In addition to a shrinking number of potential donors, corporate financial performance has been weak until recently, and companies, like foundations, are directing their philanthropy ever more strategically.
All of the foundation's giving, he said, is directed toward a handful of philanthropic issues, including school reform, the environment and the economy in Northwest Arkansas, where Wal-Mart is based.
Mitchell, Palmer told me, was a proponent of fracking, but fearful of its potential consequences — and his gift, the year's second-largest, is directed to a foundation that focusses on the water issues and the local environment in Texas.
Mitchell, Palmer told me, was a proponent of fracking, but fearful of its potential consequences and his gift, the year's second-largest, is directed to a foundation that focusses on the water issues and the local environment in Texas.
The three-year project, supported by the John Templeton Foundation, is directed by Nowak and Sarah Coakley, Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Professor of Divinity.
Other research sponsored by the National Science Foundation is directed toward testing prototypes of humanoid robots that may one day help the elderly in their homes, reminding them of necessary tasks or playing a card game with them.
The "Curriculum Institute" of the Uberoi Foundation is directed by Shiva Bajpai, and an office-holder of the Dharma Civilization Foundation that unsuccessfully attempted to endow a Chair in "Dharma Studies" a UC Irvine that was rejected by its faculty for advocating a sectarian version of Hinduism.
The foundation, which was directed to advance musical education in the United States, founded the Juilliard Graduate School in 1924.
But if this appeared to have some foundation, the alliance was directed not against Paris but at Brussels.
Chris Smith is directing a new foundation to train them.
The foundation, Ms. Harvey said, will be directed by her friend the art dealer Lance Fung, and its board will include her fourth husband, Davidson Gigliotti; Mr. Xatrec; and her longtime friend the art critic Henry Martin.
