Applications are now open for the John Templeton Foundation's Grant Program to help people worldwide engage
the fruits of that research and explore the Big Questions.
Mission: The John Templeton
Foundation serves as a philanthropic catalyst for discoveries relating to the
deepest and most perplexing questions facing humankind. They support research
on subjects ranging from complexity, evolution, and emergence to creativity,
forgiveness, and free will.
Vision: The vision is one of infinite scientific and spiritual progress,
in which all people aspire to and attain a deeper understanding of the universe
and their place in it. They look forward to a world where people are curious
about the wonders of the universe, motivated to pursue lives of meaning and
purpose, and overwhelmed by great and selfless love.
Funding Areas
- Science & The Big
Questions: The Science & the Big
Questions Funding Area supports innovative efforts to address the deepest
questions facing humankind. Why are they here? How can they flourish? What
are the fundamental structures of reality? What can they know about the
nature and purposes of the divine? They are devoting a significant portion
of the funding to these priorities in Science & the Big Questions:
- Human Sciences
- Natural Sciences
- Philosophy and Theology
- Public Engagement
- Character Virtue Development: The Character Virtue Development funding area
seeks to advance the science and practice of character, with a focus on
moral, performance, civic, and intellectual virtues such as humility,
gratitude, curiosity, diligence, and honesty.
- Exceptional Cognitive Talent
& Genius: Throughout
history, the insights and ideas of a relatively small number of
individuals account for many of the most dramatic cultural, scientific,
and technological advances. Sir John Templeton saw the potential for truly
exceptional, “one-in-a-million” cognitive geniuses to bring about
transformative benefits for humanity.
- Genetics: Research in genetics holds enormous promise for
alleviating future sickness and poverty while helping realize humanity’s
fullest physical and material potential.
- Individual Freedom & Free
Markets: Religious, political, and
economic freedoms are the building blocks of both spiritual and material
progress. Individual and economic freedoms are deeply interconnected; one
affects the other and both must be undergirded by genuine virtue and a
deep sense of personal responsibility.
- Voluntary Family Planning: The Voluntary Family Planning funding area
supports research, programs, and policy development efforts around the
world that seek to better understand factors that influence family
planning decisions, provide information on and access to family planning
methods, and strengthen policy related to effective family planning.
- Internal Funding
Competitions: The
Foundation designs funding competitions that challenge researchers and
other project leaders to develop proposals on a targeted topic or
question.
Funding Information
- Small Grants are defined as
requests for $234,800 (USD) or less.
- Large Grants are defined as
requests for more than $234,800 (USD).
Eligibility Criteria
The Foundation fund non-U.S. organizations.
Post Date - 24-May-2021