She applauded the foundation's efforts in eliminating cancer and said, " A few short years ago, a diagnosis of breast cancer left little hope of recovery.

The foundation's efforts reached into several continents, providing staffing and funds to fight illiteracy, create schools for the disabled, set up mobile schools, and provide funding and staffing for several archaeological digs of biblically significant sites.

Largely through the foundation's efforts, NVCC has been able to fund an increasing number of scholarships, and in 2001 completed the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center on the Alexandria Campus.

" He has donated over US $ 1 million of his own record sales to support the foundation's worldwide humanitarian efforts.

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.

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.

The foundation's research led to the publication of the book Pope Pius XII and World War II: the documented truth, authored by Krupp ; the book reproduces 225 pages of the new documents produced by the foundation's research.

In addition, the foundation's officers and editors are some of the leading proponents of intelligent design.

The foundation's goal is to help revive the manufacture of a new generation of iBOT and if possible to manufacture, sell, and maintain some using a veteran owned and operated organization.

' The foundation's board will include some of the station's current executives.

In addition, the foundation's officers and editors are some of the leading proponents of intelligent design.

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.

Since its inception, more than 6, 000 young people have participated in the foundation's Youth to Leaders Training workshops and conferences.

President of the Canadian Centre for Policy Studies Joseph C. Ben-Ami, citing this statement in his article " Global Warming Charlatan " notes that the foundation's 2005-2006 annual report lists 52 corporations, including Bell Canada, Toyota, IBM, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Scotia Capital, Warner Bros., Canon and the Bank of Montreal, amongst its 40, 000 donors.

According to tax returns, the charity's chief executive Howard Sunkin, earned a salary of nearly $ 400, 000 per year, almost a quarter of the foundation's entire budget.

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 increased wealth of the college eventually resulted in the Charity Commission establishment of an enquiry into the advisability of widening the application of the funds to those extra beneficiaries Alleyn had specified in later amended clauses to the foundation's original statutes.

As of 2007 it is still administered out of Wellesley, Massachusetts by George Rideout, Jr., son of the foundation's original director.

The foundation's original sponsoring members were Apollo Computer, Groupe Bull, Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Nixdorf Computer, and Siemens AG, sometimes called the " Gang of Seven ".

In the parapsychology foundation's long-range experiment, readings are made by a variety of sensitives for a large number of cooperating sitters, trying to throw light on this question of the significance of mediumistic statements.

The crossing lies south of the Bridge of Sighs, and was a replacement for a wooden bridge that had stood on the site since the foundation's early days as a hospital.

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.

Based on recommendations made by the Gaither Study Committee and embraced by the foundation's board of trustees in 1949, the foundation expanded its grant making to include support for higher education, the arts, economic development, civil rights, and the environment, among other areas.

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.

That includes about 1, 200 career employees, 150 scientists from research institutions on temporary duty, 200 contract workers, and the staff of the National Science Board office and the Office of the Inspector General, which examines the foundation's work and reports to the NSB and Congress.

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.

As part of the foundation's A Dare to Remember campaign, Layton busked on a busy street corner.

Most of the foundation's work however, involved sponsoring essays by researchers on gravity-related topics.

The foundation's highest-profile fundraiser is Camp Day, which is held annually on the Wednesday of the first full week in June.

The character appeared in a We Are Family Foundation video promoting tolerance, which was criticized by James Dobson of Focus on the Family because of the foundation's link to homosexuality.

The first Secretary of the foundation was Jerome Davis Greene, the former Secretary of Harvard University, who wrote a " memorandum on principles and policies ” for an early meeting of the trustees that established a rough framework for the foundation's work.

One program that signals the shift was the foundation's support as the underwriter of Spike Lee's documentary on New Orleans, When the Levees Broke.

The second-oldest major philanthropic institution in America after the Carnegie Corporation, the foundation's impact on philanthropy in general has been profound.

After the earthquake on January 12, 2010 in Haiti, Jean called on others to donate to his foundation's Yéle Haiti Earthquake Fund, imploring " We must act now.

Thomas S. Johnson, chairman of the foundation's executive committee announced on May 9, 2006:

* In 1999 one of the foundation's long-term members, Verity Linn, died of exposure on a Scottish mountain while following the teachings of the self-styled guru Jasmuheen from Brisbane, Australia, that human beings can " live on light " alone.

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.

Since 2001 Jordan has served as special advisor to the president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and is the foundation's principal counselor on the impact of potential grants in the nine-county Bay Area.

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.