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At its summer meeting, the board voted to make the following grants:
Congratulations to our Summer Grant Cycle recipients! This concludes our grantmaking activities for the 2023–2024 fiscal year. We made 25 impactful grants totaling almost a quarter of a million dollars. Our Fall Grant Cycle focused on trackable Arts & Humanities projects will open for grant proposals on September 1st and close on September 30th. If your organization has an account within our grant application and tracking program Grant360, then you are good to go. If your organization does not currently have a Grant 360 account, then email Martina ([email protected]), our Executive Director, in early August and briefly describe the trackable project you have in mind. If there is a fit, we will create an account for your organization in Grant360. Arguably the most pressing issue facing humankind has to be global warming. Climate scientists are now convinced that global warmning is contributing to changes in weather patterns leading to increased levels of storms, flooding, ocean temperatures, and wild fires. Increasingly younger generations are concerned not only for themselves but for their children. With good reason, younger generations are putting pressure on governmental and educational institutions to do something about global warming. Their cries are being recognized. As an example, the geoscience department at UT Dallas (the alma mater of the Foundation's president, Rick Leonhardt) recently changed their name to the department of sustainable earth system science (SESS). As another example, the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released a booklet entitled Next Generation Earth Systems Science at the National Science Foundation (2022). You can access a copy of this booklet at this link. This booklet talks about how the NSF makes grants in areas such as:
Rick has been monitoring these developments and noticed that although there is a big emphasis on systems, there is little emphasis on systems theory, especially organic systems theory. As an example, the NSF report does, in passing, mention the work of Ludwig von Bertalanffy, arguably the father of General Systems Theory, however, that is the only mention of systems theory proper. Rick decided to write a blog series entitled The Drama of Earth Systems as a way of bringing attention to the various approaches to systems theory—information systems, organic systems, sociological systems, and emancipatory systems—that have arisen since the close of WWII. Interestingly, the Macy and Geneva conferences that took place in the aftermath of WWII brought together a similar group of researchers and academics (including John Bowlby and the aforementioned Ludwig von Bertalanffy). Rick's blog series (found over at the Bowlby Less Traveled blog site) takes a look at this earlier effort and traces the various paths it took ultimately leading to such present day developments as AI (artificial intelligence) and even the DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) movement, which is prominently profiled in the NSF report. Here's the link to Part 1 of the blog series The Drama of Earth Systems. The board approved the following grants at its spring board meeting:
Congratulations to our Spring Grant Cycle recipients in the focus area of education! Our Summer 2024 Grant Cycle will focus on the Environment. Applications will be accepted between June 1st and June 30th. Those organizations that already have an account within our grant application and tracking program Grant360 are good to go. If you do not already have a Grant360 account, then feel free to email Martina, our Executive Director, and briefly describe the trackable environment project you have in mind ([email protected]). If there is a fit, we will set up an account for your organization. At its winter meeting, the board approved the following grants as a part of the Animal & Human Welfare Grant Cycle.
Congratulations to our Winter 2024 grant recipients! Our Spring 2024 Grant Cycle will focus on Education. Applications will be accepted between March 1st and March 31st. Those organizations that already have an account within our grant application and tracking program Grant360 are good to go. If you do not already have a Grant360 account, then feel free to email Martina, our Executive Director, and briefly describe the trackable education project you have in mind. If there is a fit, we will set up an account for your organization. The following grant awards were made at our Fall board meeting:
We will open our Winter Grant Cycle on December 7th, 2023 and close it on January 7th, 2024. The Winter Grant cycle is focused on Animal & Human Welfare. If you have an idea for a trackable project that fits within this focus area, feel free to contact our executive director, Martina. At our Summer 2023 meeting, the board of the FHL Foundation approved the following grants in our Environment focus area:
Congratulations to our Summer 2023 grant recipients! Our Fall 2023 Grant Cycle will open on September 1st and close on September 30th. The Fall 2023 Grant cycle will focus on Arts & Humanities. If your organization currently has an account within our grant application and tracking program Grant360, then you are good to go. If you are an organization new to us and you have an idea for a trackable project in the focus area of Arts & Humanities, then send Martina, our Executive Director, a quick email outlining your project. If there is a fit then we will create an account for you within Grant360. At its Spring meeting the board voted to approve the following grants:
Congratulations to our Spring 2023 grant recipients! Our Summer 2023 Grant Cycle will be focused on the environment. This grant cycle will open on June 1st and close on June 30th. If you are new to our Foundation and have an idea for a trackable project in the area of the environment, then feel free to share your idea with the Foundation's Executive Director, Martina, by sending her a brief email. At its Winter board meeting, the board voted to approve the following grants:
Our Spring 2023 Grant Cycle will open on March 1st and close on March 31st. The Spring Grant Cycle is focused on education. If your organization already has an account within our grant application and tracking program Grant360, you are good to go. If you are a new-to-us organization and have an education-focused project in mind, please email Martina, our executive director, and let's see if there is a fit. At our meeting on October, 18th, 2022, the board voted to make the following grant awards:
Our Winter 2023 Grant Cycle will be focused on Animal & Human Welfare. The Winter Grant Cycle will open on December 7th, 2022, and close on January 7th, 2023. If you are not already registered within our grant application and tracking program Grant360 and you have an idea for a trackable project, feel free to contact the Foundation's ED Martina. If there is a fit, we will create an account for you within Grant360. At our meeting on July 12th, 2022, the board voted to make the following grants:
Our Fall Grant Cycle will focus on Arts & Humanities. This cycle will open for proposals on September 1st and close on September 30th, 2022. |
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