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About the Foundation On September 1, 2008, the American Society of Civil Engineers joined in a strategic alliance with the ASFE to establish the Foundation for Professional Practice (FPP). FPP?s mission is to provide educational programs, services, and materials that focus on business and professional practice issues, ethics, and leadership in order to encourage and support lifelong learning among students and practicing engineers and scientists. The FPP assumes and expands the role previously filled by the Institute for Professional Practice (IPP). The IPP was founded in 1989 by ASFE - Professional Firms Practicing in the Geosciences (originally the Association of Soil and Foundation Engineers) with excess funds derived from an international conference held in San Francisco a few years previously. While this geotechnical engineering group provided the impetus for establishing the Institute, it was set up as a separate, non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation to serve the entire spectrum of engineering practice in the United States. To date, virtually all of the Foundation?s funding has been derived from returns on the invested original capital, donations from ASFE, Terra Insurance Company, the DPIC Companies, and pledges and contributions from individuals and firms in the national consulting engineering community who constitute the founding members of FPP?s Heritage Society. |