<p>The Saxena Family Foundation is a privately funded, 501(c) (3) registered non-profit charitable foundation headquartered in Austin, Texas. The Foundation awards grants and supports programs that have a particular focus on S.T.E.M (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) education and around empowering women in the United States and in India.</p>
<p>The COVID-19 Related Research Grants support education research projects that will contribute to understanding the rapid shifts in education in this time of crisis and change. We are especially interested in supporting two primary categories of projects. First, we are interested in supporting studies that aim to understand and disrupt <strong>the reproduction and deepening of educational inequality caused by the COVID-19 crisis</strong>.
<div>The Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence Program (SL) supports potentially transformative research that develops basic theoretical insights and fundamental knowledge about principles, processes and mechanisms of learning, and about augmented intelligence - how human cognitive function can be augmented through interactions with others, contextual variations, and technological advances.</div> <div>.</div> <div>The program supports research addressing learning in individuals and in groups, across a wide range of domains at one or more levels of analysi
<p>Areas of Interest</p> <p>We accept proposals from nonprofit organizations for projects which meet one of the Foundation’s two basic purposes:</p> <ul> <li> <p>To contribute to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual welfare of children through the dissemination of knowledge about new and innovative organizations and/or their programs designed to benefit youth; and</p> </li> <li> <p>To contribute to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual welfare of children through the dissemination of knowledge already possessed
<div class="btn btn-gold"><strong><strong>6/18/2020 update: This opportunity is now closed: Peter Rillero (MLFTC) has been approved to move forward.
<div>The Abe Fellowship is designed to encourage international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern. The program seeks to foster the development of a new generation of researchers who are interested in policy-relevant topics of long-range importance and who are willing to become key members of a bilateral and global research network built around such topics.
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