The same argument is being made by the United Nations agency that battles the epidemic and by Bill Gates, whose foundation plays an influential role in financing a global response.
The event, a fund-raiser for amfAR, the AIDS research foundation, played with contradictions - the theme of the evening was Black Tie/Black Leather.
The foundation played a major role in curbing tobacco use in this country, spending $446 million from 1991 to 2003 toward that goal, and it plans to use those experiences to shape its attack on childhood fat.
Among other historic achievements, the foundation played big parts in developing a vaccine against yellow fever and in the "green revolution", which spectacularly increased farming productivity and reduced poverty in many poor countries in the 1960s.By the early 1970s most of the Rockefeller Foundation's greatest achievements were in the past and a long period of drift had begun.
One of the important conclusions which may be drawn from such a quantitative analysis is that the shear and flexural behaviour of the reinforcing piles, as well as the way these piles are connected to the foundation, play a decisive role in the case of lateral loading.
For example, our findings regarding the critical role the YKP women's foundation played in connecting the political actors, religious leaders and influential media is important and has resonance for many other settings.
I think foundations play a major innovative role in this country.
The Leverhulme Trust, Joseph Rowntree and Nuffield Foundations play their part, as does the Big Lottery Fund, Esmée Fairbairn, Paul Hamlyn and other foundations.
These foundations play an increasingly important role in grass-roots work, said Walter Price, the director for corporate outreach at Inter-American.
Mexican business foundations play a small but growing role.After a lull, the number of NGOs grew again as Mexico's domestic security troubles increased in the late 2000s.
Mr. Sager's abrupt departure put an uncomfortable spotlight on the strained personal relationship between the two men, and it has also drawn scrutiny of the role private foundations play in the university's finances.
