1% for Peace/Business Partnership for Peace records, 1985-1993.

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1% for Peace/Business Partnership for Peace records, 1985-1993.

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

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Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

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Ben & Jerry's (Firm)

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Ben & Jerry's was founded in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who had been friends since their childhood. The company went from a single ice cream parlor to a multi-national brand over the course of few decades. The company and its two founders have also been noted for their political activism and advocacy for social justice. This includes the way their products have been manufactured, marketed, and distributed....

Business Partnership for Peace

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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. From the des...