In 1989, Tauscher moved to California and later founded the first national research service to help parents verify the background of childcare workers.

She also published The ChildCare Sourcebook and headed the Tauscher Foundation, which provided funds for elementary schools to buy computers and Internet access.

Prior to their divorce in 1999, she was married to Republican businessman William Tauscher, former Chairman and CEO of Vanstar Corporation, current director of Safeway, Inc., and founder of the Tauscher Group, which invests and assists in the management of enterprises in home products, transportation, security and real estate.

On March 2, 2005 Ellen Tauscher, a Californian Democratic member of the U. S. House of Representatives, used Sedan as an example of a test which produced a considerable amount of radioactive fallout while giving congressional testimony on the containment of debris from nuclear testing.

* Mark Tauscher, professional football player for the Green Bay Packers, born in Marshfield

* Mark Tauscher, Former NFL player for the Green Bay Packers

Tauscher served as the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs until February 2012.

Before running for the United States House of Representatives, Tauscher was active in Democratic circles as a fundraiser and also chaired Dianne Feinstein's successful 1992 and 1994 Senate campaigns.

During the campaign, Tauscher emphasized family issues and her support for business, the environment, and the military, while charging that Baker was too conservative for the district, particularly given his opposition to abortion and gun control.

On March 18, 2009, Tauscher announced that she had accepted the position of Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.

Tauscher served as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security until her appointment on February 6, 2012 as Special Envoy for Strategic Stability and Missile Defense.

Tauscher has received a 11 % lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union, and a 95 % rating for her 2008 voting record from Americans for Democratic Action.

In December 2005, Tauscher led a group of twenty-two other House Democrats in sending a letter to President George W. Bush urging him to withdraw U. S. troops, expressing the hope that the " Iraqi government takes increased responsibility " for its political and security needs.

* Ellen Tauscher ( CA-10 ), appointed Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs

While attending Auburndale High School ( Auburndale, Wisconsin ), Tauscher won three varsity letters in football and baseball along with two varsity letters in basketball, and went to state for basketball in 1992-93.

Tauscher worked out for the Kansas City Chiefs but the Packers eventually re-signed him four games into the 2009 season due to the Packers offensive line struggling to protect quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

The FBI initially refused to release the voice recording, rejecting requests by Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher and family members of those on board.

Some of the notable people who have spoken at Saint Mary's College since August 2006 are human rights activists Dolores Huerta and Mother Antonia, local US congress members Ellen Tauscher and George Miller, Czech politician / diplomat Jan Kavan, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and Kevin Quigley, head of the Peace Corps Association.

Ellen O ' Kane Tauscher ( born November 15, 1951 ) is an American politician.

Ellen Tauscher was born in Newark, New Jersey.

In 1996, Tauscher ran against two-term Republican incumbent Bill Baker in California's 10th congressional district election.

Tauscher was re-elected in 1998 and 2000 against vigorous Republican opposition.

In 2000, Tauscher was made much safer when some of the more Republican-leaning parts of her district were cut out as part of state-wide redistricting.

Tauscher resigned her seat on June 26, 2009, after voting was finished on the American Clean Energy & Security Act.

During her last term in the House, Tauscher served as co-chair of the Iraqi Women's Caucus, Department of Energy Facilities Caucus, Army Corps Reform Caucus, Intelligent Transportation Systems Caucus, and Research and Development Caucus.

A leading centrist Democrat, Tauscher was the chairwoman of the New Democrat Coalition, a caucus of moderate Democrats in the House.

Tauscher became a target of liberal activists after the Democrats took back control of the House of Representatives in 2006, but is strongly supported by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.

Tauscher is strongly pro-choice, with a 100 % positive rating from NARAL.

Tauscher is in favor of more extensive gun control.

In October 2002, Tauscher voted in favor of the Iraq Resolution, approving the use of military force in Iraq.

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.