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School:Hampton University

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'''Background'''

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Hampton University is a comprehensive institution of higher education, dedicated to the promotion of learning, building of character and preparation of promising students for positions of leadership and service. Its curriculum emphasis is scientific and professional with a strong liberal arts under girding. In carrying out its mission, the University requires that everything that it does be of the highest quality.

Research and public service are integral parts of Hampton's mission. In order to enhance scholarship and discovery, the faculty is engaged in writing, research, and grantsmanship. Faculty, staff and students provide leadership and service to the University as well as the global community.
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'''Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''

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Hampton University is located near a number of external facilities such as Nasa Langley Research Center, National Institute of Aerospace Headquarters, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Veterans Affairs Hospital and much more.  This easy accessbility provides a multitude of resources for faculty to tap into for providing students with involvement that complements the on campus learning experience.

There are a number of ways that students are able to be involved in innovation.  It starts in the classroom with classes such as Introduction to Physics with calculus and Engineering Principles 101 planting the seed of critical thinking and the appropriate fundamental methodologies used for problem solving.  These are further nurtured from various hands-on experiences that can be had via on campus research.  From the natural sciences such as Physics, Biology and Chemistry to various Engineering disciplines, these lab experiences, many of which are funded by NSF, military research offices such as Army Research Office, Naval Research Lab and/or private companies, supplement the textbook knowledge with application.

Talks from guests are frequent to give students more insight into directions that their technical skills can be applied to.  Whether students are listening to Damian Young of MIT/Harvard's Broad Institute speaking about diversity oriented synthesis for drug discovery or attending a visiting professor's talk on novel research in Big Data at the National Institute of Aerospace, there is never a shortage of inspirational material.

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'''Faculty Innovation'''

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Hampton University faculty includes a number of patent holders and innovators.  Inventors of fiber optic based artificial nerves, novel spectroscopic techniques and all manner of advanced sensors call Hampton University their home by the sea.  Various research centers are housed all over campus covering broad topics such as atmospheric sciences, quantumn optics, health disparity, skin of color research, information research, genomics and more.  These centers are locations where faculty not only develops innovative solutions to problems but also pass on the torch to students.

[[File:Tour-gantry-treatment-room.jpg|none|Tour-gantry-treatment-room.jpg]]In 2005 our President Dr. William R. Harvey and several medical and nuclear physicists on our campus began to shape a vision of creating a proton therapy cancer treatment facility in Virginia.  This culminated with our groundbreaking ceremoney in 2010 of the Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute.

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'''University Technology Transfer'''

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Hampton University does not have a tech transfer office.  The university is not patent-friendly with a patent policy that is derivative of and modified from MIT's policy as it stood sixteen years ago.  The school tends to shy away from pursuing patent registration as they don't believe the number of patents that break even against the registration fees warrant the expense.  Changing the patent policy to be more inventor friendly as well as instituting a tech transfer office is but a small part of our strategy.

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'''University-Industry Collaboration Efforts'''

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As-is professors have been doing a great job of going out and interfacing with industry companies to form collaborations.  One example is how the Solid State Laser Development group within the department of Physics collaborates with Brimrose Corporation, the Army Research Office and Baitaille for basic research within laser induced breakdown spectroscopy and optical refrigeration of rare-earth doped solids.  Collaborations like these bring in the necessary funding to support both undergraduate and Ph. D. candidates while also paying for infrastructure such as PC's for the physics labs and such.  These initiatives are created by individual professors.  With a tech transfer office in place, we'd be able to accomplish more.

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Organization:Big Bang Philanthropy

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'''Overview'''

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Founded in 2011, Big Bang Philanthropy came into being when several people realized they had become a de-facto co-founder group.  They were funding a lot of the same poverty-fighting organizations, had similar philosophies, and liked each other’s company.  Each of them had other funders in mind who they thought might be a good fit and it seemed like a little structure might help facilitate a deeper level of collaboration.   Today Big Bang Philanthropy represents more than $60 million focused each year on international poverty.

'''Purpose'''

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The mission of Big Bang Philanthropy is to drive more money into high performing, great organizations fighting poverty.  This is done by sharing leads, ideas and networks with each other on organizations having a real impact in fighting poverty.  This is achieved through six key factors that each funder foundation in the group has in common:

#A focus on the basic needs of the poor
#A commitment to funding for real impact
#Recognition of the need for scalable solutions and business-like organizations to deliver them
#A desire to work actively with others in the group
#At least $1 million devoted to funding poverty solutions annually
#Three or more organizations funded in common with others in the group, with at least $100,000 invested in each

'''Distinct Differences from Other Offerings'''

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Big Bang Philanthropy is a group of several funder organizations that operate autonomously.  They do not pool their resources together as that would lead to bureaucracy.  Instead, when someone finds a promising company that is fighting poverty that they believe will or is having a real impact, they champion this cause to the others within the group.  The other funder foundations that believe in the company as well drive money into the company on their own terms.  This creates a win-win situation as the organization receives more funding than they would have if the funder organizations were not communicating with each other and the funders win because they’re able to find out about great organizations that perhaps they would not have found on their own.

'''Impact Achieved for Students and Campus'''

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Big Bang Philanthropy is composed of twelve funding foundations.  Each of these organizations have their own criteria for selecting organizations to fund, the amount of resources they’ll fund and how they interact with the population at large including students.

'''Steps Required To Bring Resource To Campus'''

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The best way to bring Big Bang Philanthropy to your campus is to investigate the twelve funding foundations involved and apply to those most relevant to your cause.  If that company believes in your cause enough and thinks it will have real impact, they just may put you on the radar of their peers within Big Bang Philanthropy so that you can receive further funding.

If you’re looking to join the Big Bang Philanthropy group, below are the criteria.

'''1. Join the Big Bang Philanthropy group''' if you:

*Devote $1million or more per year to international poverty
*Buy into our common approach
*Share at least 3 investments in Big Bang organizations (or are ready to commit to doing so)
*Want to actively collaborate with like-minded funders
*Are willing to be publicly associated with Big Bang

Please get in touch with one of our members. You don’t have to change anything about how you currently fund organizations. You just have to be ready to commit a significant share of your resources to a common set of principles and organizations.

'''2. Make a big donation to a Big Bang organization. '''If you are considering support of $50,000 or more and want to discuss it with a Big Bang member, please let us know. If we can arrange a useful conversation for you, we will do so.

'''3. Fund for impact.  '''Follow Big Bang. At present, we have only a website. As we evolve and grow, we will develop other ways to provide useful information to our colleagues in the social sector. Please be aware that we do not accept funding proposals; each member funds an organization based on their own independent mandate.

'''Contact Information'''

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[http://www.barrfoundation.org/ Barr Foundation]

[http://www.bohemianfoundation.org/ Bohemian Foundation]

David Weekley Foundation

[http://dietelpartners.com/ Dietel Partners]

[http://www.drkfoundation.org/ Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation]

[http://www.jasmine.org.nz/ Jasmine Social Investments]

[http://www.lundinfoundation.org/ Lundin Foundation]

[http://www.mulagofoundation.org/ The Mulago Foundation]

[http://www.peeryfoundation.org/ Peery Foundation]

[http://pershingsquarefoundation.org/ Pershing Square Foundation]

[http://www.planetwheeler.org/ Planet Wheeler]

[http://www.segalfamilyfoundation.org/ Segal Family Foundation]

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