1% for Peace/Business Partnership for Peace records

Collection — Box: 19

Identifier: 4547

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, records, subject files, financial and organizational records, records pertaining to the founding of 1% for Peace, letters received and queries, and ephemera.

Dates

1985-1993.

Creator

Business Partnership for Peace. (Organization)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

1% for Peace was founded in Ithaca (N.Y.) with direct assistance from Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream to promote the direction of 1% of the Defense Dept. budget to social causes. In January 1992, the group changed its name to Business Partnership for Peace and clarified its mission as a lobbying group for an alternative approach to national security issues. In 1993 the group officially merged with Businesses for Social Responsibility and moved its operations to Washington, DC.

Extent

18 cubic feet.

Additional Description

Abstract

Correspondence, records, subject files, financial and organizational records, records pertaining to the founding of 1% for Peace, letters received and queries, and ephemera.

Physical Description

Correspondence, records, subject files, financial and organizational records, and ephemera.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
EAD encoding:: Martin Heggestad, May 2004