At first, the foundation concentrated mainly on diseases and health.
Joseph Cirincione is the president of the Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation concentrating on nuclear weapons issues, and teaches at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
For fifty years individuals and foundations concentrated on the key issues of civil rights, equality for women and reproductive choice, to promote human dignity and liberty.
With the change, to be announced on Thursday, the foundation will concentrate most of its fund-raising and all of its grant-giving on Brooklyn.
So Mr. Gates should think about moving full time to his foundation to concentrate on what he does best -- fighting malaria and AIDS, and, yes, holding research consultations with Botswana prostitutes.
Visitor numbers have rocketed under his reign, but not everyone has been happy with the gallery's "GuggEnron" image: chairman Peter B Lewis resigned from his position in 2005, saying that he wished the foundation would "concentrate more on New York and less on being scattered all over the world".
Instead, researchers need to either envision new assessment instruments on the basis of different conceptual foundations, or concentrate on extending the psychometric evidence base for the existing tools.
The foundation has concentrated on drought- and flood-tolerant rice, molecular breeding, gene sequencing and hybrids.
At present, the foundation is concentrating some of its resources on family planning-ensuring access to family planning practices and to protect reproductive freedom nationally.
Education First represented a $1.5 billion commitment from governments, corporations, and foundations to concentrate on three priorities: putting every child in school, improving the quality of learning, and fostering global citizenship through education.
"They took little or no interest in civic affairs, but they did feel strongly about this place, and they mandated that their foundation be concentrated on crippled children in El Paso, and in Texas more broadly".
