Word: umbrellas
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...report, which examined 15 peer institutions, found that Harvard has more groups in proportion to its student body than most other private universities. Harvard has one student group for every 21 students, and that number counts “umbrella organizations,” such as the Phillips Brooks House Association, as one group...
...transferred the company's ownership to a foundation that now has about €735 million in assets. In Belgium Luc Tayart de Borms oversees the €227 million King Baudouin Foundation, which was set up by the former Belgian King, 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...
...When the idea of the show came up, I was making other plans, which didn't involve television, but it didn't take more than a minute to see that all the things I was interested in, like women, education and learning, health and children, naturally fit under the umbrella of a talk show...
...Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Paris in vintage 2CVs. Dargnies got the idea for his outfit, 4roues-sous-1parapluie, (four wheels under one umbrella, an allusion to the car's simple canvas roof) last spring when he was stopped by throngs of tourists while driving his own gray 2CV in Paris. "It just clicked," he remembers. He experienced his car's pulling power again in the fall while driving from Paris to Berlin...
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...