Character Development

This project consisted of an essay contest, a website, and educational materials to engage students in learning about the civic values, principles, rights, and responsibilities of American citizenship.

Grant Amount:

$935,305

Start Date:

January 2006

End Date:

November 2008

Grant ID:

12112

This grant supports development of The Philanthropy Channel, a web-based, ad-supported, video-on-demand, interactive television network dedicated to telling the stories of America’s 72,000, mostly small charitable foundations. The project is intended to publicize and enhance America's culture of creative generosity.

Grant Amount:

$5,000,000

Start Date:

October 2007

End Date:

December 2009

Grant ID:

12996

This grants supports the production of an independent feature-length film highlighting the untold stories of America's mostly small charitable foundations. Through the power of narrative and the moving image, this project seeks to reach a large, diverse audience and to inspire all Americans to become citizen philanthropists, mobilizing a culture of unlimited and creative generosity.

Grant Amount:

$5,000,000

Start Date:

October 2007

End Date:

October 2007

Grant ID:

12985

This grant supports an interdisciplinary research and public education initiative examining the cultural significance of the nature, development and benefits of thrift in American society. Research findings will be disseminated through a conference and a three-volume academic series, the working title of which is Capitalism and Moral Order.

Grant Amount:

$1,207,550

Start Date:

March 2004

End Date:

January 2009

Grant ID:

11133

In 1998, the John Templeton Foundation initiated a competition program to catalyze new research on the nature and efficacy of forgiveness. Under the leadership of Everett Worthington, the Foundation also supported a communications and fund-raising initiative to increase public understanding of the power of forgiveness and to attract additional donors to the goals and objectives of A Campaign for Forgiveness Research.

Grant Amount:

$4,565,558

Start Date:

June 1999

End Date:

September 2005

Grant ID:

862, 1676, 5001, 5010, 5034, 5037, 5039, 5072, 5073, 5082, 5089, 5100, 5102, 5110, 5119, 5121, 5128, 5147, 5157, 5158, 5161, 5184, 5203, 5205, 5207, 5213, 10130, 11015

Suite of grants totaling $4,565,558

In partnership with the Atlantic Philanthropies, these two grants helped to launch and expand The Purpose Prize™, a nationwide initiative that seeks to inspire men and women with a vision of how to live with purpose in retirement. The annual Purpose Prize awards five $100,000 prizes and five $50,000 prizes to exceptional social innovators over the age of 60. The prizes are supported through an extensive communications campaign and the creation of the Purpose Prize Fellows program, a national network that includes all previous Purpose Prize winners, finalists, and semifinalists.

Grant Amount:

$8,148,322

Start Date:

January 2005

End Date:

September 2013

Grant ID:

11407, 13922

Suite of 2 separate grants totaling $8,148,322

James Harold Emerman, Executive Vice President
Encore.org (San Francisco, California)

This research grant supported a cross-sectional study of spirituality and positive development during adolescence. The project included: the gathering of a national group of scholars to define the measures and methods relevant to such a study; a collaborative, cross-sectional research study spanning the second decade of life; and the dissemination of findings and preparation for the launch of a national longitudinal study of spirituality and youth development beginning in 2008-09.

Grant Amount:

$1,461,032

Start Date:

July 2005

End Date:

August 2008

Grant ID:

11424

The Foundation has invested in three separate phases of Dr. Damon's research into the nature and development of youth purpose. The first phase included a Research Conference at Stanford University. The second phase of funding initiated a range of empirical investigations into the nature and development of youth purpose. The third phase will support young scholars investigating Youth Purpose at the dissertation or post-doctoral level.

Grant Amount:

$2,219,724

Start Date:

October 2002

End Date:

September 2009

Grant ID:

10197, 11757, 11930

Suite of 3 separate grants totaling $2,219,724

Alexander Astin, Professor Emeritus
Division of Higher Education and Organizational Change
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
University of California – Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)

Jacques Benninga
Bonner Center for Character Education & Citizenship
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Kremen School of Education and Human Development
California State University – Fresno (Fresno, CA)

Peter Benson, President
Search Institute (Minneapolis, MN)

Cynthia Garcia Coll, Robinson and Barstow Professor of Education, Psychology and Pediatrics
Department of Education
Brown University (Providence, RI)

Robert Emmons
Department of Psychology
University of California – Davis (Davis, CA)

Jonathan Haidt
Department of Psychology
University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)

Lene Jensen
Department of Psychology
Catholic University of America (Washington, DC)

Pamela Ebstyne King
Center for Research on Child and Adolescent Development
Graduate School of Psychology
Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, CA)

Richard M. Lerner, Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science
Department of Child Development
Tufts University (Medford, MA)

Dan P. McAdams, Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence
Director, Foley Center for the Study of Lives
Department of Psychology
Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)

Dan McFarland
School of Education
Stanford University (Pasadena, CA )

Daniel Perlstein
Graduate School of Education
University of California – Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)

Sean Reardon
School of Education
Stanford University (Stanford, CA)

Robert Roeser
Department of Child Development
Tufts University (Medford, MA)

Richard A. Shweder, William Claude Reavis Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development
Department of Social Psychology
The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

Margaret Beale Spencer, Board of Overseers Professor of Education and Psycholog
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)

Linda M. Wagener, Associate Dean
Graduate School of Psychology
Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, CA)

John Willets
School for New Learning
DePaul University (Chicago, IL)