Sentence examples for founded friends from inspiring English sources

Ms. Bookman, who would not give her age, founded Friends in 1972 and has been its executive director ever since.

City Room went to talk with Cynthia O'Neal, who founded Friends in Deed with the director Mike Nichols 20 years ago.

Robert Hammond, 42, founded Friends of the High Line in 1999 with Joshua David, helping transform the abandoned rail line in Chelsea into a linear park that draws millions of visitors a year.

"People fell in love with the idea that nature had taken over this monumental industrial site," said Joshua David, who, with Robert Hammond, founded Friends of the High Line, which now maintains and operates the park for the city.

Ms. Rosenberg, who founded Friends of Cortelyou in 2001 to spruce up a nearby retail strip, said Church Avenue could one day complement that now-busier street, a block south of the area.

Twenty-five yeago ago, Mr. MacAdams founded Friends of the Los Angeles River, a group dedicated to returning the river to its natural state, which he sees as an artistic, environmental and architectural necessity.

"Joel has been influential in helping people understand what's up there," said Robert Hammond, who co-founded Friends of the High Line with Joshua David.

"We mostly agree that the global temperature is going up," says Mr Hall, speaking for the protest group he co-founded, Friends of Eden, Lakeland and Lunesdale Scenery (FELLS).

• Joshua David and Robert Hammond, who co-founded Friends of the High Line in 1999, document their remarkably successful transformation of an abandoned elevated freight railroad and their own evolution from amateur visionaries to veteran navigators of the urban bureaucracy in "High Line: The Inside Story of New York City's Park in the Sky" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

When Robert Hammond and Josh David co-founded Friends of the High Line, the conservancy that raised money for and operates the city-owned park, they knew they were embarking on a project closely linked to the history of gay life in New York.

So when I returned I went to see Richard Sandbrook, a legendary environmental activist who co-founded Friends of the Earth, directed the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), and profoundly influenced a generation of governments, business leaders and NGOs before he died in 2005.