But now that foundation is beginning to crumble, and if the trend is not reduced, the 50-year-long ascendency of the region could be threatened.

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There's much to like in the new plan, beginning with the foundation's confession that version 1.0, focused on creation of small high schools, didn't turn out very well, save for several networks of high-performance charters such as KIPP, Yes-Prep and Achievement First.

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It was "the beginning of a new foundation", he said in English.

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Beginning around 2005, the foundation began experimenting with programs providing the most basic solution--bed nets laced with insecticide.

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The Rockefeller Foundation set out on this path at the very beginning, by focusing on field and capacity building to ensure the quality of the first few social impact bonds, engaging the capital markets and traditional investors, and as investors ourselves.

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AMD, ARM, and Imagination are beginning to do this with the recent HSA Foundation anouncement.

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The foundation into which he poured much of his Microsoft fortune took AIDS seriously from the beginning, forming a particularly fruitful partnership with the government of Botswana, one of the worst-affected countries.

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Chris Collins, a vice president of amFAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, said many people don't realize what an important role Koop played in the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.

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