Clif Bar Family Foundation has recently awarded $375,000 in grants the first fellowships in organic plant breeding to fund three PhD fellowship students for five years in Washington State University and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
There will be professors and leaders in organic seed research overseeing the program and the fellowships are funded through the foundation's initiative Seed Matters, which advocates the development and protection of organic seed systems.
A customized collection of grant news from foundations and the federal government from around the Web.
William D. Eggers and Paul Macmillan of Dowser write about the social entrepreneurs slowly and steadily dirsupting the world of philanthropy. According to Forbes, philanthropy disruptors are those that believe “no one company is so vital that it can’t be replaced and no single business model too perfect to upend.”