Upon becoming fully endowed in 1981, the Foundation's Directors conducted an aggressive grant making campaign that intentionally far exceeded the established requirements for giving and allowed recipients to participate in and benefit from the endowment's additional growth in the subsequent years. These efforts advanced significant programs in the Foundation's main areas of interest; entrepreneurship awareness education, cancer research, care and treatment, housing and education for the handicapped, and diverse educational programs.

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The Edward Lowe Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to championing the entrepreneurial spirit by providing information, research, and education, which support emerging-growth entrepreneurs. The Foundation provides services and peer-learning opportunities for these entrepreneurs and all those who serve them.

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The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private foundation that works toward the vision of self-sufficient people in healthy communities. Its mission is to research and identify unfulfilled needs of society and to develop, implement and/or fund breakthrough solutions that have a lasting impact and offer people a choice and hope for the future. The Kauffman Foundation's work is focused on two areas: Youth Development and Entrepreneurial Leadership.

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Created in 1994, the Morino Institute is a nonprofit organization that explores the opportunities and risks of the Internet and the New Economy to advance social change. Their work is focused in four key areas: stimulating entrepreneurship, advancing a more effective philanthropy, closing social divides and understanding the relationship and impact of the Internet on our society.

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Greyston Foundation an integrated system of nonprofit and for-profit organizations that offer a wide array of programs and services annually to men, women, and children. Recognized as a pioneer in "social enterprise," Greyston uses entrepreneurship to solve the problems of the inner city and reduce the reliance of non-profits on external sources of funding.

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The William Jefferson Clinton Presidential program, Harlem Small Business Pilot Program purpose it to provide professional technical and managerial assisstance to eight small businesses. The project hope to establish a program, which will serve and support many small businesses over time.

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