Meanwhile, the state remains a major funder of art.
Ross, a former judge, once headed the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, a major funder of progressive causes in North Carolina.
They are also a major funder of research into potential treatments for cancer and new therapies that could restore the sight of millions.
He is a prominent leader of the ruling People's Democratic Party and was a major funder of Mr Yar'Adua's election campaign.
With the debate's results tallied — Rosin and Abrams won decisively — the participants retired to Thalassa, a restaurant in Tribeca, for a dinner hosted by Robert Rosenkranz, the financier and philanthropist, who is the major funder of the series.
He helped build up JP Morgan Pride and convinced his superiors to become a major funder of LGBT rights groups, including promoting awareness of gay and lesbian people in schools, which was very controversial at the time.
The Trust's mission is to improve social mobility through education and is major funder of access to higher education programmes, helping hundreds of thousands of young people from low and middle income backgrounds.
Given the anguish that RCUK's policy caused, the announcement last week that the Wellcome Trust – a major funder of biomedical research – has now extended its open access policy to include books and book chapters might seem a little, well, insensitive.
Shell, a major funder of Bellona, has championed it as a way of continuing to extract the oil and gas reserves that it says will likely make up most of the planet's energy mix by mid-century.
