Peer-to-Peer, Phish-to-Pod: Lateral Learning at the Dekko Foundation

Read how the Dekko Foundation empowers their youth philanthropy leadership board, phish (Philanthropy Ideas Strategy Heart), to make youth philanthropy more effective

The Before and After of Grantmaking: Fundraising and Engagement

This case study explores the Teen Grantmaking Initiative (TGI), a program of the Center for Arab-American Philanthropy (CAAP), which is itself a program of ACCESS, a nonprofit dedicated to the advancement of a just society for Arab-Americans

Nuclei as Laboratories: Nuclear Tests of Fundamental Symmetries

The prospect of a rare isosotope accelerator facility opens up possibilities for a new generation of nuclear tests of fundamental symmetries. In this talk, I survey the current landscape of such tests and discuss future opportunities that a new facility might present.Comment: To appear in proceedings of 3rd ANL/MSU/INT/JINA Theory Workshop, Argonne National Laboratory (April, 2006); 13 page

Searching for T-Violating, P-Conserving New Physics with Neutrons

The observance of parity conserving time reversal violation in light quark systems could signal the presence of physics beyond the Standard Model. I discuss the implications of low-energy time reversal tests for the existence of such T-violating, P-conserving (TVPC) interactions. I argue that searches for permanent electric dipole moments (EDM's) and direct TVPC searches provide complementary information on P-conserving T-violation. EDM searches yield constraints only under the assumption that parity symmetry is restored at the scale Lambda associated with new TVPC physics. If parity remains broken at short distances, direct searches yield the least ambiguous bounds. In the latter case, improving the experimental precision of direct TVPC searches in neutron beta-decay and polarized epithermal neutron transmission at the Spallation Neutron Source could yield tighter bounds.Comment: To appear in proceedings of Workshop on Fundamental Physics with Pulsed Neutron Beams, held at the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, June 1 -- 3, 2000. Nine page

Probing the Fundamental Symmetries of the Early Universe: The Low Energy Frontier

Searching for the fundamental symmetries that characterize the particle physics of the early universe lies at the forefront of particle physics, nuclear physics, and cosmology. In this talk, I review low energy probes of these symmetries and discuss what they may teach us about what lies beyond the fundamental symmetries of the Standard Model.Comment: Plenary Talk, PANIC05 (Sante Fe, NM). 11 pages, no figure

Opportunity of a Lifetime 2.0: Multigenerational Family Philanthropy

More than ever before, giving families are working to involve multiple generations in their philanthropy.According to the National Center for Family Philanthropy's Trends in Family Philanthropy Study, nearly 3 in 5 U.S. family foundations engage younger family members in the foundation — and more than 40 percent say they expect to add to or increase the number of younger-generation family members on their boards in the near future.This issue brief was written with this emergent trend in mind and to help families understand how to best involve multiple generations in their work.In it, you'll find information about:why you should involve the entire family in your giving,strategies for incorporating younger generations into your foundation's work,common challenges and expert approaches,tips for on boarding new generations into your foundation, andsuggestions for next generation family members who are getting involved in their families' philanthropy.As the title of this paper suggests, this passages paper is the second edition of "Opportunity of a Lifetime." The original paper, "Opportunity of a Lifetime: Young Adults in Family Philanthropy," written by Alison Goldberg (herself a Gen X family philanthropist) was published in 2002. A lot has changed in 15 years, so we decided to take another look at the best practices, technology, benefits, challenges, and opportunities for next generation engagement. This paper builds on and updates the work of the original to offer new voices and insights

Electric Dipole Moments: A Global Analysis

We perform a global analysis of searches for the permanent electric dipole moments (EDMs) of the neutron, neutral atoms, and molecules in terms of six leptonic, semileptonic, and nonleptonic interactions involving photons, electrons, pions, and nucleons. Translating the results into fundamental CP-violating effective interactions through dimension six involving Standard Model particles, we obtain rough lower bounds on the scale of beyond the Standard Model CP-violating interactions ranging from 1.5 TeV for the electron EDM to 1300 TeV for the nuclear spin-independent electron-quark interaction. We show that future measurements involving systems or combinations of systems with complementary sensitivities to the low-energy parameters may extend the mass reach by an order of magnitude or more.Comment: 15 pages, 1 figur

Electrons, New Physics, and the Future of Parity-Violation

The study of parity-violation in semi-leptonic processes has yielded important insights into the structure of the Standard Model and the substructure of the nucleon. I discuss the future of semi-leptonic parity-violation and the role it might play in uncovering physics beyond the Standard Model.Comment: To apperar in the Proceedings of the Bates25 Symposium. 18pgs. Uses aipproc.sty (included