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He is the founder and chairman of the Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation, an independent non-profit that promotes good governance in Africa. The Foundation partners with Oxford University 's Blavatnik School of Government , for scholarships that send qualified Africans to the Oxford for a Master of Public Policy degree and Fellowships for senior Public ...
Frank Earle Shankwitz (March 8, 1943 – January 24, 2021) was an American philanthropist who was the creator and a co-founder of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. [2] [3] [4] He has received the President's Call to Service Award, the Making a Difference in the World, the Making a World of Difference and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor awards.
Shillman sits on boards of The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, and the David Horowitz Freedom Center. [7] [11] [12] In May 2008, President George W. Bush appointed him to serve on the Honorary Delegation to accompany him to Jerusalem for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the State of ...
Schmidt succeeded founding chairman James Fallows in 2008 and served as chairman until 2016. [69] [70] Founded in 2010 by Schmidt and Dror Berman, Innovation Endeavors is an early-stage venture capital. The fund, based in Palo Alto, California, invested in companies such as Mashape, Uber, Quixey, Gogobot, BillGuard, and Formlabs. [71] [72]
Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder of PETA, on animal rights and the film about her life. Born in Kingston upon Thames, England, in 1949, Newkirk was the only child of Noel Oswald Wodehouse Ward (1917–2000) and Mary Patricia Ward (née Dudley, 1921–2013). [6] Newkirk spent her early years in the Orkney Islands, Scotland and in Ware, Hertfordshire.
Noubar Afeyan (Western Armenian: Նուպար Աֆէեան; born in 1962) is an American-Canadian entrepreneur, inventor, and philanthropist. [1] [2] He is best known for co-founding the biotechnology company Moderna, through his venture capital firm, Flagship Pioneering, and for co-founding humanitarian projects such as Aurora Prize and The Future Armenian.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [a] is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz. [4][5][6] Over the ...
Ho Kwon Ping (Chinese: 何光平; born 24 August 1952) is a Singaporean businessman.He is the executive chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings, a Singapore-based leisure business group, which owns both listed and private companies engaged in the development, ownership and operation of hotels, resorts, spas, residential homes, retail galleries and other lifestyle activities in the region.