Sentence examples for endowment helps from inspiring English sources

Like public television, the humanities endowment helps, however imperfectly, to foster a culture to counter the violent movies and trashy afternoon talk shows Mr. Bennett purports to deplore.

There's one teacher for every six students, more than 80% of the faculty hold an advanced degree and the school's $40 million endowment helps assure the facilities are first-rate.

The endowment helps provide scholarships to students of the university, support for long-term university goals and for other specific purposes as designated by the various donors.

For one, the endowment helps make up for the geographically disproportionate nature of charitable giving, said Elizabeth Auclair, an NEA spokesperson, in an email.

She said that while she understands the endowment's problem of balancing traditional and innovative projects, "for us this is a huge impact, and we have to scramble and try to fill the gap," adding that she is particularly concerned about "American Masters," "Great Performances" and "Live From Lincoln Center," which the endowment helped to create in 1976.

Founded by the Worshipful Company of Skinners, it was named after 16th century merchant Sir Andrew Judde, whose endowment helped fund the school.

Some (Pinker 1994; Chomsky 1975, 1980), for instance, conclude that a specific innate endowment help explain several aspects of children's linguistic performance.

Half of the $100 million donation to Central Park will go toward its $144 million endowment, which helps finance maintenance, while the other half will pay for capital improvements.

Ray was also instrumental in increasing the school's endowment, recently helping to secure the largest gift in its 110-year history.

A new Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, open to both sexes, will be launched in its place.Harvard has offered an engagement gift of $150m, which will double Radcliffe's existing endowment and help to strengthen its position as a leading gender-studies research and education centre.

The endowment has helped nurture the Dahesh Museum's ambitions.