Giving by Bay Area foundations has grown faster than giving by California and U.S. foundations overall in recent years, according to the Foundation Center, a New York-based philanthropy researcher.
Similarly, the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles operates a Family Foundation Center which provides funders of all types--including DAF holders--with access to resources and networking opportunities that help to foster intergenerational philanthropy and educate about particular fields of interest.
The Hazelden Foundation in Center City, Minn. gave some good advice: Don't put up all the cash yourselves, recruit local support.
It was recently presented by the Joyce Theater Foundation at Lincoln Center's David H.
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The show continues at The Brant Foundation Art Study Center through March of next year.
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"Soft drinks and sugar-containing beverages are the low hanging fruit in public health today, " says Dr. David Ludwig, director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, at Children's Hospital in Boston.
With the opening of her foundation's new center last year, 400 pregnant teens and young mothers now enroll every year.
Ms. Burlingame, a former attorney and a director of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, is the sister of Charles F.
The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation will have erected a building whose only connection to September 11 is a strained, intellectual one.
Ms. Burlingame is a member of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation board of directors and lives in Westchester County, New York.
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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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"Jack Hanley brought big-league thinking to a nonprofit industry, " says Douglas Tieman, head of the Caron Foundation, a Pennsylvania treatment center.
Mr. Rankin serves on numerous boards including the Board of Visitors of the University Cancer Foundation at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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"We have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support for Youssif and his family, and are grateful that the Children's Burn Foundation and the Grossman Burn Center have volunteered to help, " said Mitch Gelman, CNN.com's senior vice president and senior executive producer.
The state ranked 4th last year in tax costs on new firms as calculated by the Tax Foundation, and a Kauffman Center index of entrepreneurial activity showed Wisconsin with the 7th-largest rise last year among the handful of states that did better at all.
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The foundation of the new World Trade Center flooded, as did Long Island locales like Fire Island and the Rockaways.
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Organizations such as the Open Networking Foundation and the Open Networking Research Center are focused on developing industry standards.
Her foundation is building a national training center on 125 acres of Santa Paula hills between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.
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Sunday's Post credited the work of Eagle Forum's Phyllis Schlafly, Free Congress Foundation's Paul Weyrich, and Center President Frank Gaffney for the ratification delay.
The Hewlett Foundation's Hal Harvey and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change's Eileen Claussen are key figures in commissioning research and working on politicians.
The panels were organized under the auspices of the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for Security Policy and its New Deterrent Working Group.
With help from a National Science Foundation grant, Milwaukee created a collaborative research center that links together the research from UW-Milwaukee, Marquette University and six area businesses.
To this end, leaders of six preeminent national security-minded public policy institutions - including the Heritage Foundation, the Claremont Institute, the Foundation for Defense of Democracy and my own Center for Security Policy - came together earlier this year to define such an agenda.
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She also served in numerous non-profit capacities, including as Executive Director of the Council for National Policy, Vice President of Government Relations at the Heritage Foundation, as well as a director of the Center for Security Policy.
The key question then is how to humanize such mega-cities, the theme of the upcoming New Cities Foundation summit that Sao Paulo is hosting in June. (Full disclosure: I serve on the NCF board of trustees.) The reinvention of Sao Paulo will begin right at its center with projects such as the URBEM Foundation's Casa Paulista.
The Foundation commissioned the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center to conduct both studies.
The IBM Client Center for Advanced Analytics will offer a strong foundation for a broad public and private sector collaboration that will include Ohio State, JobsOhio, Columbus 2020, ICC, an IBM Premier Partner, and other Columbus-based businesses.
The Center for Security policy is a non-profit educational foundation that supports a strong national defense.
Port thinks it is, and so perhaps do the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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And with the Thiel Foundation, there will be a lounge space near the Austin Convention Center for networking and office hours with experienced entrepreneurs.
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