Celebrant Foundation and Institute have backgrounds as: teachers, health and wellness professionals, social workers/therapists and life coaches, end-of-life professionals (funerals directors, hospice and death doulas), wedding professionals, lawyers, ministers/clergy, librarians, business entrepreneurs and artists. Celebrant Foundation and Institute The Celebrant Foundation & Institute (CF&I) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization incorporated in New Jersey. CF&I is dedicated to the education, on line training and certification of professional officiants known and registered as certified Life-Cycle Celebrants ®. Celebrant Foundation & Institute was founded in 2001 and has headquarters in Montclair, New Jersey and on line at www.celebrantinstitute.org. It is a member of the International Federation
Utopian Community of Modern Times crime or violence during its 13 year history. Different reasons are posited for the inability of Modern Times to continue beyond its fourteen-year life span. Vern Dyson wrote that “the economic panic of 1857 undermined the business enterprises of the village and the civil war completed the task of annihilation.” William Bailie also stated his opinion about the deleterious effects of the Panic of 1857 on Modern Times.Roger Wunderlich felt that Bailie exaggerated the impact of the 1857 crash on Modern Times and states that after the crash a slow but steady influx of settlers continued. Wunderlich further says that