Procter and NBC signed up a number of existing organizations to supply content to Petside.
Instead, the most efficient approach is to use existing organizations for specific ideas and projects.
Because Al Qaeda cells tend to graft themselves onto existing organizations -- usually other terrorist groups -- extrapolating from limited data is useless.
Some artists and cultural groups complained that money for the center could have been channeled into existing organizations and performing arts companies in desperate need.
"Existing organizations were calling individuals, saying, 'We have such-and-such person in our office,' and there were language issues or cultural issues -- a communications problem".
Instead, it channels grants through existing organizations, seeking to identify good projects that are already under way and to find new models and strategies that work.
But, he said, participants in the meeting had agreed to look first at alternatives, like broadening the purview of existing organizations.
But, in 2006, the Veterans Corporation decided that it wanted to provide small-business assistance through other existing organizations, and began reducing funds for the centers.
Like Aristotle, political theorists such as Jean Bodin in France carried on their inquiries into the nature of the state by studying existing organizations and their natural backgrounds.
During and after the war the idea of the "One Big Union," which would unify existing organizations and maximize striking power, gained a certain currency.
If homeland defense is to be organized effectively, Tom Ridge, President Bush's appointee to head the new office, will have to act as Byrnes did -- cracking the whip over existing organizations rather than trying to take over their work.
