The Qattan Foundation works to develop culture and education in the Palestinian Territories and the Arab world, with a particular focus on children, teachers and young artists.
In Kenya and Lesotho, the Varkey GEMS Foundation works with UNESCO on gender-sensitive teacher training to encourage more girls to attend school and learn science and mathematics.
Premji has the Azim Premji Foundation that works in the area of primary education.
In the weeks leading up to the event, I had an opportunity to speak with featured WIE Symposium panelist Liya Kebede (model, actress, fashion designer, and activist whose charity, The Liya Kebede Foundation, works toward ensuring maternal health and saving the lives of women and children around the world) about the women that have inspired her and her thoughts for the next generation of women leaders.
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To build the foundation for these works, the Corps had to pour an 8-foot-thick concrete foundation underwater in the middle of one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
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Peter Buffett and his wife Jennifer run the NoVo Foundation, which works to empower girls and women and end violence against them.
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Giusti founded an advocacy group, the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, that works with companies like Novartis, Celgene, and Merck to develop new treatments.
Our panel included luminaries from a diverse range of fields: Tamika Catchings, professional basketball player, and founder of Catch the Stars Foundation, which works with at-risk youth.
Summitt devotes much of her time now to the Pat Summitt Foundation, which works to provide grants to nonprofit organizations to help educate, fund research and fight Alzheimer's.
The James Randi Educational Foundation, which works to educate people about the common tricks and sleight-of-hand techniques that swindlers who purport to be psychics or some other contact with a supernatural world.
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Indoors, the collection of 13, 000 works is mostly American, but includes a bequest from the Samuel Kress Foundation of Italian Renaissance works, brought out for occasional educational purposes.
Leslie Findley, a professor of neurology and the medical director of the National Tremor Foundation where Tonia now works, said the design should help many of his members.
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His mother was diagnosed with the disease over a decade ago, and works with the Foundation.
In a sharp critique of the article, Clinton spokesman also criticized Todd Purdum, national editor of Vanity Fair, for not giving enough attention to the former president's charitable works through his foundation since leaving the White House.
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The museum is showing works from the Triton Foundation as part of its 20th anniversary celebrations.
Santos Foundation, a public charity that works to help at-risk youth prepare for law-abiding, contributing lives, I work face to face with young citizens on a regular basis.
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The money to pay for the townhouse was raised by the foundation from the sale of Twombly works last year that went to the Museum of Modern Art a few months before the artist died.
Leingruber, who works for the Mozilla Foundation, says the idea for the ID project came to him when he was crossing the border from Canada to the U.S., and a customs official jokingly asked him for his Facebook name instead of his passport.
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According to his website, Pistorius is an ambassador for the Mineseeker Foundation, a non-profit organization which works to clear landmines worldwide.
Last month, the university announced the couple also donated 18 works from the Broads' personal and foundation collections by artists including Jonathan Borofksy, Terry Winters and Sue Williams.
Another foundation stone is fixing a health insurance system that works better for insurance industry than it does for the American people. (Applause.) I do not quit.
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Now he works full time for the Manchester City Foundation where he leads and motivates young people and in 2009 he won the Kickz Inspiring Young Person of the Year Award.
All these things are of a piece, because all these things are designed to try to make our economy strong and create a foundation so that, once again, anybody who works hard can make it here in this country.
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An individual who continuously takes initiative, gains more skills, works hard and so on, builds a foundation for later success.
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Gas prices have risen about twice as much as crude oil prices, says Ronald Gold, who works with Lichtblau at the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation.
Adriana, who became the foundation's president in 2009, points out that works by Latin-American artists now have a home at MoMA, where her mother sits on the board of trustees.
The works are from the collection of The Henry Moore Foundation, which is based nearby at Perry Green.
"It's more thought of as child care for when the parent needs it as opposed to the child's development and really helping prepare for early literacy skills that are going to be the foundation for school, " said Chang, director of Attendance Works, a Maryland-based initiative that mentors districts in fighting absenteeism.
Aligned against the watchmaker are retailers and free-flow-of-information types like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who say Omega is using a law designed to control creative works to control the U.S. prices of manufactured products.
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He serves as senior adviser and board member to LibForAll Foundation, an Indonesian- and U.S.-based nonprofit that works to reduce religious extremism and terrorism.
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