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foundation

[foun-dey-shuhn] / faʊnˈdeɪ ʃən /




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Last year, the foundation facilitated the donation of dozens of Flock cameras, most of which ended up in affluent neighborhoods on the city’s Westside and in the San Fernando Valley.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Multiple Pultes have served on the board and the family foundation continues to support it.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026

"The values he lived by, love, sacrifice and generosity are the foundation he left behind."

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

By then she had left the foundation but remained on a short-term consulting contract at his private office, where she was pitching ideas for Gates to back.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

The director applauded what PIH was doing, but the foundation had already committed $13 million to pilot projects throughout Russia, where TB was deemed to be a more serious problem than in Lima.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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