Yelda Basar Moers is the Vice President and a founding member of Project Alive & Kicking, a foundation devoted to empowering pregnant women by providing them with the latest, most up to date prenatal informational and tools.
It would be nice if, say, Mayor Bloomberg's foundation kicked in $10 million as a prize for the next New York City election in 2013 to see what impact that had on turnout in New York.
She now lives in America, where she says it is a relief not to be recognised in the street.She's working to kick-start a foundation to investigate how widespread honour killings and domestic violence are among Muslim families in America.
To win a $20 million broadband services contract from Rice University in Houston, for example, Enron donated $5 million to the school, and Ken Lay's personal foundation kicked in another $3 million.
The foundation kicked off the spending spree in mid-July at the XIII International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa (Science, 14 July 2000, p. 222), by announcing AIDS/HIV-related grants totaling $90 million.
How long can we try to kick out the foundations of unprecedented peace in Europe before it begins to crack?
If the studies yield promising results, the family hopes that larger foundations will kick in more funding.
Prize-based competitions have become a major strategy for startups and governments alike, since the X Prize foundation successfully kicked off a new cottage industry of commercial space flight with a $10,000,000 bounty.
NEW YORK, 17 June 2013 – UNICEF, the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Peter Krämer Foundation today kicked off a new fundraising drive to raise US$80 million to help Africa's girls, orphans, children living in extreme poverty and other vulnerable children go to school and get a quality education.
Twenty-one minlion children in school thanks to efforts NEW YORK, 17 June 2013 – UNICEF, the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Peter Krämer Foundation today kicked off a new fundraising drive to raise US$80 million to help Africa's girls, orphans, children living in extreme poverty and other vulnerable children go to school and get a quality education.
The program kicked off with $200 million in foundation money aimed to help males of color succeed in school and graduate into steady work through mentorship and communal solutions.
