Templeton World Charity Foundation

🔈We’re hiring! The President of TWCF is responsible for all aspects of the Foundation’s philanthropic activities as well as stewardship of its financial resources, including day-to-day operations.

TWCF grantee @DJohnsonOxford @UniofOxford 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 @tandfpsychology: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

TWCF grantee @jayvanbavel, @nyup, was part of a research group that used machine learning to what shapes climate beliefs and behaviors in 55 countries to help refine future models of climate change perception and action. 🔗 What they learned: nature.com/articles/s4416…

Grateful to the ⁦@TempletonWorld⁩ and the ⁦⁦@JubileeCentre1 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!

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

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

With TWCF funding, a research team is studying the nature and consequences of political polarization in the United States and globally. @seanjwestwood joins @StoriesOfImpac_ to discuss what he and his team at @PRL_Tweets have found so far: templetonworldcharity.org/blog/what-pola…

In Côte d’Ivoire, micro-entrepreneurs deliver clean water where the state fails to do so. Instead of blocking them, they should be recognized and supported. Necessity drives innovation — and private initiative gets results. #cdnpoli iedm.org/access-to-wate…

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 @TempletonWorld.

ICYMI read about how a TWCF-funded study from @SCU_Australia 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…

Researchers have found that people from both political sides believe that the “other” side consumes information from less independent sources, fuelling polarization, according to a TWCF funded study from @LSEnews Read an overview of the study. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/202…

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_montreal ⬇️

We’re looking for a Grant Compliance Associate to help ensure excellence in how we support global projects advancing human flourishing. 📍 Remote-friendly. 🌍 Bahamian citizens or persons with the right-to-work only. 🔗 Apply: templetonworldcharity.org/about-us/our-j…

New research from TWCF grantee @cjcrompton @EdinburghUni 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” ⬇️

A TWCF funded study from @durham_uni 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 @BBCNews: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Thanks to @TempletonWorld 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

On @snogwriter , @FreddyMutanguha, @Aegis_Trust, describes surviving the Rwandan genocide and his journey to forgiveness, alongside poems by @HopeAzeda, music by @jolispeace and @Myhear t, and insights from researcher @pam_akinyi. 🎧 templetonworldcharity.org/blog/forgivene…