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Free Software Foundation
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Open Software Foundation
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David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Ford Foundation. Through most of its modern history beginning in 1950, the Ford Foundation was the nation's largest philanthropic foundation. In 1999, its assets, $11.4 billion, were surpassed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ($17.1 billion) and the David and Lucille Packard Foundation... Read more |
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Mellifont
Mellifont, the first Cistercian abbey in Ireland, and ultimately head of an affiliation of over 20 Irish Cistercian foundations. Founded in 1142 at the instigation of St Malachy of Armagh, this essentially European foundation was part of the wider 12th‐century reform of the Irish church... Read more |
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Mellon Foundation
Mellon Foundation officially the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, philanthropic trust formed (1969) through the merger of the Avalon Foundation (est. 1940 by Ailsa Mellon Bruce) and the Old Dominion Foundation (est. 1941 by Paul Mellon). Prior to the merger, the Avalon Foundation distributed funds to... Read more |
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Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING (CFAT), a private foundation, was established in 1905 by Andrew Carnegie with an endowment of $15 million. One of the oldest of American foundations, CFAT, through its retirement programs and... Read more |
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NSF (National Science Foundation)
NSF (National Science Foundation) The National Science Foundation (NSF) directs and funds science research. An independent agency in the United States government, the NSF was established May 10, 1950, by passage of the National Science Foundation Act. Subsequent amendments... Read more |
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation P.O. Box 23350Seattle, Washington 98102U.S.A.Telephone: (206)709-3100Fax: (206)709-3252Web site: http://www.gatesfoundation.org Non-Profit FoundationIncorporated: 1994 as the William H. Gates FoundationEmployees: 200Total Assets: $21.8 billion (2000)NAIC:... Read more |
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Route 1 and College Road EastPost Office Box 2316Princeton, New Jersey 08543-2316U.S.A.Telephone: (609) 452-8701Fax: (609) 452-1865Web site: http://www.rwjf.org Private FoundationIncorporated: 1972 as a National FoundationEmployees: 150Net Assets: $8.04 billion... Read more |
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Rockefeller Foundation
ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION was established on 14 May 1913 "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world." In 2000 the foundation was the nation's thirteenth largest, with assets of $3.8 billion and annual giving of around $150 million. Over its history it has paid... Read more |
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FOLEY BOSS GREBE TO HEAD FOUNDATION.(BUSINESS)
Michael W. Grebe, the chairman and chief executive...department, will succeed Grebe. Grebe, 61, a longtime Republican Party activist, will become president of the Bradley Foundation. The Bradley Foundation is ... |
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Lawyer Retires from Milwaukee-Based Firm to Head Conservative Foundation.
...21--Michael W. Grebe, chairman of Foley...become president of the Bradley Foundation next summer, the...and move over to The Bradley Foundation, a major...figure as leader of the Bradley Foundation, now ... |
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Hudson Institute Launches Bradley Center for Philanthropy, Civic Renewal
...practices of American foundations, which tend...civic renewal. Bradley President Michael Grebe noted: "Hudson...backyards, the new Bradley Center at Hudson...efforts, the Bradley Foundation has transformed...Bill Schambra to ... |
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OBAMA AND PALIN.(NATION)(INSIDE POLITICS)(Column)
...gotten into Barack Obama's head. How else to explain Sen...conservative Free Congress Foundation at a banquet Wednesday night...founder Pat Robertson, and Bradley Foundation President Mike Grebe, who recounted anecdotes about... |
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The Midwestern three.(POLITICS)(Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan)
...run," says John Tillman, head of the free-market Illinois...transition team was headed by Mike Grebe, the CEO of the free-market Bradley Foundation. His secretary of commerce...private enterprise. Heritage Foundation senior fellow Dennis ... |
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The Midwestern Three
...run," says John Tillman, head of the free-market Illinois...transition team was headed by Mike Grebe, the CEO of the free-market Bradley Foundation. His secretary of commerce...private enterprise. Heritage Foundation senior fellow Dennis ... |
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Online loan king, financier aim to buy Milwaukee baseball team.
...and currently heads its leveraged...endowments and foundations. One of those foundations is the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee...in 2003. The Bradley Foundation is headed by Michael ... |
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Iowa/Wisconsin/Illinois briefs
...identified. Walker names head of transition team MADISON...campaign chairman Michael Grebe and campaign treasurer...confirmed on Friday that Grebe, the president and chief executive officer of the Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee, will be... |
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Spanish in Senate.(NATION)(INSIDE POLITICS)
...in the day by the head of the International...The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation has announced that the Bradley Prizes to honor outstanding...statement of the foundation, including the promotion...said Michael W. Grebe, ... |
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DPL Adopts New Corporate Governance Policies; Nominates Two New Directors.
...tackled this issue head on, undertaking...Creek and Michael W. Grebe to its Board of Directors...Wally Creek and Mike Grebe reflect the tangible...University. Michael W. Grebe Mr. Grebe, 61...The Lynde and Harry Bradley ... |