Sentence examples for endowment to create from inspiring English sources

L'Oréal, the international cosmetics firm, recently gave a £1.8m endowment to create the post of professor of marketing at the business school.

Thomas Holloway (1800-83) was a self-made millionaire who in later life gave an endowment to create a college for women, now called Royal Holloway, University of London.

To commemorate their 40th reunion, the Class of 1956 initiated an endowment to create the Frank H. T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professorship in honor of Cornell's ninth president (1977 1995).

Given the narrow-based industrial structure, this country has been depending too high on intermediate textile imports while ignoring the possible benefits of the agricultural endowment to create the connection between agriculture and industrial sector.

Sternberg so appreciated Timiras's guidance that 2 years ago, his small biomedical start-up company, BioTime Inc., set up an endowment to create CREA, Timiras's and Campisi's gerontology research center, in her honor.

Fonda's gift will include an endowment to create a research position specializing in teen sexuality and reproductive health.

Moore became godson to Sainsbury's son David – who would go on to give lavish endowments to create and maintain the centre – and one of the letters expresses his pride in a particularly glowing school report.

Officials with the fund, which provides money to seven charities that help New Yorkers in need, said they planned to donate $1.4 million -- about 5percentt of the fund's endowment -- to create 1,000 jobs in communities in all five boroughs.

And it was precisely the kind of moment that the arts endowment hopes to create again and again with its new writing program, which seeks to address a seeming cultural paradox.

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.

David Swensen, Yale's Chief Investment Officer and manager of the University's endowment, discusses the tactics and tools that Yale and other endowments use to create long-term, positive investment returns.