High-school seniors can apply online through the foundation's Web site until Oct. 31.
Remarkably, the commission is expected to wave through whatever the foundation's trustees send it for approval.
Nike also does so-called cause marketing through the Nike Foundation, which co-sponsors the Girl Effect, an effort to help adolescent girls in developing countries like Bangladesh and Ethiopia.
Pope has at times joined forces with them, attending some of their semi-annual secret planning summits and, through the family foundation, contributing millions to many of the same causes.
Through the Gates Foundation, we contacted Warren Buffett, the second richest man in America, and asked if he would appear with a mystery guest on the cover of FORBES magazine to talk about philanthropy.
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Through the Wadhwani Foundation he funds skills and talent training and entrepreneurship programs in India.
The billionaire duo will match all gifts to the Foundation through the end of 2012.
He has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for charity through the Livestrong foundation.
Time off: Helping youth fight drugs and AIDS through the Auchan Foundation.
Through the Trafigura Foundation, Dauphin supports development programs in over 30 countries.
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His placement was funded through the Nuffield Foundation Science bursary scheme.
Gay rights groups also are incensed about the chain's financial support for what they say are anti-gay groups, largely through the WinShape Foundation, a group started by Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy.
And Taproot is also launching the Pro Bono Pledge, a web-based advocacy campaign to enlist professionals to donate their talents through the Taproot Foundation and, more importantly, to flex their social entrepreneurial muscle, help build pro bono programs, and challenge their professions to adopt pro bono service as a core value.
Last year, the Shura Council pushed through similar legislation the foundation helped pen protecting the rights of children in abusive situations.
My favorite current application of Fisher's principles, supported through the Atlas Economic Research Foundation , is the work of James Shikwati, a young Kenyan trying, with his Inter Region Economic Network in Nairobi, to help that fledgling democracy and other African nations escape one of the 20th century's most tragic political failures.
Randy Haykin interviewed the elder statesman of venture capital, Bill Draper, who shared his history and the joy he gets from giving money away through his foundation, The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation.
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It's aided by the fact that, through a private foundation, the family can direct the gifts.
Through The Kellner Family Foundation, we focus primarily on education, including various science projects.
In the county, help can be obtained through the NHS 2gether Foundation Trust, which provides mental and social health care for Gloucestershire and Herefordshire.
He was also be able to raise money from other elites (as he does now through the Robin Hood Foundation) if they supported his views.
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Some of his answers to this question: giving away up to 20% of his profits through the Brunello Cucinelli Foundation and practicing some nonprofit-maximizing labor relations.
Levy gave away a small fortune in his lifetime, and his widow, Shelby White, through the Leon Levy Foundation continues to be extraordinarily generous, supporting many cultural and artistic enterprises.
But the advice also works at a local level, as the book illustrates through the story of how the Tow Foundation improved juvenile justice policy in Connecticut.
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Connecting Afghans to one another and to the world through mobile technology has become the foundation for a new economy.
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In a sharp critique of the article, Clinton spokesman also criticized Todd Purdum, national editor of Vanity Fair, for not giving enough attention to the former president's charitable works through his foundation since leaving the White House.
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The speaker itself is built like a (glossy) rock, and the sound that comes through is as solid as the foundation.
When Tod Williams and Billie Tsien of New York won the commission through a competition held by the Barnes Foundation, they even received the architectural equivalent of hate mail.
In this environment, we will continue to focus on what we can control, striving to grow our revenues ahead of the product of industry growth and inflation, to drive higher profitability and cash generation, while strengthening the financial foundation of the business through further reductions in leverage.
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George Soros is a keen backer of campaign-finance reform through his foundation, the Open Society Institute.
His work to confront global hunger carries on through the World Food Prize Foundation that he founded and I lead.
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