Reformers tend to gloss over the fact that charter schools are often heavily funded by private donors such as the Gates Foundation, the Broad Foundation, and other deep-pocketed groups and individuals.
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One such study, funded by the National Science Foundation, was conducted in senior residential facilities near Indiana's Purdue University.
Most mobile-health projects are still at the trial stage, but a report compiled in 2008 by the UN Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation documented around 50 such projects across the developing world.
There are some non-industry organizations that have made massive strides in pharmaceutical transparency, such as the Access to Medicines Index, funded by the Gates Foundation.
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Indeed, the government's relief efforts were eclipsed in the popular imagination by the heroic ministrations of such charitable groups as the Buddhist Tzu-Chi foundation.
The hook-heavy foundation of Dog Problems is aided by involvement from power-pop greats such as Steve McDonald (Redd Kross) and Roger Manning (Jellyfish).
So you would think it would appreciate significant gift offers, such as the recent offer by a former state Supreme Court justice and the John William Pope Foundation to establish a Center for the North Carolina Constitution at the NCCU Law School.
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For Microsoft customers, the great news is that we acknowledged this shift several years ago and began laying the foundation for it with our investments in public cloud offerings such as Windows Azure and by integrating private cloud technologies into our existing Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V virtualization and System Center IT management offerings.
The X PRIZE Foundation and Qualcomm seeks to achieve this by combining advancements in expert systems and medical point of care data such as wireless sensors, advancements in medical imaging and microfluidics.
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The restoration, led by the government and the Hong Kong Heritage Conservation Foundation, has retained its old-world charm while adding conveniences such as a nifty elevator that rises at an angle up the bluff on which the hotel sits.
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