The Studenica Foundation

Studenica Foundation is a private American tax–exempt foundation established in 1995 in San Francisco, California, USA. The founding families – Djordjevich (California), Chelovich (Michigan) and Vukovich (Colorado) were guided with the idea that the right education and cultural endeavors are invaluable and have an indispensable role in the progress of any society.

Rationale of the Foundation

Both our Serbian and American experience attests to the invaluable and irreplaceable role education plays in the progress of society. The Serbs revere St. Sava not only as a creator of peace but also as an active inspiring educator. Similarly, for America’s Founding Fathers, education and learning were at the cornerstone of the nation’s development. Indeed, the productivity of knowledge at America’s distinguished centers of higher learning – the universities – together with the ability to find practical application of this knowledge in a wide variety of fields, are a hallmark of American civilization.

The twentieth century, with its brutal world and local wars, totalitarian ideologies and economical determinism, its vicious economic and environmental imperialism, has led to the destruction of both material and spiritual values. Now in the new century, we are more than ever in need of recovering, as well as vigorously promoting, those moral and spiritual values that have been ravaged yet are the most fundamental prerequisites in the pursuit of life, liberty, and the just and equitable progress for all humankind.

The Foundation's Name

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