Her organization, entente, is a social enterprise, with a commercial arm and a not for profit foundation with projects that include building and restoring trust in businesses, homes, and communities.
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He has set up the Premji Foundation to fund projects in 18, 000 schools across India, which aim to encourage students to develop computer skills.
She didn't go back to the African country before turning 18, but now she returns three or four times a year to visit her mother and oversee the progress of the foundation's projects.
Most mobile-health projects are still at the trial stage, but a report compiled in 2008 by the UN Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation documented around 50 such projects across the developing world.
Sir Peter's brother David Vardy is the director of the Vardy Foundation's Schools projects.
The Asus Foundation has financed green projects but mostly backs IT-related philanthropy, such as sending computers to less developed countries.
The Rockefeller Foundation has also backed projects such as the NatLab, a collaboration of National Resources Defense Council, The Nature Conservancy, and Eko Asset Management Partners, that is designing new financing products for GI.
Mr. Pavel Piminov, the communication director of Elena Pinchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation (Ukraine), presented a wide range of innovative campaigns and projects conducted by the Foundation in the Internet and social media networks.
Michelson's Found Animals Foundation is setting up pilot projects in Los Angeles to test some of these ideas.
We will all look at this and discuss the future with our advisors, but it will not stop my many business interests globally that are unrelated to anything in the U.S. and it will not stop my many charity projects through my foundation.
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Among the projects started by his foundation was an experimental school in one of Miami's poorest districts.
The Indigo Trust, of which I am executive, is a grant-making foundation that funds technology-driven projects that bring about social change in Africa.
Since its founding in 2000 with backing from Swiss-based luxury good holding company Richemont, London-based Laureus Sport for Good Foundation has raised funds to support projects that improve the educational and athletic development of children around the world.
The company is working with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on a scientific version of the computer called PERCS (Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computing System).
The good news is that despite the divergent approaches of the different open core heads, there is really one set of Hadoop APIs that all three heads agree on (for now) and that are the foundation of a thriving ecosystem of projects.
In 1993 Milken founded the Prostate Cancer Foundation, which funded high-risk projects that federal agencies might have eschewed.
These days, he devotes more time on the charitable projects of the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation, which owns 24% of JG Summit.
In 1993 Milken founded the Prostate Cancer Foundation, which funded high-risk projects that federal agencies might have eschewed (see sidebar, p. 104).
The foundation is supporting documentary films, photo projects and, most ambitiously, cataloging, digitizing and making searchable online Mr. Strachwitz's collection of some 17, 000 Mexican-American and Mexican 78rpm records, at the University of California's Strachwitz Frontera Collection.
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.
Komen for the Cure Foundation briefly cut funding for some Planned Parenthood projects, saying it decided it would no longer fund groups under federal investigation.
The money to study the brain would support research by the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation.
Our foundation will match every dollar donated to these projects.
This is why we hope that organizations like UNITAID, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Clinton Foundation will help fund her work and similar projects in the coming years.
She has been involved in children and women's rights since the 90's, founding the Joyce Banda Foundation International in 1997 which has since guided projects from empowering market women to providing orphans education, as well as the National Association of Business Women in Malawi and the Young Women's Leaders Network.
He has donated money to the Righteous Persons Foundation, which grants money to a variety of projects impacting modern Jewish life.
"Litigious activists have used the Endangered Species Act to fight projects, " Reed Hopper, the foundation's principal attorney, said in a statement.
Among the supporting organizations will be the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the National Science Foundation.
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She founded the Barefoot Foundation in 1995, which operates schools and educational projects in Colombia, South Africa, and Haiti, feeding and educating approximately 6, 000 children.
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In an effort to answer this question, a cluster of Aga Khan Foundation-supported child-to-child experimental projects in India where studied by three Indian research institutes.
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