Minerva Foundation
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|founded_date = 1983
|founder = Helen and Elwin Marg
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|location_city = Berkeley, California
|location_country = United States
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|focus = Neuroscience
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|homepage = http://www.minervaberkeley.org
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The Minerva Foundation is a US-based non-profit, scientific and charitable foundation. It is headquartered in Berkeley, California. It was established in 1983 by Helen and Elwin Marg.{{cite web|author= Gerald Westheimer|title= IN MEMORIAM: Elwin Marg|date= 2010|url= http://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/inmemoriam/elwinmarg.html|work= senate.universityofcalifornia.edu|publisher= University of California|accessdate= 4 September 2013|url-status= dead|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20140907004303/http://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/inmemoriam/elwinmarg.html|archivedate= 7 September 2014}} Other than the founders, directors include Richard M. Buxbaum, Lawrence W. Stark, Semir Zeki, Tamia Marg Anderson, Lila S. Crutchfield, and Vero Bollow.
The foundation was named after Minerva, the Roman goddess of, among other things, wisdom and medicine.{{cite web|author =Minerva |url= http://www.minervaberkeley.org/about|title= About Minerva Foundation| work= www.minervaberkeley.org|date=|publisher= Minerva Foundation| accessdate=4 September 2013}}
Focus
Minerva Foundation is a not-for-profit, charitable foundation, dedicated to promoting novel approaches to the study of the visual brain. Since its inception in 1983, the foundation has honored exceptional scientists with its Golden Brain award and brought leading research to the general public through its series of conferences and other forums on creativity, perception, and brain science.
Minerva House
Minerva Foundation maintains a large Victorian building originally built for Charles C. Boudrow (c. 1830–1918), a Massachusetts-born master mariner, in downtown Berkeley near the University of California at Berkeley campus. The house was designated a City of Berkeley Landmark on 21 June 1976. It was bought by Frank Leba and Kelly Brown in 1994, who restored and renovated the entire building. They even received a BAHA Preservation Award in 2006.{{cite web| author=Daniella Thompson |title=East Bay Then and Now: Shipping Magnate's Mansion Is Rare Survivor on Oxford Street |date=8 September 2006 | url= http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2006-09-08/article/25051?headline=East-Bay-Then-and-Now-Shipping-Magnate-s-Mansion-Is-Rare-Survivor-on-Oxford-Street&status=301 |work=The Berkeley Daily Planet |publisher= |accessdate= 4 September 2013}}{{cite web| author=Daniella Thompson |title=Captain Charles C. Boudrow House |date=2006 | url= http://berkeleyheritage.com/berkeley_landmarks/boudrow.html |work= berkeleyheritage.com |publisher= |accessdate= 4 September 2013}} The Minerva foundation finally acquired it in 2008.{{Citation needed|date=March 2020}}
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External links
- [http://www.faqs.org/tax-exempt/CA/Minerva-Foundation.html Information at Faqs.org]
Category:Non-profit organizations based in California
Category:Medical and health foundations based in the United States