Sentences with phrase «foundation dollars change»

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It's part of several programmatic changes at the foundation, an independent entity created by the government in 1997 to improve Canada's research infrastructure, as it prepares to spend the last billion dollars of a $ 3.1 billion endowment.

These foundations have clear agendas and are using their money to enlist allies in their causes, whether it's through funding advocacy groups (they're mostly blocked from direct lobbying due to their nonprofit status) or by tying their dollars directly to desired changes in policy and personnel.

We are talking about billionaires and millionaires and the major education reform companies, organizations and foundations dumping tens of millions of dollars into state and local efforts to elect handpicked accomplices or even, where necessary, changing the rules to make it easier to open charter schools and dismantle the core elements of a broad - based public education system.

If our foundations had distributed the «hundreds of millions of dollars» in climate - change program funding mentioned by S&N in the form of block grants, I think we would have seen very different and much stronger environmental work.

If our foundations had distributed the «hundreds of millions of dollars» in climate - change program funding mentioned by Shellenberger and Nordhaus in the form of block grants, I think we would have seen very different and much stronger environmental work.

I ask this question not because I doubt the integrity or competence of the researchers and environmental groups who are getting billions of dollars from government agencies, corporations, foundations and private donors concerned about climate change.