Supporters

Current Support

Alfred P. Sloan FoundationThe Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

In 2013, Sloan contributed $360,000 from 2013-2016 to support general BITSS activities, including the Annual Institute, Annual Meeting, development of educational materials, and BITSS Scholars’ research.

In 2018, Sloan also funded a BITSS forecasting workshop, which led to the development of our Social Science Prediction Platform, an easy-to-use platform which enables researchers to solicit predictions about empirical work. Forecasting is one of our main areas of focus for BITSS, and we’re really excited about the continued development and expansion of the platform and its uses. Sloan has contributed $1,025,000 to this work between 2018-2025.

The Templeton World Charity FoundationTempleton World Charity Foundation

In 2022, the Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF) contributed $100,000 to facilitate the adoption of innovative open science tools and practices among TWCF partners, grantees, and potential applicants between 2022-2023.

The Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)NHH

In 2022, the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) contributed $877,000 to fund the Reporting Guidelines for Publication Bias study to evaluate the impact of reporting guidelines and resource incentives on reporting practices and publication outcomes of pre-registered research projects in economics.

The National Institute of AgingNIA

In 2022, the NIH’s National Institute of Aging contributed $750,600 over five years (2022-2027) to scale up and institutionalize open science trainings in the form of BITSS’s flagship annual Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) events, with a new focus on aging and health disparities research.

The National Science FoundationNIA

In 2023, the NSF contributed $400,000 for a project in their Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) program. This project, led by BITSS and collaborators at the University of Oregon, will result in a series of closely-linked research and educational/training outputs centered on changing the norms around dissemination of research results in the field of development economics.

Previous Support

Anonymous

In 2013, an anonymous donor sponsored the establishment of BITSS with $111,000 in catalytic funding for 2013-2015, followed by additional support of $200,000 for 2014-2015. In 2015, the anonymous donor contributed $1.2 million to support institutionalization of BITSS and the education scale-up efforts from 2015-2018, including the development of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). In 2016, the anonymous donor contributed $289,000 to support a “State of Social Science” study on current practices and norms, as well as the adoption of transparency attitudes and behaviors.

The John Templeton FoundationJohn Templeton Foundation

In 2015, Templeton contributed $712,000 from 2015-2017 to establish the Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science.

Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF)Laura and John Arnold Foundation

In 2013, LJAF contributed $205,000 from 2013-2015 through a partnership with Center for Open Science (COS) to support general BITSS activities, including the Annual Institute, Annual Meeting, development of educational materials, and BITSS Scholars’ research. In 2015, LJAF contributed an additional $528,000 from 2015-2017 to establish the SSMART research grant program, increasing the funding by $150,000 in order to support more research programs in Round 1. in 2016, LJAF contributed $681,000 to support a BITSS Project Scientist, as well as the scale up and institutionalization of open science trainings in the form of an international Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) event.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH)

In 2016, NIH contributed $250,000 over five years (2016-2021) to scale up and institutionalize open science trainings in the form of annual Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) events.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

In 2015, Hewlett contributed $405,000 over four years (2015-2018) in order to scale-up BITSS activities to developing countries and engage more broadly with developing country researchers on the Research Transparency and Reproducibility r, Annual Meeting, on-demand workshops, and SSMART.