The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) is an American non-profit parapsychological research institute.
 It was co-founded in 1973 by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell, along with investor Paul N. Temple, and others interested in purported paranormal phenomena, in order to encourage and conduct research on noetic theory and human potentials.
The Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security is an American non-profit research institute created in 1987 to provide independent research and policy analysis on issues of development, environment, and security, with a particular focus on global and regional freshwater issues.
 It is located in Oakland, California (USA).
 The focus of the Institute is to find solutions to problems like water shortages and contamination, environmental conflicts, global climate change, and environmental terrorism.
 The mission of the Institute is to "conduct interdisciplinary research and partner with stakeholders to produce solutions that advance environmental protection, economic development, and social equity—in California, nationally, and internationally."
The Rockridge Institute was an American non-profit research and progressive think tank founded in 1997 and located in Berkeley, California from 2003 until April 30, 2008.
 Its stated goal was to strengthen democracy by providing intellectual support to the progressive community.
 The Rockridge Institute promoted progressive ideas and values, studied their implications, and worked to provide an effective articulation of those values to shift public discourse.
The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS gGmbH) was established in 2010 by SAP co-founder Klaus Tschira through his foundation, the “Klaus Tschira Stiftung”, as a private, non-profit research institute.
 HITS conducts basic research involving the processing structuring and analysis of large amounts of data in the natural sciences, mathematics and computer science.
 The research topics range from molecular biology to astrophysics.
 Shareholders of HITS are the “HITS-Stiftung”, Heidelberg University and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
 HITS cooperates with universities and research institutes, as well as with industrial partners.
 The prime external funding sources are the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the German Research Foundation and the European Union.
The Idiap Research Institute is a semi-private non-profit research institute at Martigny in the canton of Valais, in south-western Switzerland.
 It conducts research in the areas of speech processing, computer vision, information retrieval, biometric authentication, multimodal interaction and machine learning.
 The institute is affiliated with the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and with the Université de Genève.
John Mordecai Gottman (born April 26, 1942) is a professor emeritus in psychology.
 He is known for his work on marital stability and relationship analysis through scientific direct observations, many of which were published in peer-reviewed literature.
 The lessons derived from this work represent a partial basis for the relationship counseling movement that aims to improve relationship functioning and the avoidance of those behaviors shown by Gottman and other researchers to harm human relationships.
 His work has also had a major impact on the development of important concepts on social sequence analysis.
 Gottman is a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington.
 With his wife, Julie Schwartz, Gottman heads a non-profit research institute (The Relationship Research Institute) and a for-profit therapist training entity (The Gottman Institute).
Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) is a non-governmental organisation and non-profit research and development institute in Tambmal, Phaltan, Maharashtra, India.
 The institute undertakes research and development in the fields of agriculture, renewable energy, animal husbandry and sustainable development.
 The institute was founded in 1968 by Shri B. V. Nimbkar, who remained its president until 1990.
 Dr.Anil K. Rajvanshi is currently the director of the institute whereas Dr. Nandini Nimbkar is the president.
Alex MacGillivray works at CDC Group PLC as director of development impact.
 He used to be a managing director at the non-profit research institute AccountAbility.
 He previously served as deputy director of the New Economics Foundation.
 MacGillivray has worked for a range of governments, companies and non-profit organizations, and with United Nations agencies.
 He was part of the team that created the Living Planet Index for the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF).
 MacGillivray was also lead author of the research report, "Low Flying Heroes", whose title stems from the notion that social entrepreneurs and community activists operate mostly under the official radar that monitors community development.
Willis W. Harman (August 16, 1918 – January 30, 1997) was an American engineer, futurist, and author associated with the human potential movement.
 He was convinced that late industrial civilization faced a period of major cultural crisis which called for a profound transformation of human consciousness.
 Over a career lasting some four decades, he worked to raise public awareness on the subject through his writings and to foster relevant research through the nonprofit research institute SRI International, the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), and the World Business Academy (WBA).
 He served as president of IONS for two decades, and he was a cofounder of the WBA.
 His many books include volumes coauthored with the futurist Howard Rheingold, who put forward similar views, and the mythologist Joseph Campbell.
The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (CRR) was established in 1998 as part of the Retirement Research Consortium (RRC).
 The consortium includes parallel centers at the University of Michigan and the National Bureau of Economic Research.
 The Center is a non-profit research institute, affiliated with the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.
 All of the CRR’s research and publications are available to the public on its website.

Question:  Willis W. Harman worked to foster research through an American non-profit research institute co-founded by what former astronaut?
Answer: Edgar Mitchell