After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, at which time Belarus gained its independence, Belarus became a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ), NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.

It became a member of the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in 1978 and of the World Bank and Organization of American States ( OAS ) in 1979.

DDT became a prime target of the growing anti-chemical and anti-pesticide movements, and in 1967 a group of scientists and lawyers founded the Environmental Defense Fund ( EDF ) with the specific goal of winning a ban on DDT.

After the declaration on the restoration of its full independence on August 21, 1991, Latvia became a member of the United Nations on September 17, 1991, and is a signatory to a number of UN organizations and other international agreements, including Council of Europe, CERCO, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Atomic Energy Agency, UNESCO, UNICEF, International Criminal Court, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

However, as Sudan became the world ’ s largest debtor to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund by 1993, its relationship with the international financial institutions soured in the mid-1990s and has yet to be fully rehabilitated.

In the 1990s, following the lifting of the US veto on multilateral loans to the country, Vietnam became a member of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), and the Asian Development Bank.

By 1976 Zambia had a balance-of-payments crisis, and rapidly became massively indebted to the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ).

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( IBRD ) and International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) were established by delegates at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 and became operational in 1946.

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund were designed by delegates at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 and the World Bank, then consisting of only the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, became operational in 1946.

Gray worked with the Environmental Defense Fund ( EDF ), who worked with the EPA to write the bill that became law as part of the Clean Air Act of 1990.

Due in no small part to the influence of transnational economic bodies such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the G7, G8, G20, and trade agreements between nations with differing degrees of industrialization such as the Central American Free Trade Agreement, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, the European Union, AFTA, ACTA and TPP, regions of economic exchange have become more integrated across the world than ever before and supply chains for vital commodities and products previously maintained within national borders have became distributed across international lines.

Jack Dreyfus, founder of the Dreyfus Fund, became a major proponent of phenytoin as a means to control nervousness and depression when he received a prescription for Dilantin in 1966.

In 1991, she became the National Spokesperson for the Colette Chuda Environmental Fund / CHEC ( Children ’ s Health Environmental Coalition ) following the death of four year old Colette Chuda, a family friend, from cancer.

Since 2000 the Bank itself became a member of the EIB Group ( including its venture capital arm – the European Investment Fund ).

After making Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey, she became a supporter of The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and is now the DFGFI's honorary chairwoman.

She became a member of the Committee for Ethnic Minority Women ’ s Participation, has a seat on the board of governors of the Chair on the Management of Diversity and Integration at the Free University of Amsterdam, she ( along with her husband ) is a patron of the Orange Fund ( established to promote social welfare and cohesion in the Netherlands ), and she also chairs the Board of Trustees of the Prince Claus Chair of the University of Utrecht.

* 2010, she became a supporter of The Mullany Fund, whose aim is to support UK students wishing to study medicine or physiotherapy.

The Maldives became a member of Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation ( CFTC ) in 1985.

Andy Stumpf became the full-time Regeneration Programme Manager, working on a major bid application to the Heritage Lottery Fund ( HLF ) to finance the restoration, and the canal was visited by Charles, Prince of Wales, in his capacity as Patron of the Waterways Trust.

Barbara Bush became the first U. S. First Lady to become a recipient of the Henry G. Freeman Jr. Pin Money Fund, receiving $ 36, 000, most of which she gave to favorite charities.

The Mahadev Temple in Gokarna, Nepal | Gokarna, Nepal, a conservation project of the International Fund for Monuments. At the invitation of UNESCO in the 1970s IFM became involved in architectural conservation in Nepal, where the organization adopted the Mahadev temple complex in Gokarna, in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley.

Central Hall was funded between 1898 and 1908 by 1, 025, 000 contributors to the " Wesleyan Methodist Twentieth Century Fund " ( or the " Million Guinea Fund ", as it became more commonly known ), whose aim was to raise one million guineas from one million Methodists.

In retirement he became Director General of the Save the Children Fund.

Returning to England at the end of 1880, Petrie wrote a number of articles and then met Amelia Edwards, journalist and patron of the Egypt Exploration Fund ( now the Egypt Exploration Society ), who became his strong supporter and later appointed him as Professor at her Egyptology chair at University College London.

It is one of a series of projects and reforms required by the International Monetary Fund as prerequisites for foreign debt relief.

Morris ( 1965, 1982 ) records one such mission under King Mpande to give green warriors of the uThulwana regiment experience: a raid into Swaziland, dubbed " Fund ' uThulwana " by the Zulu, or " Teach the uThulwana ".

The International Monetary Fund was one of the key organizations of the international economic system ; its design allowed the system to balance the rebuilding of international capitalism with the maximization of national economic sovereignty and human welfare, also known as embedded liberalism.

In an October 2010 report titled Saving Our Vanishing Heritage, Global Heritage Fund named Nineveh one of 12 sites most " on the verge " of irreparable destruction and loss, citing insufficient management, development pressures and looting as primary causes.

The Sahara desert ecoregion, as defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ), includes the hyper-arid center of the Sahara, between 18 ° and 30 ° N. It is one of several desert and xeric shrubland ecoregions that cover the northern portion of the African continent.

The project was selected by Big Lottery Fund assessors as one of four finalists.

UNEP is also one of several Implementing Agencies for the Global Environment Facility ( GEF ) and the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, and it is also a member of the United Nations Development Group.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development ( IFAD ), ( Italian: Fondo Internazionale per lo Sviluppo Agricolo ), a specialized agency of the United Nations, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference.

Being independently wealthy, he donated his entire naval salary minus one dollar a year to the Sailors ' and Marines ' Relief Fund.

The GDP growth for 2004 was one of the highest among G7 nations, according to the International Monetary Fund and Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Simon is also a major benefactor and one of the co-founders, with Dr. Irwin Redlener, of the Children's Health Project and The Children's Health Fund which started by creating specially equipped " buses " to take medical care to children in medically underserved areas, urban and rural.

As the Bursar of the Cambridge University King's College, he managed two investment funds, one of which, called Chest Fund, invested not only in the then ' emerging ' market US stocks, but also periodically included commodity futures and foreign currencies, albeit to a smaller extent ( see Chua and Woodward, 1983 ).

This is one of the reasons the Fund places priority on reaching those in the greatest need, whether because of poverty, marginalization, emergencies, age, sex, ethnicity or health status.

The Fund is fully committed to a more effective, coherent and better coordinated United Nations system that ‘ delivers as one ’, which is the essence of the ongoing United Nations reform process.

In 1996, the World Monuments Fund declared Valparaíso ’ s unusual system of funicular elevators ( highly-inclined cable cars ) one of the world ’ s 100 most endangered historical treasures.

In August 2011 Streatham was selected as one of the areas to benefit from Round 1 of the Mayor of London's Outer London Fund.

The building is one of the few surviving of the more than 5, 000 rural black schools built with contributions for the Julius Rosenwald Fund.

The first retail index fund, First Index Investment Trust, was formed in 1976 by The Vanguard Group, headed by John Bogle ; it is now called the Vanguard 500 Index Fund and is one of the world's largest mutual funds, with more than $ 100 billion in assets as of January 31, 2011.

The General Political Fund funded a TV recruitment advert " You're one in a million " launched in October 2004.

In 2011 when the Portuguese Republic avoided default by requesting international financial assistance to the International Monetary Fund, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, one of the best known captains who coordinated and organized the April 1974 military coup-the Carnation Revolution, stated that he wouldn't have taken part in the revolution if he had known what the country would become after it.

Sheen is donating one dollar from each ticket sold from his “ My Violent Torpedo of Truth / Defeat is Not An Option Show ” 2011 tour to the Red Cross Japanese Earthquake Relief Fund.