Laucks Foundation, Salt Spring Island, BC

Laucks Foundation is a private non-profit organization devoting our resources to education for a more peaceful society, to promoting social equity, human rights, and responsibility for the environment. We fund other non-profit organizations engaged in this work, we give educational opportunities to young people to volunteer in our work, and we engage in scientific research relating to climate change issues. Over the years, with changing world politics and power structures, our mission has changed. In 1969 when LF was founded, one of the most pressing concerns was whether the US and the Soviet Union would accidentally or intentionally start a nuclear war. As LF was being incorporated this was foremost in Irving Laucks' mind.