Grants

BrainFutures accelerates adoption of effective applications of neuroscientific advances. We provide rigorous analysis of these interventions, write translational issue briefs that fill knowledge gaps, and build coalitions of influencers to advocate for equitable and responsible access to the best brain-based innovations science has to offer.

BrainMind is a platform and community catalyzing innovations in neuroscience that further human potential. With new philanthropic and investing approaches, BrainMind cultivates ideas that can be translated from labs into interventions that will benefit mankind. BrainMind Ecosystem members include top brain scientists, entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and policymakers.

The Center for Humane Technology tackles the problem of how technology externalizes a cascade of harms to individuals and to our society, including addiction, manipulation, propaganda and undermining social relationships.

The Center for Mindfulness and Human Potential at UC Santa Barbara combines science, technology and education to create optimally effective mindfulness training that gives students greater influence over their thoughts and emotions.

Through an annual conference, an entrepreneurial academy, and local chapters around the world, the Center for Transformative Technology aims to serve as the nexus point for technologies that will radically enhance mental health, wellbeing and human flourishing.

The Dzokchen Project explores innovative ways to contribute to the preservation, development, and support of the living transmission of the Great Perfection traditions in the present and future, both in their traditional forms in the past and in new creative extensions, for the benefit of all.

The Foundation for Self Leadership is driven by a vision of a world in which all individuals, regardless of background or fortune in life, can harness their innate wisdom to achieve and sustain emotional healing and well-being. Inspired by the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, we promote the paradigm and practice of Self-discovery and development through scientific research, public advocacy, and responsive services to communities in need.

The Healing Advocacy Fund is the nonprofit organization supporting the implementation of Oregon’s voter-created psilocybin therapy program through education and advocacy.

Based in Los Angeles, iACT is a groundbreaking international action organization with a vision of a world where the dignity, humanity, and agency of conflict-affected people are recognized, affirmed, and supported. To achieve this, iACT invests in individual and community growth and wellbeing; utilizes education, sports, and human rights program frameworks to create opportunities and spaces for refugees to lead; and, provides training and technical advisement to humanitarians, NGOs, and philanthropists to steward systems-level change. Our team of influential and experienced changemakers—refugee and non-refugee alike—work with agility and creativity to shift power to communities and create long-term individual and community transformation. We are accountable and responsible to the communities we work alongside.

Insight-Out serves prisoners and victims through a year-long intensive program that transforms suffering and violence into learning and healing.

Inward Bound Mindfulness Education builds and conducts in-depth mindfulness programming for youth, parents, and professionals who support them.

Kedumah (Hebrew for “primordial”) is a universal mystical school that teaches a step-by-step approach to spiritual awakening, personal development, and inner freedom.

Millennium is building a national network of educators, organized peer-to-peer coaching circles, to support each other and develop skills critical to cultivating conscious well-being in the classroom.

Mindfulness Director Initiative (MDI) works to make the transformative power of mindfulness a reality for school communities by facilitating the comprehensive and nuanced integration of mindfulness into schools through the Mindfulness Director Model—thereby enhancing the well-being of students and strengthening our society.

The Ridhwan Foundation supports and preserves the integrity of the Diamond Approach teaching, a path to attain spiritual maturity and completeness, as well as open-ended and on-going unfoldment. The teaching combines time-honored spiritual practices with modern psychological understanding.

StrongMinds treats depression in women in Africa, so that they may lead healthy, productive and satisfying lives. Our innovative approach adapts Group Interpersonal Therapy, a rigorously- tested therapeutic model that can be delivered by trained community members. StrongMinds is the only organization scaling a proven, cost-effective solution to the depression epidemic in Africa.

Originally incubated within the Rockefeller Foundation 25 years ago and replicated by the Hewlett Foundation, TPW is now the largest network of its kind. TPW's global community of 450+ social investors and philanthropists are united by their shared commitment to unlock resources, lifelong learning, collaboration, and entrepreneurial approaches to tackle the world’s most challenging problems, leading with curiosity, humility, and transparency.