From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 10:24 AM To: Barnaby Marsh Subject: Re: 340 775 8111 On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Barnaby Marsh <mailt > wrote: Did speak with Martin- all should be good. =br> Will call in the morning, if that works.... <=iv class="gmail_extra"> <mailto On Sun Nov 23 20=4 at 8:38 AM, Barnaby Marsh >=wrote: <=iv>Yes I was going to talk to Martin today.. there are several parts. <=1" Some of the things I am figuring out on my end: For Joi- a first question is whether this is connected with MIT =overhead) or goes another route. The latter seems desirable, but I hear th=t MIT is not too happy with this. We need to makes sure there is not block=ge. The bigger, more important issue is that the money enables something v=ry unusual. I still am not convinced the Joi has all of the background det=ils figured out. My team is working with his people who do the background =tuff, but it is not clear where the loyalties are here - to the Lab, or to=loi. For Martin- He has a current Templeton grant that runs =hrough 2015 (already funded) and a second now in the works that will begin=in late 2015 and extend through 2019. The second grant is not yet reviewed=or approved. Any offer to match on the second grant will help secure it. B=sically, all he needs is a short letter or statement (even from him) that =ays that additional donated money will augment and boost any of the ideas =nd work that he is working on in the grant. However, it can be used any wa= he wishes, including new directions, such as special fellowships. The wor= is broad, so, it should be easy (as far as you are concerned). On my end,=the thing that is taking long with Martin is just the documentation- each =ime we need a proposal, and he, I, and others have to put together the jus=ification ourselves. He does not have a grant-writing team, like many othe=s do. Sometimes, he uses grad students or postdocs, but in these case