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PANEL V: FILLING THE GAPS: THE ROLE OF FOUNDATIONS
PANEL V: FILLING THE GAPS: THE ROLE OF FOUNDATIONS
Pages 105-114
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"It and several other family foundations are focused on Western Pennsylvania and how to make it better. It's hard to think of Pittsburgh without them." How Innovation Clusters Are Reviving the Economies that "Urban Renewal" Destroyed Christina Gabriel Bomani Howze The Heinz Endowments Dr.
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The Urban Renewal Movement She said that the urban renewal movement, which began just after World War II, was partly responsible for the shape of many urban communities today.1 A popular idea was that cities were declining because buildings were aging and street grid patterns were out of date. One solution proposed was to make the cities more attractive by removing aging housing stock and replacing it with malls, parking lots, and other modern structures.
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Indeed, it is in these areas where new innovation clusters are springing up: robotics companies in the Strip District, software companies on the South Side, gaming companies just to the east of the software firms, arts companies in Lawrenceville just north of the Hill, and biotech and InfoTech firms just southeast of the hill and next to the universities. Connecting the Hill to High-tech Clusters Accordingly, The Heinz Endowments and other foundations have joined with community organizations to integrate the Hill District with these adjacent zones within the state-funded Pittsburgh Central Keystone Innovation Zone.
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She recalled working in the Technology Reinvestment Project during Clinton Administration, and said that six agencies were able to work together out of the same general fund and still be effective and quick at making joint funding decisions. In that case, the objective was to find ways to support dual-use technologies.
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Hence the Moore Foundation takes deep due diligence in assessing opportunities and will commit resources for multiple years. "He feels that if you want to see change, then you have to commit to it." A Profile of the Foundation The founding agenda of the foundation was to "make a positive impact on the world for generations to come." The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, founded in 2000, is already the 10th largest foundation in the United States and has provided grants of almost $2 billion.
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"We seek the best scientists to do the best type of science," he said. "We don't know what is going to have applications in advance, but the best science inevitably has application." A Commitment to Nursing Another major commitment of the foundation, the San Francisco Bay Area Program, contains several activities, two of which support nursing: the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing.
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The foundation sustains ongoing support for informal science education, increased professional development for teachers, enhanced classroom teaching of students, and development of more competent teachers. The Foundation also supports the science and technology museums of the San Francisco Bay Area and other science rich educational institutions.
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The Moore Foundation had discovered that the people who work in NGOs do so by choice and bring to their mission real passion. At the same time, he said, it was not always possible to measure all the activities of grantees by Six Sigma standards.3 "The engagement in broad social enterprise, distressingly, may be more 3 Six Sigma is a certification program improving measurable results in organizations.
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SUMMARY OF PRESENTATIONS 113 like jazz," he said. "We often innovate as we go, trying to stay engaged, to stay together, rather than get that melody out as efficiently as possible and demanding that you do it in half the time you did in the first cycle."
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