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The Henry T. Nicholas, III Foundation is the private foundation of Henry Nicholas, a philanthropist, victims' rights advocate, and co-founder and former co-chairman, president, and CEO of Broadcom Corporation.〔http://www.streetinsider.com/Press+Releases/Nicholas+Academic+Centers+Celebrate+Record+Graduation+Results/5701489.html〕 In 2003, the Foundation was known as the Henry T. and Stacey Nicholas Foundation. It current name was adopted after their separation in 2006. The Foundation was established with the goal of improving communities and individual lives through investment in education, youth sports, technology, medical research, victims' rights and national defense.〔 ==Projects== Education The Henry T. Nicholas, III Foundation focuses on helping students attain a college education and using technologies to improve the quality of education.〔http://www.smes.org/news/detail.aspx?pageaction=ViewSinglePublic&LinkID=634&ModuleID=349)〕 The Foundation has donated to a variety of educational endeavors.〔〔http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2004_Nov_19/ai_n6367583/〕 the Oakland Military Institute,〔〔http://articles.latimes.com/2007/aug/02/business/fi-nicholas2/5〕〔http://www.heef.org/scholarships/scholarships.htm〕 *The Foundation funded the construction of the Nicholas Academic Centers I and II, an after-school tutoring and mentoring program for disadvantaged at-risk, but high-potential, high school students in the Santa Ana Unified School District.〔http://www.ocregister.com/articles/students-191361-mandel-santa.html?pic=4)〕 The first NAC opened in January 2008 in downtown Santa Ana, and was based on a successful after-school tutoring program run by retired Orange County Superior Court Judge Jack Mandel from 1990 to 2002.〔 The second NAC opened on the Valley High School campus in January 2009.〔http://www.ocregister.com/articles/center-196362-nicholas-santa.html〕 In the fall of 2009, 24 members of the first graduating class of the NACs earned more than $500,000 in scholarships and grants to highly ranked universities.〔http://www.ocregister.com/news/students-212734-college-nicholas.html)〕 In 2010, 66 graduating seniors were accepted to college, with 36 of them planning to attend four-year institutions, including Georgetown, Smith, Haverford, Berkeley, and UCLA.〔http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sixty-six-inner-city-high-school-students-share-more-than-1-million-to-attend-college-2010-06-02?reflink=MW_news_stmp〕 *The Foundation has been a supporter of St. Margaret's Episcopal School, helping to fund the Tartan Scholars program, which provides full-tuition, four-year scholarships to high-achieving, low-income minority students to attend the highly acclaimed high school.〔 *The Foundation has been a donor to the University of California, Irvine, at which Nicholas is a former Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.〔http://www.htnfoundation.org/about-dr-nicholas/〕 Nicholas is an ambassador of the UCI Foundation and also supports the UCI Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing.〔http://www.eng.uci.edu/news/2005/1/nicholas-foundation-grants-100k-establish-fellowships-supporting-center-embedded-compute〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Henry T. Nicholas, III Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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