Rich Eychaner Charitable Foundation
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The Rich Eychaner Charitable Foundation is a charitable foundation located in Des Moines
, Iowa
which seeks to promote tolerance and non-discrimination. The foundation awards scholarships to students who have been active in LGBT
issues, promotes Iowa's anti-bullying legislation
, and helped created the Iowa Pride Network and the GLBT Youth In Iowa Schools Task Force.
Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines is the capital and the most populous city in the US state of Iowa. It is also the county seat of Polk County. A small portion of the city extends into Warren County. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moines which was shortened to "Des Moines" in 1857...
, Iowa
Iowa
Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
which seeks to promote tolerance and non-discrimination. The foundation awards scholarships to students who have been active in LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
issues, promotes Iowa's anti-bullying legislation
Anti-bullying legislation
-History:Forty-seven states in the United States have passed school anti-bullying legislation, the first being Georgia in 1999. The two states without anti-bullying legislation are Michigan, and Montana. A watchdog organization called Bully Police USA advocates for and reports on anti-bullying...
, and helped created the Iowa Pride Network and the GLBT Youth In Iowa Schools Task Force.