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- Creating a Culture of Innovation
- Innovation is critical for companies that want to remain competitive in the long term. It's a key discipline within product development and it underpins quality customer service. Although many companies recognize its importance, it can be difficult to identify the sources of innovation and create an innovative culture. A good...
- Articles 2007-11-15
- Build a Foundation for Selling
- Bestselling business author Barry Farber explains how his CORE principles — confidence, optimism, responsiveness, and energy — can create a solid foundation for sales success.
- Videos 2007-09-07
- Your Home Business Budget Foundation
- Why a Budget is Important. Let it be your guide from beginning to end. Starting your own home business is a very tricky proposition. Starting your own enterprise is exciting, but it is also inherently full of risk. Enter discipline. Unless you get yourself going on the right foot, then...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Scarce Physicians Encounter Scarce Foundations: A Call for Action
- The United States is in the early phases of a deepening shortage of physicians, a situation last experienced fifty years ago. As then, energy and creativity will be needed to meet the nation's needs, and U.S. philanthropic foundations will again be called upon to play leadership roles. The issues are...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Foundation: Recent Trends in Foundation Giving
- The information in this article was based on a study on initial figures from large and mid-size, grant-making US Foundations. According to the study, overall giving by grant-making foundations fell in 2003 by 2.5%, down to $29.7 billion from $30.4 billion in 2002. The decline of only 2.5% compares favorably...
- White papers 2004-06-30
- Leadership for Ethical Decision Making
- Leaders set the ethical tone in an organization and influence the decisions of followers. Effective leadership is built upon an ethical foundation, because the first and last job of a leader is to serve the needs of those being led. This paper asserts that the role of leadership is managing...
- White papers 2003-03-28
- Repairing a Stone Foundation
- A poured exterior foundation provides a smooth surface for waterproofing membrane, and thus leaves a leaky old foundation as tight and dry as a new one. This article describes how a Colorado builder poured a new foundation well around the existing one to provide support and a smooth surface for...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- Modelling of Shallow Foundations for Offshore Structures
- This paper concerns the numerical modeling of shallow circular foundations. For design purposes it is almost always necessary to devise a numerical model of foundation behavior, however simple that might be, and the principal focus of this paper is on appropriate numerical models for modern design methods. The basic principles...
- White papers 2003-08-27
- Process Mapping of Residential Foundation Slab Construction Processes
- The residential foundation slab construction process mapping effort coupled with process simulation demonstrated the existence of opportunities for residential foundation slab construction process improvements. This has motivated the homebuilder partners to further pursue the issue by developing a residential foundation slab construction process to a stage where several prototype foundation...
- White papers 2002-11-15
- Build a Better Home: Foundations
- Details are critical when constructing a sound building foundation that will withstand water intrusion and control dampness. Foundation repairs are often difficult and expensive, so it's important to build the foundation correctly the first time. The Build A Better Home program designed to provide builders and homeowners with the construction...
- White papers 2003-01-27
- Homeowner's Guide: Earthquake Safeguards
- In an earthquake the ground rocks, twists, heaves and subsides, changing direction and speed all the while. Such violent and chaotic ground movement sets buildings in motion. Houses tend to shift off their foundations and some structural elements may overturn. Houses literally come apart at the seams, section by section...
- White papers 2000-05-05
- Energy-Efficient Resource-Efficient Frost-Protected Shallow Foundations
- Builders and remodelers across the northern United States are learning the advantages of frost-protected shallow foundations FPSFs and the use of the technology is spreading. Frost-protected shallow foundations are included as an energy efficient and resource-efficient technology in the Green Builder Program of Colorado. This document introduces the Frost-Protected Shallow...
- White papers 2003-02-21
- Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines
- This paper explores some civil-engineering problems encountered for offshore wind turbines. A critical component is the connection of the structure to the ground, and in particular how the load applied to the structure is transferred safely to the surrounding soil. It review previous work on the design of offshore foundations,...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Building a Solid Foundation-I
- The importance of providing a good foundation for every action used to narrow down an applicant pool cannot be understated. This is a universal concern that applies to every hiring situation, be it one recruiter trying to fill a requisition or a large corporation setting up an enterprise-wide screening system....
- White papers 2002-04-12
- The Secret to Motivating Yourself and Others
- The task of leading others is one of the most difficult of the lives. Being a good leader requires great skill. This is especially true when one must motivate people to do something that they do not want to do. One may not recognize all the areas of the life...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Taking On a New Market
- This article is about the new market structure. It explains the experience of foundation contract that how he made a move in the above graded market. To tackle the new market, they made some basic design changes and developed a fastening system to hold the insulation in place. Above grade...
- White papers 2003-02-15
- Not All Populations are Created Equal: Understanding the Differences to Maximize Success
- Read in the article that foundation for any project is the feasibility study. Done well, the project's foundation will be like concrete, strong and stable, able to support the project and withstand the changing winds of the entertainment market. However, when the feasibility study takes shortcuts, or is not thorough,...
- White papers 2002-01-01
Additional Resources
- Updated foundation directories released - Foundation Center
- The Foundation Center announced the publication of the new, completely updated 1993 editions of The Foundation Directory and The Foundation Directory Part 2. (The Supplement, which provides crucial updates to the 1993 Foundation Directory entries, will be published in September.) These editions now cover 10,661 grantmakers, a segment of...
- Research articles 1993-03-22
- New guides to foundation grants available - Foundation Center's Foundation Directory
- The Foundation Center has announced the publication of the new, completely updated 1994 editions of The Foundation Directory and The Foundation Directory, Part 2. The Supplement, which provides crucial updates to the 1994 Directories, will be published in September. The Foundation Directory, The Foundation Directory, Part 2, and the...
- Research articles 1994-03-22
- Pomona College has been awarded nearly $1 million in grants by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Rose Hills Foundation and the Irvine Foundation
- POMONA COLLEGE (Calif.) has been awarded nearly $1 MILLION in grants by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Rose Hills Foundation and the Irvine Foundation. A $730,000 grant from the Moore Foundation will go to purchase science equipment, a $200,000 grant from the Rose Hills Foundation will fund student...
- Research articles 2008-01-24
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