Howard Pew and David Packard--endowed a private foundation and then pasted his name on the front.
It's aided by the fact that, through a private foundation, the family can direct the gifts.
Do you serve on the board of a public charity or your own private foundation?
You can bequeath your estate (in part or all) to your private foundation and have your family run it for generations.
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Can the biggest private foundation in the world, now channelling Mr Buffett's fortune as well as Mr Gates's, really be so impotent?
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The penalties for self-dealing by a private foundation could be doubled.
We exclude (among others) academic institutions, charities with just a few donors (such as most private foundation), religious entities not reporting numbers and nonprofits whose data we question.
In fact, it was such institutions that originally pioneered the DAF as an alternative to the relative inefficiency of checkbook giving or the more complicated process of establishing a private foundation.
Other advantages: By making Giving Back a public charity rather than a private foundation, Pollick avoids a 2% federal excise tax on assets, while donors get a bigger tax writeoff if highly appreciated assets are donated.
One famous individual that has crossed that barrier into being influential is Bill Gates, who started the world's biggest private foundation dedicated to improving health and reducing poverty thereby touching the lives of millions particularly in Africa.
He and his wife emerged with a private foundation, a remainder trust and one lead trust with shares in a family limited liability company, plus two more that spring into being on the death of the surviving spouse.
There will probably be a law against such shenanigans as putting money in a donor-advised fund to take advantage of more liberal deductions than are allowed for private foundations and then having the fund feed your private foundation.
Contrast that with an event in London this year to launch a Private Equity Foundation.
We have to initiate and pool private, foundation and community resources together.
The private Edhi Foundation, for instance, runs a fleet of 1, 800 ambulances and a slew of other welfare services for the poor across Pakistan.
For the last 12 years, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, which operates with private, foundation, and federal funds, has been working to build a system of voluntary national certification for outstanding teachers.
But that basic scientific research is the foundation that private sector research is built on.
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The reason you want to use the private cloud as the foundation is that it is more instrumented and stable.
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Funding is mostly by private donations but the foundation also receives support from New York state Stem Cell Science.
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Ultimately, investment by government can only provide a foundation for private development.
Now, both the princess and her husband are under investigation for allegedly diverting public funds earmarked for a non-profit foundation for private use.
It was held with the participation of Mr. Douglas Tompkins, President of Foundation for Deep Ecology and Chair of the First Global Private Donor Forum, and Mr. Takuya Okada, Chairman of AEON Environmental Foundation, and called upon its participants to move forward towards private financial commitment for biodiversity conservation.
Though, a few days beforehand, the private Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also chipped in.
Looking to get out of the way but prevent the fledgling Internet from fragmenting, the National Science Foundation paid four private enterprises in 1994 to build public Internet access points.
To the contrary, I believe that we have arrived at a point where money printing and government stimulus have replaced manufacturing and private sector productivity as the foundation of our economy.
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In 2010, Francois van Niekerk, a South African businessman, gave away 70% equity in his company, the Mertech Group, to the Mergon foundation, a private charity he co-founded with his wife.
It will take a similar system of public and private actions to lay the foundation for a new Social Compact, and to sustain it long enough to make up for the past 30 years of wage stagnation.
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The TY Danjuma Foundation is a private independent grant making philanthropic organization based in Abuja, Nigeria which makes grants to and partners with Non Governmental organizations that champion and promote causes in Education, free healthcare, policy advocacy and poverty alleviation.
Development of the software was supported with funding from several public and private universities and the National Science Foundation.
The dead also included at least two members of a media team and four workers from a private rescue organisation, the Edhi Foundation.
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