At first, the foundation concentrated mainly on diseases and health.
The foundation has concentrated on drought- and flood-tolerant rice, molecular breeding, gene sequencing and hybrids.
"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".
The foundation has concentrated heavily on collecting photography from Africa and Asia — surveys of the South African Guy Tillim and the Nigerian Rotimi Fani-Kayode are promised for New York — and next month will open a large group showing called "Appropriated Landscapes" in its home space.
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.
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 also lead to the convenient treatment of soil with appropriate Winkler-type models along the foundation faces and concentrated forces acting at the foundation corners.
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".
