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|| PARTNERS FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE ||
|| PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES (U.C. BERKELEY) ||
|| RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK ||
|| ROTARY CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO ||
|| SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMECE ||
|| SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL ||
|| SOCIETY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ||
|| SRI INTERNATIONAL ||
|| UNESCO ASSOCIATION/USA ||
|| UNION OF AMERICAN HEBREW CONGREGATIONS ||


PARTNERS FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE KEY CONTACT: Suzanne DiBianca, Intl. Marketing Director PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF: Raymond Shonholtz, President, James Isenberg, Vice-President, Program BRIEF DESCRIPTION The mission of Partners For Democratic Change is to advance a culture of conflict resolution and the development of civil society in emerging democracies and market economies. BRIEF HISTORY Partners For Democratic Change was founded in 1989 to promote a culture of democratic institution building in Central and Eastern Europe after seven decades of communist rule. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS The areas addressed include much of Central and Eastern Europe, specifically Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and the Russian Federation. CURRENT PRIORITIES These include training, setting up Ethnic Conciliation Commissions, developing curricula, establishing National Associations, Master's Programs (in Czech Republic) and environmental facilitations. PROGRAMMING The training provided by Partners for Democratic Change focuses on communication, negotiation, mediation, collaborative planning, and democratic decision making. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE The audience addressed includes NGO's, Ministries, teachers, local governments, environmental firms, citizen action groups, and some corporations. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS Democracy allows for disagreements and encourages diversity of opinion. It is essential that the leaders in developing democracies have the ability to see this dimension of democracy as positive and also have the skills, procedures, and structures to constructively manage conflicts and change. LEGAL STATUS: California 501(c)(3). RECENT BUDGET: $300,000 FUNDING SOURCES Mostly private with some governmental (NED, USIP). PUBLICATIONS Environmental and Ethnic Conflict Impact Statements, quarterly newsletter, and annual brochure.


PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES (U.C. Berkeley) KEY CONTACT: Catherine Pauling, Student Affairs PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF: Prof. Percy Hintzen, Department Chair BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) is a transdisciplinary undergraduate program at U.C. Berkeley deby the Bay Area community. PROGRAMMING OWTA spsigned to provide students with an integrative approach to the study of peace and conflict, with the objective of defining and working toward lasting peace and social justice. It addresses the major problems of war, injustice, poverty, hunger and ecological deterioration, and it explores the social, psychological, economic, and political dimensions of conflict resolution as well as cultural and religious forces in social change. BRIEF HISTORY Peace and Conflict Studies officially began in 1984. The program was founded by a small group of dedicated faculty and students, and continues to rely on, and benefit from, the work of students, staff and faculty who are committed to exploring education as a means of social change. The program is part of the Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies division of the College of Letters and Science. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS PACS courses have included such topics as Economic Planning for Peace; Peace and Ethics in Planning and Systems Design; Theory and Practice of Nonviolence; Technology, Doctrine, and Politics of the Nuclear Arms Race; Theory and Practice of Conflict Resolution; Ecofeminism; Environmental Dispute Resolution; The Child at Risk; Human Rights; Peace Movements, Foreign Policy, and American Democracy; Global and Domestic Hunger. PROGRAMMING PACS offers special lectures, seminars, sponsors conferences and concerts. (PACS organized the first US/USSR conference on human rights). Recently a national peace studies workshop to discuss curricula was held in Berkeley. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE The PACS program is geared primarily toward undergraduate college students. Through the PACS internship program and special lectures, many community members who are working on peace and justice issues are brought onto campus to offer their insight and experience to the program. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS PACS embraces a wide variety of perspectives in its course offerings. As an educational program, PACS provides students with the opportunity to explore the formation, development, and manifestation of many world views and ideologies, and to examine how their own actions reflect differing value systems. PACS is democratically-based, so that students, staff and faculty all have a voice in determining the structure and content of the program. LEGAL STATUS: U.C. Berkeley 501(c)(3). FUNDING SOURCES U.C. general funds, individual donations. PUBLICATIONS: None.


RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK KEY CONTACT: Randall L. Hayes, Executive Director PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF: Barbara Keville, Managing Director BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rainforest Action Network's mission is to help avert ecological and human rights crises by protecting tropical rainforests, the rights of indigenous and forest-dwelling peoples, and the rights of everyone to a healthy, intact biosphere. This last depends upon the intact forests which moderate climate and provide fresh water, genetic material, and more. BRIEF HISTORY The Rainforest Action Network was founded in 1985 by Randy Hayes. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS RAN focuses on tropical and temperate rainforest areas worldwide, specifically the Amazon, South-East Asia, and the Canadian Pacific Coast. PROGRAMMING RAN directs community support in rainforest areas, monitors and pressures industrial polluters; is working to reduce wood use in the United States by up to 70%, and pressures international corporations to revise their environmental policies. CURRENT PRIORITIES Each year on the Thursday before Thanksgiv -- Wood conservation. -- Preventing implementation of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). -- Reforming the World Bank. -- Boycotting Mitsubishi. TARGET AUDIENCE General public, business and industry. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS RAN views the world's biosphere as fragile and already damaged by the policies and practices of highly industrialized societies and adoption of these policies by less developed nations. RAN views the lifestyles of communities of indigenous people and other small scale economies as more compatible with global ecology and threatened by the international economy. RAN views the world economy as dominated by multinational corporations and institutions in a capitalist culture which exploits world resources and disregards spiritual, ecological and human costs. RAN seeks to educate the general public and restrain the intrusions of the world economy into the environment through political activism and watchdog functions. LEGAL STATUS: California 501(c)(3). ANNUAL BUDGET: $2 million. FUNDING SOURCES Membership dues, foundations grants, benefit events. PUBLICATIONS World Rainforest Report, quarterly. Action Alert, monthly.


ROTARY CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO KEY CONTACT: Tessie Reyes, Executive VP PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF: William A. Koefoed, San Francisco Club President BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rotary International is a worldwide nonprofit association of Rotary Clubs whose members are professional and business people. It is committed to providing humanitarian service, encouraging ethical standards in all vocations, and advancing international goodwill and peace through a variety of activities. The organization consists of some 27,000 clubs with over one million Rotarians in 188 countries around the world. Individual clubs are governed by an elected Board of Directors and are organized into Districts. There are approximately 300 clubs in Northern California. The Bay Area is represented in three Districts: 5150 (San Francisco), 5160 (Berkeley), and 5170 (Oakland). With about 500 members, the Rotary Club of San Francisco is the second largest in the state and among the fifteen largest in the U.S. BRIEF HISTORY Rotary International was founded in 1905 in Chicago by Paul Harris. It was established as a national organization in 1910 with a membership of sixteen clubs. The organization experienced its greatest growth in the post-World War II era and is currently averaging an addition of nearly two clubs a day. The San Francisco club was established in 1908. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS Rotary programs emphasize education, fellowship, and social and civic service. Its international service component emphasizes educational exchange, intercultural undern Mexico, the Caribbestanding, development assistance, and international cooperation. Rotary is active in Asia, the Pacific Basin, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. PROGRAMMING Rotary International's major service activities include: an annual youth exchange program sending some 9,500 secondary school-age students on year-long or short-term visits to other countries; a world community service activity in which Rotary clubs in one country assist a club in another with manpower, funds, or equipment for a joint community project; the Rotary Foundation's scholarships; the Foundation-sponsored Health, Hunger and Humanity program involving technical and humanitarian assistance projects in developing countries; the annual "World Understanding Month" which is an occasion for simultaneous demonstration of international service by all Rotary clubs. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE Rotary members are those persons engaged as proprietor, partner, corporate officer, manager or representative of any worthy and recognized business or profession. Rotary International exercises a classification principle of membership in which one individual is accepted for each classification of business or profession excepting the religion, new media, and diplomatic service classifications. The organization's target audience is society at large. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS Rotary members are committed to the ideal of service to be applied in their personal, professional, and community life at local and international levels. Rotary International believes that international understanding and goodwill in a worldwide extended community are essential for global peace. Rotary programs are designed to encourage and foster cross-cultural contacts and international cooperation within the worldwide Rotary community. LEGAL STATUS: Illinois 501(c)(3). FUNDING SOURCES Membership dues, charter fees from new clubs, subscriptions and advertising income from publications, investment interest, and contributions. PUBLICATIONS Rotarian, monthly magazine, available also in Spanish, Rotary International News, monthly newsletter, available in nine languages. Booklets and monographs in international service are available to members from the main office: World Community Service, Youth Exchange, A Primer for Host Families, What Can One Man Do to Promote World Understanding, A Guide for an Exchange Student, Seven Paths to Peace.

SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE KEY CONTACT: Anastasia Scourkes, Program Manager, PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF: Rhea Serpan, Chamber President and CEO; James Altman, Chairman, Board of Directors; James J. Doyle, Chairman, Intl. Brd. of Directors BRIEF DESCRIPTION The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce is a nonprofit membership organization which is active in the fields of economic development, public and international affairs, education, research, transportation and communication. The International Department of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce administers the Chamber's international business programs. Its principal activities include fostering trade and investment opportunities for international business in San Francisco and serving the international trade-related needs of Bay Area businesses. The Department's outreach unit for its members, the World Trade Association, facilitates contacts through its business, educational and social programs. The Department's activities are guided by the Chamber's administrative officers and a Board of Directors. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS The Chamber's International Department addresses trade-related needs of the San Francisco business community. Its geographic concerns are globally inclusive. It works with the Department of Commerce to help reduce the trade deficit through exports. It also pays special attention to the needs of smaller and mid-sized companies. PROGRAMMING The International Department maintains standing committees on consular relations, international development, business attractions, World Trade Week activities, International Business Alliance (networking), and the World Trade Association. The World Trade Association convenes luncheon meetings and monthly programs with guest speakers, sponsors foreign trade exhibits, and conducts seminars on legislative matters affecting the international business community. A quarterly Consul General Program enables World Trade Association members to meet senior people in the San Francisco diplomatic community. CURRENT PRIORITIES A major priority for the Department is the attraction of new international companies to the San Francisco Bay Area as well as the development of companies currently located here. Chamber programs and committees are designed around this goal. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE The Department's committee is composed of members from the local business community. The World Trade Association has a membership of some 400 Northern California business firms. In addition to member firms, the target audience includes all business men and women interested in Bay Area international trade. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce supports the free enterprise system and opposes barriers to international trade. It lobbies for legislation to that effect. The Chamber's World Trade Association brings those with international business interests together to develop contacts, exchange information, and explore international problems. The Chamber believes that expanding international trade will strengthen the global economy and thus contribute to a healthier global community. LEGAL STATUS: California 501(c)(6). ANNUAL BUDGET: $1 million (total Chamber budget). FUNDING SOURCES: Membership dues. PUBLICATIONS World Trade Association Newsletter, monthly. San Francisco Business, the overall Chamber bimonthly publication. Trade Association Directory of Clubs and Organizations International Business Directory, a directory of consular corps, exporters, importers, freight forwarders and customshouse brokers. Economic Guide which includes a variety of demographic information about the Bay Area.


SISTER CITIES COMMITTEE OF SANTA CRUZ KEY CONTACT: Mary Grace, Northern California Liaison BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sister Cities International (SCI) is the principal program of the Town Affiliation Association/USA, a national membership organization headquartered in Washington, DC that assists in linking U.S. cities with "sister cities" in other countries. SCI's purpose is to increase international understanding and foster world peace through international communication and exchange activities at the person-to-person level via formal city programs. It also performs a clearinghouse function for local Sister City committees. Tens of thousands of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals travel back and forth each year through Sister City programs. There are 800 U.S. cities with affiliates in 1,200 cities in 86 countries abroad. BRIEF HISTORY Although not formally established until 1967, Sister Cities International grew out of a White House Conference on a town affiliation program sponsored by the Eisenhower administration in 1956. The purpose of the conference was to provide a national mechanism for U.S. cities to enter the Sister Cities program. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS Sister Cities International focuses on professional information exchange, cultural and educational exchange, and intercultural understanding and friendship. It is active in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Canada, and Africa. California cities have affiliations all over the world, but most are with cities in Asia, the Far East, and Latin America. PROGRAMMING Sister City programs represent a wide variety of mutual exchanges in many areas: cultural, educational, technical, municipal, professional, and youth. Nationally developed programs in which Sister City committees are invited to participate include: a School Affiliation program involving school-to-school links within respective sister city affiliations, a Technical Assistance Program for Sister Cities in developing countries, and public education activities involving global education and youth leadership training workshops in the community and schools. CURRENT PRIORITIES SCI's national agenda includes developing new Sister City affiliations and encouraging local Sister City committees to participate in the above programs. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE Sister City activities include 800 U.S. cities affiliated with 1,200 "Sister Cities" in 86 other countries. Fifty percent of all Sister City affiliations are between U.S. cities and cities in developing countries. Sister City activity is intended to benefit the citizens of all participating cities. Exchanges include youth, professionals, technicians, business persons, and cultural, municipal, and educational leaders. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS Sister Cities International works toward its goal of enhancing world peace by developing closer understanding and cooperation between the U.S. and peoples of other nations in mutually beneficial city-to-city relationships. The Sister City concept is unique because of its mutual and long-term nature, and because it offers a mechanism at the community level for individuals or organizations to become involved in international relations. LEGAL STATUS: 501(c)(3). FUNDING SOURCES Grants, memberships, donations. PUBLICATIONS Sister City News, SCI quarterly newsletter. SCI National Newsletter, SCI bimonthly newsletter.

SOCIETY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT KEY CONTACT: Pat Brenner, President PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF: Mika Van Spanje, Vice President; Scott Sugiura, Secretary BRIEF DESCRIPTION The Society for International Development (SID) is a professional association for people with an interest in international economic, political, and social development. It is an international, multi-disciplinary, nonpolitical, nonprofit organization. Its international activities, coordinated through Rome, include ongoing, informal dialogues among practitioners, experts, and policymakers on major development issues. The office in Washington, DC assumes major responsibility for the Western Hemisphere and a number of countries in the Pacific area. The Society also has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. BRIEF HISTORY Founded in 1956, SID has become the largest nongovernmental organization of its kind. Since its inception, the Society has convened international, regional, and national conferences; established a growing list of local chapters; and encouraged research, publication, and discussion on the art and science of social and economic development. The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter was organized in 1967 by local professionals, academics, and business leaders concerned with issues of Third World development and with the relevant policies, practices, and programs of the U.S. Government and American private and voluntary organizations. The Chapter meets monthly at the Asia Foundation to hear and discuss presentations on development activities, issues, and approaches. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS SID promotes international cooperation and dialogue on issues of global development, advancing social and economic development through educational means, and providing support and services for national development constituencies committed to these objectives. PROGRAMMING Global Development Round Tables include the North-South Round Table, the Grass Roots Initiatives and Strategies Program and an international committee on Women and Development. Many U.S. chapters collaborate with one or more sister chapters in the developing world. The Bay Area Chapter hosts both public programs on key development issues and their implication around the world as well as Member Forums that allow for more in-depth dialogue. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE SID members reside in over 120 countries and include both individuals and more than 200 institutions, organizations, agencies, and societies whose activities are closely related to international development. Institutional members include such sponsors as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Asia Foundation, which contribute annually to the Society. Participants are practitioners and policymakers associated with most major development institutions, private voluntary organizations, and grassroots movements. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS Members of SID maintain that a country's lack of appropriate development is an obstacle to the fulfillment of basic human needs and better relations between countries. The work of the Society concentrates on seeking appropriate alternatives and proposals for the evolution of a new international order in which global, social and economic development needs may be better accommodated. The Society does not press any particular political viewpoint, but encourages participants in SID conferences and seminars to present their own views rather than presenting governmental or other institutional policy. LEGAL STATUS: Washington, DC 501(c)(3). FUNDING SOURCES: Chapter membership dues. PUBLICATIONS Development, quarterly journal. Compass, quarterly newsletter


SRI INTERNATIONAL KEY CONTACT: Ms. Kinney Thiele PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF: Curtis Carlson, President and CEO; James E. Carnes, President & C.E.O., Sarnoff Research Center; Allen Phipps, President and CEO, SRI Consulting (a wholely-woned for profit subsidiary) BRIEF DESCRIPTION SRI International (formerly the Stanford Research Institute) is an independent, nonprofit consulting organization that conducts contract-based, applied and basic research for clients in government, business, and industry throughout the world. At any one time, SRI is engaged in more than a thousand projects, ranging from laboratory sciences and engineering, to economics, management, and the social sciences. With a combined staff of 2,800, research is conducted at its headquarters near San Francisco, and at field sites and project offices in major cities of the U.S., Europe, and the Far East. A Board of Directors guides the Institute's operations. BRIEF HISTORY The founding of Stanford Research Institute in 1946 represented the fulfillment of plans by a group of business people and Stanford University scientists for a West Coast research institution. Since then, the organization has grown enormously both in scope of operations and personnel. Over the years, it has worked on 17,000 research projects in more than fifty countries. It ended its affiliation with Stanford in 1970 and changed its name to SRI International in 1977 to reflect the Institute's global capabilities. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS The Institute's work falls into eight major areas: national security, energy, health, resources, communications, transportation, technology, and government/private sector impact. These areas cover subjects of concern to governments and people throughout the world. PROGRAMMING The Institute conducts both applied and basic research on a contract basis for clients, and convenes conferences and symposia in the course of its work. CURRENT PRIORITIES Of note among the hundreds of ongoing research projects with international impact is SRI's work on national security research, energy and global resources, and the development and application of new technologies through scores of research disciplines. SRI's program priorities involve a continuous process of identifying both growing and diminishing fields of need which serve both the public's and society's best interests. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE Professional staff members represent more than 100 disciplines. Such diversity enables SRI to draw from a broad range of professional capabilities and scientific disciplines in dealing with complex problems. Its clients may be grouped into three categories: 1) U.S. Government agencies concerned with national security; 2) other U.S. Government agencies; and 3) business and public organizations throughout the world. Although some of SRI's work is performed directly for clients, the bulk of it is in the public interest. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS As SRI participates in activities requiring international perspectives and capabilities, it manages its affairs as a responsible U.S. corporate citizen. Its standards of excellence and objectivity prevent it from taking any political positions in the course of its work. Most of the Institute's research projects are multidisciplinary and involve an appropriate mix of applied and basic research. The work is applied in the sense that the latest professional and scientific concepts and techniques are applied to the practical problems of industry and government. LEGAL STATUS: California 501(c)(3). ANNUAL BUDGET: 1997 revenues totaled $362 million. FUNDING SOURCES Private sector and government contracts for more than 2,000 projects are historically evenly split. PUBLICATIONS A broad range of published materials is available to the public through multi-client subscriptions.

UNESCO ASSOCIATION/USA KEY CONTACT: Dorothy Hackbarth, President PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF: Charles Hackbarth, Treasurer BRIEF DESCRIPTION UNESCO Association/USA (UA/USA) is a national, non-governmental educational organization working for peace and international cooperation among nations by promoting the objectives and programs of the United Nations Educational, Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO). UA/USA works closely with UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. UA/USA participates in a worldwide federation of UNESCO Association and Clubs. A national Board of Directors and an International Advisory Board guide the Association's affairs. BRIEF HISTORY UA/USA was incorporated in 1973 with the primary purpose of educating the American public in the areas of UNESCO's expertise, i.e., education, science, culture, and communication. Since then, UA/USA has developed model programs of leadership training for the organization of UNESCO's Clubs, and established a UA/USA tradition to recognize the United Nations- decreed international days (e.g., Literacy Day, World Telecommunication Day, Human Rights Day). UA/USA's programs emphasize American participation in international understanding and communication. UA/USA also serves as an information center. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS UA/USA focuses on international educational, scientific, cultural, and communication issues. Its geographic concerns are global in scope and vary according to issue areas. PROGRAMMING In addition to its conferences on telecommunication, literacy and human rights, UA/USA organizes programs around the yearly themes selected by the U.N. General Assembly for international observance. It also sponsors an internship program for college/university students and provides an information and resource service to the general public. CURRENT PRIORITIES The Association's current agenda includes expanding its information services, expanding its internship program, and actively assisting in the development of an ongoing seminar on international organizations. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE The Association has a national membership, which includes educators, students, and others interested in the work of UNESCO. All interested persons are welcome to join. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS UA/USA believes that increased public understanding of global issues and developments is a necessary step toward advancing goals of global peace and international cooperation. It organizes its programs so that its audience becomes aware of how global problems and issues relate to their own local communities. UA/USA reflects the ideals of UNESCO. LEGAL STATUS: California 501(c)(3). ANNUAL BUDGET: $5,000 FUNDING SOURCES Membership dues (75%) and donations (25%). PUBLICATIONS Member Newsletter, bimonthly. UNA/USA plans to publish conference proceedings and curricula on international organizations.


UNION OF AMERICAN HEBREW CONGREGATIONS KEY CONTACT: Rabbi Morris Hershman, Regional Director PRINCIPAL OFFICERS/SENIOR STAFF: Sharon M. Silverman, President, Regional Board; Linda A. Feldman, Regional Administrator BRIEF DESCRIPTION The Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) is a religious and educational organization dedicated to the principles of Reform Judaism. UAHC encourages and aids the organization and development of Jewish congregations, promotes Jewish education, and fosters activities for the perpetuation of Judaism. UAHC serves Reform Jewish congregations throughout the U.S. and Canada with fourteen regional councils and six affiliated national organizations (e.g., National Federation of Temple Youth, National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods) which bring national programs to member congregations. BRIEF HISTORY UAHC was founded in 1873 by Rabbi Isaac Wise with an initial membership of 34 congregations in 24 U.S. cities. It now occupies its own building in New York and comprises 890 congregations. UAHC is the patron body of Hebrew Union College founded in 1875 which merged with the Jewish Institute of Religion in 1951. With campuses in Cincinnati, Los Angeles, New York, and Jerusalem, it is the oldest Jewish seminary in the world. The UAHC regional office in San Francisco was opened in 1957. GEOGRAPHIC/PROBLEM AREAS Apart from a special focus on problems of Israel and of Soviet Jewry, UAHC has a global world affairs agenda. It focuses on problems of international human rights. Policy positions, action projects, and educational programs are developed on all world affairs problems involving the Jewish people in pursuit of traditional UAHC concerns for peace, justice, and freedom in the world community. PROGRAMMING Most UAHC Departments and national affiliates conduct programs on foreign policy and world affairs problems. The Department of Youth Activities sponsors both short and long-term overseas exchange programs; the Department of Jewish Education develops materials on Jewish values. UAHC also works on problems in this field through its active program in Interreligious Affairs. A Commission on Social Action provides information, study materials, visual aids, and action opportunities for individuals and local congregations about foreign policy issues. The Washington Religious Action Center works cooperatively with like-minded national organizations. The Northern California regional office primarily aids its own member congregations in carrying out programs in their own communities. MEMBERSHIP/TARGET AUDIENCE Individual local congregations make up UAHC's membership, and much of its work is carried out at the local level. PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD POLITICS Since its inception, UAHC has sought to safeguard and promote the rights of Jews and other minorities throughout the world. Reform Judaism insists that creativity and progress are essential to religious life and endeavors to bring contemporary relevance to the beliefs and practices of its religious tradition. In upholding the moral teachings of Judaism, UAHC is committed to the elimination of discrimbstacle to the fulfillment of basic human ination in all sectors of society. LEGAL STATUS: National religious organization with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. ANNUAL BUDGET: $125,000 (regional). FUNDING SOURCES Congregational dues and contributions (Fund for Reform Judaism). PUBLICATIONS Reform Judaism, a national magazine published quarterly is sent to members of all UAHC congregations.