Naila Farouky, CEO, Arab Foundations Forum, Cairo, Egypt @Arabfoundforum Naila leads AFF, a membership-based forum of philanthropic foundations based in or working in the Arab region.
Public life member, advisory board and UK advisory board to the G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce of Big Society Capital; chair, Foundations Forum; trustee of Historic Royal Palaces (chair of audit committee).
This year, the foundation tried something new, convening a hundred or so people from a variety of fields and positions at an "innovation forum" in Manhattan on Wednesday.
The foundation and forums, from the UDHR to the UN Global Compact, certainly exist.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/10/309/prepub The work was supported by the P.U.R.E Research Program funded by the State Ministry for Innovation, Science, Research and Technology of Northrhine-Westfalia and the FoRUM foundation of the Ruhr-University Bochum.
From 1951 to 1956 he funded his own foundation, called Facts Forum, which produced radio and television programs of conservative, anti-Communist political commentary.
Earlier this week, Imperial College and the foundation hosted a forum on psychedelic drugs research, which discussed the breakthroughs that have been made by our organisations' research programme and heard presentations from scientists from around the world.
Of the 224 entities, 105 were named "society", 51 "association", 8 "organization" and 60 had other names (alliance, board, centers, coalition, college, consortium, council, federation, forum, foundation, fund, group, institute, league, network, school and union).
Jeanne Wilt, executive director of the foundation, said the forums were intended to address two major findings of a study in 2000 by the University of Michigan and Catalyst, a nonprofit organization that aims to advance women in business.
The Freedom Forum, a foundation established 10 years ago by the newspaper publisher Allen H. Neuharth, describes itself as a "non-partisan, international foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people".
In December, Kenneth A. Paulson announced that he would leave the paper as of Feb. 1 to head the Freedom Forum, a foundation created in 1991 by Allen H. Neuharth, Gannett's former chief executive, that works on press freedom issues.
