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I was born at the end of the cold war, unaware of the danger we were emerging from. Duck and cover drills (as if those could protect schoolchildren from a nuclear blast) were a curiosity of the past.
The farmer-poet Wendell Berry, who wrote about the dread of nuclear war, died recently. From his 1968 “The peace of wild things”:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least...
Hello and help!
I'm preparing a proposal for funding from the John Templeton Foundation on a 3-year public engagement project around longevity and healthy ageing. I am not a charity but an individual NFP doing this stuff on top of my day job.
Do any of you lovely AEers have any experience with the John Templeton Foundation in either application or grant / project management?
The deadline is 12 Aug, so please message me if you can advise or potentially collaborate.