Our supporters
We hold a deep appreciation for the generosity of our donors and collaborators. We recognize their support is grounded in the important mission of our Center, and with this understanding, we work diligently to be good stewards of these resources.
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May 2010 donor plaque
The Impact Foundation is a founding collaborator and donor of the Center. In support of Dr. Davidson’s professional dream, Ulco Visser, President of the Impact Foundation, generously gifted the CIHM funds to begin building its state-of-the-art facility within the Waisman Center. Support was also given to establish and implement outreach programs, and for the recruitment and hiring of CIHM staff.
The John W. Kluge Foundation, generous support toward construction and infrastructure costs of CIHM facility.
Tim Erdman of Erdman Holdings, generous support toward furnishment of the CIHM facility.
Ann M. Down, generous support toward the construction of the CIHM facility.
Peter Baumann of The Baumann Institute provided a generous gift to develop research strategies on the neuroplasticity of the self.
Joe and Mary Ellyn Sensenbrenner, generous support for the May Grand Opening events.
Generous donation from Chade-Meng Tan, Tan Teo Charitable Foundation
CHANGE YOUR MIND CHANGE THE WORLD:
May 2010 contributions
We would like to acknowledge the stream of generous donations we received in response to our invitation to attend our May Grand Opening celebration, and also the unsolicited donations that came in after the weekend from those who came as a public guest or viewed our live webcast. View event sponsors here.
CIHM Director Richard J. Davidson, at left, is accompanied by last year’s Fetzer Fellows, Helen Weng, center, and Daniel Levinson, right. Representing the Fetzer Institute areThomas Beech, President & Chief Executive Officer, second from left, and Bruce Carlson, Board of Trustees
The Fetzer Institute has generously given a $2.5 million grant to enable the Center to embark on the Fetzer Initiative on the Neuroscience of Love, Compassion and Forgiveness. This ambitious program will include:
- Conducting research to examine love, forgiveness and compassion through brain imaging and other innovative measures
- There will be Fetzer Fellows appointed each academic year to receive a graduate stipend to specially focus their research attention on questions of love, compassion and forgiveness from a neuroscientific perspective.
The 2009-2010 Fetzer Fellows are Brianna Schuyler and David Perlman
The 2008-2009 Fetzer Fellows were Helen Weng and Daniel Levinson
The National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) awarded a $6 million grant to the CIHM to establish the Wisconsin center of excellence in research on the neuroscience and psychophysiology of meditation. This NCCAM center grant is based within the CIHM and supports basic neuroscientific research on meditation.
Thanks to generous funds from the DAV Charitable Services Trust, one of our outreach programs will offer evidence-based complementary and alternative interventions and programs free of charge to local veterans.
To learn more about donor opportunities for the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, please contact Bonnie Thorne at 608-263-2743.
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