In June 2010, the National Science Board ( NSB ), the governing body for NSF and science advisers to both the legislative and executive branches, convened its Task Force on Merit Review to determine " how well the current Merit Review criteria used by the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) to evaluate all proposals were serving the agency.

In 2007, Binirayan Foundation convened the Binirayan Confab ( initially billed as Binirayan Summit ) as a gathering of scholars, academicians, researchers, artists, cultural workers, and almost anyone interested in " Antiqueniana.

A private group of Denver civic leaders, the Stapleton Development Foundation, convened in 1990 and produced a master plan for the site in 1995, emphasizing a pedestrian-oriented design rather than the automobile-oriented designs found in many other planned developments.

In this context, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York convened a series of meetings producing a broad consensus that to address this knowledge deficit, the U. S. must invest in international studies.

In 1989 Adams convened the steering committee of what became the UK's Fairtrade Foundation, based on the Dutch Max Havelaar Foundation.

Fellowship Foundation traces its roots to its founder, Abraham Vereide, a Methodist clergyman and social innovator, and a month of prayer meetings he convened in 1934 in San Francisco.

After tapping the invisible college of scholars who knew of Rees, she convened a summer 1986 meeting in London, following which she wrote a proposal to the American Foundation for the Humanities for funding to the project, setting out the object of producing a printed concordance to the contents of the Cyclopædia.

In 1994, the Rockefeller Foundation convened an international meeting of AIDS researchers, vaccinologists, public health officials, and representatives from philanthropic organizations in Bellagio, Italy, to evaluate the challenges facing HIV / AIDS vaccine development and identify ways to jump-start research.

To the members of our Advisory Board, and most specially to its members who constitute our committees of selection, the Foundation is indebted for its successes of choice of Fellows.

A History of the Roman Empire from its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aurelius ( 1893 )

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

In Asimov's Empire and Foundation series, the capital planet Trantor of the galactic empire is a completely built-up planet, covered in its entirety with tall buildings and subterranean structures.

In 1999, Barrymore was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star " Lifetime Achievement " Award commemorating her outstanding achievements within the film industry as a child actress.

The Foundation closed its doors, causing the proceedings to be vacated, but its creditors began to demand settlement of its outstanding debts.

In January 1996, the Britannica was purchased from the Benton Foundation by billionaire Swiss financier Jacqui Safra, who serves as its current Chair of the Board.

" 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.

According to the Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco, " The Chris Awards ( is ) one of the most prestigious documentary, educational, business and informational competitions in the U. S ; ( it is ) the oldest of its kind in North America and celebrating its 54th year.

Foundation of the Maurya Empire ( Sanskrit: म ौ र ् य र ा जव ं श, Maurya Rājavanśha ) which was geographically extensive and powerful empire in ancient India, ruled by the Mauryan dynasty from 321 to 185 BC. It was one of the world's largest empires in its time.

Under William Randolph Hearst's will, a common board of thirteen trustees ( its composition fixed at five family members and eight outsiders ) administers the Hearst Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, and the trust that owns ( and selects the 18-member board of ) the Hearst Corporation.

After telling the audience " I shall now read to you the scroll of the Establishment of the State, which has passed its first reading by the National Council ", Ben-Gurion proceeded to read out the declaration, taking 16 minutes, ending with the words " Let us accept the Foundation Scroll of the Jewish State by rising " and calling on Rabbi Fishman to recite the Shehecheyanu blessing.

Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman argues that, although the term intellectual property is in wide use, it should be rejected altogether, because it " systematically distorts and confuses these issues, and its use was and is promoted by those who gain from this confusion.

Founded in 1858 and coeducational from its start, ISU is classified as a Research University with very high research activity ( RU / VH ) by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

The Sealy & Smith Foundation has contributed over $ 600 million dollars to UTMB since its inception.

( 1825 ) A Concise History and Description of Kenilworth Castle: From its Foundation to the Present Time, 16th edition.

Kitt Peak was selected by its first director, Aden B. Meinel, in 1958 as the site for a national observatory under contract with the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) and was administered by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy.

* 1972 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to " Greenpeace Foundation ".

Following the closure of the Netscape project, the name was adopted by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary the Mozilla Corporation, who continue to promote the original project's goals in association with the wider Mozilla community.

Financial grants have been received from the National Science Foundation and the ( British ) Institute of Physics for the compilation work and the publication costs.

The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities recommended creating AFI “ to enrich and nurture the art of film in America ” with initial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Ford Foundation.

* US National Ataxia Foundation

In 2012, " ASU students ranked fifth among all public universities in National Science Foundation grants for graduate study and 11th among all universities, including the Ivy institutions.

In 1957, the National Committee Day of Planting Trees / Foundation of National Festival of Trees ( Nationale Boomplantdag / Nationale Boomfeestdag ) was created.

* National Arbor Day Foundation

* National Arbor Day 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.

Dogpatch characters were used in national campaigns for the Cancer Foundation, the March of Dimes, the National Heart Fund, the Boy Scouts of America, Minnesota Tuberculosis and Health Association, the National Amputation Foundation, and Disabled American Veterans, among others.

Accordingly, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and a Grammy Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

* 1998: Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

* Antarctic Information Program ( National Science Foundation )

* National Heart Foundation of Australia

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.

Active funding from the National Science Foundation Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Science ( MPS ) for Caltech stands at $ 343 million as of 2011, the highest for any educational institution in the nation, and higher than the total funds allocated to any state except California and New York.

X-Stop was shown to block sites such as the Quaker web site, the National Journal of Sexual Orientation Law, the Heritage Foundation, and parts of The Ethical Spectacle.

According to the National Psoriasis Foundation and the FDA, coal tar is a valuable, safe and inexpensive treatment option for millions of people with psoriasis and other scalp or skin conditions.