(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120928-ambassador-stevens-115p.380;380;7;70;0.jpg)U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens in an undated photo. By Lisa Fernandez, NBCBayArea.comThe outpouring of support in the wake of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens' death has prompted his family in the San Francisco Bay Area, and elsewhere, to establish a fund to support innovative "people-to-people" ideas that further peace in the Middle East.
Follow @NBCNewsUS (http://twitter.com/NBCNewsUS)Stevens' brother, Tom Stevens, 46, an assistant U.S. Attorney in San Francisco, told NBC Bay Area on Friday that his family has established the J. Christopher Stevens Fund to award individuals and organizations who have good ideas on how to promote tolerance and peace in the Middle East.
"We just had this overwhelming response," Tom Stevens said. "We have received emails, texts, letters, flowers, you name it. And then Chris' Facebook page, it just went worldwide. We just wanted to put all these wishes to good use and see them carried out."
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