The Templeton Foundation is a U.S.A. based charity and has provided the funds for us (CES) to run this funding competition. Accordingly, we must comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules, judgments, decrees and orders, whether federal, state, local, domestic or foreign, including but not limited to U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") Compliance and Internal Revenue Service rules and regulations relating to tax withholding and reporting for payments to non-U.S. persons. We will not knowingly support, employ or do business with, directly or indirectly, individuals, entities, or groups that are subject to OFAC sanctions, or with individuals, entities or groups known to us to support terrorism or to have violated OFAC sanctions.