10 Facts About David Lynch Foundation

David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace is a global charitable foundation with offices in New York City, Los Angeles, and Fairfield, Iowa.

Concerned about school violence and increasing stress and problems for students, David Lynch founded the DLF in July 2005 "to provide the [TM] program to schools".

In 2005, David Lynch Foundation offered to fund peace studies courses at several universities with TM instruction being included in each course.

That year Lynch assigned all of his proceeds from the sale of his book Catching the Big Fish to the DLF and the Foundation sponsored a presentation on the benefits of TM in education at the Harvard Club of Boston.

In recent years, the David Lynch Foundation has opened branches in a number of other countries including The UK, France, Georgia and Australia.

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David Lynch Foundation held its second "Change Begins Within" benefit event, titled "Operation Warrior Wellness", at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in December 2010.

The Foundation has reportedly funded school programs in the U S cities of Washington D C, New York City, Hartford CT, Detroit MI, San Francisco CA and in the countries of Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Vietnam, Nepal, Northern Ireland, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa and Israel.

In 2011, music mogul Russell Simmons announced plans to provide financial support to the David Lynch Foundation to teach TM at Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Connecticut.

The David Lynch Foundation produced the video "Saving the Disposable Ones", about the work of Father Gabriel Mejia and the Fundacion Hogares Claret, dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating homeless children in Colombia.

In 2015 the David Lynch Foundation collaborated with Seleni Institute on the Seleni Research Award to create the Perinatal Mental Health Research Award, in support of research on Transcendental Meditation in treating perinatal anxiety.