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.

Its only remnant in New Boston is a granite slab in a traffic island that celebrates the foundation's " active research for antigravity and a partial gravity insulator.

The foundation's work includes educational research, evaluation of education and training programmes, and the development of assessments and specialist information services.

Mellon has a small research group that has investigated doctoral education, collegiate admissions, independent research libraries, charitable nonprofits, scholarly communications, and other issues in order to ensure that the foundation's grants would be well-informed and more effective.

At first, the foundation's drug research strategy revolved around searching for analogues.

The timing of this report, which confirmed quantitative research ( e. g., the Coleman Report ) showing a weak relationship of public school resources to educational outcomes, corresponded with the foundation's burgeoning interest in improving the effectiveness of schools.

" Calling for additional research, the foundation's 2008 position paper states, however, that there is insufficient evidence to recommend fluoride-free drinking water for patients with renal disease.

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.

The foundation's goal is to raise funds to finance research which offers significant promise in the search for a cure of this terminal cancer.

In preparation for its acquisition of the collection, the NPS had conducted historical research during 1987 and 1988 on the equipment that still remained in the foundation's possession.

The foundation's purpose is centered around educating individuals about the prevention and management of heart disease and stroke, and to fund medical research regarding the causes of these conditions.

Thomas Krens, director of the foundation from 1988 to 2008, led a rapid expansion of the foundation's collections.

The foundation was governed by the Culture Ministry of Weimar ; from there came the foundation's " commissar ", who led the management of the businesses.

It was founded by the Heritage Foundation and was for many years the foundation's flagship publication.

The foundation's efforts produced some 3, 000 original documents and photos on the life of Pius XII and his work to save Jews during World War II.

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.

In December 2010 plans were announced to redevelop IWM London's First World War gallery in time for the conflict's centenary in 2014, and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge became the foundation's patron.

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.

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.

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.

The report was endorsed by the foundation's board of trustees, and they subsequently voted to move the foundation to New York City in 1953.

The foundation's first permanent museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, is housed in a modern spiral building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Guggenheim Bilbao was designed by Frank Gehry.

By that time, the foundation's collection included a broad spectrum of expressionist and surrealist works, including paintings by Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka and Joan Miró.

In 1991, he broadened the foundation's holdings by acquiring the Panza Collection.

Gehry designed the structure, which will be the foundation's largest by far.

The museum in Abu Dhabi is planned to be the foundation's largest facility by far.

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

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

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.

She has said she wants to change the foundation's organizational structure and identify the major 21st-century trends that could be affected by the foundation.

: The heroine of the story is Shima ( or " Shipon ( しーぽん )" as she is dubbed by Arisa ) who joins the Stellvia foundation's space program so that she could " see the stars while looking forward, rather than having to look up ".

The foundation's web site complains that although there are very many representational artists, they are discriminated against by art museums.

This foundation's members are politicians appointed by the government.

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.

A trip down the West Coast to visit various university music programs was suggested by the foundation's Arts Officer, Howard Klein.

He became a close and key advisor to Junior through the Ludlow massacre, turning around his attitude to unions ; however the foundation's involvement in IR was criticized for advancing the family's business interests.

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.

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.

In 2010, the foundation's Board of Trustees approved 481 awards totaling $ 158 million ; $ 134 million was paid out to grantees over the course of the year.

The foundation's roots are much older, however ; it was established in 1898 by the American Methodist missionary Josephine Eaton Peel Campbell.

Elsewhere on the Visitor Complex grounds is the foundation's Center for Space Education, which includes a resource center for teachers, among other facilities ; and the Kurt Debus Conference Center.