Home
Focus Areas
About Us
Justin M. Berg, assistant professor at Stanford University Graduate School of Business, investigates an understudied part of the creative process in a new paper that appears in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
Berg conducted five experiments in which participants tackled creative projects, like devising an innovative piece of fitness equipment or a mechanism to keep people from falling asleep in self-driving cars.
He tested how well people were able to assess the potential creativity of their ideas. Berg found when participants spent only a little time developing their ideas, their predicted rankings remained correct. When they spent more time fleshing out their ideas, the idea they thought was their second best actually finished the highest in creativity.
Researchers also asked independent raters to judge how abstract each idea was. Berg found that the ideas initially ranked second in terms of creativity were also more abstract than the ideas ranked first.
Taking cue from the study, Berg offers simple takeaways when developing new ideas when opting for initial ideas that are more concrete, developing two rather than one idea to maturity, and not sharing a more abstract idea unless there is certainty in it. Read the Entire Article
Selected Grant News Headlines
A customized collection of grant news from foundations and the federal government from around the Web.
If you're looking for a way to get your kids invested in their faith this summer, the Sunday School Store may have just the curriculum for you. The store has just released Season's of Faith, a...more
John Lithgow is a two-time Academy Award nominee, multiple Emmy, Tony, and Golden Globes winner, and has appeared in everything from The Old Man to Killers of the Flower Moon. But the 78-year-old...more
"It's time to be innovative," Pennsylvania state Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski said Friday during a panel discussion on the state's teacher shortage. "We all have a duty and responsibility to find...more
"Take our children to work day" isn't a phrase you'd typically associate with a university, but that's exactly what employees of the University of Oregon in Eugene did on April 25. As part of the...more
South Dakota's Rapid City and Sioux Falls are two of 13 communities to receive a child care grant from the Governor's Office of Economic Development, and they're using it to do something about the...more
"A lot of memories and experiences are linked to food, so I thought food could be utilized as a tool to make people interested in something and care about itand to see some of the good parts and why...more
The Dallas Opera is trying to make opera more accessible to kids by expanding its education program to include opera-related activities. The Dallas Morning News reports on the expansion of the...more
"We are so used to being almost permanently online that we don't really appreciate what we have and do not really know what to do when we're not," Joni Mitchell wrote in her 1970s song "Big Yellow...more
The University of Utah's Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy has narrowed its list of finalists for its $500,000 Climate Launch Prize to seven. The goal of the prize, which is one of the...more
"Having a purposeful job actually does transform someone's life," says Edwin Walsh, who runs a social enterprise in Australia called Assembled Threads. "You actually are moving someone from...more
Education News from...
Lancaster County Community Foundation
Community Foundation of Southern Indiana
Community Giving Foundation
Hawaii Community Foundation
Kresge Foundation
Tow Foundation
Bloomberg Philanthropies
National Philanthropic Trust
Community Foundation of Fayette County
Community Foundation of Western North Carolina
Social Entrepreneurship
Spotlight
Social Enterprise Pushes Continuity of Care and Home Births
The Neighbourhood Midwives, the brainchild of Annie Francis of Hampshire, offers midwifery services geared for the continuity of care to women and their families.
