Fetzer Institute

The Fetzer Institute is a private operating foundation based in Kalamazoo, Michigan, US, founded by broadcaster and former Detroit Tigers baseball team owner John E Fetzer. Since its founding in 1962, the Fetzer Institute has been interested in individual and community health and wholeness, from its early days of mind-body health research to its current mission of fostering awareness of the power of love and forgiveness in the emerging global community. As an endowment, the institute has supported reconciliation projects in Colombia, Rwanda, and South Africa. It has also funded development projects in the US such as Camp Abilities, a New York-based sporting camp for visually impaired children and Baltimore Clayworks, a community arts program for inner city residents. The Fetzer Institute also sponsors the Collective Wisdom Institute, co-founded by Alan Briskin and Carol Frenier.

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The Institute currently operates from an endowment in excess of $500 million. For the 2006–2007 fiscal year, the Institute has a total budgeted payout of approximately $18 million. The Fetzer Memorial Trust, an additional endowment established by John Fetzer through his estate, is currently valued at $85 million.