It's not just fashion designers either: Glen Matlock, who dropped out of a foundation course to join the Sex Pistols ("I've always regretted it. Vivienne Westwood said I was mad"), claims Pretty Vacant was inspired by his time there: "Marcel Duchamp and his readymades – that's how I got the idea.
We're hoping to spark this change: we've invited the most committed community foundation leaders to join a community of practice that will go deeper into what it takes in terms of personal leadership to shift to impact investing.
Not only did the bank become the bank of the royal family at a time when oil revenues soared, but it laid the financial foundation for Saudi Arabia to join the global financial community.
WHEN John Waldman, an ichthyologist with the Hudson River Foundation, invited me to join him and several others on an expedition to the deserted North and South Brother Islands, in the vicinity of Hell Gate, I leapt at the chance, not sure quite what to expect.
Poole Hospital and Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS foundation trusts plan to join forces.
After a good deal of soul-searching, Graham decided to leave the company he was with in England and move to the United States, and after still more soul-searching, he and Sylvia decided that the best way of achieving their goal was to forgo the usual philanthropic-grant approach becoming dependent on foundations and so forth and to join the free-enterprise system.
Corporations, foundations and governments need to join together to invest in this green infrastructure that is advancing our cities, neighborhoods and the residents that inhabit them in so many ways.
Dr. Bennett, who learned that Dr. Polonsky had his own foundation, soon asked him to join the center's board.
The episode convinced Campbell and others in the foundation that they needed to join the drive toward greater transparency, rather than just react.
