 Alfred Ford joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (the "Hare Krishnas") in 1975 and that same year he made his first trip to India with Prabhupada.He assisted in the establishment of the first Hindu temple in Hawaii and also donated $500,000 to help establish the Bhaktivedanta Cultural Center in Detroit which was completed in 1983.Alfred Ford has made many significant donations to ISKCON over the years which have assisted ongoing projects to build the Pushpa Samadhi Mandir of Prabhupada.