He preferred to donate anonymously to organizations focused on the arts, the environment and education.
Other organizations focused on providing concrete services like sanitation or health care.
New companies and nonprofit organizations focused on church lending sprang up, as did real estate investment trusts and other bundles of church loans, which were sold to investors.
He also rightly sees grounds for optimism in the emergence of activist citizens and nongovernmental organizations focused on strengthening Pakistani education.
At the 31st Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) held in June 2008, representatives from more than 50 governments and international organizations focused on the environmental stewardship of Antarctica.
Several organizations focused on the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan have expressed concern that anxiety over the possibility of future attacks coupled with the sight of the destruction are chasing people out of the city.
Along with his arrival came a new style of political campaigning, in which powerful national organizations focused their might and money in previously unaddressed corners of the nation, including Arkansas.
The sharpest gain in percentage terms was to organizations focused on international affairs, like Doctors Without Borders and the United Nations Foundation, although the total still remained relatively small.
Since 2005, having already founded two nonprofit organizations focused on free speech and human-rights issues, Mr. Halvorssen has made the movie business part of his portfolio of controversy-stirring efforts.
They gathered at Harvard on Thursday to begin the yearlong program intended to help them learn how to be successful social entrepreneurs or leaders of nonprofit organizations focused on social problems like poverty, health, education and the environment.
In the sport's early, unregulated days, matches were marketed as blood sport, but as the U.F.C. and other organizations focused on fighter safety and invited states to regulate their events, the sport has gained broader acceptance.
