{"id":7902,"date":"2021-04-21T00:09:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T04:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/outreach-initiatives\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T19:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:41:11","slug":"outreach-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/?page_id=7902","title":{"rendered":"Outreach Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The Grass Foundation assists in advancing knowledge in neuroscience. The Foundation promotes scientific excellence by enabling and catalyzing scientific discovery across, rather than within the confines of individual academic institutions. As part of this mission, the Foundation wants to make education in neuroscience and mechanistic scientific reasoning more broadly accessible, to communities where these approaches are not currently practiced.<\/p>\n<p>Infrastructure and equipment costs have been a major limiting factor that has constrained access to neurophysiological teaching and research. Technological advances, especially those in consumer electronics, have made it possible to create inexpensive and robust instruments for neurophysiology and, as a result, the Foundation invested in the development of high-quality research amplifiers in conjunction with Backyard Brains that are sufficiently inexpensive for this education and outreach mission.<\/p>\n<p>The Foundation\u2019s outreach mission is to empower individuals with an interest in neuroscience and neurophysiology education. Towards this goal, the Foundation has funded workshops designed to provide equipment to train and disseminate neurophysiological approaches to teaching and research. A first workshop was held at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/2016-workshop\/\">MBL in 2016<\/a>\u00a0to test equipment and the idea of teaching teachers.<\/p>\n<p>A second workshop in the fall of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/2019-workshop\/\">2019 in Tucson<\/a>\u00a0was targeted more towards small (community) colleges. Both of these workshops have provided models for promoting the Foundation\u2019s core goals of scientific education in neuroscience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recent workshops include:<\/p>\n<p>2021 \u2013 San Antonio, Moving beyond access to promote student success in STEM<\/p>\n<p>2021 \u2013 Albuquerque, Pueblo Brain Science Building Diversity in Neuroscience<\/p>\n<p>2022 and 2023 \u2013 Puerto Rico, Interactive Neurophysiology Workshop to Promote Neuroscience Research in Undergraduate Colleges<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Kavli Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other outreach activities, the Foundation has partnered with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kavlifoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kavli Foundation<\/a> to support early career scientists\u2019 inquiry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kavlifoundation.org\/news\/neurobiology-and-changing-ecosystems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">into neurobiology and changing ecosystems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>International Brain Initiative<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Foundation joined the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationalbraininitiative.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Brain Initiative<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0(IBI)\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0896627320300027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Funders Collective<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, to catalyze and advance ethical neuroscience through international collaboration and knowledge sharing, uniting diverse ambitions and disseminating discoveries for the benefit of humanity.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The Grass Foundation assists in advancing knowledge in neuroscience. The Foundation promotes scientific excellence by enabling and catalyzing scientific discovery across, rather than within the confines of individual academic institutions. As part of this mission, the Foundation wants to make education in neuroscience and mechanistic scientific reasoning more broadly accessible, to communities where these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7902","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grassfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}