The Einsteinium Foundation’s mission is to raise funds for scientific research. Our mining tax creates a pool of funds that provide grants to deserving applicants. We recently integrated crowd funding into the process to award the grant beneficiary more funds than we could immediately supply. This enables us to market the project, our coin, our sponsor items, and the benefits of cryptocurrency to a wider audience. So far the Foundation has contributed 16M of EMC2 coins for science projects.