Hello, I work for Tim Ferriss, and I would like to help update the article, specifically his philanthropic work. Some of the information is already included under Career (paragraph 7), but I think it would be clearer as its own section as follows:
Coyoteadventures (talk) 17:14, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
- Philanthropy
Tim Ferriss works to advance psychedelic medicine for treatments in the mental health field. He became interested in the potential of psychedelics due to personal experiences with depression, as well as bipolar disorder, depression, and addiction in his family.[1][2]
In 2015, Ferriss met Dr. Roland Griffiths, who was leading research in psychedelics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Ferriss organized a crowdfunding campaign to support Dr. Griffiths’ research into depression.[1]
In 2019, Ferriss contributed to Imperial College London’s Center for Psychedelic Research, the first research facility in the world dedicated to psychedelics.[3]
That year, Ferriss also donated more than $2 million to fund the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic & Consciousness Research led by Dr. Griffiths, and he organized an additional $8 million in commitments.[1][4]
The Center was the largest in the world and the first in America to focus on psychedelic drugs.[5]
In 2020, Ferriss donated $1 million to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies for research into PTSD treatments using psychedelic-drug MDMA. He issued a $10 million challenge grant, and helped to raise a total of $30 million for the research by publicizing the challenge on his podcast.[6][7]
The following year, Ferriss donated to promote psychedelic research at the Neuroscape Psychedelics Division at the University of California, San Francisco, led by Robin Carhart-Harris and Adam Gazzaley.[8]
Saisei Foundation
In 2018, Ferriss founded the Saisei Foundation[9] to provide funding for early-stage science in the areas of mental health, life extension, and psychedelics.[10]
In 2021, the foundation committed $800,000 to UC Berkeley’s Center for the Science of Psychedelics to create the Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship with author Michael Pollan.[11]
The fellowship provides ten annual grants of $10,000 each to journalists working on in-depth print and audio stories focused on psychedelics.[12] Articles supported by the fellowship have appeared in media outlets including National Geographic[13][14], Rolling Stone,[15] NPR,[16] and The Washington Post.[17]
The Foundation also collaborated with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and co-funded POPLAR, the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation. [8]
Ferriss was also a member of the National Advisory Council of DonorsChoose[18] and, as of 2016, was a donor and a member of the advisory board of QuestBridge.[18][19]
In 2016, as part of a #BestSchoolDay campaign led by Stephen Colbert, Ferriss funded all 145 classroom projects on Long Island,[20] as well as all the classroom projects in New Hampshire and Sacramento, California with DonorsChoose.org.[21][22]
The duplicate information can be removed from the Career section. Thanks for your time! Coyoteadventures (talk) 17:14, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
- Okay, it looks pretty good, so I have added it. What "duplicate information" is there? -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 19:03, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you so much.
- As some of this information was in the Career section already it now appears as duplicate content. Specifically, the following two sentences (in paragraph 7 of the Career section) can now be removed from that part only:
- "Ferriss has raised funds for the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and for the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London. Since 2016, Ferriss donated at least $2,000,000 for clinical research into psychedelic drugs.[25][26]"
- Can you kindly remove? Coyoteadventures (talk) 19:59, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
- I hope I got it right. I have to run now. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 21:12, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
