The Shirley Foundation, based in the UK, was established in 1996 by Steve Shirley, who gave a substantial endowment to establish a charitable trust fund.
The fund is used to support many projects, especially relating to autism, through grants and sometimes loans. For example, the Foundation funded the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), based at the University of Oxford.
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“Only the actions of the just
Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.”
—James Shirley (1596–1666)
“What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art and poetry, in all its periods from the Heroic and Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)