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The Weidner Foundation
In every dark time in our history, certain selfless, conscientious individuals have emerged to put their lives at risk for those in great need. These individuals often go unnoticed as they do not seek the spotlight. They feel that they are only doing what is right. These individuals appear today in Burma, Iran, the Sudan, China and other areas where basic human rights are at risk.
The John Henry Weidner Foundation seeks to identify, support and emulate the behavior of these quiet altruists who brighten the darkest periods of history and darkest corners of the planet to speak for the voiceless, even at the risk of losing their lives.
The Weidner Foundation was established in 1996 by John Weidner’‘s wife Naomi to commemorate the lives of those people with whom he heroically worked as well as those for whom he courageously provided solace, refuge, and safety during the Holocaust of World War II and thereafter.
Mr. Weidner gave the Weidner Center his personal letters and effects, intending them to illustrate and encourage a life of human compassion, encouraging Foundation leadership to use them as potential models and teaching tools toward promulgating selfless, independent, non-institutionalized behavior that ensures the dignity and safety of others.
The Foundation operates The John Henry Weidner Center for Cultivation of the Altruistic Spirit, which generates creative activities that discover, investigate, and encourage pro-action of the sort that Weidner practiced and believed in during his life. The Center has offices at Atlantic Union College in South Lancaster, Massachusetts. The Board of Trustees is a diverse group of men and women who represent the various constituencies John Weidner helped, worked with and believed in to maintain his vision for a community of pro-active, independent thinkers and doers.
