And besides providing supporters a powerful brand under whose umbrella they could gather, the overarching Obama image was a wonderful tool for recruiting friends, neighbors and family.
When he brought the idea for Fair Trade for All to Fairtrade International — the Bonn, Germany non-profit under whose umbrella the world's various fair trade labelers and certifiers had previously coalesced — they told Rice they were dead-set against it.
"Everyone," enthuses Florence: "Max Cabanes, Willem, Babouse…" The shop and publisher lasted until 1994, but were ahead of their time: Futuropolis went bankrupt and was sold to Gallimard "for one franc", under whose vast umbrella it now blossoms (Florence duly wrote its story, in the comic strip True Story of Futuropolis).
Asked about the more traditional defining criteria -- shared attitudes about the world and art, or stylistic similarities -- Dr. Moran hedged, arguing that other schools in the arts (the Beat poets, for example, or the Abstract Expressionist painters) include artists united under a broad umbrella whose commonalities became clear only in time.
After the funding boosts they have received in recent years, research centers do have some spare money they can use, but adapting management strategies and securing new funding from outside sources takes time, says Sanz-Menéndez, whose research institute falls under the umbrella of the largest research center in Spain, the Spanish National Research Council.
In 2011, researcher David Packman, whose police misconduct project is now under the umbrella of the Cato Institute, crunched some numbers and found that police officers were significantly less likely to be charged and convicted for crimes than the general public.
Labels affiliated with the team were brought under one umbrella in 1998 and the outfit was renamed Kompakt, whose artists flavoured techno with the easygoing character of Cologne.
Mr. Hawass, whose previous title was chairman of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, under the umbrella of the Ministry of Culture, was promoted on Monday to a position in the cabinet of President Hosni Mubarak as minister of antiquities.
Indeed, the very existence of Mr. Kaufman's organization -- whose members include about 60 manufacturers of modular homes across the country -- under the umbrella of the traditional builders' main trade group is testimony to the increasing interest in modular construction.
The SNC, whose leaders are largely Syrian exiles, has tried with little success to gather the opposition under its umbrella and has alienated minorities including the Kurds and Alawites, the tiny sect to which Assad belongs.
Africaid - whose other projects include an HIV clinic in Ghana and a support group in Zimbabwe - operates under the umbrella of Facilitaid, a UK-registered charity, but McGilvray says it gets little financial support from Britain.
