There will be premieres of new works, made possible through Ford Foundation commissions: Carlisle Floyd's Mystery, with Phyllis Curtin as soprano soloist.

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.

The Trustees of the Foundation appointed Dr. Ray to that position with the stated expectation that he would succeed the present Secretary General upon the latter's eventual retirement.

And lest anybody think that considerations such as these are not germane in a foundation report, let me enlighten them with the truths that, under Communism there would have been no capital with which to endow the Foundation, and that there would not be that individual freedom within which the Fellows might proceed, untrammeled in every way, toward their discoveries, their creative efforts for the good of mankind.

The mediums with whom the Parapsychology Foundation is working in this experiment are in a waking or only slightly dissociated state, so that the sitter can make comments, ask and answer questions, instead of talking with a `` control '' who speaks through an entranced sensitive.

`` We are back with the ' Met ' again now that the ' Met ' is back in Chicago '', bulletins Mrs. Frank S. Sims, president of the women's board of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation.

The series of ballets is sponsored by the Milenoff Ballet Foundation, Inc., a non-profit foundation with headquarters in Coral Gables.

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.

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.

However, during the January to September 2010 period, the sector experienced a 5. 2 percent year-on-year decrease, which according to the Civilitas Foundation is an indication of the unsustainability of a sector based on an elite market, with few products for the median or low budgets.

Isaac Asimov solved the same communication problem with the hyper-wave relay in the Foundation series.

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.

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.

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

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.

October 2007, the In Education program partnered with the Massachusetts Literacy Foundation and Got Books?

The Booker Prize Foundation announced in January 2010 the creation of a special award called the " Lost Man Booker Prize ," with the winner chosen from a longlist of 22 novels published in 1970.

The selection process for the winner of the prize commences with the formation of an advisory committee which includes an author, two publishers, a literary agent, a bookseller, a librarian, and a chairperson appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation.

In spite of this, in 1975 Bliss granted an exclusive world license, for use with handicapped children, to the new Blissymbolics Communication Foundation directed by Shirley McNaughton ( later called Blissymbolics Communication International, BCI ).

In 2004 The Observer described what it called a network of relationships between apparently unconnected animal rights groups on both sides of the Atlantic, writing that, with assets of $ 6. 5 million, and with the PETA Foundation holding further assets of $ 15 million, PETA funds a number of activists and groups — some with links to militant groups, including the ALF, which the FBI has named as a domestic terrorist threat.

For many years, the foundation topped annual lists compiled by the Foundation Center of United States foundations with the most assets and the highest annual giving ; however, the foundation has fallen a few places in those lists in recent years, especially with the establishment of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000.

Today, the Foundation has assets of over $ 45, 000, 000, making it one of the largest fraternal foundations.

Simon managed the family business ( which has over $ 3 billion dollars in assets ), as the Assistant U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and as a trustee for the Heritage Foundation.

The Court however found that the first money was not given to the Foundation until December 2001, and ruled that the money had been used as his private assets and that therefore gift tax was payable.

The total assets of the Sloan Foundation have a market value of about $ 1. 8 billion.

On her 21st birthday, she did not take control of the other half or become the president of the Onassis Foundation, with assets in excess of US $ 2. 1 billion.

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is an American conservative foundation with about half a billion US dollars in assets.

This was followed by the 1985 acquisition of Allen-Bradley by Rockwell International Corporation, with a significant portion of the proceeds going into the expansion of The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, which saw its assets rise from $ 14m to over $ 290m.

* Mostazafen Foundation of Islamic Revolution, one of the largest welfare organization, A semi-public foundation originally founded in 1979 with the assets of the last Shah ’ s family ; it operates a wide variety of charitable activities.

* Astan Quds Razavi ( Imam Reza shrine Foundation ), with $ 15 billion in assets ( 2003 ).

Its assets along with Symbian OS, UIQ and MOAP ( S ) have been used as a base for Symbian, an open source operating system being developed by the Symbian Foundation.

A substantial part of her estate's assets were transferred to the Georgia O ' Keeffe Foundation, which dissolved in 2006, leaving these assets to the Georgia O ' Keeffe Museum, established in Santa Fe in 1997 to perpetuate O ' Keeffe's artistic legacy.

In 1973, faced with overwhelming criticism and family infighting, the Bayreuth Festival and its assets were transferred to a newly created Richard Wagner Foundation.

In addition, to ensure the authenticity of the presentation of his oeuvre once Cunningham was no longer able to lead his Company, the plan outlined a final international tour for the Company, and, ultimately, the closure of the Cunningham Dance Foundation and Merce Cunningham Dance Company and the transfer of all assets to the Merce Cunningham Trust.

The Communist Party's assets were thereafter directed into a body called the SEARCH Foundation.

In 1956, he established the Lawson Foundation, with assets of $ 2, 000, 000.

In India, public-private partnerships have been extremely successful in developing infrastructure, particularly road assets under the National Highways Authority of India and Midday Meal Scheme with Akshaya Patra Foundation

In 2009 the organisation was disbanded and all assets donated to the Taronga Conservation Foundation.

The Nobel Foundation manages the assets.

By the end of its first year of operation, the Griffith R. Harsh IV and Margaret C Whitman Charitable Foundation had $ 46 million in assets and has disbursed $ 125, 000 to charitable causes.

In June 2000, she donated $ 40 million to the Hamilton Community Foundation to be used largely in improvement of Hamilton-area health facilities, an act that represented one of the single largest charitable donations in Canadian history.

* 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

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.

This prime allowed GIMPS to win the $ 100, 000 prize from Electronic Frontier Foundation for discovering a prime with more than 10 million decimal digits.

if the software is used to discover a prime number with at least 100 million decimal digits and wins the $ 150, 000 USD bounty offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

" With an estimated net worth of $ 36 billion, the foundation is unofficially the world's largest charitable organisation, beating out the much better known Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has a net worth of approximately $ 33 billion.

However, most of the Group's profit is spent on investments, the foundation expects to spend € 45 million on charitable giving in 2010 ( compare the Gates Foundation, which made gifts of more than $ 1. 5 billion in 2005.

* In September 2011, the IKEA Foundation pledged to donate $ 62 million to help Somali refugees in Kenya.

In 1997, a $ 325, 000 bronze sculpture ( equal to $ today ) by artists Ralph Helmick, Stu Schecter, and John Outterbridge depicting oversized nine-foot busts of Robinson and his brother Mack was erected at Garfield Avenue, across from the main entrance of Pasadena City Hall ; a granite footprint lists multiple donors to the commission project, which was organized by the Robinson Memorial Foundation and supported by members of the Robinson family.

The current John Sealy Hospital was completed in 1978 at a cost of $ 32. 5 million and was funded in full by the Sealy & Smith Foundation.

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

In 2005, James Randi offered her the James Randi Educational Foundation US $ 1 million prize to demonstrate her claims.

In a final round of bids on March 13, 2000, the Foundation voted to accept Glass ' bid of $ 96 million, rejecting Prentice's revised bid of $ 115 million.

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.

In September 2008, mathematicians at UCLA participating in GIMPS won part of a $ 100, 000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for their discovery of a very nearly 13-million-digit Mersenne prime.

* 1913 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $ 100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.

Through the Foundation, Allen awards approximately $ 30 million in grants annually.

Since 1990, The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation has awarded $ 428 million to non-profit organizations, as of 2010.