First, its function was to lay an educational foundation for evangelization of non-Christian peoples by forming a system of education for all levels from grammar school to university.
He retired from The Post in 2005 and afterward organized an educational foundation for low-income families in his Mississippi hometown, financing it out of his own pocket.
Janet Weaver, dean of faculty at the Poynter Institute, an educational foundation for journalists, said she was surprised that anyone could find the mere reading of such a list a political act.
If America's elementary and high schools laid a sounder educational foundation for more of their students, America's colleges would be far more successful at constructing a solid and artful edifice atop it.
America's network of public schools [was] originally conceived of as providing not just a sound educational foundation for future generations - regardless of their parents' socioeconomic status.
Although some say that P.T.A.'s influence has been diluted, with the rise of educational foundations that raise money for the schools, others argue that the foundations help P.T.A's fulfill their real role, which is emphatically not as a checkbook for schools.
Rachel Robinson, Jackie's widow and the force behind the educational foundation named for him, said last week that although she appreciated the gesture, she would prefer a statue in which the two players were depicted as "equals".
While there have been substantial and enabling investments in climate science, neither science funding bodies nor educational foundations have made resources available for "risk and resilience science," particularly in low- and middle-income countries where students cannot easily pursue DRR as a field of study or research.
Meanwhile the British Fashion Council has an educational foundation that campaigns for scholarships, among other things.
David Koch is the Chairman of our educational foundation, the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, and so I see him at our board meetings.
