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Science Philanthropy Alliance Announces Incoming President and Board Chair [Alliance News]

New leaders will build on the momentum of the first five yearsPalo Alto, Calif. – Today, the Science Philanthropy Alliance announced that effective January 1, 2020, the current executive director, Valerie Conn, will assume the role of president and Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D., president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, will become…

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John Templeton Foundation Joins Science Philanthropy Alliance [Alliance News]

The Science Philanthropy Alliance announced that the John Templeton Foundation has joined the Alliance as a benefactor.Founded by the late investor Sir John Templeton, the John Templeton Foundation focuses on supporting research and dialogue on the deepest and most perplexing questions facing humankind. The foundation’s funding areas include the natural sciences, human sciences, character virtue…

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The Brinson Foundation, Ross M. Brown Family Foundation, and Sergey Brin Family Foundation Join the Science Philanthropy Alliance [Alliance News]

The Science Philanthropy Alliance announced that three foundations have joined the Alliance, supporting its mission to increase private funding for discovery science. The Brinson Foundation, Ross M. Brown Family Foundation, and Sergey Brin Family Foundation have all joined as associate members. The Alliance’s membership, which consisted of six founding members in 2015, now totals 29.…

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Working with Science Foundations [Alliance blog post]

Valerie Conn is executive director of the Science Philanthropy AllianceWhen I talk to scientists, university leaders, and development officers, I’m frequently asked questions such as: How do I get foundations to notice our scientists and our research? How do we penetrate the "black box" of the newest foundations, those that may not even have names…

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Caltech Biochemistry, Biophysics Fellowships Honor David Baltimore [via Philanthropy News Digest]

The California Institute of Technology has announced that gifts from the Amgen Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation will endow graduate fellowships in biochemistry and molecular biophysics.The fellowship program will be named in honor of Science Philanthropy Alliance consultant and Caltech president emeritus David Baltimore. In 1975, Baltimore received the Nobel Prize in Physiology…

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Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Gives $30M to Stem Cell Research Centers at UCLA, UCSF and USC [via UCSF]

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation will be making three gifts totaling $30 million to fund innovative research, faculty recruitment, training, and retention at The Broad Foundation’s namesake stem cell research centers at UC San Francisco, the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California. This commitment, announced by the Foundation’s President Gerun Riley…

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