Its ability to drive environmental and social change will soon attract recognition and scrutiny in equal measure.
Many marketers also raced to issue educational "white papers" on technology or social problems, get their chief executives treated as experts by the media or, best of all, secure invitations to testify before a Congressional committee -- all as an indirect way to attract recognition.
However, other views suggest that assistant medical officers did not attract recognition and respect from doctors and health administrators in Tanzania, despite doing work similar to a doctor's.
One local college — Mercy, a 57-year-old private institution whose main campus is in Dobbs Ferry, with satellite campuses in White Plains, Yorktown, Manhattan and the Bronx — has attracted national recognition for welcoming Hispanic students.
Abbott has sat on the backbenches throughout the last 13 years of a Labour government but has attracted public recognition through her weekly appearances alongside the former Conservative politician Michael Portillo on the BBC's weekly politics show This Week.
Her work has attracted widespread recognition, including the 2013 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism, the 2012 Zenger Award from the University of Arizona School of Journalism, the 2011 Knight International Journalism Award and the 2010 Reporteros Del Mundo Award from Spain's El Mundo for outstanding work covering a conflict zone.
This movement originally was also advanced by challenger groups, but meanwhile has attracted 'official' recognition, and federal as well as state programs for some years were supporting the development of respective energy plans.
Backed by $23.5 million from the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, Colorado attracted national recognition for its program after Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper announced the results of a cost-savings study last summer.
After years of supporting roles in film and frequent television guest appearances, Pitt attracted wider recognition in his supporting role in the 1991 road film Thelma & Louise.
This photographic series attracted international recognition even in its nascent years pioneering what would later be called "relational aesthetics," as it interacted with the public sphere displayed on the facades of prominently-located buildings around Europe (pictured right).
