Gates wants to see more funding for a National Science Foundation program for math, science and engineering graduates students, and he suggested that at the high school level, math and science teachers should be paid more.
Over the last few years, the Today and Tomorrow Educational Foundation, a program of the Archdiocese of St.
Dell Scholars Program: The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation has a nationwide college readiness program.
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The Seattle-based foundation is organized into three program divisions with their own president: Global Health, Global Development, and the U.S. Program.
Research for this article stems in part from my fellowship in the 2011-2012 MetLife Foundation Journalists in Aging Fellowship program created by New America Media and the Gerontological Society of America.
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Most recently, the foundation introduced the Plastic Free Schools program to reduce single-use plastic on the Hawaiian Islands.
Urban Management Program and the Asia Foundation for their suggestions (see page 52).
Stanford invited the philanthropy for a meeting in spring 2011, and the school became one of just two feeders for the foundation's new summer internship program.
The teens also make and sell products at the center's bakery, which helps fund the program, and the foundation offers micro-loans to help them start their own businesses.
When considering the food banks that would be a part of the energy efficiency program, the Walmart Foundation focused on the communities with the most food insecurity including Gulf Coast states.
Under the program, Fisher House Foundation provides free airline tickets to wounded, injured, and ill military men and women who are undergoing treatment at a military or VA medical center and to attend authorized events.
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In that same year, the Sunshine Foundation launched, the Learning by Giving Program.
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John A. Hartford Foundation will expand an evidence-based program for treating depression into rural communities in Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho.
Kornbluh used to direct The Work and Family Program at the New America Foundation, served in the Clinton administration and was an adviser to Sen.
In any case, her attention to poetry has been a boon for all poets, says Stephen Young, program director at the Poetry Foundation, based in Chicago.
"In Washington, she is really considered Obama's brain on so many policies, " said Steven Clemons, director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation and writer of the Washington Note blog.
After being sent to a summit in Rio de Janeiro last summer he was given an opportunity to study in New York thanks to Tribal Link's Indigenous Fellowship Program and the Nataasha van Kampen Foundation.
Mr. DAVID BRANDLING-BENNETT (Senior Program Manager, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation): This is not really new technology.
But my tuition for the program was covered by the Milken Family Foundation.
Neil Kashkari, the Treasury Department's bailout czar, now expresses confidence that we are building the foundation for a strong, decisive, and effective program.
Whole Foods has the Whole Planet Foundation which run campaigns and a micro-lending program to inject cash into needy communities on an international scale.
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The school is being taken over by the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in March after its three-year pilot by the Qattan Foundation to ensure it has the best possible academic program.
Beyond her more recent work in corporate philanthropy -- including as the chief operating officer and founding president of the Global Development Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through 2011 -- Burwell has experience in government.
Other involvements include National Agriculture Statistics Service Advisory Committee, Extension Indian Reservation Program Advisory Committee, Indian Land Tenure Foundation Board Member, Chairman of the Agriculture Committee for the National Congress of American Indians and also serves on his local school board.
David Brandling-Bennett is a senior program manager with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The article was written by Amy Berman, a registered nurse and senior program officer at the John A. Hartford Foundation.
Kellner's foundation annually sends seven handpicked students from the American Studies program to either Trinity or Bard colleges in the U.S. for a year, all expenses paid.
Peter West, spokesman for the National Science Foundation, which oversees the U.S. Antarctic Program, said 24 hours of daylight this time of year should help rescue efforts.
While the NRC deliberates, the nuclear industry has stepped into the breach with the "Diverse and Flexible Coping Capability" program, or FLEX, designed as the foundation of its Fukushima response.
These students receive not only internships but a speaker series, networking events and mentorship from entrepreneurs, investors, and executives in Silicon Valley, thanks to program partners like Andresseen Horowitz and the Kauffman Foundation.
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