Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Gill Foundation was founded by Tim Gill in 1994, two years after the passage of Amendment 2, a Colorado ballot initiative denying lesbian, gay, and bisexual people equal protection under the law. As of 2017, the foundation had granted more than $335 million to various nonprofits .
Forty-seven New Mexican grants were to individuals, 84 were grants to communities, and 23 were grants to Pueblo villages. Confirmed grants in the state originally comprised about 12,000 sq mi (31,000 km 2 ) of land of which 98 percent was lost to the original owners and their descendants during and since the adjudication period.
As decided by Mr. Daniels, each year, approximately 70% of charitable allocations are made through the Daniels Fund Grants Program in the funding areas that he defined for the foundation: Aging, Alcoholism & Substance Abuse, Amateur Sports, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Ethics & Integrity in Education, Homeless & Disadvantaged, K-12 Education Reform, and Youth Development.
From 1692 to 1846, the Spanish and Mexican governments awarded about 300 land grants to individuals, communities, and Pueblo villages in New Mexico and Colorado. After its conquest of New Mexico in the Mexican-American War, the U.S. and New Mexican governments adjudicated and "confirmed" (recognized the validity of) 154 of the grants in a long, slow, and corrupt legal process.
The Colorado Health Foundation is a private foundation focused on health. [1] The organization's partners include nonprofits, health care leaders, policymakers, educators and the private sector. The Foundation operates within four focus areas: Maintain Healthy Bodies, Nurture Healthy Minds, Strengthen Community Health and Champion Health Equity.
More than 10,000 people worked for the agency in 2023, two-thirds of whom were posted overseas, according to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), Congress’s in-house research institute.
In 2007, the Foundation paid roughly $20 million in grants, all of which went to Colorado recipients. The source of the original endowment is the Gates Rubber Company of Denver, Colorado. The Foundation is well known in Denver, for example including the Gates Planetarium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. [4]
A land grant is a gift of real estate—land or its use privileges—made by a government or other authority as an incentive, means of enabling works, or as a reward for services to an individual, especially in return for military service. Grants of land are also awarded to individuals and companies as incentives to develop unused land in ...