On a clear February day in San Francisco, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Science Philanthropy Alliance cohosted an event for funders interested in discovery science. Carol Christ, the…
There are as many ways to do science philanthropy as there are science philanthropists. At a recent Science Philanthropy Alliance event, cohosted with UC Berkeley and the Heising-Simons Foundation, a…
Diversity, equity, and inclusion has been a topic of growing interest among members of the Science Philanthropy Alliance. At our recent members’ meeting, Joyce Yen, director of the University of Washington's…
Scientists who become philanthropists are especially attuned to the needs of discovery science. At a recent UC Berkeley-Science Philanthropy Alliance event for philanthropists, a conversation with Frances Hellman, physicist and…
Marc Kastner is president of the Science Philanthropy Alliance. He was the dean of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2015. At 6:51 pm EDT on Wednesday,…
Physics Today talks to Cyndi Atherton, director of the science program at the Heising-Simons Foundation, about her career path and her work at the foundation.
A Science Philanthropy Success StoryTaking to the Stars: the Sloan Foundation's 25-year Partnership with the Sloan Digital Sky SurveyDownload the Sloan SDSS philanthropy story pdf for web …
The Lasker Foundation, one of our members, recently featured two articles on giving to discovery science.The Foundation discusses philanthropy's role in supporting scientific research in "Enlisting Philanthropies to Invest in…
In this third Inside Philanthropy article about Heising-Simons Foundation, Cyndi Atherton talks about the foundation's approach to science philanthropy. Atherton says the "ability to be patient, and open to the…