Donations & Friends

Part of the explicit goal of the EPRC is to connect philanthropists and other generous organizations to like-minded academic teams that can accomplish their dreams of moving science, emergent clinical care, and emergent practices forward.

We believe that completing the EPRC mission will require at least:
  • a few hundred talented, dedicated people,
  • a few decades, and
  • many hundreds of millions of dollars.
Give via Emergence Benefactors 501(c)(3)

These donations will go to Emergence Benefactors, the US registered 501(c)(3) charity created by the EPRC that supports the work of the EPRC and its Allies.

If you want to see what we wish to fund with donations, click Fund Me 🙂.

People and Teams

If you are a talented, dedicated person or group who believes in our mission, please give your time, enthusiasm, and brilliance to the EPRC by contacting us at [email protected].

We are interested in knowing where your specific dreams, talents, and resources meet our plans and capabilities, such that, if these align well, they can be brought together to realize our mutual goals.

Philanthropists and Generous Organizations

If you are a philanthropist or organization that can help fund this project, we thank you in advance for considering supporting the EPRC and those it is designed to serve.

We realize that the EPRC is large and complex, that this white paper is long, and that sorting through it all is likely much easier through a conversation.

We would love to know who you are and where your philanthropic vision meets our capabilities and mission.

If you are interested in having such a conversation, please contact us at [email protected].

The EPRC serves networking, coordinating, facilitating, consulting, and visionary roles.

However, the EPRC itself does not directly accept funds, the EPRC itself is not currently a formally registered charity or business.

How to give funds and other donations

You can give donations directly to universities and institutions, which generally are registered as charitable organizations with tax benefits for contributions, and thus to researchers and their projects.

This eliminates overhead costs and bureaucracy and lends automatic financial transparency.

We are happy to by connecting donors with the appropriate fundraising office personnel in the receiving institutions.

Emergence Benefactors

As the EPRC has grown, this has lead to the creation of Emergence Benefactors, a registered, board-managed, nonprofit charity dedicated to supporting the EPRC, its white paper, and those aligned with the mission.

Emergence Benefactors is designed to enhance the capabilities of the EPRC to:
  • Accept, aggregate, and manage diverse donations
  • Give one-time and managed grants to EPRC Projects, Centers, Studies, and the work of Aligned Entities
  • Manage studies, projects, and campaigns
  • Employ scientists, clinicians, administrators, and other support personnel outside of academic and other institutional settings
  • Provide board and committee oversight
  • Provide transparency, auditing, and additional AML/KYC capabilities
  • Provide institutional stability across decades
  • Provide services that support the mission of the EPRC, such as:
  • Public policy advocacy
  • Legal and logistical support
  • Market research, advertising, and public relations
  • Inter-organizational networking and coordination
  • And many other services

Friends of the EPRC

We also help coordinate an informal philanthropic club called Friends of the EPRC, a loose association of philanthropists who share our vision and who can make funds available for special projects as needed, again with none of the money going to EPRC itself, but instead directly to those who will apply the funds to good purpose.

Members of the Friends of the EPRC may be anonymous to other members of the group if they wish. Being a Friend means that you may receive notifications with various opportunities to support our projects and studies, as well as updates on the group and progress updates on funded projects. Any giving by Friends is entirely voluntary, and there is never any obligation to give to any specific project or study.

Support

To help solve The Chicken and Egg Problem of it taking a team and a the work of doing a cost estimate to get a sense of how much a study will cost, and yet it takes funding and/or a solid promise of potential funding sometimes to gather a team and do the work of tallying the realistic costs of a study, the EPRC has the concept of a Pledge of Support:

This is essentially a handshake agreement that you have sufficient funds to make a meaningful contribution to the project and, if the team that gathers around that Pledge of Support seems viable and the costs seem reasonable, then the person or organization willing to make the pledge will help financially support the team.

A Pledge of Support is not an open-ended offer to support whatever the costs are or whomever the team is, nor it is a promise to fund an entire study. It is, instead, a tentative but optimistic meeting half-way.

The extent of the Pledge will obviously vary by the situation, but it is at least a meaningful enough promise to facilitate and encourage a team and a study proposal to gel around the idea of study and its possible funding, a start to a functional conversation with all involved to hopefully get the plan finalized and work done, the seed necessary to start turning the dream into reality.

How to join and help

If you believe in this project and would like to become a member of the Friends of the EPRC, please get in touch with us at [email protected].

If you wish to see a list of current projects, sub-projects, studies and centers that are ready to be funded now, please click here.

Thanks so much for your interest in the EPRC and for whatever help you can lend to it and all who will benefit from its work.

Again, please contact us if you have any questions, thoughts, or interest in supporting our vital work.