The Capita Foundation:
     
Discover. Share. Advocate. Lead.

The Capita Foundation is one of the few privately funded nonprofit organizations specializing in the support of innovative auditory research worldwide.

What Makes Us Different?

We Advocate Visionary Thinking.

CFAR grants provide seed money to scientific researchers with significant vision, but little or no financial support.  These grants not only ensure that innovative projects move forward, but help researchers leverage additional grants to continue important research. The Foundation directly funds hearing related projects by some of the brightest scientific researchers in the field.

We Invest Carefully.

Our Scientific Review Board reviews and vets a long list of grant applications, but selects six or fewer each calendar year.  Research projects selected meet a strict standard for scientific rigor and innovation, while maintaining potential for practical application Grants are extended to a second year only if a grantee makes meaningful progress and meets all of the benchmarks stipulated in her/his original grant proposal.

We Are Nimble.

As an independent, privately funded charitable organization the Capita Foundation is more readily able to fund early-stage scientific research than government programs. The majority of research funded by the Capita Foundation includes early-stage research or projects by early-career research scientists, enabling them to produce the preliminary results needed to secure grants from the NIH and major funders.  The Capita Foundation does not receive contributions from government resources. 

We Meet a Critical Need.

Many of the pioneering research projects funded by the Capita Foundation would otherwise go unfunded.

We Are Prepared to Lead.

As one of the few privately-funded nonprofit organizations specializing in the support of auditory research, the Capita Foundation is positioned to promote the cause by encouraging the support of novel approaches to hearing research by sharing knowledge and connecting people and ideas. Even when the Capita Foundation isn’t directly funding research, we’re advocating research.

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