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In June 2000, she donated $ 40 million to the Hamilton Community Foundation to be used largely in improvement of Hamilton-area health facilities, an act that represented one of the single largest charitable donations in Canadian history.

Although it was paid for by private donations, some from the private Knapp Foundation, the purchase generated quite a controversy, for it was ordered at a time when the nation was undergoing an economic recession.

The Foundation was established in 1974 by Thurmond with honoraria received from speeches, donations from friends and family, and from other acts of generosity.

The Foundation is supported by donations, selling trees and merchandise, and by corporate sponsors.

He also established the Mickey Mantle Foundation to raise awareness for organ donations.

The donations were withheld from the Free Software Foundation and the trademark was awarded to iMesh after the development team had given up defending the trademark.

Among the donations were $ 1 million each by the governments of British Columbia and Ontario, the former to create a new research institute to be founded in Fox's name, and the latter an endowment given to the Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation.

This was sponsored through private, public, and corporate grants and donations, including support from the Union County Foundation.

The bulk of the Institution's funding comes from grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation and other government agencies, augmented by foundations and private donations.

Its public funding is supplemented by private donations raised through the San Marino Schools Endowment Foundation.

* 2006, Sarah, Duchess of York, established The Sarah Ferguson Foundation based in Toronto, which derives funds from Sarah's commercial work and private donations with the aim of supporting charities internationally that serve children and families in dire need.

This was sponsored through private, public, and corporate grants and donations, including support from the Union County Foundation.

A group of residents established a building committee and, with Moody Foundation and Kempner Fund grants and donations from the community, purchased a metal portable building on land leased from the Santa Fe Independent School District.

In 1990 the Academy invested the capital accrued from the Shaw bequest in the freehold of 18 Chenies Street, with the help of donations from the Foundation for Sport and the Arts and British Telecommunications.

The Foundation is funded from the donations of private individuals, foundations, and corporations.

The newly created Blender Foundation campaigned for donations to obtain the right to release the software as free and open source software software under the GNU General Public License.

With the aid of public donations, the building ( and its adjacent neighbour ) was purchased by the Foundation.

These are a few of the many donations that have been granted by the Foundation.

Possible funding sources included the National Science Foundation, rental of the island facilities to Canadians, funding from the Associated Students of OCC ( ASOCC ), and through other foundation grants and private donations.

In March 2003, the Xiph. Org Foundation was recognized by the IRS as a 501 ( c )( 3 ) Non-Profit Organization, meaning U. S. Citizens can deduct donations to Xiph. Org from their taxes.

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The € 28m development was made possible through Government grant assistance of € 7. 6m, donations through the University of Limerick Foundation amounting to € 6. 9m, some € 4m in contributions from students and significant commercial funding.

After his death, Hubbard ’ s estate requested that tax-deductible donations be made in his name to the Jazz Foundation of America.

And, besides, there are a large number of scholars, artists, composers of music, novelists, poets, essayists, choreographers, lawyers, servants of government, and men of affairs -- hundreds, indeed -- who serve the Foundation well with the advice they give us freely and gratis out of their experience.

To all, the Foundation gives the kind of thanks which are more than thanks: to them we are grateful beyond the possibility of conveying in words how grateful we are.

And lest anybody think that considerations such as these are not germane in a foundation report, let me enlighten them with the truths that, under Communism there would have been no capital with which to endow the Foundation, and that there would not be that individual freedom within which the Fellows might proceed, untrammeled in every way, toward their discoveries, their creative efforts for the good of mankind.

The mediums with whom the Parapsychology Foundation is working in this experiment are in a waking or only slightly dissociated state, so that the sitter can make comments, ask and answer questions, instead of talking with a `` control '' who speaks through an entranced sensitive.

`` We are back with the ' Met ' again now that the ' Met ' is back in Chicago '', bulletins Mrs. Frank S. Sims, president of the women's board of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation.

The National Science Foundation approved the plan for the creation of the not-for-profit organization to " give the users of IP numbers ( mostly Internet service providers, corporations and other large institutions ) a voice in the policies by which they are managed and allocated within the North American region.

The largest federal agencies contributing to research are NASA, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense, and Department of Energy.

The movement is supported by the Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel, an American organization that provides funding to Masorti programs, which are disadvantaged by the Israeli government's practice of funding only Orthodox institutions.

The London-based Rainforest Foundation notes that " the UN figure is based on a definition of forest as being an area with as little as 10 % actual tree cover, which would therefore include areas that are actually savannah-like ecosystems and badly damaged forests.

PhDs that were awarded in the United States are recognized if the awarding institution is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a " Research University ( high research activity )" or as a " Research University ( very high research activity ).

Heritage Foundation Africa expert Michael Johns wrote that " there are some modestly encouraging signs that the front intends to abandon Mengistu's autocratic practices.

The " very seductive " moral and ethical rhetoric of Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation fails, he said, " not because his principles are wrong, but because that kind of language ... simply does not persuade anybody ".

" The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths ( FSID ) praised the storyline, and its director Joyce Epstein explained, " We are very grateful to EastEnders for their accurate depiction of the devastating effect that the sudden death of an infant can have on a family.

For example, data from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that 5 % of Massachusetts and 8 % of Hawaii residents are uninsured.

Asian Dub Foundation are not huge mainstream stars, but their politically charged rap and punk rock influenced sound has a multi-racial audience in their native UK.

The future looks encouraging thanks to entities such as Green Ozone, DogmaTone Records, Eastern Fare Music Foundation, that are dedicated to promoting and supporting Indian rock.

Institutions like KM Music Conservatory founded by Oscar Winning Composer, A. R. Rahman, Calcutta School of Music, Bangalore School of Music, Eastern Fare Music Foundation, Delhi School of Music, Delhi Music Academy, and many others are dedicated to contributing to the progress or growth and supporting Western classical music.

In 2005, the Tohono O ' odham Nation brought suit against the National Science Foundation to stop further construction of gamma ray detectors in the Gardens of the Sacred Tohono O ' odham Spirit I ' itoi, which are just below the summit.

The Canine Eye Registration Foundation, CERF, located at Purdue University, evaluates eye exams and assigns a CERF number to it if the dog's eyes are free from genetic problems.

But thanks to the work of the Komen Foundation ... more women and men are beating breast cancer and beating the odds.

The house of the Zamenhof family, dedicated to Ludwik Zamenhof and the Białystok Esperanto Centre, are sites of the Jewish Heritage Trail in Białystok, which was opened in June 2008 by volunteers at The University of Białystok Foundation.