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... The Bill Melinda Gates Foundation (B MGF or the Gates Foundation) is the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates ... The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and in America, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology ... The foundation, based in Seattle, Washington, is controlled by its three trustees Bill Gates, Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett ...
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... of view of Relational Biology as well as Quantum Genetics developing a rigorous theoretical foundation for living organisms as "anticipatory systems" Rosen believed that ... By proposing a sound theoretical foundation via relational complexity for studying biological organisation, Rosen held that, rather than biology being a mere subset of the already known physics, might turn ...
... of April 16, 2008) pledged to give the foundation approximately 10 million Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares spread over multiple years through annual contributions, worth ... set conditions so that these contributions do not simply increase the foundation's endowment, but effectively work as a matching contribution, doubling the Foundation's annual giving "Buffett's gift came with ... Buffett gave the foundation two years to abide by the third requirement." The Gates Foundation received 5% (500,000) of the shares in July 2006 and will receive 5% of the remaining earmarked ...
More definitions of "foundation":
- (noun): The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new.
Example: "The foundation of a new scientific society"
Synonyms: initiation, founding, institution, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration
- (noun): The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained.
Synonyms: basis, base, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone
- (noun): Education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge.
Example: "He lacks the foundation necessary for advanced study"
Synonyms: grounding
- (noun): An institution supported by an endowment.
- (noun): A woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body.
Synonyms: foundation garment
- (noun): Lowest support of a structure.
Synonyms: base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure
Famous quotes containing the word foundation:
“The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.”
—Daniel Patrick Moynihan (20th century)
“Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it’s foundation on such principles & organising it’s powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)