The East Bay fund's program, which awards individual grants of $16,000 spread across four years, is founded on graduation targets: it aims to have 75 percent of its scholars graduate within six years.
The second volume takes us from there through a golden age – a literally golden age, since the City's prosperity in these good years was founded on the gold standard – up to the outbreak of the first world war.
The Program, which has grown and evolved over the past 20 years, was founded on the purported benefits of experiential learning and calls dating back nearly three decades for curricular change designed to enhance the core competencies of accounting graduates.
"Crossroads", the first free black community in the Valley in the pre-Civil War years, was founded east of town in the 1850s.
The Forward prizes for poetry, now in their 14th year, were founded by William Sieghart, chairman of the Forward Arts Foundation, with the aim of raising the profile of contemporary poetry in the UK.
HERE's puppetry program — it fields several shows per year — was founded by Twist and is still directed by him.
Peter Walsh and David Hunt, the owners of Coogan's, said the race, now in its second year, was founded to bring together members of all ethnicities, races and ages.
A Festival Saved Participants in the Gender Project would probably not be surprised to learn that the Dancenowfest, in its seventh year, was founded and run for the first six years by two unpaid women, Robin Staff and Tamara Greenfield.
The festival, now in its 21st year, was founded in 1981 by Stephen Sondheim as a way to support and nurture a new generation of American dramatists, a goal that still holds true.
The New England Bach Festival, in its 32nd year, was founded by Blanche Moyse, herself a venerable institution: a founder of the Marlboro Festival 50 years ago and a longtime Bach adept.
