Patching together a series of small and moderate grants from foundations interested in Jewish history, the filmmakers launched their search.
Promise Arizona, whose programs are funded by the liberal Center for Community Change and by the Atlantic Philanthropies, among other foundations interested in immigrants' rights, has a paid staff of six.
Her family foundation, the Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation, donated the seed money for the project, and she said she was trying to shore up donations from other foundations interested in poverty, labor and related initiatives.
Gates and Handelsman said that they expect the federal government would foot only a portion of the tab, with the rest coming from companies and private foundations interested in improving STEM education.
Indeed, if patient communities could achieve greater policy impact and more influence over medical decisionmaking by participating in community health networks, then disease-oriented foundations interested in the welfare of patient communities might also have more incentive to focus on strengthening such networks.
"There is a lot of corporate interest and foundation interest in this issue".
Organised by performance artist Brian Lobel for the Wellcome Trust, a leading foundation interested in all things health, it features speeches by the disability campaigner, actress and comedian Liz Carr and the neuroscientist Sir Colin Blakemore, as well as talks by theatre-makers whose work relates to the body in some way, including Bryony Kimmings and Simon McBurney.
It'd be nice to see a foundation interested in journalism--the Knight Foundation, say, or Google.org--invest some time and money to expand and rework the rankings.
She intends to do more public speaking and writing, and work alongside her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and daughter Chelsea on "mutual foundation interests," she said in the NPR interview.
The group will showcase academic institutions' key environmental programs, including those supported by the federal government, and will facilitate interaction between academia, government, nonprofit foundations, public interest groups, and private organizations in a collegial environment.
But a spokesman last week stressed the foundation's interest in having biologists do research on the cells without restriction.
