Here are some of the fundamentals of a trust that helps charities and minimizes taxes.
Michael Milken, the former Drexel Burnham Lambert financier, presided over an X-shaped desk in Beverly Hills, managing a brain trust that helped finance the restructuring of corporate America.
Because his father oversaw the broad desegregation of the city, starting with a racially mixed brain trust that helped run City Hall, Mr. Landrieu has attracted strong support from black voters.
It may, the commission reassures us, be charitable to have a trust that helps enforce existing laws – it would give charitable status to a trust to fund prosecution of homosexuals in Uganda.
At the same time, some social scientists like Robert D. Putnam, a professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, have tracked what they describe as a dwindling of social capital, which includes the so-called social trust that helps make possible cooperation in civic life.
The Palo Alto Research Center, dubbed PARC, was a brain trust that helped spur a technological revolution.
Compared with our results, this trusting relationship was reported to be of greater significance, as it is this trust that helped them to guide, plan and evaluate tasks and to strengthen the older persons.
Not mentioned in the fraud indictment are still other resources he had squirreled away, including millions in overseas "asset protection trusts" that doubtless helped to sustain Brennan's high living.
Now some 200 of these assessments have been completed or are under way here, up from 50 four years ago, said Dr. Aaron Wernham, project director for the Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Pew Charitable Trusts that helps finance health impact assessments.
