The Gandhi House (Aug. 2013)
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929 South Plymouth Avenue, Rochester, NY 14608 ![[Directions]](/wiki/dd-start.png "Click for driving, walking, or bus directions from Google"){kind=small} |
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| 585 565 8453 |
| Wheelchair Accessible |
| First floor only. |
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http://www.GandhiInstitute.org |
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The M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence was founded in 1991 by the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Arun Gandhi, and his wife, Sunanda. The Gandhis provided seed money for the Institute through the sale of Gandhiji’s letters to his son and daughter-in-law (Arun’s parents), Manilal and Sushila. Sustaining funds come from contributions, publications, program fees, and grants.
The Gandhi Institute moved to the University of Rochester in 2007. They had offices in Wilson Commons and the Interfaith Chapel until moving off-campus to the Gandhi House in 2011. The Institute receives funding from UR but is an independent, registered non-profit organization.
Programs
Many of the Institute’s educational programs are aimed at conflict transformation, anger management, cultural humility, and relationship- and community-building. Current programs include the international Season for Nonviolence, Community Roundtables, grief circles, deescalation workshops, Youth Healing Hate grants, and others.
The Gandhi Institute is in communication with organizations dedicated to nonviolence worldwide. These growing communities of friends, students, and practitioners of nonviolence constitute a network of moral support for each other and fortify the collective project of peacemaking all over the world. Here in the United States, new groups committed to nonviolence, and inspired by the Gandhi Institute, have sprung up in Los Angeles, San Antonio, Chicago, Houston, Portland, Rochester (including student group Nonviolent On Campus (NOC), founded in 2006 at the University of Rochester 1), and many cities in between.
The Institute's research and work echo and affirm the prophetic nature of Gandhiji’s prediction: “Undreamed of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.2
The Gandhi House
By late 2011, the Institute had outgrown its home on the UR River Campus. In September 2011 they announced plans to move to the Plymouth-Exchange Neighborhood to strengthen their ties with the broader Rochester community. They leased a former drughouse that had lain abandoned for seventeen years and required extensive rehabilitation. The property also includes a 3/4 acre lot next door which the Institute transformed into an urban agricultural park and meditative green space. The new Gandhi House was officially opened on September 30, 2012.
 Main conference room during the Gandhi House's Sept. 2012 debut. |
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2012-09-30 17:59:02 WOW! They did an AMAZING job with that house! I am THUNDERSTRUCK!
They haven't gotten the wheelchair-accessible ramp in yet but they're working on it. —EileenF
2019-12-12 23:55:55 The Gandhi House is wheel chair accessible. The back entrance is the main entrance to the Institute, and from there, the entire first floor can be accessed, which is where most public events are held. —ErinThompson
