But now Mohamed Aboutrika, one of Egypt's greatest footballers of all time, is battling an adversary far more formidable than even the best international defence as he faces down a government freeze on his assets over allegations that a company he co-founded aided the Muslim Brotherhood.
Kassig founded an aid organization, Special Emergency Response and Assistance, that helped deliver medical supplies, food and other aid to rebel-held areas of Syria.
Mr. Espada, who faces state and local investigations over allegations that he used a nonprofit health care group he founded to aid his political campaigns, was at the center of a leadership battle in the Senate this summer that ended with him as majority leader.
Speaking to the camera Mr Kassig explains that his son founded an aid organisation to help the Syrian people, and refers to their son's conversion to Islam.
In 1769 the Society for the Supporters of the Bill of Rights was founded to aid Wilkes and to press for parliamentary reform.
Mr. Goldstein, a New York-born sculptor who founded Visual Aid and Under One Roof, nonprofit organizations that generate money for education, medical and support services, is himself H.I.V.-positive.
Meanwhile, in Iowa, a group known as the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, originally founded to aid Democratic Congressional candidates in 2010, has started broadcasting an advertisement that shows Mr. Obama, in 2008, promising to reverse the tax cuts for the most affluent Americans.
By the 1570s Madrid had five corrales, which were controlled for 200 years by the monopoly of two rival cofradías, fraternities founded to aid the poor and to fund hospitals.
They are protected under Indonesian law, and a national park, Komodo National Park, was founded to aid protection efforts.
"I feel hurt when I see money going to people who don't have any actual work at all," said David Sira, who founded Kenya Aids and Drugs Alliance in 2001.
