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Many foundations have already been laid and now need to be joined together.

Mike Barry from Marks & Spencer stressed that many foundations have good partnerships and this had ensured, for instance, the improvement of factories in Bangladesh.

This fueled expectations of a sharp decline in foundation spending, and in fact, many foundations have seen their endowments shrink -- which could have further implications for giving in 2002.

Though many foundations have traditionally kept a distance from shaping policy because of I.R.S. rules, several have recently established offices in Sacramento and are using them to educate lawmakers about the issues.

And, says Carl Schramm, outspoken head of the Kauffman Foundation, many other foundations have "undertaken projects or programmes that were capricious, poorly thought out or just plain silly".So no wonder a growing number of wealthy donors are declining to leave the fate of their charity to chance.

Many family foundations have endowments invested in ways that run counter to the foundation's mission.

Ford and many other large foundations have the resources to do just that.

Many philanthropists and foundations have recently been making impact investments in an attempt to influence social policy.

"We were pretty amazed at how many new foundations had been set up since 1995, which is really important for the region going forward," said Barbara Bryan, president of the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers, four members of which underwrote the study.

It lists nine US colleges and universities, more than 20 US cities, 26 churches including the Uniting Church of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory and many foundations that have pledged to divest.

Somewhere between well-known and unknown fall the many foundations that have collectively invested more than a billion dollars to advance legal equality and improve the lives of LGBTQ people.