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The Sarah Estep Research Fund

Sarah Estep's daughter Becky has made a memorial donation to the AA-EVP that will enable the Association to establish a small a research fund. All of the donations that were made to the AA-EVP in honor of Sarah will be included in this fund. The Association is actively seeking additional funding for the Estep Research Fund. If you wish to support this initiative, be sure to let us know that your donation is intended to be added to the Sarah Estep Research Fund.  Remember that all donations are tax deductible!

Please see the Donate page for details about other ways to donate to the AA-EVP and this fund. Todd Bates has also set up a donation link at www.sarah-estep.com.

Research
As is noted in the Grants article, there have been a few modest research grants issued by other organizations specifically for ITC research. The AA-EVP will also offer modest research grants; a protocol is being developed that will depend on written proposals specifically detailing the research project, proposed costs, and what will be done by whom and in what timeframe. A final report will be required, which will be evaluated by subject matter specialists.

The AA-EVP will propose research targets via a Request For Proposal (RFP). Independent proposals from the public will also be accepted. For this, people submitting research proposals need not be AA-EVP members.

Subjects of interest

The AA-EVP is aware of several areas where research could advance our knowledge of ITC. For instance:

·         Improvements in audio recording technology for EVP.

·         A study of how humans hear sound; intended to develop ways to avoid false positives in EVP.

·         Techniques for teaching people how to hear EVP.

·         Using EVP with other trans-etheric communication modalities, such as clairvoyance and photography for phenomena analysis and verification.

·         Techniques for using transcommunication for information gathering, including locating lost people.

These are just examples. It is important that the AA-EVP is not seen as limiting areas of research. The only real requirement is that the research must have something to do with survival of consciousness.

Researcher qualifications

Anyone who can show a reasonable base of applicable experience, and is able to provide a well-considered proposal, may be a candidate for research funding. Proposals will be evaluated by the SERF Advisory Panel, based on the proposed experimental protocol, the candidate’s perceived ability to complete a usable project report and his or her willingness to subject that report to peer review.

A research candidates need not be a member of the AA-EVP.

Extent of support

The fund is new and is currently only able to provide small research grants, so it is a good idea to contact the AA-EVP before submitting a proposal. At this time, grants will probably not be larger than $4,000 U.S. funds.  We hope that this fund will attract further monies for continued and larger grants

The AA-EVP will be happy to sponsor unfunded projects, assuming they meet the same requirements set forth for funded projects. Having a project sponsored/supported by the AA-EVP may be helpful in raising public visibility of the work.

Procedure
The discussion board at http://etheric-studies.aaevp.com/journal/ will be set up as a tool for managing RFPs and research projects. Details as to how to proceed will be maintained there. In general:

·         The AA-EVP will develop a number of RFPs and post them on the Journal discussion board. Unsolicited research proposals should follow the guidelines posted on the discussion board and be submitted to the AA-EVP, first as a query letter and then as an attachment to a subsequent email.

·         Proposals will be reviewed by the SERF Advisory Panel, and if found to satisfy the basic requirements, will be posted as a topic on the discussion board as a "Project."

·         Status reports will be posted as "Responses" to the first post.

·         A final report will be posted as a new topic (the Best Practices Development wiki may be used for this) and subject matter specialists will be invited to comment. (Please note that this will be publicly viewable, but because of potential vandalism, all participants must be registered by the AA-EVP before they are included in the discussion.

Questions, comments and suggestions

Please contact the AA-EVP if you have questions about this program. Since we are new to this, we are always interested in hearing your comments and suggestions.

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