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Templeton World Charity Foundation funds innovative projects that push the boundaries of scientific knowledge and help people flourish.
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What is "spiritual expertise," and does it help individuals and societies flourish? Anthropologist Anna I Corwin shares insights from her TWCF funded 3-year study on "religious intelligence" across 4 different cultures in this episode of Stories of Impact: templetonworldcharity.org/blog/understan…

On SongWriterPodcast , Freddy Mutanguha, Aegis Trust, describes surviving the Rwandan genocide and his journey to forgiveness, alongside poems by Hope Azeda, music by PEACE JOLIS and GisseM t, and insights from researcher Pamela Wadende. 🎧 templetonworldcharity.org/blog/forgivene…

Thanks to Templeton World Charity Foundation for the beautiful in-depth article about last season’s episode in Rwanda (not to mention the grant that made it happen!) The entire experience was deeply, deeply effecting

A TWCF funded study from Durham University has found that chimpanzees comfort each other when in distress with behaviours including embracing, hand-holding, and touching, despite not generally being considered empathetic apes. 🔗 Read the article BBC News (UK): bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

New research from TWCF grantee Dr Catherine Crompton The University of Edinburgh challenges the assumption that people with autism experience universal deficits in social communication. Read her thread on the paper “Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people” ⬇️


Better provision of water services at the micro level is a key factor of health and growth in low- and middle-income countries, & microentrepreneurs have huge potential to contribute to universal access to water. Read more about this TWCF funded study from IEDM - MEI ⬇️


ICYMI read about how a TWCF-funded study from Southern Cross University revealed spruce trees communicate during a solar eclipse by synchronising their bioelectrical signals, adding to the evidence that plants are capable of complex behaviors akin to animal groups. scimex.org/newsfeed/fores…


Meet our guest speakers for the #SICSSKENYA2025 Summer Institute, in #Nairobi, #Kenya🇰🇪. The participants get to learn computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects. Grateful for the funding from Templeton World Charity Foundation.


With TWCF funding, a research team is studying the nature and consequences of political polarization in the United States and globally. Sean Westwood joins Stories of Impact to discuss what he and his team at Polarization Research Lab have found so far: templetonworldcharity.org/blog/what-pola…

Our @DeanStansel & Meg Tuszynski recently co-edited a special issue on “Economic Freedom in U.S. Metropolitan Areas” for the Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy. We thank Templeton World Charity Foundation Charity Foundation for the generous grant that made that possible. jrap.scholasticahq.com/issue/12207

TWCF grantee David Johnson University of Oxford has undertaken a scoping review to map the scientific literature on educational initiatives to promote human flourishing in adolescents across cultures. 🔗 Read the review in T&F Psychology: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF), is seeking its next President to carry forward Sir John Templeton’s legacy. TWCF (Templeton World Charity Foundation) is a global philanthropic organization based in Nassau, Bahamas, dedicated to funding interdisciplinary research and scientific


Grateful to the Templeton World Charity Foundation and the Jubilee Centre for two wonderful days in Canterbury, strategizing the advancement of the studies, teaching and practice of forgiveness. Forgiveness is world-mending towards a shared flourishing. There is hope!
