Rockefeller Foundation

its’ prime. Without Bill Gates, modern technology would look much differently today. He revolutionized how software and how people viewed technology. Along with these technological advances he also has helped millions of struggling people with his foundation. Gates has affected so many individuals in his life that his impact on history will never be forgotten. Although he faced adversity he always persevered and tried to innovate anything he was involved…

with the Sheboygan Arts Foundation, which was created in 1959 with Mrs. Walter J Kohler as its first board member. In 1966, the Kohler family homestead was gifted to the Sheboygan Arts Foundation. With this homestead as a starting point and a large expansion, the center was established in 1967. This non-profit art museum/gallery consists of ten galleries, a theater, meeting/performance spaces, studio-classrooms, retail shop and a small café. One aspect of the Kohler Foundation I founded…

“world-famous collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artworks, as well as some of the greatest 20th-century paintings by famous painters from all over the world” . The museum was named after the philanthropist, Solomon R. Guggenheim whose foundation supported its establishment by contributing to the modern and contemporary art. Its construction was proposed in order to house the Guggenheim’s four-year-old museum of non-objective…

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was established in the year 1999 when Bill Gates combined three charitable family foundations. Today, it is the largest private foundation worldwide, and “the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world” (Bates, 2010). The foundation is worth an estimated $40 billion, which makes it the richest charitable trust in the world. The foundation follows a guiding principle “…that every life has equal value”, and, therefore, focuses its…

pursuit their personal desires to achieve goals. However, students are struggling with insufficient interest on class material. So, who is to blame? Students? According to a study called “The Silent Epidemic,” funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, motivation deficiency is the number one reason students are dropping out of school. Classes are not engaging students to participate in the learning process. Motivation is influenced by the amount of standardized tests, diminish relationship…

As of 1999, “suicide prevention programs, medical treatment via antidepressants, and psychotherapy may have promising results, it is difficult to distinguish if these national suicide prevention strategies are effective” (D’orio 133). In order to elaborate and implement comprehensive suicide prevention policies, new funding is essential. The deficiency in evaluation research is the single most important obstacle that needs to be overcome because more needs to be understood about suicide.…

to me, I am elite, I am smarter and wealthier than most but this doesn’t mean I boast my wealth by accumulating it and spending it only on me and my family’s personal pleasures. My wife and I have given away a total of $28 billion dollars to our foundation and to fix global issues. I am a generous man and it takes great character to overcome greed and to give money to a world that almost seems hopeless and ungrateful at…

Beowulf’s Bravery Beowulf, in the famous medieval poem of the same name, is the courageous and mighty protagonist in the story. He is a fierce warrior that is much beloved by his people and followers, as well as those he has helped through the years with vanquishing monsters and such. With every challenge that comes his way and through every battle he partakes in, he shows a tremendous amount of bravery, something that is most admired knowing the danger he constantly places himself in. There…

Michael Jackson is one of the most famous musical artists in history. His net worth stands at $600 million today. However, at the time of his death in 2009, his estate’s net worth was roughly equal to its debts. It stood at $500 million, according to realtytoday.com. According to a celebrity news website known as TMZ, Michael Jackson’s estate has come back from the brink of bankruptcy, earning almost $2 billion since 2009 when he met his untimely death. According to TMZ, if all the expenses…

the biggest automobile corporations in the world. In 1931, he sponsored the world’s first University based program “The Sloan Fellows” which started at MIT. Sloan also has an award names after him, the Alfred P. Sloan Prize. This is given by his foundation for science/technology every year to students. Lee designed the Ford Mustang, Escort and Mercury Marquis, models that are still being produced today. Iacocca saved Chrysler from bankruptcy with the designs of the Dodge Aries, Plymouth Reliant…