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Bo and Sita also operate as one in the business of running the Human Kindness Foundation , a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting simple living and compassion for others . Partially sponsored by the National Science Foundation , these state , regional and local partnerships use academic , career-development , and community-building activities to identify high-achieving minority students and provide support for them as they reach key decision points in their academic training — with the ultimate goal to recruit more students into the sciences . Given its epistemological foundation , any EFR scenario is inherently impossible to validate definitively with data because the future is , by definition , unknowable . Funding opportunities will be explained by representatives from the National Endowment for the Humanities , the National Science Foundation , the Smithsonian Institution , and the Fulbright Scholars Program . My research over the past year has been funded by the Alicia Patterson Foundation , a journalism foundation created by the former editor and publisher of Newsday , as well as the Fund for Investigative Journalism , neither of which has a dog in this fight . With funding from the Mellon Foundation , a year-long faculty seminar series was organized , which led to a second volume : Thomas G. Weiss , Margaret E. Crahan , and John Goering , eds ., Wars on Terrorism and Iraq : Human Rights , Unilateralism , and U.S. Foreign Policy ( London : Routledge , 2004 ) . Also in September , Tri Agus Susanto , a journalist who edited a newsletter for the Pijar Foundation , a Jakarta-based nongovernmental activist organization , was sent to prison for two years after being convicted of insulting the president . You see so many people reacting to perfume , air fresheners , diesel smoke , etc ., " says Johnson , a 65-year-old author and filmmaker who founded the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Foundation , a support and research group . Center research has been primarily supported by external funds procured through grants from agencies such as the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development , the U.S. Department of Education , and private foundations such as the Spencer Foundation , the Recording for the Blind , and the Lions Club among others . In addition to the Fulbright Scholarship noted above , he has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Humanities , the National Institutes of Mental Health , the Ford Foundation , the US Steel Foundation , the Danforth Foundation , and the Huber Foundation for his research and his commitment to undergraduate teaching . The Sakai Project was launched less than a year ago with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation , and the four institutions leading the project – University of Michigan at Ann Arbor , Indiana University at Bloomington , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and Stanford University . Tuition is $ 11,000 to $ 14,000 a year ; 90 % of students are on some type of financial aid , mostly grant or scholarship money from the school 's small endowment or gifts to the school - - from private donors and foundations , some of which came to know the school through Campus Crusades for Christ . Hrabowski , who has been president of UMBC since 1992 , serves as a consultant to the National Science Foundation , the U.S. Department of Education and universities and school systems nationally .