[DIYbio] Fundraising success: $60,000 raised for the SENS Research Foundation, another $15,000 matching grant announced

Since I posted on this short fundraising initiative last month, I
thought I should let the group know that the goal was achieved in the
last couple of days. The community succeeded in raising $60,000 for the
SENS Research Foundation to help expand their work on various forms of
cellular and molecular damage repair technologies, aimed at reversing
the causes of aging per the SENS outline - which I'm sure you're all
familiar with.

Thank you to all who donated, and note that there is another matching
grant put up by Michael Cooper for the next $15,000 in donations to this
very worthy cause.

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https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2013/12/fundraising-success-60000-raised-for-rejuvenation-science-another-15000-matching-grant-announced.php

For the past month Fight Aging!, Jason Hope, and the Methuselah
Foundation have been running a 3 to 1 match on up to $15,000 donated to
the SENS Research Foundation before the end of the year. The Foundation
is perhaps the only organization in the world presently working
earnestly and seriously on the scientific foundations needed to produce
actual, real, working rejuvenation therapies, piece by piece over the
next few decades. The Foundation is very well connected in the research
community, funds projects in labs around the world, and the scientific
advisory board is made up of well-regarded names from numerous fields in
the life sciences and medicine.

It is the grassroots that drives the growth of any organization: the
more people that show support the easier it becomes to win large
investments from conservative funding sources and philanthropists.
Multi-million dollar donations for medical research only happen when
thousands of people make it known that this cause is worth it by giving
a little each. Thus more money raised and more supporters raising their
voices at this comparatively early juncture will lead to accelerating
progress over the years ahead, moving us towards the large-scale funding
needed for the best practical rate of growth in this field of research.
None of us are getting any younger, after all, and time is of the essence.

I'm very pleased to say that even after past months of generous
donations to fund a number of projects relating to healthy life
extension and research, the community still pulled together to find the
full $15,000 in just a few weeks, pulling in the combined $45,000 in
matching funds from Fight Aging!, Jason Hope, and the Methuselah Foundation.

But that isn't all: long-time Methuselah Foundation donor Michael Cooper
has put up another $15,000 matching fund that has yet to be met. Further
donations will be matched by this - so if you are still on the fence or
late to the news, here is your chance.

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