It was clear that the newly vast foundation needed to expand its mission far outside Detroit, so Henry Ford II appointed a committee to determine what that mission should be.
From this vast foundation will emerge the $1.7 billion AOL Time Warner Center: headquarters and television studios of a media colossus, three performance halls for Jazz at Lincoln Center with room for 2,000 music lovers, luxury shops and restaurants all around, topped by a Mandarin Oriental hotel and 198 apartments in twin glass towers rising 750 feet.
However, if America's vast philanthropic foundations, which give a lot of aid privately, were included, its aid score would rise, although its overall ranking would not.The good, the bad and the arbitraryAmerica's trade policy, in contrast, is ranked top.
In 1975, a vast majority of foundations and philanthropic assets were in New York.
The Defenders of the Revolution — Khamenei, the Revolutionary Guards, the vast employment-based foundations that supported the radicals — had proven very resilient.
As a consequence, says Doyle, visitors "are not eligible for research grants from the vast majority of foundations or agencies".
The board members of nearly all nonprofits and the vast majority of foundations, including those that are much larger, more complex and far reaching, serve with no compensation at all.
Rem Koolhaas is engaged in projects across the Middle East, including a vast library and foundation headquarters currently nearing completion in Qatar, yet the condition of his construction workers is never the focus of the story.
The vast majority of American foundations say that they will keep up the same spending pattern.
These unelected and (to turn the current mantra against them) unaccountable foundations "exercise vast influence over American education because of their strategic investments in school reform".
