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foundation

[foun-dey-shuhn] / faʊnˈdeɪ ʃən /




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“There’s not very many of these places left where you can go and have pure wilderness,” said Bri Fordem, executive director of the nonprofit Anza-Borrego Foundation and one of the powerlink’s most vocal critics.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

About the authors: Jon Hartley is a policy fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

The huge holes in the system have been ably documented by Demian Brady, vice president of research at the National Taxpayers Union Foundation, which helped spur prior successful efforts to tighten pension rules.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

"Consumers cannot and should not be completely insulated from global supply shocks, because that will cause even more pain later," Rahul Ahluwalia, founder director of the Foundation for Economic Development, told the BBC.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

“In the whole history of the Foundation, no grant had ever been made for a destructive purpose,” Fosdick observed unhappily in the foundation’s official history, “let alone such a lethal weapon as this.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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