APPLICATIONS FOR FUNDING OPEN

[Charles Fraser]

Dear friends of The Foundation For Common Good 

I am delighted to let you know that Professor Gerald Pollack, professor of bio-engineering at The University of Washington [http://faculty.washington.edu/ghp/], has successfully financed The Institute for Venture Science (IVS) that he created and is the executive director of. $1bn per year is the estimated cashflow of the IVS for the first 10 years and those funds are dedicated to funding scientific research to:

Promising Ideas that Challenge Conventional Thinking:

The Institute for Venture Science (IVS) will fund high-risk, non-traditional scientific inquiries that may produce fundamental breakthroughs. We identify the most promising challenges to prevailing paradigms. We then simultaneously fund multiple research groups worldwide for each selected challenge.

I have been working to help Professor Pollack to get the IVS going (however unsuccessfully) yet he has very kindly offered me a window to submit pre-proposals for funding before they open to the general public (between now and the 20th of April). 

I have plans to work with some of you on this and will be contacting you directly but otherwise please follow the instructions below and send to me your pre-proposals and I will include them with the pre-proposals I have also developed in this special opportunity we have to be among the first selected for funding.

Preproposal

 

 

Pre-proposal Instructions

 

Those interested in submitting a proposal to the IVS must first submit a pre-proposal. Pre-proposals should be no more than two pages long, plus title page. They must follow the format below, each section beginning with the indicated heading. Otherwise, they will be returned without review.

 

Please tell us the following, using language understandable to non-experts:

 

• What hypothesis do you propose and why do you propose it?

• Why is your proposal of earth-shaking significance?

• Briefly, how will you test your hypothesis?

• Which field of science or group of scientists does your proposal challenge?

 

A title page should include your name, contact information, and pre-proposal title. Be sure to append your resume or CV when you submit.

 

A few suggestions for preparation:

 

1. Scope. We are seeking proposals that have the capacity to turn conventional thinking upside down. Proposals with modest goals will not receive favorable evaluation. Nor will proposals with weak rationale. We understand that a two-page proposal cannot include comprehensive supporting arguments. (These will be requested later at the full proposal stage.)

 

2. Clarity. Reviewers of your pre-proposal may include people outside your field. Acronyms, abbreviations, jargon and the like not defined in the document should not be used. It goes without saying that unclear pre-proposals will not be favorably reviewed. To reach the next stage, you will need to use clear writing to convince reviewers that you have a potentially powerful idea that could reshape scientific thinking.

 

3. Technology. We do not support technology development, although we understand that new technologies may arise from your research. Successful applications will generally propose testable hypotheses on fundamental scientific concepts rather than on development of technology.

 

4. Feedback. Expect brief comments on your pre-proposal. Regrettably, we have no capacity to respond to questions about the content of these brief reviews.

 

5. Success. Successful applicants will be encouraged to submit full proposals in which detailed arguments can be presented.

 

6. Failure. Unsuccessful applicants are discouraged from submitting full proposals. In future rounds, however, they may submit new pre-proposals without prejudice. Those who consider the negative response unjust are nevertheless free to submit full proposals, although they should consider whether the exercise is worth the effort. A brief response to the pre-proposal critique, one page or less, may accompany the full proposal submission.

Sincerely yours,

Charles

Foundation For Common Good 501(c)(3)

www.f-f-c-g.org

[Charles Fraser]

Dear friends

I feel it relevant to say that the $1bn per year is an 

assumption based on Professor Pollack informing

me that they have their first round of funding and

I know what the annual funding allocation is. I do not

know what in fact that first round of funding 

amounts to. Some are finding this hard to believe.

Please do make use of this window to be among the

first applications to be reviewed before it is open to

the general public.

My thanks

Charles

On 29 Mar 2016, at 19:59, Charles Fraser <cdm...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Dear friends of The Foundation For Common Good 

I am delighted to let you know that Professor Gerald Pollack, professor of bio-engineering at The University of Washington [http://faculty.washington.edu/ghp/], has successfully financed The Institute for Venture Science (IVS) that he created and is the executive director of. $1bn per year is the estimated cashflow of the IVS for the first 10 years and those funds are dedicated to funding scientific research to:

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