Universities, foundations and other philanthropies have been the biggest impediment to passing Mr. Obama's more modest 28 percent limit, which did not exclude the charitable tax deduction.
We believe that the Royal Opera House should join the growing wave of universities, foundations and faith organisations cutting their ties with the fossil fuel industry.
The establishment was, and is, universities, foundations, the mainstream media, Wall Street, and those parts of government that deal with law, money, and diplomacy.
In addition to museum officals of all varieties, he ferrets out top-job candidates for universities, foundations, think tanks and social-service agencies.
The panelists generally agreed that the ethical review boards now mandated by the American government, universities, foundations and medical journals would prevent similar abuses today by anyone spending taxpayer or foundation money.
Of the Madoff firm's 8,000 customers, many will surely survive financially — universities, foundations, some who served on their boards or were regulars on the charity circuits in Manhattan and Palm Beach.
HONG KONG — China's legislature has expelled 45 of its members in a vote-buying scandal that has snared a prominent businessman who is active in donating to American universities, foundations and political campaigns.
She assisted the boards of many other museums, universities, foundations and the like in filling vacancies at the top, poring over the fine print in résumés and soliciting references from scores of people who worked with or for prospective candidates.
And PBS and the stations collect the bulk of their money from membership drives and on-air pledges (which generate nearly twenty-five per cent of their support) and from corporate underwriters, state and city governments, universities, foundations, and a variety of other sources.
While government, universities, foundations and corporations have taken on some of the role of supporting intellectual pursuits, the strengthening of intellectual property law and compensation has provided the opportunity for people to make a living from their contributions to literature, art, politics, etc.
Mr. Steyer is the founder of Farallon Capital, one of the largest hedge funds in the world with some $20 billion under management for universities, foundations and some of the country's wealthiest people — and he was sure beef was a lousy business investment, particularly on a small scale.
