As an example, The Atlantic Philanthropies – one of the major partners – is a time-limited foundation which focuses its grant-making on addressing racial disparities in American life.
Brill: What prompted your decision to establish a limited-life foundation?
Many makeup brands from Korea and other Asian countries have a limited range of foundation shades, while their skin products emphasize "brightening" and other euphemisms for paleness.
This belief, however, rests on a very limited empirical foundation regarding what paralegal programs accomplish and under what theory they operate.
At Mr. Feeney's direction, the foundation adopted a limited life policy to expire in 12 to 15 years.
George said some of his questions will revolve around the constitutional foundation for a limited government view, such as "exactly where national government is exceeding its powers under the constitution".
However, even for a normally recombining population, factors such as foundation by a limited number of individuals, random genetic drift in small populations, or immigration of individuals from populations with different allele frequencies can artificially create nonrandom associations between unlinked markers (i.e., linkage disequilibrium) at the time of colonization of a new territory.
Other donors are creating new foundations with a limited life span.
Some philanthropy veterans said the interest in creating foundations with a limited life span could stem from growing concerns about donor intent.
And in the most significant change, the John M. Olin Foundation in New York has decided to put itself out of business, in keeping with the wishes of Mr. Olin, who died in 1982, having made clear to the trustees his desire for the foundation to have a limited life span.
