Among other projects, he bought 31 acres to help fuse a consortium of colleges; donated housing for students; wrote a starter check for a nursing center; conceived of and supports a health care-attendant training program for single parents on welfare.
Pew, which spends $22 million a year on the arts, helped develop a consortium of major museums to use video programs to enhance visitors' appreciation of the arts.
There, he helped establish a center financed by the National Science Foundation that promoted research into integrated circuit design and helped develop a consortium of three universities and 15 technology companies, including Boeing and Hewlett-Packard.
Such concerns helped persuade a consortium of investors to pull out of plans to build a pipeline from Papua New Guinea to Australia in August.
The company also helped organise a consortium of companies, known as the Continua Health Alliance, that has produced standards on "interoperability" and communications for such products.Tim Brown of Ideo, a design consultancy, goes further, arguing that in future "medical devices for the home will simply disappear into our built environment, our consumer products, our clothing or even our bodies".
L.A. Unified, meanwhile, helped build a consortium of the nation's six largest school systems to strengthen their clout with food providers.
The other survey, by the New York Academy of Medicine, with the help of a consortium of medical schools and research centers, found screening rates of 34percentt for blacks, 28percentt for Hispanics, 30percentt for Asians and 48percentt for whites.
On Valentine's Day 2003, the orchestra agreed to buy 30 of his instruments, including some by the great names in the craft, with the help of a consortium of banks, private patrons and, a few months later, the state of New Jersey.
Now, it is helping to organize a consortium of companies that will try to sell launch services using Japan's next-generation rocket, the H-II, due out in 1993.
In 1958, Mr. Nehru helped create the Aid India Club, a consortium of donor nations that, starting in 1961, committed $2 billion over two years to development in India and promised to find $3 billion later.
