They often see their task not just in terms of handing out money, but of forging alliances and building networks: with government and industry, or among fragmented groups of charities.The growth of such foundations is one reason for believing that philanthropy may be shifting up a gear.
Extra special thank you to Alan Fox and Family, Kevin Prior and Raegan Hillman, Levi Strauss & Co., and the Lakeshore Foundation for believing in The Pollination Project and our global network of early stage social change-makers.
"We need to immediately begin laying the foundation for what I believe will be great relationships in Oklahoma City," he wrote.
Christians in America - Christ followers who take the teachings of Jesus seriously - must reject the impulse to fight trivial culture wars; or, if they cannot give them up, at least make sure that following the teachings of Jesus are the foundation for everything they believe and do, not brash commentary or trepidation about changes in culture.
But other education leaders said they feared that the proposals shifted the focus too far from the academic foundation they believed students needed for long-term success in the work force.
Grisham is on the board of a charitable foundation that believes it is the best hope for future patients.
The new foundation, he believes, will only strengthen this ecosystem.
Investment in science is the foundation for rising living standards, believes Brown.
His own Foundation for the Built Environment believes that the scheme should be far more "permeable" - that is, more closely woven into the existing grid of Chelsea streets and altogether more modest.
Back in early 2008, David Bonior and I put together a "Labor Manifesto", which later became the foundation for Barack Obama's "I Believe in Unions" speech in Youngstown, Ohio, a speech which thereafter heavily defined the 'worker-part' of his campaign through to the general election.
