About the Urantia Foundation




		History of Urantia Foundation Urantia Foundation Offices Urantia Foundation Outreach Programs (including the Library Placement Policy) Urantia Foundation Copyright & Trademark Policies Challenges For The Future Declaration of Trust Add Your Name to Our Mailing List

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"For more than 25 years I have searched through Eastern and Western religions and philosophies until I found URANTIA, which synthesizes them all." Marbella, SPAIN


	History of Urantia Foundation... Urantia Foundation was established in 1950 to be the custodian of the inviolate text of The Urantia Book and to ensure that the book's teachings are spread, with the help of readers and fraternal organizations, to all people. This site is provided as a service to the community of Urantia Book readers and in no way implies resonsibility for any individual, religious group, or social organization. Urantia Foundation is a non-profit, educational foundation that operates under a Declaration of Trust. It has been printing the book in English since 1955, and in recent years has been translating the book into many other languages of the world. The home of Urantia Foundation, 533 Diversey Parkway, Chicago, Illinois, was built in 1908. Prior to publication of The Urantia Book, the building was used for regular meetings of early readers of the transcripts. The entire estate was bequeathed to the Urantia Foundation in 1969. Today it consists of offices, a basement for storage and shipping operations, a 'Forum room' for meetings and study groups, and two residential apartments.



	URANTIA Foundation Offices Headquarters - United States URANTIA Foundation 533 Diversey Parkway, Chicago, IL 60614, USA Phone: +1-773-525-3319 • Fax: +1-773-525-7739 Contact the Head Office Australia/New Zealand/Asia URANTIA Foundation 7 Walsh Street, North Narrabeen, NSW 2101, Australia Phone: +61-2-99706200; Fax:+61-2-99706201 Email the Australian Office \| Australian Office Website Canada - French URANTIA Foundation C.P. 233, Cap-Santé (Québec) G0A 1L0, CANADA Phone: +1(418)285-3333 Email the Canadian French-speaking Office Finnish Office URANTIA Foundation / Urantia-säätiö / Urantia-stiftelsen Sivurinne 1 A, 01800 KLAUKKALA, Finland Phone: +358 9 879 4351 • Fax: +358 9 879 7467 Email the Office in Finland \| Finnish Office Website Great Britain/Ireland URANTIA Foundation 9 Westdene Crescent, Caversham, Berkshire RG4 7HD U.K. Phone: +(118) 947 0544



	Urantia Foundation Outreach Programs... Translations. Urantia Foundation is committed to producing high quality translations of The Urantia Book that faithfully represent the English text in all major languages. Thanks to the many dedicated, multi-lingual readers working with the Foundation, the Book has been translated into French, Finnish, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Korean, Lithuanian, Portuguese, and German, and is distributed in countries where those languages are spoken. Many other translations are in various stages of production. For more information on translations in progress and to find out how you can help, see our contributions page. Worldwide Distribution and International Development. To develop awareness in the book trade and general public, Urantia Foundation displays the Book at major book trade shows worldwide. As more translations are produced, and as the Book is read in other countries, the demand for the services from Urantia Foundation increase. As a result Urantia Foundation maintains international offices to help in their own and adjacent countries. Gift & Library Placement Programs. So that no one is denied an opportunity to have access to The Urantia Book, Urantia Foundation has a gift program that donates Books to libraries around the world and to people without means. For more information, feel free to email Urantia Foundation. A Library Placement Form in .doc format is available for downloading at http://www.urantia.org/pub/LibraryPlacement.pdf. Copyright and Trademarks. Urantia Foundation is charged in its Declaration of Trust to preserve the text of The Urantia Book inviolate. Urantia Foundation holds a copyright in many editions and translations of the book. In addition, the Foundation holds as trademarks the words 'Urantia' and 'Urantian' and the Concentric-Circles Symbol in numersous countries around the world.



	Urantia Foundation Copyright and Trademark Policies... In January 2006 international copyright protection under the Bern Convention of the 1955 (original English) text of The Urantia Book expired. Copyright protection of the various translations of the original English text made under Urantia Foundation's auspices did not expire. Recognising the import of the January 1, 2006 date, the Trustees of Urantia Foundation have caused the 1955 copyright notice to be removed from the English text of The Urantia Book on Urantia Foundation's website, and will not include the 1955 copyright notice in future editions of the original English text of the book. Other copyright notices remain will in place. In April 2007 the Board of Trustees approved a new policy for a "Social Usage Trademark License". This social license offers all dedicated Urantia Book social groups an opportunity to identify their social activities and organizations by using the trademarks “Urantia”® and the three concentric circles symbol. The license can be viewed on this website at http://www.urantia.org/pub/social-license.pdf. On November 7, 2008 the Board of Trustees passed a new "Permission-to-Quote" policy to be applied to all translations of The Urantia Book for which Urantia Foundation currently holds copyrights. A copy of the new policy is available on this website at http://www.urantia.org/pub/PermissiontoQuote.pdf. For more information please contact Urantia Foundation directly at 773 525 3319.



	Challenges For The Future... The Urantia Book tells us: "The religious challenge of this age is to those farseeing and forward-looking men and women of spiritual insight who will dare to construct a new and appealing philosophy of living out of the enlarged and exquisitely integrated modern concepts of cosmic truth, universe beauty, and divine goodness." [p.43.3] The teachings contained in The Urantia Book, when embraced in the hearts and minds of mankind, have the power to bring to reality the supernal message from the Master: "Peace on earth and good will among men." Delivering this revelation to souls in need of its spiritual message, without invasive promotion, churchification, or evangelization is the challenge that faces us. Plans are underway to increase the number of language translations to sixty by the year 2030 and to provide worldwide distribution channels. By then approximately eighty-four percent of the people on the planet will be able to read The Urantia Book in their native tongue. To succeed in this ambitious program, Urantia Foundation needs the support and help of people like you. If you would like to participate in the work of spreading the teachings of The Urantia Book to all the peoples of the world, or if you would simply like additional information, please let us know.



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