The foundation's goals are to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States.

The non-profit organization is devoted to assisting " children with leukemia and other cancers and their families by providing emotional and financial support to help reduce the stress associated with treatment and improve their quality of life ", according to the foundation's mission statement.

In partnering again with his foundation's former executive director, Lauren Forman, the new charity supports efforts toward the education and awareness of Parkinson ’ s disease in order to increase earlier diagnosis, educate patients and their families, and provide a viable forum for people affected by the disease.

Dr. Hasan said that " while he and his wife were upset that McInnis refused to endorse their son ..., it had nothing to do with asking McInnis for the foundation's money back.

In 2008, she was part of the Vodafone Group foundation's World of Difference campaign, which gives people the opportunity to work for a charity of their choice.

Imperioli is an active member of The Jazz Foundation of America and co-hosted their annual benefit concert at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, A Great Night in Harlem, in May 2009 celebrated the foundation's 20th anniversary.

# To donate a Franz Werfel Human Rights Award to people who " sharpen the sense of responsibility through their actions is one of the foundation's tasks ".

* The Community Story, a program to facilitate assisting the local indigenous community through input from the Native community and integrating the input into the foundation's programming and to identify their needs.

The foundation's most notable annual Honorary awards include the " Jackie Coogan Award ", often presented to film studios, producers or directors for their " Outstanding Contribution To Youth Through Entertainment ", and the " Former Child Star Award ", presented as the foundation's " Lifetime Achievement Award " honoring former child stars for their achievements.

The Educational foundation's growth supports Sigma Pi members in their continuing quest for education.

The foundation's mission is to nurture, celebrate, and preserve Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender literature through three programs that honor excellence, promote visibility and encourage development of emerging writers including the annual Lambda Literary Award, the Writers ' Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices, their website LambdaLiterary. org, their editorial staff Lambda Literary Review and their weekly e-newsletter Bookish.

The aim of the foundation's civic education programs is, according to their official website, the “ promotion of freedom and liberty, peace, and justice ” through “ furthering European unification, improving transatlantic relations and deepening development cooperation .” Their function as a think-tank and consulting agency is intended to provide citizens with a basis for political action through the research and analyses of current political trends.

Because of the threat and coming from conservative societies, many members of the foundation's site still prefer to be anonymous so as to protect their identity while continuing a tradition of secrecy.

In fiscal year 2007 / 2008 more than 30, 000 people were employed by the foundation's companies and their subsidiaries, with total sales of over 4. 9 billion Euros.

The two events at UNESCO raised a 6, 000 euro donation for the foundation ; even so, the foundation's president said in 2006 that the organization was finding it difficult to raise sufficient additional funds for the renovation.

* Richard Glanton ' 68, noted Philadelphia attorney, served as president of the Barnes Foundation in 1990 and was instrumental in creating a museum at Lincoln University ( Pennsylvania ) for the foundation's art collection

Speakers at the foundation's events included Roger Scruton, the Burke scholar Peter Stanlis, Dutch writer Leon de Winter, Islam-expert Reuel Marc Gerecht, Frits Bolkestein and Onno Ruding, former finance minister of The Netherlands.

The Portago curve at the St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun is named in his honor for his foundation's efforts to renovate the lower portion of the track.

The foundation's purpose is to support the Arts Programs at Stivers by providing funds for guest artists, scholarship programs, and other educational pursuits.

Modern technology circuit riding for nonprofits began in the U. S. in the mid-1990s when Gavin Clabaugh at the Telecommunications Cooperative Network approached the W. Alton Jones Foundation to get funding for technology services for a group of the foundation's grantees.

Under that proposal, Piñera maintains the right to remove and replace the foundation's president at any given time.

Among the foundation's activities there's a program to promote amongst young people different cultural expression such as opera, ballet and classical music, in adapted version, usually at the Teatro Colón.

It was speculated at the time that the real motive for the proposed abolition was that the governing parties ( Christian Democrat and liberal conservative ) saw the foundation's output as being too left-wing.

In Kamprad's absence the foundation's bylaws include specific provisions requiring it to continue operating the Ingka Holding group and specifying that shares can be sold only to another foundation with the same objectives as the Ingka Foundation.

Throughout the 1980s, the Heritage Foundation's foreign policy expert on the Third World, Michael Johns, the foundation's principal Reagan Doctrine advocate, visited with resistance movements in Angola, Cambodia, Nicaragua, and other Soviet-supported nations and urged the Reagan administration to initiate or expand military and political support to them.

John J. McCloy, the foundation's chairman from 1958 – 1965, knowingly employed numerous agents and, based on the premise that a relationship with the CIA was inevitable, set up a three-person committee responsible for dealing with its requests.

After Guggenheim's death, members of the Guggenheim family who sat on the foundation's board of directors had personal and philosophical differences with Rebay, and in 1952 she resigned as director of the museum.

In line with the foundation's commitment to improving the state of the world, the Tech Pioneers are integrated into its activities with the objective to identify and address future-oriented issues on the global agenda, in proactive, innovative and entrepreneurial ways.

By bringing these executives together with scientists, academics, NGOs, and foundation members and partners, the foundation's goal is to shed new light on how technologies can be used to, for example, find new vaccines, create economic growth and enhance global communication.

By 1943 this program, under the foundation's Mexican Agriculture Project, had proved such a success with the science of corn propagation and general principles of agronomy that it was exported to other Latin American countries ; in 1956 the program was then taken to India ; again with the geopolitical imperative of providing an antidote to communism.

Stock in the family's oil companies is a major part of the foundation's assets, beginning with Standard Oil and now with its corporate descendants, including Exxon Mobil.

In addition to the service completed by its student body, Rockhurst has been recognized as a university by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching with the foundation's community engagement classification for its ongoing engagement with its neighborhood and the Kansas City community.

The Star article indicated that three Foundation managers objected to paying workers in a partisan political campaign, on the grounds that it was an inappropriate use of taxpayer funds and incompatible with the foundation's charitable status.

A foundation can be created with any legal purpose and may have economic activity if this is specified in its Bylaws and the business supports the foundation's purpose.

Among the groups for which he lectured was the Golden Way Foundation, a New Age group in Geneva, Switzerland, and he became close friends with the foundation's leader, Joseph Di Mambro ( 1924 – 1994 ).

The name " March of Dimes "— coined in the late 1930s by vaudeville star Eddie Cantor as a play on the contemporary newsreel series " The March of Time "— was originally used for the foundation's annual fundraising event and gradually became synonymous with that of the organization.

Strategic priorities include to strengthen the organization's governance, heighten the impact of all programs, increase efficiency and accountability, to diversify the funding base, to clearly communicate the image and identity of the foundation, to strengthen relations with constituent communities, and to work towards ensuring the foundation's stability in the future.

When he is not playing baseball, Pride and with his wife Lisa are actively involved in the Together With Pride foundation, which aids hearing impaired children through a hearing aid bank, according to the foundation's website.

MuchFACT's executive director publicly disagreed with Ipp however, and went on record to clarify that the foundation's mandate was to support both new and existing talent.

The foundation's treasurer is Fred Nigro, who has appeared on Late Show with David Letterman where he has been identified as Letterman's accountant.

The foundation's board must consist of physician, hospital and local community representatives, with affiliated physicians making up no more than 20 percent of the board's members.