I think foundations play a major innovative role in this country.
"I think foundations have a responsibility to get that money out and get it percolated," Mr. Shakely said.
Likewise, it is understandable when people asking for money curry favor by parroting back language they think foundations like.
You know, if Rockefeller, Carnegie and Ford hadn't done what they've done, it just would have been that much less likely for any of us to think foundations can have these audacious goals.
"It was a once-in-a-century opportunity to develop the riverfront, and we thought foundations, as nonprofit owners, could supply patient money," said William P. Getty, president of the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation.
He talks about how much more money the government has compared with the foundations, adding, "I think the foundations have stepped up in a historic way".
"I think the foundation's extremely strong," Hank Steinbrenner said.
Those are the middle years of the term of government, and I think the foundation is now well laid.
"The current situation wasn't tolerable," he said, "but they never contacted the Wikimedia Foundation because they didn't think the foundation was interested".
"I don't think our foundation could continue to exist unless we had those sources of EU money," one British programme director told us.
