Foundation piecing is a sewing technique that allows maximum stability of the work as the piecing is created, minimizing the distorting effect of working with slender pieces or bias cut pieces.

* 1964 – Melinda Gates, American businesswoman and philanthropist, co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

* 1840 – Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.

* ACM – Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences

* The Canadian Communications Foundation – A History of Canadian Broadcasting

* Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Fellowship, 1992 – 95

* 1815 – Foundation of Maceió in Brazil.

* 1949 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.

Formally inaugurated in March 2004, the Global Leadership Foundation works to " promote good governance – democratic institutions, open markets, human rights and the rule of law – and to contribute to the prevention and resolution of conflict through mediation.

He later joined the senior staff of the publisher, the Foundation for Economic Education ( FEE ), 1971 – 73.

* 2003 – The WikiMedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.

* 1948 – Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.

* 1729 – Foundation of Baltimore, Maryland.

* 1939 – Eleanor Smeal, American activist, founded the Feminist Majority Foundation

* 1774 – Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.

* 1915 – Foundation of the British Women's Institute.

* 1771 – Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.

JPL has been recognized four times by the Space Foundation: with the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award, which is given annually to an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to public awareness of space programs, in 1998 ; and with the John L. " Jack " Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration on three occasions – in 2009 ( as part of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Team ), 2006 and 2005.

* 1990 – Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

* 1972 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to " Greenpeace Foundation ".

* 1910 – Rockefeller Foundation: J. D.

* 1956 – Ravi Shankar, Indian spiritual leader, founded the Art of Living Foundation

* 1913 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $ 100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.

* 1791 – Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.

* 1993 – Rachel Whiteread wins both the £ 20, 000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £ 40, 000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.

Capp was also involved with the Sister Kenny Foundation, which pioneered new treatments for polio in the 1940s.

It is said to have also received funding from the Heritage Foundation.

ClearType is also an integrated component of the Windows Presentation Foundation text-rendering engine.

" In addition, the National Science Foundation and the 2009 Lombardi Report also ranked Drexel among the top 50 private comprehensive research universities.

The 2006 Carnegie Foundation classification listed Dartmouth as the only " majority-undergraduate ", " arts-and-sciences focus ", " research university " in the country that also had " some graduate coexistence " and " very high research activity.

The Free Software Foundation also believes all software needs free documentation, in particular because conscientious programmers should be able to update manuals to reflect modification that they made to the software ), but deems the freedom to modify less important for other types of written works.

de Klerk is also chairman of the Global Leadership Foundation, an organisation he established after retiring from office.

Foundation donations are also rejected if the foundations attach unreasonable conditions, restrictions or constraints on Greenpeace activities or if the donation would compromise the independence and aims of Greenpeace.

Henri also created many graphic works on his typewriter: the typewriter poems ( also known as dactylopoèmes ) feature in international art collections such as those of Francesco Conz in Verona, the Morra Foundation in Naples and Ruth and Marvin Sackner in Miami, and have been the subject of Australian, British and French retrospectives ( Aquaviva 2008 ).

Jews consider it to contain the Foundation Stone ( see also Holy of Holies ), which is the holiest site in Judaism.

IALA also received support from such prestigious groups as the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Engler also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Marguerite Eyer Wilbur Foundation, which funds many Kirk Center programs.

He was also an Oscar-nominated film director, Emmy Award-winning television producer, and the founder of The Jim Henson Company, the Jim Henson Foundation, and Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

He is also devoted to philanthropic endeavors, most notably his own White Feather Foundation and the Whaledreamers Organization, both of which promote the co-existence of all species and the health and well-being of the Earth.

Ireland also supports Lesotho's Flying Doctor Service, education, sanitation, water and various health such as the Fight against AIDS with the Clinton Foundation.

However, the name " Mormon " is also used in the Book of Mormon as a place name ( e. g. Waters of Mormon ), which Ancient America Foundation scholar David Lamb uses to offer an alternate explanation for the title:

* Monitor ( NHS ), a United Kingdom government agency also known as the Independent Regulator for NHS Foundation Trusts

His work may also be found in museums in Italy and around the world, such as the Civica Galleria d ' Arte Moderna in Milan, the Tate Collection, The Angel of the City at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, the Norton Simon Museum, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D. C. Marini's work is authenticated by the experts at the Marino Marini Foundation in Pistoia, Italy.

Mary also sits on the Board of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, an organisation which supports good governance and great leadership in Africa, and is a member of the Foundation ’ s Ibrahim Prize Committee.

He has also been on the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation.

The 1996 reauthorization also created the non-profit National Film Preservation Foundation, which is loosely affiliated with the National Film Preservation Board, but the private-sector Foundation ( NFPF ) and federal Board ( NFPB ) are separate, legally distinct entities.