Key Takeaways

• The Earth and Space Foundation is a non-profit organization that aims to provide grants to initiatives that either apply knowledge of the Earth's landscape to explore space settlement or apply space exploration insights to improve the planet.
• The Planetary Society is a non-profit organization that aims to discover more knowledge about the solar system and the space beyond.
• The National Space Society is a non-profit group that is focused on creating a spacefaring society.

Introduction

Change Happen Foundation

• The Change Happen Foundation is a "private and non-profit" organization that was founded in 2001.
• The foundation aims to support research that can help in enhancing the human experience via initiatives that are focused on innovation, making an impact, and productivity.
• The organization aims to target these areas when providing grants: "science, environment, education."
• The foundation is open to accepting grant applications under any of the areas of focus above.
• The organization funds special research in the astrophysics area.
• An example is the research initiative surrounding "exoplanet discovery and atmospheric analysis" that is being headed by Professor Sara Seager of MIT.
• The foundation mentioned that it is privileged to provide grants to these types of projects that further fuel the search for another planet that can support living things.

Earth and Space Foundation

• The Earth and Space Foundation is a non-profit organization that aims to provide grants to initiatives that either apply knowledge of the Earth's landscape to explore space settlement or apply space exploration insights to improve the planet.
• By supporting these projects, the organization aims to propel its vision of "the Earth as an oasis, cared for by a space-faring civilization."
• The deadline for accepting applications to the grant is June 30th every year.

The Space Foundation

• The Space Foundation is a non-profit advocacy group that was created in 1983.
• It provides a portal to education, data, and partnerships for space exploration and space-oriented sectors that constitute the global space landscape.
• Space Foundation brings together the full spectrum of stakeholders – companies, governments, the academe, and the local neighborhoods – through membership programs, sponsorship opportunities, fundraising, and grants.

Planetary Society

• The Planetary Society is a non-profit organization that aims to discover more knowledge about the solar system and the space beyond.
• It also strives to intensify the search for extraterrestrial life, and minimize the risk of an asteroid collision with Earth.

• The foundation has funded space exploration projects in the past.

• One of its open grant programs is the Shoemaker Grant program that can provide funding to rookie observers, those in developing countries, and expert astronomers who are tracking potentially devastating asteroids.

The Mars Initiative

• The Mars Initiative is a non-profit organization that aims to fund missions to the planet Mars.
• The organization has several grant programs to ensure further explorations in the red planet such as the Mars Prize Fund and the Space Innovation Grant.

National Space Society

• The National Space Society is a non-profit group that is focused on creating a spacefaring society.
• The organization has already supported several projects that relate to space explorations and space settlements.
• Interested parties can contact the organization for any new space exploration or related projects.

The National Space Grant Foundation (NSGF)

• The NGSF is a non-profit and tax-exempt foundation that aims to support and improve the Space Grant Consortia in each U.S. state to enable them to continue their academic, research, and public outreach programs.
• These programs revolve around STEM support, space exploration, aeronautics, aviation, and Earth System Science.
• The organization has a space grant consortium in each state. These state entities are accepting applicants who wish to avail of grants for their science and space-related research and initiatives.

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