Great questions. There are two ways to think about this. If you have a specific concern or focus, you can find an institution that shares it. Carey Turnbull has formed an inititive to deal with the patent issues, for instance (I don’t recall the name of it). If you’re interest in delivering and scaling MDMA therapy for trauma, MAPS is the place to donate. If interested in the treatment of other indications check out Hopkins, NYU, Yale or Mass General—they’re all working on different ones and they al do great work. If basic neuroscience or public education around psychedelics is important to you, consider the Berkeley Center (with which I’m affiliated).
The second approach to find an institution whose values accord with your own and make an unrestricted gift, allowing the institution to allocate funds as they see fit. This is incredibly valuable to an institution, as it allows them to cover vital but unglamorous things like overhead.
Great questions. There are two ways to think about this. If you have a specific concern or focus, you can find an institution that shares it. Carey Turnbull has formed an inititive to deal with the patent issues, for instance (I don’t recall the name of it). If you’re interest in delivering and scaling MDMA therapy for trauma, MAPS is the place to donate. If interested in the treatment of other indications check out Hopkins, NYU, Yale or Mass General—they’re all working on different ones and they al do great work. If basic neuroscience or public education around psychedelics is important to you, consider the Berkeley Center (with which I’m affiliated).
The second approach to find an institution whose values accord with your own and make an unrestricted gift, allowing the institution to allocate funds as they see fit. This is incredibly valuable to an institution, as it allows them to cover vital but unglamorous things like overhead.