The Origins Project Foundation Releases Its 5 year Impact Report
It is heartening to see how much has been achieved in five years by a small group of volunteers. We are working to ensure the best is yet to come.
Last year, the Origins Project Foundation board commissioned the preparation of an impact report, to explore how each of our three major programmatic efforts, including our online educational efforts including our podcast, our travel adventures, and our public events, have developed, and what kind of impact they may have had. The results are heartening. For example:
20 Million Educational Downloads and Views
350 Educational Videos Released
8 Public Events Hosted and Sponsored
6 Travel adventures
I hope you will take some time to examine the report and read through the details, and see the photos.
Equally exciting is the positive response to our mission from various individuals of renown in the world of science and the arts. For example.
“The mission of the Origins Project may be all that stands between whether civilization ultimately fails or thrives in the 21st century.”
—Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The Origins Foundation and its podcast exist to celebrate, examine, question, wrangle, scrutinize, inspect, and play with ideas using the best tools that we know—reason, curiosity, experience and knowledge. …This is the kind of open, informed thinking, talking, and sharing that our world most needs if we are to navigate the very choppy seas ahead of us…”
—Steven Fry
Participants in our public events and travel adventures have been equally excited:
“Attending the Origins Project event was truly eye-opening…The chance to ask questions and engage with such brilliant minds along with other attendees who share a passion for science, made it an unforgettable experience. I left each event with a deeper understanding of the cosmos and a renewed sense of wonder about our place in it”
—2023 event attendee
“The Origins Project trip to the Galapagos was truly transformative…From snorkeling with sea turtles to standing at the hear of Darwin’s evolutionary discoveries, every day brought a new sense of wonder. The intimate group size meant I could really engage with the speakers and fellow travelers, all of whom shared a deep curiosity about the world. It wasn’t just a vacation—it was an opportunity to expand my mind.”
“This Origins Adventure has been the most memorable trip of our lives.”
-Participants in Origins Galapagos Experience 2024
As heartwarming as it is to learn of these impacts, we don’t want to rest on our laurels. With the support of donors, subscribers, and event participants we plan to grow to address new challenges. As I put it in my introduction to the impact report,
“The connection between science and culture goes beyond celebrating wonder, to relying on reason and empirical testing, and promoting free speech and open inquiry. These are the hallmarks of the enlightenment and the progress that has accompanied it.”
We will be focusing over the coming years on working to inspire and motivate the public to help protect and celebrate these fundamental enlightenment gifts. We will forge new partnerships globally, host a series of public events with scholars from around the world, and launch our first scientific workshop…The Origins Podcast will move to a weekly format by 2025…
The future of the Origins Project Foundation is transformative. Through these efforts, we will connect people, ideas, and communities, fostering new insights into our world, and with that a renewed commitment to free speech, reason, and open inquiry. The journey ahead promises discovery, collaboration, and inspiration—things our divided world needs now more than ever.”