University of Bern donations received

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Basic donee information

ItemValue
Country
Websitehttp://www.unibe.ch
Twitter usernameunibern
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Bern

Donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 5 410,000 417,659 91,615 91,615 91,615 150,000 150,000 410,000 410,000 601,485 601,485 835,196 835,196
Global health 2 91,615 463,406 91,615 91,615 91,615 91,615 91,615 91,615 835,196 835,196 835,196 835,196 835,196
Animal welfare 2 150,000 280,000 150,000 150,000 150,000 150,000 150,000 150,000 410,000 410,000 410,000 410,000 410,000
Natural Sciences 1 601,485 601,485 601,485 601,485 601,485 601,485 601,485 601,485 601,485 601,485 601,485 601,485 601,485

Donation amounts by donor and year for donee University of Bern

Donor Total 2020 2018 2015 2013
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (filter this donee) 926,811.00 0.00 0.00 91,615.00 835,196.00
John Templeton Foundation (filter this donee) 601,485.00 0.00 0.00 601,485.00 0.00
Open Philanthropy (filter this donee) 560,000.00 410,000.00 150,000.00 0.00 0.00
Total 2,088,296.00 410,000.00 150,000.00 693,100.00 835,196.00

Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (0 documents)

There are no documents associated with this donee.

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (5 donations)

Graph of top 10 donors (for donations with known year of donation) by amount, showing the timeframe of donations

Graph of donations and their timeframes
DonorAmount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 5)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
Open Philanthropy410,000.0032020-11Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken/layer chicken/cage-free/researchhttps://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/university-of-bern-layer-hensAmanda Hungerford Lewis Bollard Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant "to the University of Bern to support research led by Michael Toscano on breeding layer hens better adapted to cage-free environments."

Donor reason for selecting the donee: The grant fits in with Open Philanthropy's funding of corporate campaigns pushing for cage-free systems for chicken, an effort that https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/initial-grants-support-corporate-cage-free-reforms documents. The research focus of this grant is relatively unusual for Open Phil's cage-free campaign spending, but it is similar to a previous grant https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/university-of-bern-higher-welfare-cage-free-systems to the same grantee.

Other notes: Intended funding timeframe in months: 72.
Open Philanthropy150,000.0042018-11Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken/cage-free/researchhttps://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/university-of-bern-higher-welfare-cage-free-systemsLewis Bollard Donation process: Discretionary grant

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant "to develop and implement a pilot project for U.S. egg producers, equipment installers, and USDA extension agents to learn about management of high-welfare, cage-free systems in Switzerland, Sweden, Holland, and Belgium. The funds will support Dr. Michael Toscano, Group Leader of Switzerland’s Centre for Proper Housing of Poultry and Rabbits, and colleagues to develop the educational program and deploy it with approximately 20 U.S. producers, installers, and extension agents. Due to Switzerland’s ban of battery cages in 1992, its producers and scientists have more than 25 years of experience managing cage-free systems."

Donor reason for selecting the donee: The grant fits in with Open Philanthropy's funding of corporate campaigns pushing for cage-free systems for chicken, an effort that https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/initial-grants-support-corporate-cage-free-reforms documents. Unlike the other grants that are focused on corporate campaigns, this grant takes more of a learning/educational approach.

Donor retrospective of the donation: A later grant https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/university-of-bern-layer-hens also for Michael Toscano and also for research related to cage-free system, suggests continued satisfaction with the grantee.

Other notes: Affected countries: United States; announced: 2018-12-11.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation91,615.0052015-07-28Global health/Medical education/traininghttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to establish a high-caliber scientific course that would cover various aspects of parasitology from molecular biology and epidemiology to genomics targeted for students in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
John Templeton Foundation601,485.0022015Natural Scienceshttps://templeton.org/grants/grant-database-- For project The operational paradigm: its mathematical and philosophical frontiers; Project leaders: Gerhard Jaeger,Kentaro Sato. Affected regions: Europe; affected countries: FIXME.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation835,196.0012013-11-08Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDShttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support Option B+ antiretroviral therapy for pregnant and breastfeeding women in Malawi; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Malawi.