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Templeton World Charity Foundation is committed to building the field of human flourishing.

We recently hosted the Global Scientific Human Flourishing Conference for dynamic dialogues with leading scientists, policymakers, practitioners, influencers, and advocates working on the scientific frontiers of human flourishing. You're invited to subscribe to our newsletter so you can learn of opportunities to gather digitally or in person, respond to RFPs, and work with other organizations to become a force for science and practice in this burgeoning field. 

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Global Scientific Conference on Human Flourishing

Global Scientific Human Flourishing Conference

Templeton World Charity Foundation hosted this ground-breaking interdisciplinary event
November 29, & 30, 2022.

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The Future of Human Flourishing

We are investing $100 million in bold research, practices, and policies that promote human flourishing.

Watch the video and click below to learn what human flourishing means and how studying it can be an agent for change.

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Our Strategy and Priorities

Templeton World Charity Foundation's strategy supports a diverse group of researchers in the discovery of new knowledge, development of new tools, and launch of new innovations that make a lasting impact on human flourishing. The majority of our grants fall under specific priorities — portfolios of projects exploring a common set of aims. Each of these priorities relates to a stage of our strategic pipeline for innovation: Discovery, Development, and Launch. Click the slides below to learn more about each priority.

AllDiscoveryDevelopmentLaunch
Accelerating Research on Consciousness
Discovery

Accelerating Research on Consciousness

Progressing the science of consciousness through adversarial collaboration and open science practices.
Big Questions In Classrooms
Development

Big Questions in Classrooms

Understanding how knowledge works and sparking curiosity among students and teachers.
Building the Field of Human Flourishing
Launch

Building the Field of Human Flourishing

Welcoming researchers, funders, policymakers, practitioners and advocates to collaborate and build lasting change across the world.
Diverse Intelligences
Discovery

Diverse Intelligences

A global, multidisciplinary exploration of a world alive with brilliance, mapping the contours of intelligence in all its diverse forms.
Economics and Human Flourishing
Development

Economics And Flourishing

Supporting research focused on individual freedom and free markets to help encourage human flourishing across the globe.
Forgiveness
Launch

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is central to our commitment to fund innovations for human flourishing.
Global Innovations for Character Development
Development

Global Innovations for Character Development

Supporting research on the contribution of character strengths to human flourishing.
Listening and Learning in a Polarized World - Templeton World Charity Foundation
Discovery

Listening and Learning in a Polarized World

Investigaing the significance of polarizing information and the value of studying it in the context of human flourishing.
Open Science
Discovery

Open Science

A process by which research data, methods, and findings are made accessible and available to all — regardless of affiliation — free of charge.
The Science of Religious and Spiritual Exercises
Development

The Science of Religious and Spiritual Exercises

Expanding scientific understanding of how these practices link to human flourishing.

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