History
The Carter Center is located next to the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum on 37 acres (150,000 m2) of parkland, on the site of the razed neighborhood of Copenhill, two miles (3 km) from downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The library and museum are owned and operated separately by the United States National Archives and Records Administration.
The Center was founded in 1982 and dedicated in 1986 with William Foege as its executive director. John Hardman was appointed executive director in 1993, and during the 1990s the Center received several multi-million dollar donations to fight Guinea worm disease and to prevent blindness.
The Center strives to give millions of the world’s poorest people access to skills and knowledge they can use to identify solutions that will improve their own lives. Since its founding, the Center achieved a number of milestones, including:
- Strengthening international standards for human rights and the voices of individuals defending those rights
- Advancing efforts to improve mental health care.
- Being a mediator in certain disputes.
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