Professor Brian Pentecost of the British Heart Foundation said the project was an exciting advance.
Starting in 2009, the Gates Foundation supported a project known as the Measure of Effective Teaching, or MET, which worked with 3, 000 teachers to come up an evaluation and feedback system that helped teachers improve.
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Now, thanks to a grant by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the iShack project will be trialled over the next year.
Ms. Stavney's work as a master teacher is informed by a three-year project our foundation funded to better understand how to build an evaluation and feedback system for educators.
As a nonprofit corporation and neutral forum for collaboration, the Bitcoin Foundation follows the successful model of open source bodies like the Linux Foundation and the Tor Project.
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The foundation stone of the European project has been Franco-German co-operation.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands that every research project it funds has to make its full data set freely available, like open-source software code.
The OpenStack Foundation and the Open Compute Project is a community of 150 companies committed to building cloud architecture based upon open source software and open hardware standards.
When I visited last December as the chief representative of the Ford Foundation to review a biodiversity project, the men complained about the lack of access to credits, markets and knowledge to improve their farming.
WikiEducator, a flagship initiative of the OER Foundation, administers the Learning4Content project - the world's largest training project to provide free wiki-skills' courses for the collaborative development of OER to thousands of educators from 140 different countries.
The Storyline will provide foundation material upon which all other project activities will develop.
The Women Investing In Women Initiative is a project of the Calvert Foundation.
Several nonprofits are also involved, including NTI, which provides lab diagnostics, and the Rockefeller Foundation, which originally funded the project.
Matthew Patey, director of the British Skin Foundation which gave money towards the project, said the device would help many people.
Backed by financial support from the Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation for Education, the pilot project began several years ago with 35 colleges in six states.
Obama acknowledges meeting Ayers, now a university professor, in 1995, when both worked with a nonprofit group trying to raise money for a school improvement project and a charitable foundation.
Obama and Ayers, now a university professor, have met several times since 1995, when both worked with a non-profit group trying to raise funds for a school improvement project and a charitable foundation.
Obama and Ayers, now a university professor, have met several times since 1995, when both worked with a nonprofit group trying to raise funds for a school improvement project and a charitable foundation.
The 2011 Index of Economic Freedom, which is a joint project of The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal, ranked 183 countries based on 10 measures that evaluate such things as openness to trade and investment, government size, fiscal soundness, business and labor regulation, property rights, corruption, monetary stability and financial competition and transparency.
This figure also includes the Foundation's continuing commitment to supporting project meetings and selected other activities.
Another project funded by the Packard Foundation is working with 13 schools in Ethiopia and 15 in Tanzania on activities aimed at preventing girls from dropping out of school.
In 1952 news of Vogel's wheat filtered down to a remote research station in Mexico, where a man named Norman Borlaug was breeding fungus-resistant wheat for a project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
The final phase of construction ground to a halt last year in a public dispute over funding between the builder, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the nonprofit foundation that raised the money for the project.
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The foundation is also involved in a major project that will see the construction of an ecological school for 100 children in the Katanga province in the south of the DRC, the area where Coursaris was born and spent her early childhood.
The Palmares Cultural Foundation together with the UNESCO Slave Route Project hold from the 20th to the 23rd of August 2012 in Brasilia (Brazil), an international seminar entitled "Heritage, Identity and Culture: management of sites and places of memory related to the slave trade and slavery" which brought together experts in charge of the most significant sites and places of memory linked to this tragedy.
The foundation has funded everything from a goat restocking project to school construction.
That's when what they eat, drink, medicines they take and personal products they use, how they use their body becomes the building blocks in the construction project as they lay down the foundation of their future breast health.
Capping off a series of sweeping changes at Nokia, including a new Chief Executive and strategic shifts for its Meego project with Intel, the Symbian Foundation announced Tuesday that its Executive Director, Lee Williams, has left his post.
Leingruber, who works for the Mozilla Foundation, says the idea for the ID project came to him when he was crossing the border from Canada to the U.S., and a customs official jokingly asked him for his Facebook name instead of his passport.
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In fact, Mr. Gorbachev's speaking engagement is part of a campaign to fund his Foundation's three-part "Global Security Project" launched last month at a symposium in Moscow.
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