But raising foundations or building higher dikes has a cost, and owners often have a short-term view.
In the aftermath of the storm, the federal government recommended that residents permanently elevate their houses, lifting them up onto raised foundations or stilts.
In the eastern Pamirs a medium-mountain relief predominates on a high raised foundation.
Her house, on a raised foundation, has two stories, five bedrooms and a total 6,200 feet of space on a lot that once held a modest three-bedroom ranch.
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The organization has what she described as a "six-figure" budget raised from foundations and private organizations she wouldn't disclose, and is still raising funds.
Last winter, Operation Fuel spent $174,000, before running out of money, all raised from foundations and donations.
Mr. Meck, 30, works in New York for Oxford University, for which he directs fund-raising from foundations based in the United States.
Unicef contributed a substantial amount, and the rest was raised from foundations and private donors by Ms. Ensler's advocacy group, V-Day.
The money has finally been raised, the foundations are going in, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic is scheduled to take up residence in 2002.
In wealthy districts, the public schools have essentially been privatized; they insulate themselves from shortfalls in state funding with money raised by foundations they have set up for themselves.
