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 he mission of the Creativity Foundation is to expand the public's understanding of the phenomenon of creativity, enabling more people who are capable of outstanding accomplishment to emerge as creative, gifted individuals. The world's most innovative thinkers share their experiences, sparking the curiosity, imagination and originality of others.
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he Foundation reconvened Benjamin Franklin's Junto (from the Latin "to join", not Junta, a small revolutionary group seizing power) of young tradesmen, whom he brought together for their mutual self-improvement and as a springboard for founding institutions, for writing and publishing critical pamphlets and for becoming the honest broker of creative ideas not aligned with or encumbered by religious, political or royal affiliations.
On January 17, 2000, the 294th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, B. Franklin Kahn and several of his most ingenious acquaintances reconvened the Junto with very distinguished men and women at the peaks of accomplishment in their own disciplines.
This Junto has two primary initiatives:
The Laureate Program encourages extraordinarily accomplished individuals to explore and share the development of their own creative thinking. Each year the Foundation awards a Laureate Prize for Creativity to an exemplary individual in the arts, sciences, humanities, or public service; on receiving the prize, the Laureate engages with the audience
in an intimate exploration of the process of creativity.
For information about this year's Laureate Award recipient, Meryl Streep, click here.
For further information about the Laureates, click here.
The Legacy Program, has expanded and rejuvenated Ben Franklin's original Legacy Prize. The program identifies, inspires, and encourages innovation and achievement among younger individuals.
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Science:
Intel Science Talent Search
— Seaborg Prize
National Institue of Mental Health |
Performing Arts:
Duke Ellington School of the Arts,
Washington D.C.
Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA |
Humanities and Service:
Phillips Brooks House at Harvard University |
Entrepreneurship:
Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania |
Play the video "Exploring Creativity" Running time, 8 minutes 54 seconds
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Wilton Dillon
Senior Scholar Emeritus, Smithsonian Institution
Mary Maples Dunn
Co-Chair, American Philosophical Society
Dudley R. Herschbach**
Nobel Prize, Chemistry, 1986
Chemical Physics, Harvard University
Gerald Holton
Jefferson Lecturer Prize, 1981
National Endowment for the Humanities
Physics and History of Science, Harvard University
B. Franklin Kahn, Chairman**
Wharton Cyclic Stabilization,
University of Pennsylvania
Washington Real Estate Investment Trust
Laurie Kahn-Leavitt**
Emmy Award, Non-Fiction, 1998
Documentary Filmmaker
Women's Studies Center, Brandeis University
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Lawrence R. Klein
Nobel Prize, Economics, 1980
Wharton Econometrics, University of Pennsylvania
Mara Mayor**
Smithsonian Institution, The Smithsonian Associates
Former Director
James W. Pruett**
Library of Congress
Music Division, Former Chief
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Music Department, Former Chairman
Trey Sunderland
Laurel Ulrich
Pulitzer Prize, History, 1991
Early American History, Harvard University
** = Junto Executive Committee Member
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