the gates foundation? i published my first article on the gates foundation, right that first week of the pandemic. so it was kind of interesting timing because for the gates foundation, this was the beginning of their of their ascension to this very of bill gates philanthropic career, where he was at the absolute top of his game. he was constantly appearing in the news media as a public health expert. you'd see him there with fauci. so suddenly, bill gates was super relevant. and i was the bill gates guy because i'd been reporting him so kind of what got me interested in. and then it became more and more of saga because the pandemic response started to fall apart. bill and melinda gates got divorced. all these allegations emerged. bill gates's misconduct towards women, which he denies a very hard to explain relationship ship with convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein some kind you know all of this this became a growing scandal and so then i was i guess position to to continue the reporting it and now to y

in 1983, when ronald reagan implemented the idea of ​​this foundation, the official purpose of this foundationannounced as such. supporting democratic foundations around the world through private efforts. in 1986, the foundation declared that pro-democracy groups around the world should not be called subcategory c should be introduced. in fact, what he said was that it is better than ca to avoid entering into these issues and leave the work to this foundation. the american national endowment for democracy was supposed to do the same things that it used to do secretly and this time in a public way. but it was not just the publicizing of support for pro-western oppositions. the way of working had also changed. c. e. in the traditional way, although sometimes they bought the elections, but in many cases they had to resort to military and bloody coups, but now this foundation has found a more acceptable method. street in this way, the accusation of using violence and system. it had a popular revolution. the american national endowment for democracy is just one of several human rights institutions

our foundation, the national archives foundation has been the nonprofit partner for over 30 years.pport, promote, plan, help execute public programs, exhibitions, civic education resources and much more all these that are a wonderful gift by this institution we offer to our country and the world and i want to acknowledge the foundation board. youev can get seated, everybody else. excuse me. [laughter] i am not use to preaching from the pulpit lately. [laughter] but i want our foundation board members to please stand up. [laughter] [applause] thank you. and also, staff members of the national archives itself, those of you here, we thank you for your service and please stand up some of your very modest here in the back, but we appreciate what you do. [applause] also with us is the united states senator from west virginia, shelley o-uppercase-letter. [applause] i believe we are also joined by chairman and congressman stephen womack of arkansas. congressman, thank you for being with us. [applause] our previous archivist and dear friend the tenth archivist of the united states is here o

, our foundation. the national archives foundation has been the nonprofit partner of the national archives for over 30 years. and we are the ones that support, promote, plan and help execute public program exhibitions, civic education, resources and, much more. all these which are a wonderful gift by this great that we offer to our country and the world. and i want to acknowledge our foundation board members, please, you can get seated everybody else. but excuse me, i'm not to i'm not used to preaching. preaching the pulpit lately, but i want our board members, foundation board members to please stand up. all right. thank you. and also staff members of the national archives itself. those of you are here. we thank for your service and please stand up some of you are very modest and you're in the back. we appreciate what you do. also with us as united states senator from west virginia, shelly capital here. i believe we're also joined by chairman and congressman stephen womack of arkansas. congressman, th

again, this is the latino giving circle network out of the community foundation--latino community foundationress for more information. log on and find out maybe how you can help or become a donor as well, an investor, if you will, in your community. we'll be back with these young ladies when we continue here on "comunidad del valle." stay with us. here on "comunidad del valle." and i know the--i mean, you're not authorized--the board hasn't authorized for you to talk about your new head julián castro, but i want to ask you anyway. it's got to be exciting to have julián lead your team now into what might be next. i mean, this is some of the greatest news that's come into california, former hud secretary julián castro. anais: definitely. we're very, very excited. and, you know, we sought somebody with a national presence to deepen our work in california, but also elevate it and elevate our impact nationally. so we're excited about what's coming and working under his leadership, which has been incredible. damian: well, and for a tejano to like what's going on in california, that's an even added

i congratulate you on the anniversary of the establishment of the foundation. thank you. شبکه خبر و تشکر می کنم از این شبکه که در فاصله های کوتاه در در واقع به موضوع اشتغال زندانیان و توانند سازیشون ورود پیدا می کنن و امروزم تسلیت میگم روزهایی که در واقع در ایام فاطمیه هستیم و تبریک به همه همکاران که امروز ۸مین سال بنیاد i leave us behind. peace be upon you. report to he stated some of the goals of establishing the foundation and the type of its activities. let's hear a single point from mr. let me use a sentence that is not inappropriate for today. a sentence i saw a place where there is a miracle in other people's life, surely god will be a miracle in your life. this sentence is deserved by all those who help the injured or vulnerable groups , whether they are prisoners, or actually people who are covered by the relief committee or those who receive the attention and help of the red crescent and support organizations in accidents. this is actually a kind of miracle in other people's lives come colleagues. we are also in the prisons organization , prisoners' cooperative

housing foundation during the implementation of the national housing movement 191. he built one thousand rural residential units delivered to applicants. i would like to inform you that more than 350,000 units are being built in the villages with the follow-up of the islamic revolution housing foundation. 300,000 new applicants, like other applicants of the national housing movement, can use the banking facilities of rural and urban sectors. marzband of sed and sima news agency. the head of the geographical organization of the armed forces announced the development of a plan to block the iran-afghanistan border in order to limit traffic on the border. brigadier general amir fakhri also pointed to the installation of border monitoring systems and said: these systems are installed at the borders to monitor and analyze data. and will be provided to the border guard. the country has decided to face the issue of border blockade on the afghan border. therefore, in order to create border constructions , we need to reach an understanding with the opposite country and define

, the tepper foundation, the asness family foundation, the mckenna family foundation, charles r. schwab, and by the rosalind p. walter foundation, and damon button. corporate funding is provided by stephens inc. >> maria ressa, welcome to "firing line." >> thanks for having me. >> you're a filipino-americanjo, and you've spent your career focusing on preserving freedom of the press. you've done this in the face of harassment from the government of the philippines. and you detail all of this in your new book, "how to stand up to a dictator." last year, you and russian journalist dmitry muratov won the nobel peace prize. why do you think it was so important that journalists were recognized by the nobel committee, something that hadn't happened for 90 years? >> i've always thought that the quality of a democracy's journalism, quality of a nation's journalists, determine the quality of its democracy. i've covered southeast asia since 1986, and i've -- you know, i began my career with the pendulum swing where it looked like democracy was unstoppable. and now, at the tail end of my car

we want to take a look at all you're doing in your expanding programs at the foundation. tell us the kind of programs that you have in place and some of the extraordinary people you been able to meet in the process. >> over the years going back to before i started the foundation i was reaching out and trying to help a lot of different military and first responder nonprofits raising money and raising awareness doing psa's and whatnot and when i started my foundation the gary sinise foundation it was an extension of all of that and i wanted to do more so we have a very broad mission at the gary sinise mission i was involved in so many types of things. if you look at the programs we are dealing with world war ii veterans, supporting them and their families trying to get as many world war ii veterans down to the national world war ii museum as possible before we lose them all we're in the goldstar family fallen heroes space and trying to do everything that we can to make sure goldstar families it in fallen heroes no that they're not forgotten. one of the programs as you said

, the tepper foundation, the asness family foundation, the mckenna family foundation, charles r.ab, and by the rosalind p. walter foundation and damon button. corporate funding is provided by stephens inc. - leopoldo lópez, welcome back to "firing line." - thank you, thank you very much. - you spent nearly four years in solitary confinement under nicolás maduro's regime in venezuela. since your escape into exile in 2020, you have been advocating for freedom and democrac venezuela and around the world. how do you see your current role in venezuela's opposition? - so for me, it's been more than 25 years or 24 years struggling in different roles against the autocracy that we now have in venezuela. that started with a democracy but it eroded into what it is now, a criminal autocracy that is being processed at the international criminal court. i did not wanna leave venezuela. but like millions of venezuelans, you can see outside here in new york city, venezuelans that are walking all the way up from central america to mexico, crossing the border and coming here to new york, to washing

national book foundation. had the wisdom to hire me while i was serving two concurrent sentences in san francisco county jail. and it is what mitchell has done in miami, what launched did with me is to show that if you shut doors, if you open the doors there is so much that is possible. there is so much that we can the authors here today and have been nominated along short list the ones that we booksellers and liberians are able to kind of have the privilege of presenting to our readers offer so many different bridges and pathways to think how we resolve our various issues in the world today. oh, so as we move forward, we have to kind of each one of us question how we do our books. it's it's for editors. booksellers. there's also finite space. there's the economics of what we do. there's the space of what we do. and it is kind of the privilege of the bookseller that we're able to for one of our individual communities, one for individual readers, how we're able to like, bring those readers forward and i think o

, the tepper foundation, the asness family foundation, the mckenna family foundation, charles r. schwab, and by the rosalind p. walter foundation, and damon button. corporate funding is provided by stephens inc. - baratunde thurston, welcome to "firing line." - thank you for having me. it's good to be here, margaret. - standup comedy, digital media, bestselling author, successful pcast, a pbs series based on the outdoors. what's the throughline for you that connects the various pursuits you've been involved in? - the throughline is how do we get to the future? and the throughline is my mother. my mom was a computer programmer. my mom was a community organizer and a politically active person. my mom was very black, as am i. and my mother was a avid lover of the outdoors and our connection to nature. - arnita thurston. - yes. - was your mom's name. - yes. - you describe her as a pro-black pan-african tofu-eating hippie who had me memorizing the countries of africa and reading about apartheid before my 10th birthday. how'd she shape your ideas? - with love and high standards. she sh

we thank the national book foundation for this honor.k burrow, jonathan farmer, rena j. leone. so sharif the poetry panel acknowledges the extraordinary privilege of celebrating poetry in a face of tremendously difficult moment in our history. while we have the joy of honoring powerful poems of beauty, language, love, family, history, trauma, genocide, colonial dispossession and survival, survive events. while we reward our accomplishment in our art form. tonight, human suffering in gaza is at the forefront of our thoughts, celebration, celebration and grief seem opposed. but, in my life and in my recent interactions with those in the us personally suffering this war, poetry is what we reach for in our grief. as mama darwish wrote a poem in a difficult time, is beautiful flowers in a cemetery. these past six months of panel conversation around hundreds of poetry collections has been deep work. we are all enlarged by what we've read. we found voices and that continued to sound in our minds. several of these books made it into our long lis

, the tepper foundation, the asness fily foundation, the mckenna family foundation, charles r.b, and by the rosalind p. walter foundation and damon button. corporate funding is provided by: stephens inc. - jewel kilcher, welcome to "firing line." - thank you. - you performed in public for the first time when you were five years old. you were a yodeler, and you performed with your father and your family in hotels in anchorage, alaska. 40 years later, you've sold more than 30 million records worldwide. and i wonder if you could give your fiveear-old self advice, one piece of advice, what would you tell her? - my five-year-old self. i think i might say that the most heroic attribute is steadfastness and curiosity. - why did she need to hear that? - growing up in the household i grew up, and like many of us do, we think we have to be more or extra, something other than what we are. and it's very hard to trust that you have an innate ability, and that some of the things you hold innately aractually the best tools you have to navigate life. i was naturally curious. i was naturally st

national book foundation.id steinberger. >> thank you . on behalf of the board of the directors and the national book foundation, we want to welcome you. as many of you know, that's up to independent judges but we do get to vote on the lifetime achievement awards. a great poet and a great bookseller. i am filled with gratitude not only for this year's lifetime, for all poets and booksellers and librarians, and most especially for all readers. thank you, all of you. for caring about our mission with the national book foundation. those of you who have been here before, when i can recite this, right? we've got a great mission. to expand audience, that is why we are here, today. now, i don't have to tell you that it's a challenging time in the world right now and it's very divided. there's a lot of sadness and anger and fear in my heart goes out to everyone who is in pain. there is a lot of pain. my wish for everyone with us tonight, those joining us from their homes is that books and our love of books can help us

of, michigan, and the secchia family foundation and are the principle table sponsors. i want to point out that joan secchia, the wife of the late ambassador peter secchia, is us. thank you so much for being here here. there are many additional sponsors who are listed on the back of your program. and we appreciate and thank you. well, i'd now like to reverend lynette sparks, senior pastor at westminster presbyterian church, to come forward and offer a benediction, an invocation. thank you. thank you. gleaves and to all of you at the gerald r ford foundation for the invitation to participate today. so as we begin, i invite you to join me in prayer, holy and almighty, one source of all is good and noble and gracious. you gather, your people together in communities for mutual support and for of the common good. and we come to this gathering, thankful for the community assembled here today. we come with gratitude for all those who have committed lives to public service and to the betterment of our city, our state, and nation. and today we come, especially thankful for the l

it is clear that every child's life, every... having received medicine from the foundation, was able, for many of them this was impossible due to the fact that they had, well, no medicine allowed them to live the lives of their peers , imagine how life changed, how the lives of these children were filled when they went to school on september 1, many went for the first time, many continued their education after receiving treatment, the story on father’s day was very touching. when - children talked about what an important role their father plays in their lives, in how they help them fight the disease, have the courage to continue this fight, and live, acquire new skills in creativity, in studies, here are examples from life in... hundreds of thousands families, they, of course, serve as inspiration to ensure that this project continues, so that even more children receive help, and, of course, serve as the best words of gratitude to those people who entrusted us with funds. if we talk about the medicines that you, well, so to speak, obtain, sometimes this is really the case for childre

, the tepper foundation, the asness family foundation, the mckenna family foundation, charles r. schwab, and by the rosalind p. walter foundation and damon button. corporate funding is provided by stephens inc. - jonathan greenblatt, welcome to "firing line." - thank you for having me. - within hours and days of the october 7th attack by hamas against israel, anti-semitic incidents were already on the rise. - yes. - how do you explain how the floodgates opened with anti-semitism after an attack against the jews? - yeah, it's really quite something. it almost felt to us like some of this is not exactly grassroots. it's more astroturf. - what do you mean? - we saw a mobilization of many of the groups on campuses and off campuses as early as october the 8th. - do you think it was coordinated? - yes. - what do you mean? - i believe that these different groups are all in communication with each other. i believe as soon as the- - hamas is in coordination with? - well, i am unable to say with certainty that hamas was directing this from overseas. but what i can say at a 99% confidence i

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of, michigan, and the secchia family foundation and are the principle table sponsors. i want to point out that joan secchia, the wife of the late ambassador peter secchia, is us. thank you so much for being here here. there are many additional sponsors who are listed on the back of your program. and we appreciate and thank you. well, i'd now like to reverend lynette sparks, senior pastor at westminster presbyterian church, to come forward and offer a benediction, an invocation. thank you. thank you. gleaves and to all of you at the gerald r ford foundation for the invitation to participate today. so as we begin, i invite you to join me in prayer, holy and almighty, one source of all is good and noble and gracious. you gather, your people together in communities for mutual support and for of the common good. and we come to this gathering, thankful for the community assembled here today. we come with gratitude for all those who have committed lives to public service and to the betterment of our city, our state, and nation. and today we come, especially thankful for the l

hosted by the congressional management foundation, this is just over one hour. brad: hello and welcome everyone to the sixth annual democracy awards. my name is brad fitch, i am so happy to welcome you here on such a beautiful morning. it is so exciting to be here for another one of our awards ceremonies to recognize the best in congress. i am grateful for the founder of the democracy awards, the bridge alliance. they are a diverse coalition of organizations committed to revitalizing democratic practice in america. it is kind of like a trade association for democracy reform. you will hear more about it when debbie lynn comes to the stage. the vision for the democracy awards are simple and based on the congressional management foundation's 47 year history of working with u.s. congress. this award actually goes to the office and the members. because we recognize that the members have to be great leaders and need great teams to support them in their mission. the second reason we wanted to create the democracy awards is to offer examples of best practices for member

came from people around the world. >> reporter: the foundation has only used about $35 million so faride direct financial assistance, shelter and more. micah, the president and ceo of the foundation, says that's intentional. >> we know that federal funding and state funding will start to dry up. government dollars have a shelf life. >> reporter: but not every family impact ed by the fires hs been able to access this. nicole and her mom monica have tight finances and the tough times weigh heavy on the holiday spirit. >> the holidays are supposed to be happy and you spend with family, and families are disjointed right now. i wish we could postpone christmas just for a little while. it just makes me sad. >> reporter: though they were long-time lahaina residents, they were in transitional housing wait for a new rental to open up when the fire hit. they survived the terror of the smoke and the flames that day. but the homeless shelter and everything the family had there was destroyed. >> me and my family have moved seven times in the past 3 1/2 months. >> reporter: we last saw nicole in se

and the willett family foundation.vice clicking on) >> (sniffing) >> (clears throat) all right, let me just get some basic information from you. >> it's may 25, 2022, approximately 8:20 p.m. we're at the uvalde police department in uvalde, texas. >> yes, sir. >> hey, jason, philip kucia, texas rangers. >> yes, sir. >> all right, brother, this is a audio-video interview over the phone. >> okay. >> i appreciate you answering my call. >> narrator: soon after one of the deadliest school shootings in the u.s., state and federal investigators sat down with police and other law enforcement officers to ask them about their actions that day. (microphone shifting) >> okay. >> all right, mr. brown, the reason why we're here is that we are investigating the incident that occurred on tuesday, the shooting at the robb elementary. >> narrator: their statements were being gathered as part of a texas department of public safety's investigation into a chaotic response that took 77 minutes before officers stormed a classroom and killed t

the legal foundations of the new statehood were created, this is at least important, the foundations were created. guidelines, then, guided by these guidelines, gradually, together with deputies of all levels, including regional parliaments, we gradually succeeded on this basis, the legal basis, to establish constitutional order, the necessary discipline of compliance with these laws, but if they did not exist, there would be no basis. legal, this is an extremely important event in the life of the country. the constitution enshrined the key to the bearer of sovereignty and the only source of power. the basic law also contained other fundamental provisions: a guarantee of human rights and freedoms, consolidated the social and legal character of the state, regulated issues of the federal structure, which was is extremely important for preserving the integrity of russia and restoring security. the unity of the legal field of our great diversity, it was the parliament that had to reveal the content, meaning and legal potential of almost every article of the basic law of the state. in fac