The Brown Foundation Challenge, a fund-raising program designed to encourage annual gifts, was launched in 1976 and ended in 1996 having raised $ 185 million ($ million ).

It hung high in the gymnasium of Hamilton Avenue School for nearly 60 years, often knocked by errant basketballs, before it was removed in 1998 and restored with $ 54, 145 donated by the Ruth W. Brown Foundation.

The jury consisted of: Adam D. Weinberg, the Whitney ’ s Alice Pratt Brown Director ; Donna De Salvo, Whitney Associate Director of Programs and Chief Curator ; the 2010 curators Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari ; and three guest panelists, Hou Hanru ( San Francisco Art Institute ), Yasmil Raymond ( Dia Art Foundation ), and James Rondeau ( Art Institute of Chicago ).

As part of the transfer agreement, the Brown Foundation also donated of land and six buildings to establish a two year technical college now known as Southern Arkansas University Tech.

Following a resurgence that began in the mid-1970s and peaked in the 1980s, Brown used her influence to press for musicians ' rights regarding royalties and contracts, which led to the founding of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.

Immune Attack is funded by the National Science Foundation and jointly developed by the Federation of American Scientists, the University of Southern California, Brown University, and Escape Hatch Entertainment.

Pipes has accused CAIR of demanding that a billboard declaring Osama bin Laden " the sworn enemy " be brought down in 1998 as " offensive to Moslems ", denying bin Laden's responsibility for the Africa embassy bombings, calling the conviction of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers " a travesty of justice ," calling the conviction of the blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman a " hate crime ", calling the extradition order of suspected Hamas terrorist Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook " anti-Islamic ", calling President Bush's closing of the Holy Land Foundation for collecting money used to support Hamas " unjust " and " disturbing ", praising and defending convicted murderer H. Rap Brown as well as convicted attempted murderer Adnan Chaudhry, and their LA office head calling Israelis " zionazis "; he also quotes the FBI's former chief of counterterrorism Steven Pomerantz saying that CAIR " effectively " gives aid to international terrorist groups.

On February 25, 1993 Burke was honored with a Pioneer Award and $ 15, 000 from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in a ceremony that also honored his soul rival James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Hadda Brooks, Dave Clark, Floyd Dixon, Lowell Fulson, Erskine Hawkins, Carla Thomas, Jimmy Witherspoon, Little Anthony and the Imperials, and Martha and the Vandellas.

Here, he was the Professor and Director Emeritus of The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Disease and held the John S. Dunn Distinguished Chair in Physiology and Medicine.

Museum District funding includes approximately $ 1. 5 million in Hotel Occupancy Tax funds from the City of Houston and the Houston Arts Alliance ; contributions from all participating museums ; foundation support from The Houston Endowment, Inc .; The John P. McGovern Foundation ; The Wortham Foundation, Inc .; The Brown Foundation, Inc .; Susan Vaughan Foundation, Inc .; and corporate support from KHOU-TV Channel 11, KUHT-TV ( PBS ), the Houston Chronicle, Texas Monthly, Exxon, and Cadillac.

* Herbert Brown biography at the Nobel Foundation from Les Prix Nobel, 1979

In 1994, Nicole Brown's sister Denise established The Nicole Brown Charitable Foundation to help victims of domestic violence.

* Nicole Brown Foundation

* Peter T. Brown, former Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation

" Brown has worked with the Foundation Fighting Blindness to raise awareness of the disease.

The Brown Foundation re-invested in Texas Southern University with a two-year $ 1. 2 million commitment to the Robert J. Terry ( RJT ) Library

Daniel and Henrik also lost the NHL Foundation Award to Los Angeles Kings captain Dustin Brown.

The Tasmanian Wilderness Society, under activist Bob Brown, which had formed from the anti-Lake Pedder Dam groups, the Tasmanian Conservation Trust and the Australian Conservation Foundation began to mount a public interest campaign concerning the river.

In 1988, the nonprofit Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research was founded by Topeka community members to honor Oliver Brown and to preserve the legacy of the Civil Rights movement.

On October 26, 1992, after two years of work by the Brown Foundation, President George H. W. Bush signed the Brown v. The Board of Education National Historic Site Act, establishing the former Monroe Elementary School as a national park.

In 1987 they released a public service announcement in the style of The Beatles ' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover on behalf of AMFAR ( The Foundation for AIDS Research ).

Oliveros coined the term " Deep Listening " in 1991, a term which she then applied to her group The Deep Listening Band and to the Deep Listening program of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. ( formerly The Pauline Oliveros Foundation, founded in 1985 ).

The UCLA Bruin Marching Band was the 1993 recipient of the Sudler Trophy, presented by the John Philip Sousa Foundation in recognition of the Band's tradition of excellence and innovation.

Dr. Fennell received Columbia University's Alice M. Ditson Conductor's Award in 1969, was presented the Star of the Order from the John Philip Sousa Memorial Foundation in 1985, received an honorary doctorate from Eastman in 1988, and was inducted into the National Band Association Hall of Fame of Distinguished Band Conductors in 1990.

In 1956 William Schmidt received a DuPont Band Composition Award, and from 1970-76 recording grants from the Ford Foundation.

* Cherokee Preservation Foundation, an independent nonprofit foundation established in 2000 as part of the Tribal-State Compact amendment between the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ( EBCI ) and the State of North Carolina

The Woodlands High School Band was honored by the John Philip Sousa Foundation with the Sudler Flag of Honor in 2003 to recognize its high standards of excellence in its concert activities over several years.

Projects and bands that he has been or is a part of include: Master Fatman and his Freedom Fighters, Master Fatman Guru Orchestra, Lindberg Hemmer Foundation, Nature TM and Per Kristensen Band.

In October 2002, Abramoff directed the Mississippi Band of Choctaws to give $ 1 million to NCPPR, and then told Amy Ridenour to distribute the funds to Capital Athletic Foundation ($ 450, 000 ), Capital Campaign Strategies ($ 500, 000 ) and Nurnberger and Associates ($ 50, 000 ).

At this point the band is on hiatus, while Rob and Russ focus on their current project, The Foundation Band.

Barr was awarded the First Chair of America by the National Band Organization and the Teacher of Excellence Award by the Valley Forge Foundation.

In 1997 the John Philip Sousa Foundation selected Battisti's Ithaca High School Concert Band for their Historic Roll of Honor of High School Concert Bands, 1920 1980.

In 2000 the Pro Cultura Foundation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences awarded the Kodály Zoltán Cultural Prize to the Budapest Klezmer Band for promoting and spreading Yiddish musical tradition, and in August of 2003 the band was awarded the Artisjus Prize.

* Buffalo ( The Phoenix Foundation album ), a studio album by The Phoenix Foundation

Proceeds from the sale of this album go to benefit the Leonard Bernstein Education Through The Arts Fund, the NARAS Foundation and The Leonard Bernstein Center at Nashville, Tennessee.

An example would be WBAI's broadcasting the track " Filthy Words " from a George Carlin comedy album, which eventually led to the 1978 Supreme Court case of FCC v. Pacifica Foundation.

* On-U Sound supergroup New Age Steppers has a reggae cover on their third album titled Foundation Steppers ( 1983 ) with Ari Up on the vocals.

* Foundation ( Brand Nubian album )

* Foundation ( Breakage album )

* Foundation ( Doc Watson album )

* Foundation ( Magnum album )

* The Foundation ( Geto Boys album )

* The Foundation ( Pep Love album ), 2005

The album is a collection of kid-friendly songs by popular artists ( e. g. Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, and Elton John ), with proceeds given to the Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

Again, commercial success eluded her, despite one of the singles off the album, " I Don't Wanna Lose At Love ", being remixed by the Asian Dub Foundation.

After three years on hiatus, the group reunited in 2002 to record its seventh album, The Foundation, which was released on January 25, 2005.

In 2003, he released Second Face, followed by the 2007 album Coming Home And also the 2009 album ' Stronger: Remember Betty ' which is in memory of his late mother and all proceeds are being donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

In 2002, he released The Fix, the follow-up to The Last of a Dying Breed and returned to the studio with the Geto Boys for their album, The Foundation.

The next year, her next single, " Love Is the Foundation ", also became a No. 1 country hit from her album of the same name.

In 1998, the four original members returned with the album Foundation on a new label, Arista / BMG Records.

In 2007 the group released an album titled Time's Runnin ' Out, although the material on the CD was recorded 10 years previous in the sessions leading up to the Foundation album ( released in 1998 ).