Previously Featured Grants
The Role of Spiritual Development in Growth of Purpose, Generosity and Psychological Health in Adolescence
Dr. Richard M. Lerner, Director
Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development
Tufts University (Medford MA)
This research grant supports a cross-sectional study of spirituality and positive development during adolescence. The project includes: the gathering of a national group of scholars who will define the measures and methods, the implementation of a collaborative research study spanning the second decade of life, and the dissemination of findings. Also, the grant supports the preparation for the launch of a national longitudinal study of spirituality and youth development beginning in 2008-09.
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The Purpose Prize™: Americans Leading with Experience
Marc Freedman, Founder and President
Civic Ventures (San Francisco CA)
This grant helped launch a major initiative, in partnership with the Atlantic Philanthropies, to invest in a generation of individuals in the second half of life who are marshalling their accumulated experience to tackle some of America's most urgent issues. The annual Purpose PrizeTM awards $100,000 each to five social entrepreneurs age 60 or older who are creating innovative programs to improve their communities.
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EVENT: Poison or Cure? Religious Belief in the Modern World
A debate, dialogue, and discussion with Christopher Hitchens and Alister McGrath
The Ethics and Public Policy Center and The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University will host a debate between writer Christopher Hitchens and Oxford University professor Alister McGrath on the role of religious belief in the modern world.
Thursday, October 11, 2007 |
 Alister McGrath |
 Christopher Hitchens |
Establishing an Institute for Research on Unlimited Love
Professor Stephen G. Post, President
Institution for Research on Unlimited Love [IRUL]
Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland Ohio)
This grant helped to establish the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love [IRUL]. Through scientific research, education and publications, the Institute's aim is to significantly increase humanity's understanding and knowledge of what is commonly called unconditional love. The Institute has held a competitive awards program for high-level scientific research, and it has convened several conferences to examine the science, theology, and praxis of "love for the other."
Slavery, Emancipation and Human Progress
A Free Public Lecture
26 April 2007, 8.00pm Central Hall Westminster, London
Professor David Brion Davis
Pulitzer Prize-winning Yale historian
and leading authority on slavery
With Responses By
Professor Jeremy Black, University of Exeter
Professor David Hempton, Harvard Divinity School
Templeton Prize
The Templeton Prize is a cornerstone of the John Templeton Foundation's international efforts to serve as a philanthropic catalyst for discovery in areas engaging life's biggest questions. Officially known as the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries About Spiritual Realities, it is the world's largest annual monetary award given to an individual, currently valued at 800,000 pounds sterling (more than $1.5 million). The Prize was created by global investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton and first awarded in 1973.
Cogito.org: Website and Newsletter for Young People Gifted in Mathematics and Science
Dr. Linda Brody, Director, Study of Exceptional Talent
Center For Talented Youth [CTY]
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore MD)
This grant supports the establishment of a state-of-the-art website and newsletter to attract and engage the world's brightest young people between the ages 8-18 interested in the areas of mathematics and science. This project includes online conversations with award-winning scientists and medal winners, news information on upcoming worldwide competitions and enrichment programs, and access to professional journals through Johns Hopkins University library system.
FQX Foundational Questions in Physics and Cosmology
Professor Max Tegmark
Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge MA)
Professor Anthony N. Aguirre
Department of Physics
University of California Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz CA)
This grant established the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) and the Foundational Questions Consortium (FQXc) for networking, and the sponsoring of research grants, mini-grants, contests and conferences. Their focus is on questions at the foundations of physics and cosmology, particularly new frontiers and innovative ideas integral to a deep understanding of reality but unlikely to be supported by conventional funding sources.
MIT Public Lecture & DebateA Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of Alan Turing's Seminal Paper "On Computable Numbers"
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 A Special Public Lecture "Alan Turing, Codebreaker and AI Pioneer: A Lecure on the Occasion of the 70th Anniversay of Alan Turing's Seminal Paper 'On Computable Numbers' by B. Jack Copeland" A Public Debate "Are we limited to building super-intelligent robotic 'zombies' or will it be possible and desirable for us to build conscious, creative, volitional, perhaps even 'spiritual' machines?" David Gelernter vs. Ray Kurzweil |