Related Funding Organizations

The following organizations provide funding for research projects related to Positive Organizational Scholarship. If you know of other organizations or foundations that provide funding for work related to Positive Organizational Scholarship, please contact us at positiveorg@umich.edu

The Fetzer Institute The Fetzer Institute

The Fetzer Institute is a nonprofit operating foundation committed to supporting research and practices that promote health and wholeness in society. This Web site has information about a variety of ongoing research, education and service programs as well as links to other organizations with similar values.

John Templeton Foundation John Templeton Foundation

The John Templeton Foundation serves as a philanthropic catalyst for discoveries relating to the Big Questions of human purpose and ultimate reality. We support research on subjects ranging from complexity, evolution, and infinity to creativity, forgiveness, love, and free will. We encourage civil, informed dialogue among scientists, philosophers, and theologians and between such experts and the public at large, for the purposes of definitional clarity and new insights.

Our vision is derived from the late Sir John Templeton’s optimism about the possibility of acquiring “new spiritual information” and from his commitment to rigorous scientific research and related scholarship. The Foundation’s motto, “How little we know, how eager to learn,” exemplifies our support for open-minded inquiry and our hope for advancing human progress through breakthrough discoveries.

Positive Neuroscience Positive Neuroscience Project Supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation, The University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center has established the Positive Neuroscience Project to advance research at the intersection of neuroscience and positive psychology.

In 2009, the project announced the Templeton Positive Neuroscience Awards competition to recognize the highest standards of scientific excellence and identify future leaders in the new field of Positive Neuroscience.