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Foundation (architecture) – the portion of a building's structure that serves to transfer the weight of the building into the ground itself.
Most foundations extend underground, and the foundations of large buildings often penetrate the bedrock.
Foundation (charity) – a kind of philanthropic organization, set up as a legal entity either by individuals or institutions, with the purpose of distributing grants to support causes in line with the goals of the foundation.
Professor Liggio is chairman of the Advisory Council of The Salvatori Center for Academic Leadership at The Heritage Foundation and is treasurer of the Mont Pelerin Society.
He received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in political philosophy from Fordham University and was an EarhartFoundation Fellow and a Robert Boone Stewart Fellow.
A founder and former member of the Board of Directors of the Manhattan institute, he is an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation, the Cato institute, and the American Enterprise institute.
He has published more than twenty-five articles in refereed journals and thirty op-eds in the Boston Herald, Boston Business Journal, and Boston Globe.
He has been the recipient of an Olin Fellowship from the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Sloan Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship, and he is currently an academic advisor to the Pioneer Institute.
Murphy has been the recipient of a Sloan Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship and an EarhartFoundation Fellowship.
George C. Marshall Institute - SourceWatch(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Institute is partially supported by the Exxon Education Foundation and American Standard Companies."[1] (http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientgrants.php?137)
The Institute received $5,577,803 in 77 separate grants from only five foundations between 1985 and 2001 [2] (http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientgrants.php?137)
During 2002, ExxonMobil donated $90,000 to the Institute, $80,000 of which was for the "Global Climate Change Program".
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"Religion as a Public Good: Jews and Others in the American Public Square." Pew Foundation and The Center for Jewish Community Studies.
Fall 2002 - Series of seven seminars on "Judaism and Environmental Ethics" sponsored by Beyt Midrash, a Jewish Adult Education Foundation in Dallas; the seminars are based on his recently published anthology, Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2001)
Stanford Law School, “Shaking the Foundations 2000, The West Coast Conference on Progressive Lawyering,” Panel: “Rolling Civil Rights into the Next Century: The Frontiers of Disability Law and Disability Culture,” March 5, 2000.
Foundations of Therapeutic Studies, “Models of Disability,” March 6, 1995.
California Foundation of Independent Living Centers, Directors Annual Meeting, lecture: “Physician-Assisted Suicide: the Reality behind the Oregon Experience,” Sacramento, January 31, 2005.
