Drawing from his Fundación Mediterránea think-tank, he prepared an academic team for taking over the management of the economy, and to that end he participated actively in Carlos Menem's bid to the presidency ( 1989 ).

Luis Leloir and Carlos Eugenio Cardini at work in the Leloir Institute | Fundación Instituto Campomar, 1960.

This followed the creation of his eponymous non-profit philanthropic foundation, Fundación Carlos Slim Helú in 1986.

Together with Fundación Carlos Slim Helú, this organisation announced in the same year that it was to invest more than $ 250 million in Mexican sports programmes, from grass-roots level to Olympic standard.

Under the Fundación Cultura y Sociedad ( formerly Fundación Futuro ) the Grupo Tantauco is created with the mission of environmentalism, and is administered by Juan Carlos Urquidi.

Sekkou Zouha, Zhen-Lin Zhang, Bruno P. Zehnder, Marinos Yeroulanos, Worldwide Fund for Nature, World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, Paul Winter, Wildlife Clubs of Kenya, Joe Walulya-Mukasa, Aminata Wade, Lily Venizelos, Tsitsi Vangili, UNEPCOM, George H. Tomlinson, Anitra Thorhaug, Peter S. Thacher, Maurice Strong, Marion Stoddart, Stichting Werkgroep Behoud Tropisch Regenwoud, Chodchoy Sophonpanich, Ben Soans, Ully Sigar, Jill Sheppard, Philip Shabecoff, Sahabat Alam, Omda Sabil, Margaret Robertson, Robert Redford, Peter Raven, Gabor Racz, Carlos Pizani, Claiborne Pell, Bernard Lédéa Ouédraogo, The Nature Conservancy, National Geographic Society, Wlodzimierz Michajlow, Chico Mendes, Igor Mann, George Livanos, Guy Lionnet, Geoffrey Lean, Thomas Landgren, King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation, Sophia Wambui Kiarie, Mugamir Eisa Khalifa, Mohamed Kassas, Mr. G. V. and Mrs. K. Karlekar, Abdullahi Karani, Petar Jovanovic, Instituto Forestal Latinoamericano, Satu Huttunen, Soichiro Honda, Sir Edmund Hillary, Rene Daniel Haller, Grupo de los Cien, Green Great Wall Group, Green Belt Movement ( Wangari Maathai ), Juan Grau, Joseph Glascott, Grigory Galazii, Fundación para la Defensa de la Naturaleza, Fundación para la Defensa del Ambiente ( FUNAM ), Fundación Natura, Vladimir Flint, Environmental Management Journal, Diario El Comercio, Bedrettin Dalan, Luc Cuyvers, Herman Contraries Manfredi, College of African Wildlife Management, Brian Clark, China Environmental News ( CEN ), Caribbean Conservation Association, Charles Caccia, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Bob Brown, Lester R. Brown, Francis Boateng, Chandiprasad Bhatt, Bellerive Foundation, Bamburi Portland Cement Ltd., David Attenborough, Asociación Peruana para la Conservación de la Naturaleza, George W. Archibald, Arab Office for Youth and Environment ( AOYE ), Azaria Alon, Anil Agarwal

In 2000, Slim, along with ex-broadcaster Jacobo Zabludowsky organized the Fundación del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México A. C. ( Mexico City Historic Downtown Foundation ), with the objective to revitalizing and rescuing Mexico City's historic downtown area to enable more people to live, work and find entertainment there.

The Club also has institutional Members – those who belong to private and public organizations that share similar democratic objectives, including the Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior ( FRIDE ), and the Gorbachev Foundation of North America ( GNFA ), both original sponsors of the founding conference in 2001.

Solo exhibitions featuring Juan Downey ’ s work include Juan Downey: Audio-Kinetic Electronic Sculptures, The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC ; With Energy Beyond These Walls, Howard Wise Gallery, New York, NY, ( 1970 ); Video Trans Americas, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, ( 1976 ); Juan Downey: Video Trans Americas, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, ( 1976 ); Video Trans Americas, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY ( 1977 ); Juan Downey: New American Filmmaker Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY ( 1978 ); Juan Downey, Matrix / Berkeley 16, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA ( 1978 ); Une Forêt ' Videoformes ': Retrospective Juan Downey, Festival de la Création Vidéo, Clermont-Ferrand, France ( 1993 ); Juan Downey: Instalaciones, Dibujos y Videos, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago ( 1995 ), Chile ; Juan Downey: Con energía más allá de estos muros, Institut Valencià d ' Art Modern, Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain ( 1997 – 98 ); Retrospectiva de Video Arte de Juan Downey, Museo de Arte Moderno de Chiloé, Castro, Chiloé, Chile ( 2000 ); Plateau of Humankind, Honorable Mention: “ Excellence in Art Science and Technology ,” 49th Venice Biennale Chilean Pavilion, Venice, Italy ( 2001 ); and Juan Downey: El ojo pensante, Sala de Arte Fundación Telefónica, Santiago, Chile ( 2010 ); Juan Downey: The Invisible Architect, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY ( 2011-2012 ).

Fundación Barco, Municipalidad de Varazdin, Museo de Historia de Ensenada, Seminario de Historia de Baja California, Ensenada, Mexico.

Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada ( 2011 ); Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany ( 2004 – 05 ); Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain ( 1996 – 97, traveled ); Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico ( 1991 – 92, traveled ); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota ( 1985 ); Albright-Knox At Gallery, Buffalo, New York ( 1983, traveled ); Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain ( 1980 ); The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs ( 1979 ); Royal Academy of Art, London, England ( 1978 ); Musée d ’ art moderne de la ville de Paris, France ( 1977 ); Stadtisches Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany ( 1976 ); Museo de Arte Moderna, Mexico City, Mexico ( 1975 ); Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey ( 1973 ); David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ( 1973 ); The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas ( 1972 – 73, traveled ); The Museum of Modern Art, New York ( 1965 ); The Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C. ( 1965 ); Smith College Museum of Art ( 1963 ); Pasadena Art Museum, California ( 1962 ); Galerie Heinz Berggruen, Paris, France ( 1961 ); Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont ( 1957 ); Peggy Guggenheim ’ s Art of this Century Gallery, New York ( 1944 ).

The Children's Museum of Bogotá ( Fundación Museo de los Niños ) is a privately managed museum foundation in Bogotá, Colombia's capital city ( The actual museum is located in Barrio J. Vargas ), established in 1986 and aimed at teaching children about science, technology, culture and arts.

In 2009 The Hunger Project was active in Africa, in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Senegal, and Uganda, in Asia, in Bangladesh and India, and in Latin America, in Mexico, Bolivia ( partnered with Fundación Acción Cultural Loyola ( ACLO )), and Peru ( partnered with Chirapaq ( Center for Indigenous Peoples ' Cultures of Peru )).

* Fundación Universidad de las Américas, Puebla ( UDLAP ), university in Cholula, Puebla state, Mexico

* The " Aztecas " collegiate athletics teams of Fundación Universidad de las Américas, Puebla ( Cholula, Mexico )

The government's revised figures were considered " absurdly low " by Fundación País Libre, which has argued that its own archives suggest an estimated 1, 617 people taken hostage between 2000 and 2008 remain in the hands of their captors, including hundreds seized by FARC.

Prince Felipe chairs the Prince of Asturias Foundation ( Fundación Príncipe de Asturias ), which aims to promote " scientific, cultural and humanistic values that form part of mankind's universal heritage.

The concerts and specials are aired in local television stations and then released on CDs and DVD, raising money for the company's philanthropic foundation ( Fundación Banco Popular ) which benefits a variety of non-profit organizations in the island.

The resolution also urged to provide public access to historians ( professional and amateurs ) to the various archives of the Francoist regime, including those of the Fundación Francisco Franco which, as well as other Francoist archives, remain as of 2006 inaccessible to the public.

Herger was honored by the Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular, which recognizes important figures of popular culture in Puerto Rico on August 13, 2008.

In 1980 Favaloro established the ' Basic Investigation Laboratory ' ( Laboratorio de Investigación Básica ), which was financed with his own money for a long timespan and which, at the time, depended upon the support of the Investigation and Teaching Department of the Fundación Favaloro.

Also many different publications were made through the Centro Editor de la Fundación Favaloro ( Publishing Center of the Favaloro Foundation ), which ceased to operate in 2000.

In 1945 Leloir ended his exile and returned to Argentina to work under Houssay at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de la Fundación Campomar, which Leloir would direct from its creation in 1947 by businessman and patron Jaime Campomar.

Among the activities of Fundación Telmex has been the organisation of Copa Telmex, an amateur sports tournament which in 2007 was recognised by Guinness World Records as having the most participants of any such tournament in the world, a record which it extended in 2008.

In 2005, Mr. Salinas launched Fundación Azteca America, which is committed to improving the well-being of the Hispanic community in the United States by functioning as a nationwide bridge between donors and Hispanic foundations.

The plan, which was perhaps more realistic than those proposed before, was based on 63 city blocks and was completed with the Foundation Act ( Acta de Fundación ), signed by president Germán Riesco and dated February 7, 1906.

It is now operated by the " Fundación Galileo Galilei, Fundación Canaria ", a no-profit institution which manages the telescope on behalf of INAF, the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics.

He also created the Fundación Corazón Guerrero, a charitable organization in Puerto Rico which works with young incarcerated people.

CANF also operates the radio station La Voz de la Fundación which it attempts to transmit to Cuba and led the effort to establish the U. S. Information Agency's Radio Martí ( 1985 ) and TV Martí ( 1990 ).

In 1993, Piñera created the foundation Fundación Futuro, of which he is president and whose directors are Cristián Boza D., María Teresa Chadwick P., Hugo Montes B., Cecilia Morel M., Renato Poblete S. J.

Piñera announced on February he had the intention to transfer 100 % of his stake in Chilevisión to a non-for-profit organization called Fundación Cultura y Sociedad ( formerly Fundación Futuro ), of which he is owner.

Queen Sofía devotes much of her time to the Queen Sofia Foundation ( Fundación Reina Sofía ); while Prince Felipe chairs the Prince of Asturias Foundation ( Fundación Príncipe de Asturias ), which aims to promote " scientific, cultural and humanistic values that form part of mankind's universal heritage.

The Zoológico de Quito ( Quito Zoo ), which was originally in the Benalcázar parish of the city of Quito, was moved in 1997 to the southwest of the parish, and has been operated since 1999 by the Fundación Zoológica del Ecuador.

Although born in France, Leloir received the majority of his education at the University of Buenos Aires and was director of the private research group Fundación Instituto Campomar until his death in 1987.

The Conservation Land Trust ( a U. S. environmental foundation ) has donated these protected lands to Fundación Pumalín ( a Chilean foundation ), for their administration and continual development as a type of National Park with public access under a private initiative.

The Conservation Land Trust later donated the protected lands to Fundación Pumalín, a Chilean foundation, for their administration and ongoing preservation as a national park under private initiative.

* The Fundación Andreu Nin has a Spanish-language site containing an extensive collection of documents, biographical notes, and links related to the POUM and to Nin himself.

In 1991, the cooperative created the Fundación Cultural de Trabajadores de Pascual to care and promote the collection.

The other is a collection of photographs that Alvarez Bravo began putting together himself in 1980 for the Fundación Cultural Televisa.

One Ring Zero has also performed at music venues and cultural institutions including the Whitney Museum of Art, Central Park SummerStage, The Kennedy Center, Toronto ’ s Harbourfront Centre, Spring Scream in Taiwan, Era in Tokyo, New Morning in Paris, The Chicago World Music Festival, and the Fundación Príncipe de Asturias in Spain.

In 1997 the Fundación Isaac Albéniz was founded in his name to promote Spanish music and musicians and to act as a research centre for Albéniz and Spanish music in general.

According to the Fundación País Libre anti-kidnapping NGO, an estimated total of 6, 778 people were kidnapped by FARC between 1997 and 2007.

Fundación de México – Tenochtitlán by Roberto Cueva del Río.

Facebook has gained nationwide popularity and has become the birthplace of many civil movements against narcoterrorism such as " Colombia Soy Yo " ( I am Colombia ) or " Fundación Un Millón de Voces " ( One Million Voices Foundation ), responsible for the international protests against illegal groups during the last years.

More independent but clearly to the left of the political spectrum are the Centro de Investigaciones de Relaciones Internacionales y Desarrollo ( CIDOB ) founded in 1973 ; and the Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior ( FRIDE ) established in 1999 by Diego Hidalgo and main driving force behind projects such as the Club de Madrid, a group of democratic former heads of state and government, or the Foreign Policy Spanish Edition.

For its part, the Fundación Alternativas is independent but close to left-wing ideas.

The Socialist Partido Socialista Obrero Español ( PSOE ) has created a new think tank called the Fundación Ideas.

The Fundación Valparaíso ( Valparaíso Foundation ), founded by the North American poet Todd Temkin, has executed major neighborhood redevelopment projects ; has improved the city ’ s tourist infrastructure ; and administers the city's jazz, ethnic music, and opera festivals ; among other projects.

Angelo Gilardino, who has worked at the Fundación Andrés Segovia in Spain, noted: " Though it is not yet completely documented, it seems clear that, since his tender childhood, learnt playing as a flamenco guitarist.

In Linares the Segovia Museum " Fundación Andrés Segovia " was established in May 1995 and this birth-town of Segovia, also has a bronze statue in his honour, created by Julio López Hernández and unveiled on 25 May 1984.

Su vida y sus obras, 1st Edition, La Coruña: Fundación Pedro Barrie de la Maza Conde de Fenosa, 1985.

He is the founder of the Ricky Martin Foundation ( in Spanish Fundación Ricky Martin ), a non-profit charity organization aimed at eliminating human trafficking.

De la Fundación Robert Graves.

es: Fundación Solomon R. Guggenheim

The same exhibition was then presented at the Fundación Canal de Isabel II in Madrid between October 2004 and January 2005 and it was also their most successful ever by number of visitors.

* Competition for Young Pianists " Cincuentenario de la Fundación Educacional Jrimián " ( 50th Anniversary of the Khrimian Educational Foundation ) awarded by the Asociación Cultural Armenia, in Lanús ( Buenos Aires ) in November 1980.

Santiago: Fundación Telefónica, 2010.

es: Fundación Xiph. org

Santos was also one of the founders of the anti-kidnapping NGO Fundación País Libre, created shortly after his own experience as a hostage of drug lord Pablo Escobar.

The Fundación Colegio Americano de Quito or Colegio Americano de Quito ( American School of Quito ) is a college preparatory school in Quito, Ecuador.

Other forms of Venezuelan folk music are tensively recorded and researched due to the work of Caracas-based Fundación Bigott.

Fundación Bigott.