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Preparing to Deepen Action: A Funder Collaborative Finds its Way
The formation of the Jewish Teen Education and Engagement Funder Collaborative was the result of a process begun by the Jim Joseph Foundation in 2013. At that time, in an effort to spawn innovative, locally sustainable teen engagement programs, the Jim Joseph Foundation brought together an array of funders to explore various approaches. The first 24 months of this deliberate process in which ten local and five national funders undertook to educate themselves, build relationships and co-invest in community-based Jewish teen education and engagement initiatives was thoughtfully documented in a case study issued in January 2015 by Informing Change, entitled, Finding New Paths for Teen Engagement and Learning: A Funder Collaborative Leads the Way.The first case study highlighted several important achievements of the collaborative in its early years:* Strong leadership from the convening funder which enabled old and new colleagues to engage in open discussions about possible collaborations;* Early commitment of significant financial resources;* Provision of operational and substantive support by an array of consultants;* Development of mutual expectations and articulating shared measures of success.This case study by Rosov Consulting documents the next stage of the Funder Collaborative's development, roughly the 21-month period from January 2015 through October 2016 and reflects the Collaborative's commitment to share its process with others who may choose to embark on their own co-funding endeavor
Dark Matter and EWSB Naturalness in Unified SUSY Models
The relationship between the degree of fine-tuning in Electroweak Symmetry
Breaking (EWSB) and the discoverability of dark matter in current and next
generation direct detection experiments is investigated in the context of two
unified Supersymmetry scenarios: the constrained Minimal Supersymmetric
Standard Model (CMSSM) and models with non-universal Higgs masses (NUHM).
Attention is drawn to the mechanism(s) by which the relic abundance of
neutralino dark matter is suppressed to cosmologically viable values. After a
summary of Amsel, Freese, and Sandick (2011), results are updated to reflect
current constraints, including the discovery of a new particle consistent with
a Standard Model-like Higgs boson. We find that a Higgs mass of ~125 GeV
excludes the least fine-tuned CMSSM points in our parameter space and that
remaining viable models may be difficult to probe with next generation direct
dark matter searches. Relatively low fine-tuning and good direct detection
prospects are still possible in NUHM scenarios.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the proceedings of CETUP* 2012. v2:
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Neutralino Dark Matter in MSSM Models with Non-Universal Higgs Masses
We consider the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) with varying
amounts of non-universality in the soft supersymmetry-breaking contributions to
the Higgs scalar masses. In addition to the constrained MSSM (CMSSM) in which
these are universal with the soft supersymmetry-breaking contributions to the
squark and slepton masses at the input GUT scale, we consider scenarios in
which both the Higgs masses are non-universal by the same amount (NUHM1), and
scenarios in which they are independently non-universal (NUHM2). As the
lightest neutralino is a dark matter candidate, we demand that the relic
density of neutralinos not be in conflict with measurements by WMAP and others,
and examine the viable regions of parameter space. Prospects for direct
detection of neutralino dark matter via elastic scattering in these scenarios
are discussed.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, to be published in the proceedings of the
Invisible Universe International Conference, UNESCO, Paris, June 29 - July 3,
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