She and her foundation are helping thousands of rural children attend school by providing them with uniforms, supplies and other services.
Both of these advances are helping to build the foundation for practical quantum computing, and point to the possibility of consumer grade quantum computers in the future.
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All money raised went to the the Big Issue Foundation and will go towards helping homeless people rebuild their lives.
Divers become expert fish spotters, helping compile a database of species for the foundation, which is then used for scientific papers and research.
The Vice President was tasked with implementing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, helping to rebuild our economy and lay the foundation for a sustainable economic future.
Time off: Helping youth fight drugs and AIDS through the Auchan Foundation.
The Houston Rockets point guard hosted a gala Thursday night, the eve of All-Star Weekend, to unveil a foundation that will benefit three Houston organizations helping underprivileged children.
So with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, starting in 2007 I began helping to bring together people around the world who share an excitement about the positive role that investment can play in addressing social and environmental challenges.
Sandcastle builders will be able to buy flags for their castles from Big Issue Foundation representatives, with the money going towards helping homeless people rebuild their lives.
When I sold my own company earlier this year the first thing I did was to establish a charity called the IPOP Foundation, which is a charity focused on helping entrepreneurs through education and mentoring and access to capital.
The U.S. government as well as private groups like the X Prize Foundation can play an important role in stimulating and helping budding visioneers through prizes, funding or other forms of support.
Through the leadership and philanthropic investments of the Citi Foundation and our partners KIPP and UNCF we are helping thousands of students at KIPP charter schools in select cities open a college savings account.
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He also will urge Congress to take longer-term action when it comes to funding infrastructure projects around the country, putting -- keeping construction workers on the job, helping rebuild our infrastructure and, again, further solidify the foundation for our economic future.
Lichtblau, chief executive of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation in New York, agrees that Chinese demand is helping to drive up the price of crude oil worldwide.
"It's more thought of as child care for when the parent needs it as opposed to the child's development and really helping prepare for early literacy skills that are going to be the foundation for school, " said Chang, director of Attendance Works, a Maryland-based initiative that mentors districts in fighting absenteeism.
As president of the Kauffman Foundation at that time, I followed all of this very closely, helping to compose the strategy that emerged on twenty campuses around the country that received funds.
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It's not only helping American workers get back on their feet today but it's laying a foundation for long-term growth for tomorrow -- a little bit what we were talking about in the anteroom.
They listened to experts talk about foundation tax-planning, about big causes like wiring up American schools and helping poor kids overseas.
The X PRIZE Foundation ( www.xprize.org) can be proud of its role in helping midwife this Fourth Era of Spaceflight and Exploration.
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We raise money for the foundation and it goes to doing everything from libraries to playgrounds to Planet Orange to helping out community centers.
Donald Goldfarb, the interim dean of Columbia's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, said the latest project is aimed at helping the university's engineering school overcome its biggest hurdle in reaching the topmost echelon of the field: its relatively small size.
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