The Venus Project Foundation
Mission Statement:
The Venus Project Foundation is an art and educational, non-profit 501(c)(3), national organization, based in New York City. We are advocates of reason, common sense principles and ethical standards. We are not in the charity business. Rather, we are in the business of changing all that matters for far better, through the arts and education.
We are dedicated to the establishment of democracy, democratic values and principles, abolition of female and child slavery, female equal rights, gender equality, civil rights and civil society, defense and promotion of human rights, social justice, elimination of poverty, freedom of speech, free and unbiased press, freedom of association, freedom of assembly, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, and preservation and protection of our one and only home Planet Earth, through the arts and education.
We aim to establish the Venus Project Foundation as a global open source of enlightening, entertaining, educational and informative repository of knowledge and wisdom, to encourage and facilitate ground-up, non-violent social, economic and political evolution, leading to the formation of true and long lasting democracies.
We are convinced, that the arts and education are the only two effective and long lasting remedies for eradicating violence, ignorance and apathy.
We are also convinced that art and education are two of the most highly liberating, elevating and evolutionary instruments at our reach for helping The Human species / Humankind / Humanity crawl out of the dark and mind numbing caves of violence built and maintained by the tyrannical dictators, and evolve into a fair-minded, responsible, compassionate, loving and caring citizens, capable of realizing, developing and maintaining democratic principles, values and rule of law, thus entering the bright and exciting future of cooperation, reason and common sense.
We are determined to accomplish our goals through the production, promotion and distribution of creative, educational, enlightening, entertaining and artistic works such as, but not limited to: documentary films, feature films, music, dance, radio and television programming and our online college curriculums.
We shall offer all aspects of Civic Education, democratic principles and values, along with other social justice and democracy related subjects in form of multi lingual tutorial courses, consisting of 5 minutes e-learning episodes for all of humanity to enjoy, to be made available online free of charge.
We will be providing and presenting the following higher education / college courses, to the public as well, gradually as we built our online university and increase capacity, for a reasonable small tuition, needed to maintain and support our educational efforts. Our focus will be on educating and enlightening our online students, utilizing the very best and proven substantive arts, sciences and methods, to reverse our current man-made economic depression, environmental degradation, dumbing down public education, cultural erosion and stagnation. - Eradicating poverty, encouraging organic agriculture, renewable energy development, preventive health-care, environmentally safe and sound technologies and industries, cooperative community partnerships, family foods and nutrition, child-care and maternal well being, and much more, in order to facilitate a sustainable healthy life for all of humanity.
The estimated first year budget for obtaining office space, skilled staff and necessary equipment, plus the first year operating expenses and overhead is four million dollars.
We can only count on our caring fellow citizens to provide the necessary four million funding through large and small financial and or skilled volunteered time contributions.
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The Venus Project Foundation
217 East 70th Street, No. 607
New York, NY 10021-0013