BSci
A well-known study on inattentional blindness, conducted in 1975 on a basketball court, involved this kind of costume
Gorilla [suit]
Our team gave three presentations at this conference this year—four, if you include Nick's campus tour
Science of Philanthropy Initiative Conference (SPI)
For 13 years, this "neat" club has brought over twenty thousand members together across two dozen chapters in five countries
Women Who Whiskey
Not another "Gameboy Advanced," this workstream is on its fourth iteration
GBA
Famous behavioral scientist B.F. Skinner attempted to invent a guided missile system during WW2 by training these animals to be tiny pilots inside of naval bombs
Pigeons
This term refers to the tendency to underestimate the influence of external/situational, and overestimate the influence of internal/dispositional, factors when looking at the behavior of others.
Fundamental attribution error
This is the year the Gates Foundation opened its doors
2000
Despite our behavioral expertise, this many pets have trained team members to feed them twice a day
2 (Julia)
This 2022-2023 internal project struggled with that dreaded buzzword—"ambiguity"—as it sought to promote dignity, social ties, and political mobilization within Black communities in the US
Building Power
The Giving team toured this "Place of Promise" neighborhood in Louisville
Russell
The social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted experiments related to this subject, seeking to understand the behavior of people under authoritarian regimes.
Obedience to authority
This partner organization, a donor community, rebranded near the end of our engagement with them, moving away from an acronym-based name to one that sounds a bit like an shell corporation in a Bond movie.
TPW / Forward Global
This is Eleni's wedding annivesary
Wednesday
This project concluded having created a new website, incorporated AI translation tools, and with roughly 170 users
VoterCast
After a weekend, this day of the week—er, website—didn't make project management any easier
In the 1950s, cognitive psychologist George Miller popularized this number as the rough number of information pieces (or "chunks") a person could hold in their working memory. Later research suggested that the number of chunks a person could hold in their short-term memory was actually slightly lower.
7±2
This partner retired from the Made to Measure pilot over concerns that issues areas would be "too progressive" for their members
Florida Philanthropic Network
This state is the triangulated midpoint of where we all live (and the site of our next retreat? Let's hope not!)
Ohio
This "spicy" name was a working title for 123Give
Paprika
This late 19th-century scholar was the first to teach a psychology course in the United States, and is often dubbed "the father of American psychology"
William James
The acronym "IDEAS"
Identify, Diagnose, Engineer, Analyze, Scale
The president of this partner organization also advised the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
The Elections Group
Roughly, this apt percentage of team members have gotten married since joining ideas42—statistically significant others, you might say
42
This long-term umbrella project captured a number of research, design, and implementation efforts that ultimately fed into VoterCast
(Non)voter Innovation Lab
Piyush Tantia made history in December 2024 by tasting this many whiskies in under 72 hours (+/- 3)
36