Despite its name, this is really a non-governmental organisation, not a classic grant-making foundation, though there are plans to raise an endowment.
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.
Butler University has perfected this practice by making it the foundation of its culture.
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But although the renewable-energy sector is growing by 30% a year, Mr Ritter's dream of making it the foundation of economic growth seems chimerical.
Of course I can understand why the IFRS Foundation are making this move.
Yowell, director of education grant-making at the MacArthur Foundation, in the Times interview.
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An intimate understanding of current and emerging business processes provides the CIO with a solid foundation for making portfolio management decisions.
Several months in the making, the Bitcoin Foundation launches this week to accelerate the global growth of bitcoin through standardization, protection, and promotion of the open source protocol.
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With the launch of a new web-based portal called iStart, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is making it even easier and cheaper for universities and non-profits to administer business plan competitions.
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And if we can do that again -- if we can continue building that foundation and making those hard decisions on behalf of the next generation -- I have no doubt that we will leave our children the America that we all hope for.
Roshan began by making an investment that is the foundation of any successful enterprise: skilled employees.
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Beyond restoration and preservation, the World Cinema Foundation is committed to making sure their refurbished movies get seen, Jones said.
Today agencies are making great strides towards putting a solid foundation for a 21st Century Digital Government in place.
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Earlier Monday Elias tweeted that he would be making a big announcement about the Slim Foundation and education in Mexico and Latin America.
Barry is the chief of the general medicine unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and president of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making.
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The modern world society is making so-called development in every sphere but the worst victim is the human and humanity because change is making cascading effect and breaking the social foundation in to segmentation.
As the amount of information grows exponentially and the clockspeed of business gets faster, providing a streamlined flow of real-time data analysis and decision making in key processes will be the foundation for better performance and competitive advantage.
The TY Danjuma Foundation is a private independent grant making philanthropic organization based in Abuja, Nigeria which makes grants to and partners with Non Governmental organizations that champion and promote causes in Education, free healthcare, policy advocacy and poverty alleviation.
In 1954, the company established the American Express Foundation as a formal vehicle for grant making.
Radical change is also occurring at the Rockefeller Foundation, where President Judith Rodin is making investments in profit-making companies that have a social entrepreneurship goal, like a network of 170, 000 scientists that is being utilized to solve important social problems around the globe.
Komen Foundation, after it announced it would cease making grants to Planned Parenthood.
Other advantages: By making Giving Back a public charity rather than a private foundation, Pollick avoids a 2% federal excise tax on assets, while donors get a bigger tax writeoff if highly appreciated assets are donated.
In June the county, whose tyre, petrochemical and paper-making industries have made it much richer than Huimin, held a foundation-stone ceremony for its own Sun Tzu theme park.
Taken together, such a national clean energy policy will contribute to the foundation for a forward-thinking and forward-acting America, making our nation more stable and powerful, and creating jobs and economic growth for decades to come.
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Productivity is high enough for Mike MacCarthy, head of the Cape Film and Video Foundation, to proclaim that the Cape is destined to become the film-making capital of Africa.
The University of Virginia and other leading universities are making a concerted effort to build entrepreneurial ecosystems and programs that provide students and faculty the academic foundation, practical tools, and opportunities to cross-collaborate, with the understanding that great ideas are not created in isolation, and great businesses are inherently multi-disciplinary.
But making allergy season really unpredictable is the role of weather, said Mike Tringale with the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.
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.
Making things even more complicated is VMware must now walk the line as both a member of the OpenStack Foundation, which puts it in a tough position as both a contributor as well as a competitor to the OpenStack project.
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