Lang Lang launches foundation to support children's love of music NEW YORK, 20 October 2008 – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and classical pianist Lang Lang is expanding his commitment to children's rights by creating an international foundation to encourage children's love of music.
As campaigns to save threatened children's centres step up across England, under Longfield's stewardship 4Children has landed a contract from the Department for Education to spearhead the newly launched Foundations for the Future, a government initiative that aims to shape early years and childcare policy over the next two years.
In a day in age where people commonly launch foundations for tax purposes or because it's the cool thing to do, it's far more than that to Nash.
During our lunch, Soros beamed when he told me that, upon launching his foundation, he had exploited this provision to pass on to his heirs hundreds of millions of dollars — and, in the process, saved untold millions in taxes.
But a handful of loyalists have been campaigning to bring Duvalier home, launching a foundation to improve the dictatorship's image and reviving Baby Doc's political party in the hopes that one day he can return to power democratically.
So I was surprised to discover that this autumn, heaps of brands are launching powder foundations.
Jim and Marilyn Simons became major charitable donors in the nineteen-nineties, when they launched their foundation.
The outsourcing mogul, now worth about $16bn, launched his foundation aimed at improving Indian education in 2001.
Debrett's, known for its guides to etiquette and Britain's most influential figures, launched the foundation last year.
Admitting that he'd "popped the big Q", Tyler Ferguson also used the video to launch his foundation Tie The Knot, which campaigns for LGBTQ equality.
