Google and I.B.M. have financed a program to teach Hadoop to university students.
Recently, a foundation grant financed a program for doctors in the Hudson Valley that raised awareness of Lighthouse services.
In the 1980s, it financed a program to improve the job prospects for the unemployed and underemployed, like welfare recipients and criminal offenders.
They were Representative Rick A. Lazio of Long Island, and Theodore J. Forstmann, who financed a program to allow poor children to attend private schools.
The second, Theodore J. Forstmann, a Wall Street investor who personally financed a program to allow poor children to attend private schools, was moving to set up meetings with Republican leaders next week to discuss his own prospective candidacy, his associates said.
Leslie Schilling, the daughter of Jack C. Tang, who had a textile fortune and is the brother of the retired Wall Street mogul Oscar Tang, said her father had financed a program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to help poor Chinese-Americans win scholarships.
