People For the American Way Foundation is the charitable arm of People For the American Way ( PFAW ), a progressive advocacy organization in the United States.

The PFAW Foundation runs programs designed for voter education and progressive infrastructure building.

PFAW Foundation programs include Mi Familia Vota, which conducts Hispanic civic engagement, and several African-American outreach programs such as the African-American Ministers Leadership Council.

In 2005, PFAW Foundation initiated a fellowship program, called Young People For, to identify, train, and support future progressive leaders.

PFAW is a member of a number of progressive coalitions surrounding various issues, and it sometimes conducts joint campaigns with other organizations.

PFAW is prominent within the progressive political movement for monitoring right-wing activities, conducting rapid response, political lobbying, and volunteer mobilization.

The former presidents of PFAW are Anthony Podesta ( 1981 – 1987 ), Arthur Kropp ( 1987 – 1995 ), Carole Shields ( 1996 – 2000 ), Ralph Neas ( 2000 – 2007 ), and Kathryn Kolbert ( 2008 – 2009 ).

PFAW has been active in recent years in battles over judicial nominations and on issues including school class size, and actively support such proposals as the separation of church and state, civil rights, voting rights for Washington, DC in the U. S. Congress and equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered ( LGBT ) people and promotion of civic participation.

PFAW was founded by television producer Norman Lear ( All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons, etc.

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* U. A. Whitaker ( deceased )-provider of The Whitaker Foundation, which supported research and education in BME by providing over $ 700 million to various universities, helping to create 30 BME programs and helping finance the construction of 13 buildings

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.

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

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.

She implemented four major initiatives: Take Time For Kids, an awareness campaign to educate parents and caregivers on parenting ; family literacy, through cooperation with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, she urged Texas communities to establish family literacy programs ; Reach Out and Read, a pediatric reading program ; and Ready to Read, an early childhood educational program.

The United States assists Swaziland with a number of HIV / AIDS initiatives and programs implemented through the U. S. Agency for International Development ( USAID ), Centers for Disease Control ( CDC ), the Peace Corps, African Development Foundation, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Defense.

Following pressure by the American Rocket Society, the National Science Foundation, and the International Geophysical Year, military interest picked up and in early 1955 the Army and Navy were working on Project Orbiter, two competing programs, the army's which involved using a Jupiter C rocket, and the civilian / Navy Vanguard Rocket, to launch a satellite.

SU is organized into 13 schools and colleges, with nationally recognized programs in information studies and library science, architecture, communications, business administration, public administration, engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, listed Syracuse University as 2nd among the " 12 Worst Colleges for Free Speech in 2012 ".

The Tax Foundation has calculated Tax Freedom Day for the United States ever since, using it as a tool for illustrating the proportion of national income diverted to fund the annual cost of government programs.

The United Nations Foundation started up in 1998 with a $ 1 billion grant from Ted Turner in order to support the United Nations in executing its programs worldwide.

Research programs, including field projects such as the VORTEX projects ( Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment ), deployment of TOTO ( the TOtable Tornado Observatory ), Doppler On Wheels ( DOW ), and dozens of other programs, hope to solve many questions that still plague meteorologists .< ref name =" field programs history "> Universities, government agencies such as the National Severe Storms Laboratory, private-sector meteorologists, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research are some of the organizations very active in research ; with various sources of funding, both private and public, a chief entity being the National Science Foundation.

* Systems that operate on free and open source software systems including Linux are various, and include open-source programs such as the Festival Speech Synthesis System which uses diphone-based synthesis ( and can use a limited number of MBROLA voices ), and gnuspeech which uses articulatory synthesis from the Free Software Foundation.

The not-for-profit Living History Education Foundation has teacher programs at Fort Ticonderoga that run in the summer and last approximately one week.

Accreditation agencies outside the United States include the Association of MBAs ( AMBA ), a UK based organization that accredits MBA, DBA and MBM programs worldwide, government accreditation bodies such as the All India Council for Technical Education ( AICTE ) that accredits MBA and PGDM programs across India, the Council on Higher Education ( CHE ) in South Africa, the European Foundation for Management Development operates the European Quality Improvement System ( EQUIS ) for mostly European and Asian schools, the Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation ( FIBAA ), and Central and East European Management Development Association ( CEEMAN ) in Europe.

Carnegie Mellon's Information Networking Institute offers graduate programs in Athens, Greece and Kobe, Japan, in collaboration with Athens Information Technology and the Hyogo Institute of Information Education Foundation, respectively.

In 1993, she established the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, which continues to fund programs that perpetuate Ella's ideals.

Operations of the museum came to include educational programs, the CMF Press and CMF Records, the Country Music Foundation Library ( 1968 ), and the historic sites RCA Studio B ( 1977 ) and Hatch Show Print ( 1986 ).

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, other foundations and individuals support some programs of the aquarium.

23 Feb. 2009 < http :// www. pba. org / programming / programs / thisisatlanta / aidsquilt />.</ ref > The Quilt is still maintained and displayed by The NAMES Project Foundation.

The Foundation provides funds for a variety of programs and services which assist college students in meeting their educational objectives through scholarships, grants, fellowships and assistantships, while promoting learning, high ethical standards and constructive citizenship.

Non-profit software organizations include the Free Software Foundation, GNU Project and Mozilla Foundation.

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.

Other educational organizations that focus on one or more endocrine-related conditions include the American Diabetes Association, National Osteoporosis Foundation, Human Growth Foundation, American Menopause Foundation, Inc., and Thyroid Foundation of America.

People primarily known for their contributions to the consciousness of the programmer subculture of hackers include Richard Stallman, the founder of the free software movement and the GNU project, president of the Free Software Foundation and author of the famous Emacs text editor as well as the GNU Compiler Collection ( GCC ), and Eric S. Raymond, one of the founders of the Open Source Initiative and writer of the famous text The Cathedral and the Bazaar and many other essays, maintainer of the Jargon File ( which was previously maintained by Guy L. Steele, Jr .).

In Kamprad's absence the foundation's bylaws include specific provisions requiring it to continue operating the Ingka Holding group and specifying that shares can be sold only to another foundation with the same objectives as the Ingka Foundation.

ISI's government customers include the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, US Geological Survey, and Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Homeland Security and Justice.

Crown Princess Katherine has a humanitarian foundation while Crown Prince Alexander heads the Foundation for Culture and Education, whose activities include student scholarships, summer camps for children, etc.

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Some of these organizations and projects include The Open Textbook Project, Connexions, The Saylor Foundation Open Textbook Challenge and Wikibooks

Research and professional organizations include the Parapsychological Association ; the Society for Psychical Research, publisher of the Journal of Society for Psychical Research ; the American Society for Psychical Research, publisher of the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research ( last published in 2004 ); the Rhine Research Center and Institute for Parapsychology, publisher of the Journal of Parapsychology ; the Parapsychology Foundation, which published the International Journal of Parapsychology ( between 1959 to 1968 and 2000 – 2001 ) and the Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research, publisher of the Australian Journal of Parapsychology.

Organizations that encourage a critical examination of parapsychology and parapsychological research include the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, publisher of the Skeptical Inquirer ; the James Randi Educational Foundation, founded by illusionist and skeptic James Randi, and the

These sources include, among others, the Bydale Foundation, Careth Foundation, Carolyn Foundation, Changing Horizons Charitable Trust, CS Fund, Deer Creek Foundation, Educational Foundation of America, Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, Grodzins Fund, Jenifer Altman Foundation, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, Rockwood Fund, Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation, Stern Family Fund, Town Creek Foundation, and the Turner Foundation.