Administrative Offices of WISE

Collaboration and Cooperation Department (CCD)

The responsibility of the CCD is to identify and contact those organizations that have a strong interest in scientific anomalies research, alternative medicine, or unexplained phenomena and events of any kind, and that may wish to: 1) Collaborate with WISE on various projects, 2) Coordinate their efforts with those of WISE to avoid duplication of effort, 3) Engage in joint ventures and activities with WISE to share work, or 4) Engage with WISE on any other mutually beneficial activity.

Country, Regional, and City Branch and Affiliate Administration (CRCBAA)

The responsibility of the CRCBAA is to help establish WISE branches and affiliates in:

1) All countries and territories of the world, especially where WISE members are already located;

2) All states and provinces of the larger countries, including the United States, China, Russia, India, Australia, Canada, and Brazil;

3) Large cities in those countries, states, and provinces;

4) Cities with Colleges and University campuses, since the future of anomalies research will be largely in the hands of those who are currently students on these campuses;

5) Selected large high school districts in the US and other countries to encourage young people to have an interest in science, especially the very exciting area of exploring scientific anomalies and unexplained phenomena.

Executive Administration Office (EAO)

The responsibility of the Executive Administration Office is to administer and coordinate the overall activities of all the administrative offices, as well as the activities of the research divisions. The president, vice-president, treasurer, and other top executive offices are located in the EAO

Grants and Prizes Department (GPD)

The responsibility of the Grants and Prizes Department (GPD) is to provide funding for research projects and to assist, and provide a vehicle for, all WISE Directors, Faculty members, Advisors, Researchers, and Research Associates, and other members to make grant applications to funding agencies of all kinds. Almost all foundations, government agencies, and corporate grant making bodies require that the official recipient of a grant be a non-profit organization. This makes it very difficult for individuals to apply for or receive grants of any kind on their own, and therefore, an individual needs to be a member of and apply through a non-profit organization, such as WISE, in order to receive grants.

In addition, WISE grant funding services can be of great value to graduate students or professors at colleges and universities through which they would normally apply for grants, but where such professors and graduate students may be unable or unwilling to apply for grants because of the controversial or “academically taboo” subject matter of their proposed study.

The Grants and Prizes Department (GPD) is also responsible for organizing and dispensing grants and prizes that WISE will provide directly. The GPD will announce prizes, and grants available and then administer the applications for those funds or prizes, decide who the successful applicants and winners are, and award them to the recipients. In addition, the GPD seeks out personal, corporate, or government agencies, and other sponsors for these grants and prizes.

Human Resources Department (HRD)

The responsibility of the Human Resources Department (HRD) will be to recruit and acquire people and volunteers to be the heads of the various WISE divisions and research centers, as well as, to be part of  the various faculty and advisory groups. In addition, it will be the responsibility of the HRD to recruit people to head and fulfill the personnel needs of the various WISE administrative departments.

IT Department (ITD)

The responsibility of the IT Department is to set up and maintain the WISE website, the comprehensive on-line wiki encyclopedia know WISEwiki.org, similar to Wikipedia, WISE social networking sites, WISE blogs, , and any other computer related activities of WISE.

Marketing Department (MD)

The responsibility of the Marketing Department (MD) is to market the innovative and novel services and products that WISE provides, produces, or is developing to consumers, corporations, government agencies, and other organizations. This includes all of the services and products described on the WISE website. In addition, the Marketing Department helps market the services and products of all WISE members through its Speakers Bureau and Professional Services Booking Office. The Marketing Department also manages the advertising of such services and products in various media outlets.

Membership Development Department (MDD)

The responsibility of the Membership Development Department (MDD) is to identify potential members for WISE and then contact those people and encourage them to join WISE. The MDD will also identify the anomalies interest(s) of each WISE member and determine what WISE department(s) they would like to be part of and what project(s) they would like  to participate in.

Press, Publicity, and Public Relations Department (PPPRD)

The responsibility of the Press and Public Relations Department (PPRD) is to write up and distribute press releases to the dozens, even hundreds of independent hard copy and on-line periodicals that exist around the world. The PPRD will first identify all active periodicals, worldwide that would be potentially suitable to put the WISE news release in. The PPPRD will also identify blogs in the anomalies, alternative medicine, and related fields to send the news releases to. In addition, this PPPRD attempts to get WISE listed as a link on other organization web pages, so that WISE will be better known and so WISE will show up high in Google and other search results.

Project Coordination Office (PCO)

The responsibility of the Project Coordination Department (PCD) will be to keep track of all proposed research projects, ongoing research projects, which WISE research center is handling those projects, the status of each of those projects, who is working on or assigned to each of the projects, and who the project leaders are. To aid in this activity, a project database or spreadsheet will be developed and made available on-line to all WISE members showing all of the information stated above. In addition, the PCO will contact WISE members to determine what projects they want to participate in or what projects they would like to see WISE initiate.

Publications and Periodicals Department (PPD)

The responsibility of the PPD is to publish the quarterly WISE Journal, which provides a place for WISE researchers to publish their research and provides a place to update people on the latest developments and accomplishments at WISE.  In addition the PPD is responsible for coordinating the addition of content to the WISEwiki.org on-line encyclopedia. The PPD will also assist WISE members to get their papers and articles published in the various journals of outside private publishing companies.

Research Administration Office (RAO)

The responsibility of the Research Administration Office (RAO) is to coordinate all major activities of the WISE research divisions and WISE research centers, to enable them to operate smoothly and efficiently. The RAO works closely with the division and research center directors to achieve this goal.