Testing new blog post on ciclabs DO site.

The Rita Allen Foundation is pleased to announce our next Letter of Inquiry (LOI) open submission period, beginning on March 30th and closing on April 22nd, 2022 at 5 p.m. Pacific Time. For this submission period, the Foundation is seeking letters proposing innovative, early-stage work that advances civic science approaches…

In the scientific world, collaboration can produce results that are remarkable, almost magical. In our recent conversation with Mark Zylka, a 2007 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar who now directs the University of North Carolina Neuroscience Center, he described how his connection with a drug-screening expert and an expert in Angelman…

“How will you choose to participate?”

In the Nonprofit Quarterly, Rita Allen Foundation President and CEO Elizabeth Good Christopherson examines how the social sector can use artificial intelligence to better connect to human need.

A new initiative seeks to bring many minds to a complex problem.

If ever we need to be reminded of the interconnection between public knowledge, civil society and science, we can look back some 200 years to the works of the Prussian philosopher, linguist and educational leader Wilhelm von Humboldt. Humboldt argued that education must be considered in the context of society,…

Today, Knight Foundation and Rita Allen Foundation released a new report on the emerging civic tech industry. “Scaling Civic Tech: Paths to a Sustainable Future” reveals opportunities and challenges faced by organizations working to connect citizens with their government when seeking to scale and become financially sustainable.  How can the…

Science, journalism and democracy

In The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Rita Allen Foundation President and CEO Elizabeth Good Christopherson calls for philanthropic action to support productive civic learning and dialogue grounded in science, evidence and truth.