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 This effort is a collaboration between Queen's University Belfast, the University of Washington's DiRAC Institute, 
 the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and LINCC Frameworks (through the LINCC Frameworks Incubator Program).
 
-LINCC Frameworks is supported by Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, as part of the Virtual Institute of Astrophysics (VIA).
+This project is supported in part bythe generosity of Eric and Wendy Schmidt by recommendation of the Schmidt Futures program.
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