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The Sapling Foundation is an organization that owns the TED global conference. It was founded by Chris Anderson in 1996. The organization describes its purpose as follows.  The goal of the foundation is to foster the spread of great ideas. It aims to provide a platform for the world's smartest thinkers, greatest visionaries and most-inspiring teachers, so that millions of people can gain a better understanding of the biggest issues faced by the world, and a desire to help create a better future.

WFAE's mission is to serve life-long learners and to enrich the intellectual capital in our community by being an indispensable and innovative source for compelling and relevant information and intelligent opinion, delivering and creating local programming of the highest quality that is a conduit and catalyst for community conversation.