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Their idea quickly gained traction. Of the first 20 people he and Conover contacted, 18 were overwhelmingly enthusiastic, says Miller. In February 2003 the first board convened under the administrative umbrella of the Denver Foundation. It was a group of 10 men and women, including educators, lawyers, a nurse, a social worker, a community volunteer, former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm and Colorado Republican chairman Don Bain. "As diverse as the group is," says Sandra Shreve, 62, a current board member who donates from her modest educator's pension, "we were all there with a common goal: to help our community...
...World War II and in 1993 transferred the company's ownership to a foundation that now has about $900 million in assets. In Belgium Luc Tayart de Borms oversees the $250 million King Baudouin Foundation, which was set up by the Belgian head of state, and serves as an umbrella organization for corporate and other donors. The number of private funds under its aegis has doubled in five years. Britain, which has a long history of philanthropy, is home to, among other big foundations, the $27 billion Wellcome Trust, which funds biomedical research like the genome project...
...tree, an Archbishop, a giraffe and a cloud of feathers went out the window"), Melbourne-born Cant was busily assembling his wild lampshade and birdcage sculptures in London. Sadly, none survives, but Cant was at the epicenter of the movement's "chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table," to quote the Surrealists' literary hero Lautr?amont, and exhibited at Peggy Guggenheim's London gallery...
PBHA, Harvard’s largest student-run group, is an umbrella organization for public service efforts. Though run independently, PBHA is overseen by the director of Phillips Brooks House (PBH), an arm of the College which coordinates public service staffers and advises independent student public service groups...
Thefacebook.com also serves as an umbrella website for smaller, exclusive communities, spanning 34 universities and regularly adding more...