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John Fielding,
CEO
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Program officers from private foundations saw the Beacon Centers not only as an exciting funding opportunity but also as an important opportunity to demonstrate the ability of youth development initiatives to enhance existing social services for children and families.
The foundation of this program centers in manufacturing technology with additional emphasis in business leadership skills required for today's sophisticated manufacturing environment.
It was announced at the Fair that the IEF Education Foundation's advising center in Taipei recently was chosen to be a recipient of an ETS Excellence Award for overseas advising centers.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Centers raise and manage their own budgets and raise their own funds from government grants, foundations, individual donors, and by charging fees for consulting and other services.
Seventeen foundations provided capacity-building grants to centers, provided 15 percent of their core operating budgets, and financed the intermediary, public support campaign and evaluation.
The Network is funded by the California HealthCare Foundation and seeks to “bring together health care organizations and academic health centers to develop and disseminate knowledge and resources to improve the quality of medical practice through education.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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Foundations that support new organizations or projects may be identified through the Types of Support indexes in Foundation Center directories and through the search capabilities of FC Search and the Foundation Directory Online under "Seed money.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Dembski is associate research professor in the conceptual foundations of science at Baylor University and a senior fellow with Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture in Seattle.
At the center of the neo-Fregean program in the philosophy of mathematics is the thesis that abstraction principles can be articulated as legitimate foundations for mathematical theories.
The Center is conducting research on the role of science in human affairs and the philosophical foundations of scientific knowledge.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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The Mass NARAL Foundation's 2001 Survey of Access to Emergency Contraception found that hospitals and community health centers in Massachusetts are not doing their part to reduce unintended pregnancies.
The new center aims to encourage foundations and charitable donors to direct more resources toward support of small, local, often faith based grassroots associations that are the heart of a vital civil society.
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