{fact}} Lynch told ABC News: "Kids come to school and they meditate together for 15 minutes in the morning. And before they go home they meditate for 15 minutes. A lot of them come from, you know, bad situations, and so this gives them this thing you know, at the beginning and the end of the day, the rest of the time you just watch the violence stop. Watch relationships improve." <ref name=ABC>ABC News, Transcendental Meditation Thrives in Iowa, John Berman and Maggie Burbank, January 8, 2010, </ref> According to the foundation's web site it is a non-profit, organization established to "fund the implementation of scientifically proven stress-reducing modalities" for "at-risk populations" including veterans with PTSD, inner city students, American Indians, homeless men and incarcerated men and women. DLF also funds research to "assess the effects of the program on academic performance, ADHD and other learning disorders, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, cardiovascular disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, and diabetes".<ref> About Us, retrieved Feb 22 2012 </ref> The Orange County Register reported in 2005 that the DLF was launched "to provide the program to schools"<ref>Larsen, Peter (August 10 2005) ''Orange County Register'', Tapping into TM, </ref> A 2011 ] described DLF as offering "TM at no cost to troubled students, veterans, homeless people, prisoners and others"<ref>{{cite web|title=Look Who’s Meditating Now|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/fashion/20TM.html?pagewanted=all|accessdate=22 November 2011|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/63OaTU45y|archivedate=2011-11-22|quote=Mr. Brand was the M.C. at a benefit for the David Lynch Foundation, an organization that offers TM at no cost to troubled students, veterans, homeless people, prisoners and others.}}</ref> via ] for the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program in venues such as public, private and ] in the United States and abroad.{{fact}} Lynch told ABC News: "Kids come to school and they meditate together for 15 minutes in the morning. And before they go home they meditate for 15 minutes. A lot of them come from, you know, bad situations, and so this gives them this thing you know, at the beginning and the end of the day, the rest of the time you just watch the violence stop." <ref name=ABC>ABC News, Transcendental Meditation Thrives in Iowa, John Berman and Maggie Burbank, January 8, 2010, </ref>


==History== ==History==

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Paul McCartney, David Lynch, and Ringo Starr at David Lynch Foundation benefit concert, Radio City Music Hall, April, 2009

The David Lynch Foundation For Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace (DLF) is a global charitable foundation based in Fairfield, Iowa. It was founded by film director and Transcendental Meditation practitioner David Lynch in 2005 to fund the implementation of stress-reducing programs for at-risk populations.

Description

According to the foundation's web site it is a non-profit, organization established to "fund the implementation of scientifically proven stress-reducing modalities" for "at-risk populations" including veterans with PTSD, inner city students, American Indians, homeless men and incarcerated men and women. DLF also funds research to "assess the effects of the program on academic performance, ADHD and other learning disorders, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, cardiovascular disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, and diabetes". The Orange County Register reported in 2005 that the DLF was launched "to provide the program to schools" A 2011 New York Times described DLF as offering "TM at no cost to troubled students, veterans, homeless people, prisoners and others" via scholarships for the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program in venues such as public, private and charter schools in the United States and abroad. Lynch told ABC News: "Kids come to school and they meditate together for 15 minutes in the morning. And before they go home they meditate for 15 minutes. A lot of them come from, you know, bad situations, and so this gives them this thing you know, at the beginning and the end of the day, the rest of the time you just watch the violence stop."

History

David Lynch founded the DLF in July 2005. Lynch, DLF President John Hagelin, and Maharishi University of Management researcher Fred Travis went on a lecture tour in 2005, giving free talks on TM titled "Consciousness, Creativity, and the Brain". Stops included University of Southern California, UC Berkeley, the University of Oregon in Eugene, the University of Washington, Emerson College, Yale University, and Brown University.

In 2006, six public schools in the U.S. were each awarded $25,000 by the David Lynch Foundation, and a total of 25 public, private, and charter schools in the United States had offered Transcendental Meditation to their students. As of September 2006, the DLF had "helped approximately 500 students and 50 teachers learn how to meditate". In October 2006, the foundation withdrew a $175,000 pledge to a San Rafael, California high school after the pro-separation Pacific Justice Institute threatened to sue for violating the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. Lynch assigned all of his "proceeds" from the sale of the 2006 book Catching the Big Fish to the DLF "for the purpose of providing funding for in-school programs in Transcendental Meditation". The DLF sponsored a presentation on the benefits of TM in education at the Harvard Club of Boston in 2006.

As of 2008, the foundation had funded more than 2,000 students, faculty and parents at 21 universities and schools, in addition to substantially higher numbers at schools overseas.

The 2009 "Change Begins Within" benefit concert, held at Radio City Music Hall, was hosted by David Lynch and Laura Dern. It featured performances by musicians Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Donovan, Moby, Eddie Vedder, Ben Harper, Paul Horn, Jim James, Bettye LaVette, Sheryl Crow, and Angelo Badalamenti, and appearances by Mike Love, Jerry Seinfeld and Howard Stern. It generated gross receipts of about $3 million.

The foundation held its second "Change Begins Within" benefit event, titled "Operation Warrior Wellness", at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on 13 December 2010. In addition to David Lynch, participants included actor and director Clint Eastwood, designer Donna Karan, comedian Russell Brand and several veterans.

Programs

Students in Peru practicing Transcendental Meditation, paid for by the David Lynch Foundation

The David Lynch Foundation focuses on school-wide instruction in Transcendental Meditation with the aim of improving educational and health outcomes. All school program instruction is voluntary, is done only with parental permission, and is offered to children with no cost to parents or to the school.

According to the DLF, it has funded school programs in Washington D.C, New York City, Hartford CT, Detroit MI, California, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Vietnam, Nepal, Northern Ireland, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa and Israel. A 2011 article from ABC News reports that the foundation "teaches 70,000 students for free in 350 schools around the world; 15 of them are in the United States." According to the foundation, it has funded over $3.5 million in school programs aiding over 55,000 students in 26 countries. The David Lynch Foundation's mission to introduce Transcendental Meditation to public school students has been criticized by Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, claiming that the foundation's efforts undermine the constitutional separation of church and state.

In addition to funding in-school Transcendental Meditation programs in the USA and Canada, the foundation has supported meditation instruction for over 35,000 students in South America. According to the DLF web site, Columbian priest, Father Gabriel Mejia, has founded 47 shelters for homeless children where thousands of young people practice the Transcendental Meditation technique.

The Transcendental Meditation technique has also been taught to soldiers with post traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) as part of research at the University of Colorado. Other initiatives to teach the TM technique to war veterans who are at risk for PTSD, are ongoing.

The DLF has the long-term goal of raising $7 billion in order to establish seven affiliated "Universities of World Peace" in seven different countries, to train students to become "professional peacemakers".

Directors and advisors

The foundation is governed by the Board of Directors consisting of: John Hagelin, Jeffrey S. Abramson, Rona Abramson, Ramani Ayer, Robert G. Brown, Stephen Collins, Joni Steele Kimberlin, Arthur Liebler, and Nancy Liebler.

Current foundation Board of Advisor members are: Russell Simmons, Gary P. Kaplan, William R. Stixrud, Frank Staggers Jr., César Molina, George H. Rutherford, Carmen N’Namdi, Ralph Wolff, Ashley Deans, Linda Handy, Sarina Grosswald.

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