He promised to oppose any reduction in the Community Development Block Grant program, which provides local communities financing for homegrown projects.
And in June, Columbia Pictures announced that it was setting up a local operation to back homegrown projects.
While the main stage will not showcase any homegrown projects for at least a year, it and the studio will be available for rent.
The international community, especially the United States, should realize that progress in Afghanistan should be measured in the number of successful homegrown projects that assistance makes possible, not in the mileage of roads built or the amount of aid dollars spent.
And the play revival prize went not to such homegrown projects as the director David Leveaux's glorious reappraisal of Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" but to the American director Debbie Allen's all-black revival of "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof," starring James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad, who were among the night's presenters.
These were homegrown projects created by enthusiasts inside and outside of the high tech industry to took the mission and modus of GNU hackers to new platforms.
It's an outlook that he credits for the mostly positive reaction to two other homegrown projects: a complete retooling of the iconic London double-decker bus the first in 50 years and a Garden Bridge connecting North and South London across the River Thames.
This tiny house is part of our Homegrown Neighbourhood project, which has the rather grand ambition of contributing to the recognition of the local economy as a prime provider of affordable housing.
But out of necessity, historic rivals in the secretive fragrance industry have joined to back Immunosearch, their homegrown research project, as a "deterrent force" to L'Oréal and P.& G. Robertet, founded in 1850, and Mane Fils, dating back to the late 19th century, are supporting Immunosearch's ambition of adapting L'Oréal's Episkin to be more suitable for testing natural ingredients.
