By law, charitable foundations must conduct exclusively nonpartisan activities that promote the public welfare.
They find sympathetic voices in academia and in charitable foundations to bulwark their reforms in the intellectual sphere.
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What distinguishes Iran is that many of these assets were given to Islamic charitable foundations, controlled by the clerics.
However, the Kecks, and many others, are paid for not by taxpayers but by rich individuals or charitable foundations.
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One lesson she's learned: She can do without the bureaucracy of charitable foundations.
Public Campaign is a nonprofit organization financed largely by grants from charitable foundations.
Buffett, and his billionaire crew, avoid capital gains taxes on donating their own company stock to their own charitable foundations.
Along with personal jets and homes in the islands, charitable foundations are becoming a must-have for more and more celebrities.
One place to start your search is the Association of Charitable Foundations' own website (link on the right hand side of this page).
Moreover, the charitable foundations, like university endowments, plan to be around for ever, and take a long-term view that gives managers more leeway.
In 1917 Knut Wallenberg set up the first, and biggest, of the charitable foundations that have become repositories for most of the family's wealth.
Buffett, however, has developed a habit of giving away billions of dollars each year via the transfer of Berkshire Hathaway stock to charitable foundations.
Investors include some government and private sector pension and retirement funds, a number of charitable foundations, university endowments, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies.
The foundation is primarily a donor-advised fund that allows individual contributors to create mini charitable foundations under its umbrella and collects fees for its services.
Finally, Governments should take a strong lead in strengthening national health systems in partnership with community leaders, faith-based organizations, charitable foundations and the private sector.
They may well be closing down some of those sources - choking off possibly even charitable foundations who might be channelling money to organisations such as his.
He has commenced a plan to give away his shareholdings to various charitable foundations (a noble endeavor) which will also avoid triggering many billions of dollars in tax payments.
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He has also built up a multi-million pound business advising banks and foreign governments, which helps to fund a network of charitable foundations devoted to promoting inter-faith dialogue and other causes.
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The influence of the professionally run charitable foundations may also be a deciding factor in making Investor unique, for the foundations are ultimately the biggest winners or losers from the decisions of Investor's managers.
Government organizations (including the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health), charitable foundations, and pharmaceutical companies across the world have all helped finance the initiative, but the funders played no role in the data collection, analysis, or publication.
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Given the foregoing, one can understand why wealthy Greeks do not want to hand their wallet to the government, but would rather benefit the country directly by setting up charitable foundations that decide which projects to pursue, overseeing their implementation.
Yes, NFL and NBA owners have foundations with charitable activities.
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Its clients include 73 of the 100 largest U.S. pension plans, 39 U.S. states, more than 350 corporations, more than 300 university, charitable and other endowments and foundations, and six of the top 10 sovereign-wealth-fund nations.
We have also updated regulations to make it easier for foundations to invest in businesses pursuing charitable purposes and stronger communities.
Indeed, donor-advised funds, both those run by community foundations like the Trust and those affiliated with investment firms, such as the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, the Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, and the Schwab Charitable Fund, are a fine way for folks who aren't rich enough to set up their own private foundations to funnel money over time to their favorite charities.
The successes point to the second critical lesson for foundations: Instead of limiting themselves to traditional charitable gifts -- building a playground, offering scholarships to deserving high school students -- the approach strengthens the connections between neighborhood residents and the marketplace.
So civil society can be community groups, NGOs, labour unions, indigenous groups, charitable organisations, faith-based organisations, professional associations and foundations.
These private foundations are required by law to give away 5% of their assets each year to support charitable causes, like feeding the hungry, protecting the environment and curing disease.
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