EFTA02444770.pdf

"Another measure of success of the Freedom Project will be the ratio, R, of outside partner funding to the level of John Templeton Foundation support."

"The Freedom Project gave two professors at Boston University $48,000 to teach a year-long course to 25 students."

"The chancellor of the University, John Silber, attended three of the lectures"

"Professor Robert Barro submits a proposal to receive funding for a Freedom Project course at Harvard University"

"The professors brought in distinguished, nationally-known speakers, including Gary Becker... These speakers drew an average audience of approximately "

"Professor Robert Barro submits a proposal to receive funding for a Freedom Project course at Harvard University for the spring semester of 2001. He co"

"A wealthy Harvard alumnus... decides to give a substantial gift of $3,000,000 to Professor Barro to found a new center"

"In the most recent Speakers Bureau program (11/1/97 — 2/29/00), ABC CORP. reached a combined audience of at least 28,700 people through the presentati"

"Editors at Read Guide, the TV Guide for Internet broadcasts, have already agreed to list this webcast event on the SciTech and Spirituality pages"

"Similarly featured listings in advance on the home pages of the Templeton Foundation and the Center for Bioethics will help promote the event"

"Similarly featured listings in advance on the home pages of the Templeton Foundation and the Center for Bioethics will help promote the event"

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"help the authors to link with dynamo literary agents (e.g., John Brockman in the sciences)"

"The live webcast of the debate and archived webcast of the entire conference is estimated to cost $12,800. We may actually come in under this budget, "

"Program cost: $150,000... track transformation of opinion in sectors of a university community in order to measure the impact of a program"

"Therefore what makes a philanthropic investment most worthwhile, both for the philanthropist as well as for the recipient, is the quality and vigor of"

"Charles L. Harper, Jr., D.Phil. Executive Director/Senior Vice-President John Templeton Foundation"

"John Templeton Foundation Radnor, Pa"

"research prizes for book proposals to explore the constructive engagement between science and religion. (Program managed by Billy Grassie / PCRS)"

"a prepublication article (a summary or a reworked chapter) were placed in a widely read high-end journal of opinion such as The Atlantic Monthly"

"Ratio of donor dollars institutionalized on the basis of JTF venture capital seed investment."

"visionary generosity of the two donors. Credit also is given to the visiting lecturer whose initial lecture (cost: $2,000) provided he stimulus which "

"The lecture host posts a letter to the Templeton Foundation. It notes with well-deserved pride that the initial investment of $2,000 has been multipli"

"the host of the lecture (now tenured) publicly thanks both donors in the opening ceremonies for the new endowed professorial chair in the newly create"

"America Online, a ten-year old Internet start-up company, bought Time-Warner, the world's largest media conglomerate."

"say, of the National Academy of Sciences as a time series with some periodicity over a decade"

"research productivity is often gauged by volume of citations available from the science citation index"

"or from the index medicus or other cumulate indices of reference citations in the scientific literature"

"Example: $150,000 / 5 papers = $30,000 / paper"

"George Gilder once described the computer... The basic idea in the present context is similar: creative ideas are free and can have immense power to l"

"In this case the lecture planner acts boldly as a strategic entrepreneur. The situation evolves as follows"

"Marker Group: Deans of departments of biology at major research universities in the United States"

"ABC CORP. speakers delivered 307 lectures at 177 sites, reaching over 28,700 people."

"ABC CORP. will then analyze and report to the Foundation the qualitative impact of the program."

"divided into the previous total grant amount of $514,364, the qualitative measure of cost-effectiveness for the most recent Speakers Bureau program"

"Academic Lecture Series Formula #1 (Quantitative Impact) Our policy will be to ask each campus host to plan for a total audience of 350 persons."

"Our raw quantitative cost effective measure would be $7.33 per lecture attendee ($405,617.17 / 55,350 = $7.33)."

"ABC CORP. will then analyze and report to the Foundation the qualitative impact of the program."