2022 Annual Report
In 2022, Source Research Foundation (SRF) funded 48 students and community members working in the field of psychedelics.
In 2022 we launched our Travel Grant Program and partnered with 3 different conferences, providing funding for students presenting their work at those conferences.
SRF also raised over $50,000 from donors, allowing us to continue to provide funding for our three grant programs.
2022 Student Grant Program
In 2022 we had 2 Application cycles and received a total of 22 Pre-Applications and invited 10 students to submit Full Applications. We awarded grants to 8 Students. We were able to award $30,000 of the total requested funds of $94,933.02.
Gender Identity
Area of Study
Location
2022 Student Grantee Spotlights
CJ Healy
The New School for Social Research
CJ is pursuing a PhD in Clinical Psychology at the New School for Social Research in New York. CJ’s study is a prospective, mixed-methods investigation of the psychological and biological outcomes of psychedelic use in naturalistic, group-based environments and their mediating mechanisms among people with histories of child maltreatment. Their study has two aims: first, to determine whether psychedelic use in two different naturalistic, group-based settings – traditional ceremonies/retreats and dance music events – is associated with beneficial psychobiological outcomes, such as reductions in complex trauma symptoms and internalized shame and increases in connectedness and heart rate variability, among people with histories of child maltreatment; and second, to investigate the acute experiential factors of the psychedelic experience, both internal/intrapsychic and social/interpersonal, that predict post-acute psychobiological outcomes.
Haley Dourron
University of Alabama-Birmingham
Haley is working towards her Doctorate in Health Behavior at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Her study will explore the experiences of people with a history of non-affective psychosis who use a classic psychedelic in a naturalistic setting after their first episode of psychosis. This project will explore the personal experiences of people’s most impactful experiences with both psychosis and classic psychedelics, to garner a better understanding of how these states compare. Haley expects that her study will have value for clinicians providing therapeutic support to people with a history of psychosis who use classic psychedelics by fostering a better understanding of the lived experiences of this population.
2022 Community Grant Program
In 2022 we had 2 Application cycles and received a total of 10 Initial Interest Applications and invited 5 organizations to submit Full Applications. We awarded grants to 4 organizations. We were able to award $20,500 of the total requested funds of $46,000.
Gender Identity
Area of Study
Location
2022 Community Grantee Spotlights
Psychedelic Surviors
Psychedelic Survivors is dedicated to supporting survivors of sexual abuse/assault, and/or direct personal harm within the context of psychedelic therapy, sessions or ceremony. They host a confidential online support circle for survivors of sexual abuse and interpersonal harm in psychedelic therapy, psychedelic sessions and ceremonies.
Sara Barbosa/Mujeres Bachue Foundation
The Mujeres Bachue Foundation is an established and trusted entity in the community, and has taken a leading roll in safeguarding traditional medicine and Midwifery knowledge in the Muisca community. Most recently, to facilitate our community mental health goals, we have forged an alliance with Origenes IPS to provide clinical support to intercultural integrative mental health models that are coherent to our cosmology.
Travel Grant Program
Thanks to our donors and sponsors we were able to launch our new Travel Grant Program in 2022 with big plans to further develop the program in 2023
In 2022 we had 3 Application Cycles for 3 different conferences throughout the year and were able to award a yearly total of $25,248.49 in grants
With the help of a grant of over $200,000 from Open Society Foundations, we will provide funding for six different Psychedelics conferences around the world in 2023.
2022 Research 2 Reality Travel Grant
We awarded 6 of our 7 applicants with the funds they needed to participate in the Research 2 Reality Conference in Toronto Canada.
We were able to award $3,899.49 of the total requested funds of $5,376.28
Gender Identity
Area of Study
Location
2022 Psychedemia Travel Grant
We awarded 20 of our 21 applicants with the funds they needed to participate in the Psychedemia Conference in Columbus, Ohio.
We were able to award $10,349 of the total requested funds of $27,399.37.
Gender Identity
Area of Study
Location
2022 Horizons NYC Travel Grant
We awarded 9 of our 22 applicants with the funds they needed to participate in the Horizons NYC Conference in New York, New York.
We were able to award $11,000 of the total requested funds of $36,042.72
Gender Identity
Area of Study
Location
2022 Student Grantee Spotlights
Uma Chatterjee
Uma is a neuroscience M.S. student and graduate student researcher, working in the Kolber Lab as part of the Center for Advanced Pain Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. At Psychedemia 2022 Uma presented her research titled: MDMA-AT, PTSD, & Comorbid OCD: Exploring the potential effects of 3,4- Methyledioxymethamphetamine assisted therapy for PTSD on comorbid OCD.
Emily Cribas
Emily Cribas is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the therapeutic role of intestinal repair and cell death processes in stem cells during toxin-mediated damage by C. difficile, an opportunistic pathogen that causes disease exclusively after perturbations to the gut microbiota. At Psychedemia 2022 she presented her research titled: A gut feeling: How our intestinal cellular network could bidirectionally shape psychedelics and their therapeutic effects.
Looking Ahead
At the end of 2022, SRF received a grant of over $200,000.00 from Open Society Foundations to expand our Travel Grant Program in the following year. In 2023 we will provide funding for six different psychedelics conferences around the world.
SRF will continue our three grant programs in the years to come as we continue to fulfill our mission to connect, inspire, and support students who study the epidemiology, phenomenology, and the environmental, cultural and clinical contexts of psychedelic use, and to develop a virtual collaboration of students, scientists, and community members who are passionate about psychedelic science.