Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.
I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.
A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don’t have … to prove the love they think they have.
The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we were going on a mission to rescue their specific missing loved one.
The Fashion Fund celebrates the real passion that underlies the fashion business, not the frothy world of glamour and celebrity that so often surrounds it.
The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher.
The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.
Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.
Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.
The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.
In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.
In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated from the ranks of career public health professionals who merit consideration...
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.
There are conservatives in Hollywood who make good movies. They just don't make conservative movies because that's not what gets funded.
But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government.
I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization.
We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.
Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
People are sitting in traffic longer, and the types of solutions that are needed to relieve that congestion are ones that are paid for by the Highway Trust Fund.
