The following is a listing of the grants approved by the board at the FHL Foundation’s spring board meeting on April 30th, 2013:
1) Syracuse University (Dr. Ken Corvo, lead researcher) – $15,000
DESCRIPTION – (From Dr. Corvo’s Full Proposal narrative) For nearly 40 years, the public policy response to the problem of domestic violence has been defined as the socially sanctioned dominance of women by men. This view of patriarchy as the sole cause of domestic violence is the underpinning for a policy/practice paradigm that has dominated the regulatory, legal, and policy discourse of the United States, Canada and other countries. In spite of a robust and rigorous literature indicating a much broader range of psychological risk factors, policies regarding the etiology and treatment of domestic violence perpetration often disregard or forbid considerations of mental health issues, particularly those with developmental antecedents. Instead, a model of psychoeducation is substituted, based upon an ideological interpretation of domestic violence as only resulting from the socially-sanctioned domination of women by men.
The literature contains numerous studies of psychopathology and neuropsychological issues in domestic violence perpetration, including perpetrator typologies, correlational studies between specific mental disorders and perpetration, links to substance abuse/dependence, and neurological deficits (e.g. traumatic brain injury). Of the probable psychological vulnerabilities or risks in domestic violence perpetration, deficits in executive function may be the least explored. Using a subject heading search “executive function”, the PsycINFO database contains over 3600 journal articles, but only 3 when keyword “domestic violence” is added. Funds are requested to undertake a synthetic review of the literature on the intersection of executive function deficits and psychopathology as they are manifested in dysfunctional violent coping in domestic violence perpetrators. Products will include an article submitted for publication to a relevant peer-reviewed professional journal and at least one national-level professional conference.
2) Union County Community Development Corporation—Project Wind For Schools – $20,000
DESCRIPTION – (From the Full Proposal narrative by Dr. Mark Van Wormer MD) The Wind for Schools program will initiate a science based curricula at Clayton High School for juniors and seniors in the science of (digital) electricity generation from the (analog) source: Wind. With the ground breaking of the Tres Amigas project in Clovis, the north, south, east and western electrical grids of the United States will be connected and controlled by a uniform power distribution network controlled by a massive superconducting server. Several high voltage transmission projects for northeastern New Mexico are already under consideration.
The students of today need more vocational job opportunities. The jobs are in the energy sector,with renewables, the technology sector, the computer and informational exchange sector.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratories in combination with the US department of Energy is sponsoring the Wind for Schools program. The Goal of the curricula is to stimulate interest in renewable energy, especially wind power, in the junior and senior levels at high schools, while providing advanced curricula to be equipped for technical institutes like MesaLands Wind College in Tucumcari, following graduation.
This proposal requires installation of a small scale wind turbine located on or near the school ground, interconnected to the schools power source,PNM, for back metering. Mesalands University will participate in the science based curricula and other areas of adult education through the hardware, software and fiber optic network now being placed by ENMR.
• The project supports advanced science and physics education in Clayton New Mexico.
• The project supports the creation of wind based vocational careers
• The project enhances our relationship with child and adult education from Mesalands community college, through improved distance learning communication facilities.
• The project places Clayton New Mexico on the map as a Wind for Schools Program under the Federal educational structure of NREL, and US Department of Energy
3) Truthout.org – $5,000
DESCRIPTION – (From a recent report by Lucy Dorick on an earlier grant) On behalf of Truthout, I wanted to express our gratitude to the FHL Foundation, Inc. for its commitment to independent non-commercial journalism and the work of Truthout. Your support of $5,000 in 2011 provided critical resources for our groundbreaking investigative journalism and commentary, including our coverage of civil liberties issues and our broad dissemination of information through our newsletter, website, and social media to 8 and a half million readers per year across the country.
We are supported through our readership and key foundations such as the FHL Foundation. We are very grateful for your support as it allows Truthout to provide an independent, substantive, and accurate portrayal of key civil liberties issues that impact our lives and our communities without being tied to funders with special interests and agendas. It is our hope that you will consider continued support for Truthout in 2013.
In the past year, Truthout has zeroed in on the human faces behind the headlines. We exposed the misconduct of agribusiness giant Monsanto; investigated the effects of fracking and its development in new parts of the country; documented the deportation, poverty and racism in border towns; explored the impact of civic engagement in Occupy Wall Street; looked deeply into the roots of random shootings and our growing gun culture, and published up-close accounts of the horrors of Guantanamo. We have also published vibrant commentary from such important voices as Thom Hartmann, Laura Flanders, Henry A. Giroux, Mike Ludwig, Richard Wolff, William Rivers Pitt, Nomi Prins, Noam Chomsky, Tom Engelhardt, Ellen Brown, Dean Baker, Bill Moyers, Kathy Kelly and many more.
Congratulations to our spring 2013 grant recipients. If you have a comment concerning any of the above grants, please feel free to leave a comment in the comment box. As always, if you have any questions concerning these grants, feel free to use the Contact Us link above.
