Grants
Note: Evolve will fund indirect cost of up to 12.5% of total direct costs.
APPA
Ensuring psychedelic community led governance and equitable access.
The American Psychedelic Practitioners Association’s mission is to support practitioners and beneficiaries in developing and integrating safe, effective and accessible psychedelic medicine services for the advancement of healthcare and collective wellbeing.
Alex Cardenas
Co-Founder & Co-Executive DirectorEmma Knighton
Co-Founder & Co-Executive Director
Baba's Feed Project
Love Everyone, Serve Everyone, Feed Everyone, Remember God, & Tell The Truth. ~Neem Karoli Baba~
Baba’s Feed Project was founded in May 2020 after a trip to India, cut short by COVID-19. We began the project in response to the urgent need to serve the poorest of the poor who were faced with the economic shutdown and the inability to work and provide for their families. With Pintu on the ground and us in New Zealand and the US, ready to help, we found ourselves to be in a perfect position, with the perfect team, to really make a difference. And we did so in the name of Neem Karoli Baba Maharaj-ji, and by his grace. 700,000 meals later (along with shelter, water, blankets and more) we are ready to go phase 2 and increase distribution and create employment with that module. We dream to then create sustainable employment for women and widows, as well as an education program for all children who do not have access and are destined for a life of hard labor.
Pintu Kumar
Founder + OperationsBilliejean Rouse
Founder + DirectorLauren Jayne
Founder + DirectorChris Whitehead
Founder + Marketing
BPMT
Making psychedelic therapies safe and accessible.
By limiting liability, aligning professional education, and moving forward with insurance reimbursement, Board of Psychedelic Medicine and Therapies will simplify the process. The board is incorporated, and it has broad support from organizations, institutions, and thought leaders in this field. National certification will be cross-disciplinary and be the most significant step in validating and professionalizing this form of health care.
Lia Mix
LMFTJanis Phelps
DirectorAmy Emerson
Chief Executive OfficerBob Jesse
Robert Strayhan
Scott Shannon
Chair
BrainFutures
Translating Science to Advance Human Potential
BrainFutures accelerates adoption of effective applications of neuroscientific advances. We provide rigorous analysis of these interventions, write translational issue briefs that fill knowledge gaps, and build coalitions of influencers to advocate for equitable and responsible access to the best brain-based innovations science has to offer.
Linda Raines
CEO, Co-FounderHenry Harbin, MD
Co-Founder, Behavioral Health Care ConsultantHolly McCormack
Chief Strategy Officer
BrainMind
Catalyzing impact in the science of the brain & mind
BrainMind is a platform and community catalyzing innovations in neuroscience that further human potential. With new philanthropic and investing approaches, BrainMind cultivates ideas that can be translated from labs into interventions that will benefit mankind. BrainMind Ecosystem members include top brain scientists, entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and policymakers.
Michael McCullough, MD
Co-founder & PresidentDiana Saville
Co-founder & CCOCalvin Nguyen
Co-founder & COO
Center for Humane Technology
Realigning technology with humanity's best interests
The Center for Humane Technology tackles the problem of how technology externalizes a cascade of harms to individuals and to our society, including addiction, manipulation, propaganda and undermining social relationships.
Tristan Harris
Co-founder & Executive DirectorRandy Fernando
Co-founder & Head of Operations
Center for Mindfulness & Human Potential at UCSB
Using rigorous science to create transformative courses
The Center for Mindfulness and Human Potential at UC Santa Barbara combines science, technology and education to create optimally effective mindfulness training that gives students greater influence over their thoughts and emotions.
Jonathan Schooler, Ph.D.
Co-founder & DirectorMichael Mrazek, Ph.D.
Co-founder & Director of Research
Center for Transformative Technology
Leveraging tech to elevate the human mind
Through an annual conference, an entrepreneurial academy, and local chapters around the world, the Center for Transformative Technology aims to serve as the nexus point for technologies that will radically enhance mental health, wellbeing and human flourishing.
Nichol Bradford
TTC Co-founder & Executive DirectorRui Ma
TTA Co-founder TTLDr. Jeffrey Martin
Co-founder
Communities Health Africa Trust
A healthy people for a healthy environment.
Communities Health Africa Trust (CHAT) is a Kenyan-based organization that provides family planning services to ensure long-term community well-being and environmental sustainability.
Shanni Wreford-Smith
Founder & Program CoordinatorRose Kimanzi
Projects ManagerDemoriah Kililiku
Finance Manager
CIIS for Psychedelic Therapies and Research
CIIS is an accredited university that strives to embody spirit, intellect, and wisdom in service to individuals, communities, and the earth.
California Institute of Integral Studies created the Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research (CPTR) in 2015. CPTR conducts the Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research to train licensed psychotherapists and medical professionals to become psychedelic researchers and practitioners in legal clinical studies. Information about CPTR is available at www.ciis.edu/psychedeliccenter.
Janis Phelps
DirectorJudie Wexler
President Emerita
Contemplative Sciences Center at UVA
Honoring the great perfections
The Dzokchen Project explores innovative ways to contribute to the preservation, development, and support of the living transmission of the Great Perfection traditions in the present and future, both in their traditional forms in the past and in new creative extensions, for the benefit of all.
David Germano
Executive Director
Contemplative Studies at Brown University
The Contemplative Studies Initiative at Brown University
Brown’s Contemplative Studies Initiative is the pioneering program in the US devoted to the balancing of humanistic, artistic and scientific knowledge of mindfulness, meditation, flow and vital energy cultivation with the acquisition of techniques needed to utilize this knowledge. We confer not only a knowledge base but also theskills that truly define “contemplative intelligence.”
Professor Harold Roth
Director of Contemplative Studies
Fireside Project
Fireside Project | Psychedelic Peer Support Line
Fireside Project is a non-profit that operates the Psychedelic Peer Support Line. They provide free, confidential emotional support by phone and text message to people during and after their psychedelic experiences. Fireside Project’s mission is to help people minimize the risks and fulfill the potential of their psychedelic experiences. If you are looking for free, confidential peer support during or after a psychedelic experience, please contact Fireside Project by calling or texting 6-2FIRESIDE (623-473-7433).
Joshua White
Co-Founder and Executive DirectorHanifa Nayo Washington
Co-Founder and Cultivator of Beloved CommunityAdam Rubin
Co-Founder and Support Line DirectorNicolai Lassen
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Foundation for Self Leadership
Empowering lives through self discovery
The Foundation for Self Leadership is driven by a vision of a world in which all individuals, regardless of background or fortune in life, can harness their innate wisdom to achieve and sustain emotional healing and well-being. Inspired by the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, we promote the paradigm and practice of Self-discovery and development through scientific research, public advocacy, and responsive services to communities in need.
Toufic Hakim, PhD
Executive Director
Friendship Bench
Evidence based mental health on a wooden bench with a Grandmother.
The Friendship Bench provides sustainable community based psychological interventions that are evidence based, accessible and scalable. We’re on a mission to get people out of depression by creating safe spaces and a sense of belonging in communities to enhance mental well being and improve quality of life.
Prof. Dixon Chibanda
Founder & CEODr. Ruth Verhey
Friendship Bench International
GRIP
Guiding Rage Into Power: A One Year Accountability & Healing Program
With GRIP, students engage in an in-depth, yearlong journey, rooted in restorative justice principles, to comprehend the origins of their violence and develop skills to track and manage strong impulses. They transform destructive beliefs and behaviors into an attitude of emotional intelligence that prevents re-victimization.
Kim G. Moore
Executive DirectorJacques Verduin
Founder
Grof Legacy Project
Carrying forward the pioneering work of psychiatrist Stanislav Grof
Grof Legacy Project USA is a nonprofit organization authorized by Stanislav and Brigitte Grof as the home of educational, training and research programs extending Stan’s sixty years of consciousness studies. Our programs focus upon psychedelic therapy, holotropic breathwork, transpersonal psychology, spiritual emergencies, archetypal astrology, and paradigm change.
Diane Haug
DirectorJay Dufrechou
Director
Healing Advocacy Fund
A New Path For Healing
The Healing Advocacy Fund is the nonprofit organization supporting the implementation of Oregon’s voter-created psilocybin therapy program through education and advocacy.
Sam Chapman
Executive DirectorGraham Boyd
Board MemberDavid Bronner
Board Member
Healing Breakthrough
Transforming Veteran PTSD treatment with MDMA-Assisted Therapy.
Healing Breakthrough is a 501(c)(3) public charity that is working to provide access to MDMA-Assisted Therapy for all Veterans with PTSD who may benefit. We do so through sponsored research, rollout planning, training and political advocacy in the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA).
Jason Pyle, MD., PhD.
Executive Director
Healing Together
Building collective resilience from the inside out
Unhealed trauma fuels fear, hate, oppression and injustice. Healing Together is working to change that. We equip everyday leaders with skills in mental health, trauma-informed care, emotional first aid, and peer-counseling, so, together, we can build resilient communities and disrupt generational cycles of trauma and violence.
Amy Paulson, MS
Co-Founder & CEO
Heffter Research Institute
Heffter has been helping to design, review, and fund the leading studies on psilocybin at prominent research institutions in the US and Europe.
Heffter’s research informs the public about the beneficial applications of psychedelics for both science and public health. That research provides scientific knowledge that guides scientists toward new experiments to understand the brain and consciousness. Based on Heffter’s support for depression and anxiety in cancer patients, the Usona Institute has now begun their research to make psilocybin treatment available for anyone with depression. Current Heffter clinical trials will offer medical evidence to create new treatments for everyone with addictions and other conditions.
Carey Turnbull
PresidentGeorge Greer
Board Chair & Co-FounderMark Geyer
Co-FounderDennis McKenna
Co-Founder
iACT
Our mission is to inspire a more mindful humanitarian world
Based in Los Angeles, iACT is a groundbreaking international action organization with a vision of a world where the dignity, humanity, and agency of conflict-affected people are recognized, affirmed, and supported. To achieve this, iACT invests in individual and community growth and wellbeing; utilizes education, sports, and human rights program frameworks to create opportunities and spaces for refugees to lead; and, provides training and technical advisement to humanitarians, NGOs, and philanthropists to steward systems-level change. Our team of influential and experienced changemakers—refugee and non-refugee alike—work with agility and creativity to shift power to communities and create long-term individual and community transformation. We are accountable and responsible to the communities we work alongside.
Gabriel Stauring
Founder, Chief of Vision & StrategyKatie-Jay Scott
Executive DirectorOumda Al-Fateh Tarbosh
Program Coordinator
InsightLA
Mindfulness for personal and collective transformation
InsightLA provides mindfulness training to our ever expanding community including those working on the front lines of suffering, supporting them to persevere in both personal and collective transformation. With your help, InsightLA will continue to support human flourishing and be a source of comfort and learning for all.
Mark Koberg
Executive Director
Inward Bound Mindfulness Education
Mindfulness retreats for youth
Inward Bound Mindfulness Education builds and conducts in-depth mindfulness programming for youth, parents, and professionals who support them.
Jessica Morey
Executive Director
MAPS
Psychedelic Research for Psychological Healing
Founded in 1986, MAPS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit research and educational organization that develops medical, legal, and cultural contexts for people to benefit from the careful uses of psychedelics and marijuana. MAPS is sponsoring the most advanced psychedelic therapy research in the world: Phase 3 clinical trials of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD. Since its founding, MAPS has raised more than $117 million for psychedelic and marijuana research and education and has earned both the Guidestar Platinum Seal of Transparency and a 4-Star Rating from Charity Navigator.
Rick Doblin, Ph.D.
Founder & Executive Director
Amy Emerson
CEO of MAPS Public Benefit Corporation
Berra Yazar-Klosinski, Ph.D.
Chief Science Officer of of MAPS Public Benefit
Michael Mithoefer, M.D.
Senior Medical Director of MAPS Public Benefit
Millennium
A Well-Being Community for Educators
Millennium is building a national network of educators, organized peer-to-peer coaching circles, to support each other and develop skills critical to cultivating conscious well-being in the classroom.
Jeff Snipes
Founder & Chairman
Mindfulness Director Initiative
Creating mindful communities, one school at a time
Mindfulness Director Initiative (MDI) works to make the transformative power of mindfulness a reality for school communities by facilitating the comprehensive and nuanced integration of mindfulness into schools through the Mindfulness Director Model—thereby enhancing the well-being of students and strengthening our society.
Doug Worthen
Co-FounderMarc Waxman
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Naropa Center for Psychedelic Studies
Naropa Center for Psychedelic Studies
Naropa University believes contemplative training is crucial for ethical and engaged psychedelic-assisted care and sacred encounter. NCPS offers training opportunities focused on the transformative healing potential within this emerging field, and our approach is deeply rooted in an intersectional, anti-oppression, and social justice lens.
Joe Harrison, MS
Executive Director, NCPSSara Lewis, Ph.D, LCSW
Director of Training & Research, NCPSDiana Quinn, ND
Director of Clinical Education, NCPSVictor Alfonso Cabral, LSW
Assistant Director of Community Care, NCPSAustin R. Pick, MA
Executive Director, Extended Campus
North Country Mission of Hope
North County Mission of Hope
For 20 years, North Country Mission of Hope has educated children, fed starving families, brought hope to orphans, provided clean water to barrios and empowered the people of Nicaragua.
Sister Debbie Blow, OP
Executive Director
One Heart Worldwide
Working to promote the well-being of mothers and newborns in underserved areas
No woman should have to worry about her own life as she is preparing to give birth. Since 2010, OHW has provided access to quality MNH care to 310,000 pregnancies. To reduce maternal & newborn mortality, we aim to improve access to care for ⅓ of all pregnancies in Nepal by 2030, focusing on vulnerable populations in 36 underserved rural districts.
David Murphy
Chief Executive OfficerSurya Bhatta
Nepal Executive Director
Psychedelic Science Funders Collaborative
Philanthropists supporting psychedelic research & treatments
The Psychedelic Science Funders Collaborative convenes and guides philanthropic support for psychedelic research, treatments, and patient access. PSFC was formed from the recognition that psychedelic medicine has incredible potential and a clear path to broader acceptance but has been systemically underfunded for decades.
Joe Green
Co-Founder and President of PSFCGraham Boyd
Co-Founder and Executive Director of PSFC
Ridhwan Foundation
A contemporary spiritual path
The Ridhwan Foundation supports and preserves the integrity of the Diamond Approach teaching, a path to attain spiritual maturity and completeness, as well as open-ended and on-going unfoldment. The teaching combines time-honored spiritual practices with modern psychological understanding.
Seth Schapiro
Executive Director
Sage Institute
"Accessible Psychological Wellness and Psychedelic Therapy"
Sage Institute creates safe, affordable access to psychedelic therapy that dramatically expands representation in this promising field. Our clinic offers low-fee sliding scale services, including psychedelic therapy and psychotherapy. We are also training the next generation of diverse psychedelic therapists.
Genesee Herzberg
Executive DirectorHeather ‘Dez’ Valdez
Organizational ConsultantIrina Alexander
Clinical ManagerJason Butler
Training Director
Science and Non-Duality
Awakening Humanity
Science and Nonduality (SAND) is a community inspired by timeless wisdom, informed by cutting-edge science, and grounded in direct experience. We come together in an open-hearted exploration while celebrating our humanity.
Zaya Benazzo
Co-founderMaurizio Benazzo
Co-founder
SEMA Lab
Facilitating mindfulness training with ultrasonic brain stimulation
The Sonication Enhanced Mindful Awareness (SEMA) lab investigates technological aids for mindfulness training, like ultrasonic brain stimulation, to help more people experience the deep and broad benefits of mindfulness in their everyday lives.
Jay Sanguinetti
Research Assistant Professor, co-DirectorShinzen Young
Mindfulness Teacher, co-DirectorJohn JB Allen
Distinguished Professor, Lab Advisor
SEWA International
Service Above Self - Serve humanity in distress by mobilizing volunteers & partners
Sewa International’s mission is to serve humanity in distress, aid local communities, and run developmental projects for the underserved by mobilizing partners, donors, and volunteers. We focus our efforts on disaster recovery, family and child welfare, and promoting volunteerism.
Arun Kankani
President-Sewa International, USA
StrongMinds
Treating depression at scale in Africa
StrongMinds treats depression in women in Africa, so that they may lead healthy, productive and satisfying lives. Our innovative approach adapts Group Interpersonal Therapy, a rigorously- tested therapeutic model that can be delivered by trained community members. StrongMinds is the only organization scaling a proven, cost-effective solution to the depression epidemic in Africa.
Sean Mayberry
Founder & Executive Director
Synergos
Creating a world built on trust
Synergos is a global organization that helps solve complex issues around the world by advancing bridging leadership, which builds trust and collective action. Using inner work, systems thinking and other tools, we support philanthropic partners, civil society leaders, and others to build collaboration for a more just, equitable, peaceful, and regenerative world.
Peggy Dulany
Founder and ChairMarilia Bezerra
Co-Executive DirectorKasee Ithana
Co-Executive DirectorHenri Van Eeghen
Co-Executive Director
Temple of the Way of Light
Inspiring a New Paradigm of Health, Soul, & Planet Care
The Temple of the Way of Light is a highly reputed shamanic healing center located in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest offering intensive ayahuasca retreats with female and male Shipibo healers. We provide our guests the opportunity to experience the advanced ethno-medical practices of the Shipibo people and are committed to helping preserve and legitimize these unique healing traditions in the 21st Century.
Matthew Watherston
Founder and Executive Director
The Path of Primordial Light
A path of primordial light
Kedumah (Hebrew for “primordial”) is a universal mystical school that teaches a step-by-step approach to spiritual awakening, personal development, and inner freedom.
Zvi Lsh-Shalom, Ph.D
Founder
The Philanthropy Workshop
Accelerating social impact by mobilizing a global network of strategic investors.
Originally incubated within the Rockefeller Foundation 25 years ago and replicated by the Hewlett Foundation, TPW is now the largest network of its kind. TPW‘s global community of 450+ social investors and philanthropists are united by their shared commitment to unlock resources, lifelong learning, collaboration, and entrepreneurial approaches to tackle the world’s most challenging problems, leading with curiosity, humility, and transparency.
Renee Kaplan
Chief Executive Officer
TheraPsil
Non-profit advocating for medical psilocybin legalization
TheraPsil is a non-profit advocacy organization that believes all Canadians in medical need deserve safe, legal, compassionate, & equal access to medical psilocybin /psilocybin therapy. They have successfully supported patients with various conditions in applying for personal use exemptions, and are actively advocating for regulatory change.
Spencer Hawkswell
CEODr. Bruce Tobin
Founder and President of the Board
TRE
Tension release for everybody and every body
Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (or TRE®) is a simple yet innovative series of exercises that assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension and trauma. Created by Dr. David Berceli, PhD, TRE safely activates a natural reflex mechanism of shaking or vibrating that releases muscular tension, calming down the nervous system. When this muscular shaking/vibrating mechanism is activated in a safe and controlled environment, the body is encouraged to return back to a state of balance.
David Berceli, Ph.D.
FounderMichelle Beck And Alex Greene
BOD Co-ChairsMarina Radovic
Executive Director
UnCommon Law
Justice Done Differently
UnCommon Law champions the radical notion that people serving life sentences in prison for serious or violent crimes have the capacity for transformation and deserve access to pathways home. UnCommon Law is reimagining life sentencing and parole through legal services, in-prison programming, strategic litigation, and policy advocacy.
Keith Wattley
Founder & Executive Director
UVA Compassionate Schools Project
An integrated K-5 approach to well-being & academic success
The most comprehensive K-5 curriculum study of its kind has become a model for holistically addressing children’s cognitive, emotional, and physical needs—helping to ensure their long-term well-being and build a healthier society. Developed at UVA, the CSP curriculum combines mindfulness, social and emotional learning, movement, and healthy eating.
Owsley Brown III
Project ChairDavid Germano,
Executive Director of the Contemplative Sciences CenterAlexis Harris
Project Chair