The amount covers the first three years of a five-year initiative, the foundation's president, Joan E. Spero, said yesterday.
The conference kicked off a five-year community-driven initiative centered on creating wealth and financial stability, developing financial literacy, facilitating access to capital, and replicating financial best practices.
The Pew trust, with a $4.8 billion endowment, has put forward a $50 million, five-year initiative to shape a national cultural policy by examining issues like arts financing, intellectual property rights and arts education.
It is a five-year, $175 million initiative that is seeking to reverse 40 years of decay that started with factory closings in the 1960's and was followed by race riots in the 1970's.
To address that need, and spurred by a lawsuit brought by the union representing school health doctors, the city has embarked on a five-year, $20 million initiative to restore health services to every school.
In 1997, the foundation began a five-year, $250 million initiative to ensure that if you could reach a public library, you could reach the Internet.
In his proposal, the president lives up to his commitment to complete a five-year initiative begun by the Clinton administration to double the budget of the National Institutes of Health.
For 2010, Abarth have committed to a five-year initiative that will see the series being renamed Formula Abarth.
This five-year initiative is designed to improve the energy efficiency of buildings in the US.
'Attempting to Change Behavior' The $11 million five-year initiative is modeled on a $17 million heart-disease research project in Pawtucket, R.I., that has received wide national recognition.