Editing Werner Erhard (section)

===Werner Erhard Foundation (1973–1991)===
In the early 1970s, the est Foundation became the Werner Erhard Foundation,<ref name=foundation>{{cite web |url=http://wernererhardfoundation.org/ |title=Werner Erhard Foundation |publisher=Werner Erhard Foundation |access-date=November 13, 2011 |archive-date=March 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325231717/http://wernererhardfoundation.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> with the aim of "providing financial and organizational support to individuals and groups engaged in charitable and educational pursuits—research, communication, education, and scholarly endeavors in the fields of individual and social transformation and human well-being." The Foundation supported projects launched by people committed to altering what is possible for humanity, such as The Hunger Project, The Mastery Foundation, The Holiday Project, and the Youth at Risk Program, programs that continue to be active. It also organized presentations by scholars and humanitarians such as the Dalai Lama and Buckminster Fuller<ref name=foundation /> and hosted an annual conference in theoretical physics, a science in which Erhard was especially interested.<ref name="susskind191">{{cite book|last=Susskind|first=Leonard|title=The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics|url=https://archive.org/details/blackholewarmyba00suss_585|url-access=limited|year=2009|publisher=Back Bay Books|isbn= 978-0-316-01641-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/blackholewarmyba00suss_585/page/n197 191]}}</ref> The annual conference was designed to give physicists an opportunity to work with their colleagues on what they were developing before they published, and was attended by such physicists as [[Richard Feynman]], [[Stephen Hawking]],<ref name="susskind191"/> and [[Leonard Susskind]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Physics Conferences |url=https://wernererhardfoundation.org/physics.html |access-date=2024-11-17 |website=wernererhardfoundation.org}}</ref>