The William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership is an annual award given by the William E. Simon Foundation in honor of its founder, former Secretary of the Treasury and financier William E. S
William E. Simon
The John Templeton Foundation is a philanthropic organization founded by John Templeton in 1987. Templeton became wealthy as a contrarian investor, and wanted to support progress in religious and spir
Mother Teresa received the inaugural Templeton Prize in 1973.
Marcelo Gleiser won the Templeton Prize in 2019.
The Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University received a Templeton Foundation grant of over seven million dollars in 2016.
A grant of over three million dollars to the Stone Age Institute supports the study of what factors led human ancestors to things such as toolmaking.