One of his initial acts in office was to appoint Philip Coombs of the Ford Foundation as the first Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs.

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.

He was a regent for the French Foundation for the Study of Human Problems during the Nazi occupation of Vichy France which implemented the eugenics policies there ; his association with the Foundation led to allegations of collaborating with the Nazis.

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.

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

He spent the war in the United States, where he was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and Guggenheim Foundation.

It was criticized by the Free Software Foundation

* In the Star Wars prequels, the galactic capital planet Coruscant has buildings many miles tall, and approaches the completely built-over condition of Trantor in Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation trilogy ( Note: due to this, Coruscant was originally to be named Jhantor but was eventually renamed Coruscant ).

In 2005 Hill was selected as a Fletcher Foundation Fellow.

Likewise, Joseph E. Stiglitz, speaking not only on China but East Asia in general, comments " The countries that have managed globalization ... such as those in East Asia, have, by and large, ensured that they reaped huge benefits ..." According to The Heritage Foundation, development in China was anticipated by Milton Friedman, who predicted that even a small progress towards economic liberalization would produce dramatic and positive effects.

Capp was also involved with the Sister Kenny Foundation, which pioneered new treatments for polio in the 1940s.

The property was restored and opened to the public in 1974, by the non-profit Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation, Inc. Ruth's widow, Claire, his two daughters, Dorothy and Julia, and his sister, Mamie, helped select and install exhibits that depict the life and times of Babe Ruth.

" When administration of the prize was transferred to the Booker Prize Foundation in 2002, the title sponsor became the investment company Man Group, which opted to retain " Booker " as part of the official title of the prize.

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.

In 1965, Fred Gastoff invented the vinyl pom-pon, which was introduced into competitions by the International Cheerleading Foundation ( now the World Cheerleading Association or WCA ).

" The architect fee was the second to be funded by the Cummins Engine Foundation.

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.

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.

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.

Its new building, constructed with funds from the Rockefeller Foundation, was opened by Hilbert and Courant in 1930.

In 1986, she established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals.

Brian Lara has established the Pearl and Bunty Lara Foundation, which is a charitable organisation in memory of his parents that aims to address health and social care issues.

In April 1950, Hubbard and several others established the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation in Elizabeth, New Jersey to coordinate work related for the forthcoming publication.

In 2000 de Klerk established the pro-peace FW de Klerk Foundation of which he is the chairman.

de Klerk is also chairman of the Global Leadership Foundation, an organisation he established after retiring from office.

INGKA Holding is not an independent company, but is wholly owned by the Stichting Ingka Foundation, which Kamprad established in 1982 in the Netherlands as a tax-exempt, not-for-profit foundation.

The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.

Before Lawrence died, the Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation was formally established.

In 1922, John Sealy's children, John Sealy, II and Jennie Sealy Smith established the Sealy & Smith Foundation for the hospital.

In late 1989, the former First Lady established the Nancy Reagan Foundation, which aimed to continue to educate people about the dangers of substance abuse.

Kors and Silvergate later established the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which campaigns against PC speech codes.

The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation was established in 1986 to administer most of his contributions.

Rhine later established the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man ( FRNM ) and the Institute for Parapsychology as a successor to the Duke laboratory.

In 1834, the British Parliament passed the South Australia Act 1834 ( Foundation Act ), which enabled the province of South Australia to be established.

* Yamaha Music Foundation, an organization established by the authority of Japanese Ministry of Education for the purpose of promoting music education and music popularization

After her death, her father, Marc Klaas, established the KlaasKids Foundation.

In conjunction with the UN, they established the United Nations Fund for International Partnerships in order to serve as the UN counterpart to the Foundation.

The Foundation was established in 1974 by Thurmond with honoraria received from speeches, donations from friends and family, and from other acts of generosity.

In 1970, Mitsubishi companies established the Mitsubishi Foundation to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the founding of the first Mitsubishi company.

The school's new Arnold Foundation has been established to enable it to offer similar support to children from outside the Rugby area.

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

It was created by a private non-profit enterprise called Asuntosäätiö ( the Housing Foundation ), which was established in 1951 by six social trade organisations including the Confederation of Finnish Trade Unions, the Central Organisation of Tenants, the Mannerheim Child Welfare Federation, the Finnish Federation of Civilian and Military Invalids and the Civil Servants ' Federation.

For example, Levy's parents quickly turned for help to the Carole Sund / Carrington Memorial Reward Foundation, a nonprofit group that was established in Modesto after three female hikers disappeared from a 1999 trip to Yosemite National Park and were later found slain.

He established Arcosanti and the educational Cosanti Foundation.