For example, Taxila was an early centre of Vedic learning, possible from the 6th century BC or earlier ; the Platonic Academy founded in Athens in the 4th century BC seems to have included theological themes in its subject matter ; the Chinese Taixue delivered Confucian teaching from the 2nd century BC ; the School of Nisibis was a centre of Christian learning from the 4th century AD ; Nalanda in India was a site of Buddhist higher learning from at least the 5th or 6th century AD ; and the Moroccan University of Al-Karaouine was a centre of Islamic learning from the 10th century, as was Al-Azhar University in Cairo.

* Nalanda University ( India ) is founded ( approximate date ).

The famous Nalanda Mahavihara was founded a few centuries earlier ; Huen-tsang speaks about its magnificence and grandeur.

Leaving Nalanda, he retired to his home in the south, where he founded a monastery.

Nalanda was a Buddhist center of learning founded in Bihar, India around the 5th century and conferred academic degree titles to its graduates, while also offering post-graduate courses.

He obtained funding from the Rockefeller Foundation in New York and founded the 6th Section of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, which was devoted to the study of history and the social sciences.

The Carnegie Collections of the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library consist of the archives of the following organizations founded by Carnegie: The Carnegie Corporation of New York ( CCNY ); The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ( CEIP ); the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ( CFAT ); The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs ( CCEIA ).

Since that time citizens have mobilized, with support from the Albion Community Foundation founded in 1968, and the Albion Volunteer Service Organization, founded in the 1980s with support from Albion College, to address the challenge of diminishing economic opportunity.

** BMI Foundation, a non-profit organization founded Broadcast Music Incorporated

The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, founded by Milton and Rose Friedman in 1996, is a non-profit organization that promotes universal school vouchers and other forms of school choice.

Until her death in 1979 she participated in the Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation that she founded.

The National Tremor Foundation ( NTF ), founded in 1992, is a British friendly organisation based in Essex, England, an affiliate of the International Tremor Foundation, which was founded in 1988.

Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985 to provide the organizational structure to advance his free software ideas.

Software development for the GNU operating system began in January 1984, and the Free Software Foundation ( FSF ) was founded in October 1985.

* Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, a Lake Jackson, Texas, libertarian think-tank founded by Ron Paul

Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985 to support the movement.

In 1991, The George Lucas Educational Foundation was founded as a nonprofit operating foundation to celebrate and encourage innovation in schools.

Bailey's family founded the Ace Bailey Children's Foundation in his honor and memory.

In 1975 and 1979 respectively, Dr. Selye and eight Nobel Laureates founded the Hans Selye Foundation and the Canadian Institute of Stress.

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.

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

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

After Robinson's death, his widow founded the Jackie Robinson Foundation, of which she remains an officer as of 2009.

In 2009, Lennon founded The White Feather Foundation, whose mission " embraces environmental and humanitarian issues and in conjunction with partners from around the world helps to raise funds for the betterment of all life, and to honour those who have truly made a difference.

The € 98. 5m expansion of the Islamic Art galleries in 2012 received state funding of € 31 million, as well as € 17 million from the Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation founded by the eponymous Saudi prince.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

The first anthroposophic bank was the Gemeinschaftsbank für Leihen und Schenken in Bochum, Germany, founded in 1974.

The University of Ouagadougou, founded in 1974, was the country's first institution of higher education.

By 1974, another challenge to the state's authority and legitimacy had come from 19 April Movement ( M-19 ), a mostly urban guerrilla group founded allegedly in response to an electoral fraud during the final National Front election of Misael Pastrana ( 1970 – 1974 ) and the defeat of former dictator Gustavo Rojas.

Universal Cheerleaders Association: Universal Cheerleaders Association was founded in 1974 by Jeff Webb.

He founded the company Chaosium to publish the board wargame White Bear and Red Moon in 1974 ( other sources say 1975 ), which was set in Glorantha.

Stafford first tried to sell the game to established publishers, but despite being accepted by three different game companies, each attempt ended in failure ; eventually he founded his own game company in 1974, the influential Chaosium, to publish his game.

* European Gemological Laboratory ( EGL ), founded in 1974 by Guy Margel in Belgium.

In 1974, two new schools were founded at Rice, the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management and the Shepherd School of Music.

Raëlism, or the Raëlian Church, is a UFO religion that was founded in 1974 by Claude Vorilhon, now known as Raël.

* 1974 – Yutaka Yamamoto, Japanese cartoonist and director, founded Ordet animation studio

* 1974 – Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.

In 1974, Russy's daughter Rita founded the CineBlitz magazine.

In 1974 Moon founded the Unification Theological Seminary, in Barrytown, New York, partly in order to improve relations of the Unification Church with other churches.

* 1974 — The institute was founded by Lester Brown.

George E. Esser founded the National Bicycle League as a non-profit bicycle motocross sanctioning organization in 1974.

Robert A. Kleist and business partner Gordon Barrus created the line matrix printer in 1974, and founded Printronix Inc.

The laboratory was founded in 1967 as the National Accelerator Laboratory ; it was renamed in honor of Enrico Fermi in 1974.

The Committee for a Workers ' International ( CWI ) was founded in 1974 and now has sections in over 35 countries.

One early effort to institutionalize the Christian right as a politically active social movement began in 1974 when Dr. Robert Grant, an early movement leader, founded American Christian Cause to advocate Christian moral teachings in Southern California.

The club was founded in Kansas City, Missouri as the Kansas City Scouts in 1974, moved to Denver, Colorado as the Colorado Rockies after only two seasons, and then settled in New Jersey in 1982.

Following the 1974 election, the FN was obscured by the appearance of the Party of New Forces ( PFN ), founded by FN dissidents ( largely from the ON ).

His younger brother, Edward Tangye Lean ( 1911 – 1974 ), founded the original Inklings literary club when a student at Oxford University.

His printmaking was a major part of his output, and a whole museum is devoted to it, the Turner Museum in Sarasota, Florida, founded in 1974 by Douglass Montrose-Graem to house his collection of Turner prints.

The club was founded 1902 as Racing Club de Calais and in 1974 was renamed as Calais Racing Union Football Club.