Funded by the John Templeton Foundation, IMU released a report in 2008 " Mathematics in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities " on the current state of mathematics in Africa and on opportunities for new initiatives to support mathematical development.

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.

Among the other initiatives of the Milken Family Foundation are the:

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.

However, a small fee of ( roughly ) per term goes to the student welfare organisation Foundation for Student Life in Oslo, to subsidise kindergartens, health services, housing and cultural initiatives, the weekly newspaper Universitas and the radio station Radio Nova.

Beyond directly sponsoring educational initiatives, the Emirates Foundation for Philanthropy is funding major research initiatives into Emiratisation through competitive research grants, allowing universities such as United Arab Emirates University or Dubai School of Government to build and disseminate expertise on the topic.

Two such initiatives are OPOS and JavaPOS, both of which conform to the UnifiedPOS standard led by The National Retail Foundation.

Examples of these initiatives are National Science Foundation Datanet projects, DataONE and Data Conservancy.

To increase the reach and corpus of the Foundation, Salman Khan has undertaken initiatives such as Being Human Art ; Being Human merchandise ; and Being Human Gitanjali Gold Coins.

The Foundation engages primarily in fundraising efforts that include direct mail campaigns, major donor initiatives and planned giving to provide financial support through a formal grants-making process to the World Jewish Congress and other organizations that share the charitable and educational missions of the Foundation.

The report also highlighted several initiatives the WJC had taken since 2004 to improve financial management, including " the creation of an audit committee and the position of chief financial officer, the computerization of all financial records, the creation of an employee handbook outlining official procedures and policies, the implementation of travel and reimbursement procedures, and the creation of a new fund-raising entity ( the WJC Foundation ).

These reform-related initiatives eventually gave rise to the Institute of Public Affairs, a major think-tank in Warsaw, which the Foundation helped to establish in 1995.

Based on the belief that democracy and open society cannot be realized without active involvement of the public, the Foundation disbursed hundreds of micro-grants to a variety of local civic initiatives, contributing to the establishment of numerous local organizations.

The Foundation encourages solidarity and generosity by offering administration of named funds and corporate funds to support initiatives that serve the public interest.

* Civic Institutions – the aim of the program co-funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, is to support initiatives that involve citizens in public affairs and promote the attitudes of civic responsibility for the quality of Polish democracy.

Partnership Beyond Borders – the Batory Foundation contributes to the development of democracy and public participation in this region and to dissemination of innovative community problem solving systems by coordinating the exchange of experience between NGOs and public institutions in Central and Eastern European and Central Asian countries and by adapting tested mechanisms and implementing joint initiatives.

The New America Foundation houses programs and initiatives focused on specific domestic, economic and global issues.

The foundation gathered media attention during Pete Coors ' unsuccessful 2004 Senate run, when opponents pointed at the dichotomy between the Coors Brewing Company's attempt to appeal to a broad audience, in particular with minorities and gay customers, while the Castle Rock Foundation was used by the Coors family to fund several conservative initiatives intent on curtailing the rights of these same customers.

Former Heritage Foundation foreign policy analyst Michael Johns and other national policy and political leaders were recruited by Kean to support and help administer his growing involvement in a broad range of national policy initiatives in the fields of education, environmental, low-income housing, foreign policy and other issues.

In a December 15, 1991 speech to The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D. C., Kean endorsed the free trade initiatives under way by the administration of then-President George H. W. Bush.

It has been estimated that more than one million people in the world can see today because of initiatives instigated by Hollows, the most notable example being The Fred Hollows Foundation.

Three years later, the Experimental Studies Program ( reorganized as the Innovative Studies Program in 1975 ) bearing some consanguinity with contemporaneous initiatives at the Tussman Experimental College and the proactive do it yourself dilettantism of Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog began to enroll students, instructors, and local residents in credited and cocurricular courses that encompassed myriad disciplines, including video art ( under Raindance Foundation co-founder and Marshall McLuhan acolyte Paul Ryan ), dance therapy, clowning, camping, and ecodesign.

The Benicia Tree Foundation hosts regular events that involve community members in tree planting activities.

While the Reagan Doctrine enjoyed strong support from the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute, the libertarian-oriented Cato Institute opposed the Reagan Doctrine, arguing in 1986 that " most Third World struggles take place in arenas and involve issues far removed from legitimate American security needs.

He continued to involve himself in various charity work including through the Curtis Martin Job Foundation, established by Martin during his playing career, designed to provide " financial aid and hands-on support to single mothers, children ’ s charities, individuals with disabilities and low income housing providers ".

A Private Foundation ( Privatstiftung ) constitutes a conglomeration of property having legal personality but no shareholders ; its activities involve managing its own funds and assets for the beneficiaries.

Since I am extremely doubtful that the income from this endowment would in the long run be adequate to carry on whatever purpose you envisage ( which I gather would involve considerable expansion of your present adult education plan ), and in addition take care of a future undergraduate college, I do not feel at liberty to recommend such action to Old Dominion Foundation as being practical or consistent with our original agreement, intentions or plans.

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.

In 1962 Braudel and Gaston Berger used Ford Foundation money and government funds to create a new independent foundation, the ( FMSH ), which Braudel directed from 1970 until his death.

This foundation includes the Clinton Foundation HIV and AIDS Initiative ( CHAI ), which strives to combat that disease, and has worked with the Australian government toward that end.

Part of the civil liberties argument, especially from groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was that parents who wanted to block sites could use their own content-filtering software, making government involvement unnecessary.

Singer has worked as a consultant for several government agencies, including the House Select Committee on Space, NASA, the Government Accountability Office, the National Science Foundation, the United States Atomic Energy Commission, National Research Council, the Department of Defense Strategic Defense Initiative, Department of Energy Nuclear Waste Panel, and the Department of the Treasury.

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.

The federal government was the largest source of sponsored research, with the Department of Health and Human Services granting $ 255. 9 million, Department of Defense $ 97. 5 million, Department of Energy $ 65. 8 million, National Science Foundation $ 61. 4 million, and NASA $ 27. 4 million.

* Monitor ( NHS ), a United Kingdom government agency also known as the Independent Regulator for NHS Foundation Trusts

Hackerman served on advisory committees and boards of several technical societies and government agencies, including the National Science Board, the Texas Governor's Task Force on Higher Education and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Welch Foundation.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the U. S. government on Bernstein's behalf ; the court ruled that source code was free speech, protected by the First Amendment.

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.

In Science, The Endless Frontier, his 1945 report to the President of the United States, Bush called for an expansion of government support for science, and he pressed for the creation of the National Science Foundation.

In 1998, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, with assistance from the mailing list, built a $ 200, 000 machine that finds a Data Encryption Standard key in a few days, creating a government conspiracy ; details are in Cracking DES.

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.

LINX provides its members with an important Regulatory and Public Affairs service, and liaises where appropriate with many third parties including the Internet Watch Foundation, Ofcom, the Department of Trade and Industry, the Information Commissioner, and other government departments in matters such as content regulation, telecoms regulation, privacy and data protection, e-mail spam, online fraud / phishing, law enforcement, counter-terrorism, and other regulatory matters in the UK and Europe affecting the Internet industry.

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.

Cooney and Morrisett procured additional multi-million dollar grants from the US federal government, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations CPB and the Ford Foundation.

Knowing that government funding would not last forever, the Ford Foundation helped CTW start investing.

* The Castle Rock Foundation, an American foundation which seeks to promote free enterprise, limited government, individual rights, and personal responsibility and leadership

The same year the government established Fundação Nacional do Índio ( National Indian Foundation ), known as FUNAI which is responsible for protecting the interests, cultures, and rights of the Brazilian indigenous populations.

Despite bureaucratic hurdles imposed by India's grain monopolies, the Ford Foundation and Indian government collaborated to import wheat seed from CIMMYT.

This eventually led to a joint government / industry initiative to promote 1986 as " Industry Year ", with the RSA and the Comino Foundation providing core funding of £ 250, 000-which persuaded the Confederation of British Industry to raise £ 1 million and government departments to provide £ 3 million.

However, many civil rights and privacy groups, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and American Civil Liberties Union, have expressed concern that by allowing continual increases in government surveillance of citizens we will end up in a mass surveillance society, with extremely limited, or non-existent political and / or personal freedoms.