Sentences with phrase «new venture community»

Dominic A. Cipollone, Principal at the New Venture Community School 219 in the Bronx, New York brings us the following guest blog post on summer learning loss and bridging the achievement gap: Our country is -LSB-...]

Dominic Cipollone, principal of New Venture Community School in the Bronx, New York penned our special feature on summer learning loss and how summer vacations can have a negative impact on learning outcomes for some students.

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• Pilotworks, New York City - based a community of food entrepreneurs formerly known as FoodWorks, raised $ 13 million in Series A funding led by Techstars Ventures and Acre Venture Partners.

Retail tenants are showing strong interest in Newman's $ 30 million new shopping centre, with construction starting this week on the joint venture between BHP Billiton and community charity St Bartholo

There is a wave of new venture funds focused on bringing more diversity to Silicon Valley, by investing in women, people of color, or those of the LGBT community.

Retail tenants are showing strong interest in Newman's $ 30 million new shopping centre, with construction starting this week on the joint venture between BHP Billiton and community charity St Bartholomew's House.

This has led to several new ventures, including launching a new post-conception app and gathering anonymized user information for use in studies for the medical community.

Current Venture: Tumblr, based in New York City, has built an online community around a blogging tool that lets users post short entries, Web links, and music and video clips.

Sure, San Diego might not have the same size venture community, or as many dollars invested, as say, New York.

The Sooner Launch Pad hosts the biannual New Venture Pitch Competition in Tulsa, Okla., and is open to students and the surrounding Oklahoma community.

With barriers to capital formation for startups being liberated through the JOBS Act, crowdfunding, and general growth and awareness of startup communities around the world, individual investors are overwhelmed with opportunities to put capital to work into a variety of new business ventures.

«I look forward to working with the board, and the cleantech community, to carve new markets for our exciting ventures,» said Annette Verschuren, Chair and CEO, NRStor Inc. «Canada can become a leader in a new energy sector that's clean, profitable and will add a whole new dimension to our existing renewable energy assets, and MaRS is well positioned to make this happen.»

We are primarily co-investors alongside the venture capital and angel communities in Techstars accelerator program graduates, new companies started by Techstars alumni, and companies formed by Techstars mentors.

Chris also serves on the Steering Committee of the New Economy Initiative, the National Advisory Board of the University of Michigan Office of Technology Transfer, and boards or advisory boards of Invest Detroit, the Community Foundation of Southeastern Michigan, University of Detroit Jesuit, and several venture capital funds, including the Procter & Gamble - led fund of funds, Cintrifuse.

TORONTO, November 8, 2017 — Today, Social Venture Connexion (SVX) launched its new ethical investment platform at the Toronto Stock Exchange and announced a community of new issuers.

For example, in New York, the family office community is very mature with regular meetings and events, frequent co-investing and joint ventures between family offices, and established, efficient offices, primarily in Manhattan.

Other economic policies include reducing the regulatory burden for small businesses and northern development; a new $ 75 million venture capital fund to help businesses commercialize new technology developments; a $ 900 million Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative and a $ 250 million Automotive Innovation Fund to support these industrial sectors; a $ 1 billion Community Development Trust to support communities and workers in struggling industries; a commitment to reduce inter-provincial trade barriers by 2010; pursuing new trade agreements with emerging markets; as well as a reorganization of federal regional development strategies.

Said Williams, «I am honoured to be appointed to my new position at Alberta Enterprise by the Board and look forward to continuing to foster the growth of a local venture capital community and their investments into innovation and technology in the province of Alberta, creating jobs and contributing to diversifying Alberta's economy.»

«The creation of this new venture fund will make a big difference to Canada's many high - impact ventures,» said Tim Jackson, EVP Corporate and Community Development, MaRS and Lead Executive, MaRS Centre for Impact Investing.

This local community, along with our invited international and national speakers will also explore the new directions in technology research that will have an impact in innovative entrepreneurial ventures in the coming five to ten years.

Jesus did not expect all those who had come to him in faith to accompany him on this desperate venture nor, if they did not do so, did he mean to disqualify them for a part in the new community.

We venture the claim not only that Isaiah is central to prophecy hut that no prophet stands more nearly in the center of biblical theology nor anticipates in such comprehensive fashion many of the affirmations of the New Testament community.

This credit should be a tradable asset that, when conjoined with other new ventures such as community shares or social investment, can generate an asset effect for those whose routes out of poverty are presently so curtailed.»

It provides an interdisciplinary academic setting and works closely with the local community and business leaders to develop new ideas and business ventures.

«We are thrilled that John will continue as leader of a new Medical Center venture and continue to contribute in other ways as a distinguished faculty member and community leader,» said Board Chairman Steve Robertson.

NEW YORK, United States — When community - driven beauty brand Glossier raised another $ 52 million in 2017, chief executive Emily Weiss emailed her customers — the «extended Glossier team,» as she calls them — saying the Series C round, which brought the venture's total funding raised to date to over $ 85 million, would help her and her team «keep building the beauty company of the future: the one that you shape.»

VENTURE BEAT - Dec 9 - After announcing its concept for a social network aimed at the sex positive community a few months ago, Blackbox Republic is now ready to show off its site and welcome new members.

Numerous simple people are venturing in online singles dating or community looking for someone new.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Its six thousand residents have just gained from an unusual joint venture between its town council and the governors of Winchcombe School, which has resulted in the construction of a new # 1.2 m sports hub development including a full size floodlit 3G artificial pitch, new changing rooms, performing arts studio, and lecture rooms for both community and school use.

Students should also be exposed to the best of rural entrepreneurialism and encouraged to create new ventures in their communities.

I am writing this blog post on the new Apple iPad while on a plane returning from the Newschools Venture Fund Community of Practice and Summit in Washington DC.

In 2012 with support from New Schools Venture Fund and the DC Office of the State Superintendent for Education, AppleTree began supporting community based organizations and charter schools to implement all or parts of

In 2012 with support from New Schools Venture Fund and the DC Office of the State Superintendent for Education, AppleTree began supporting community based organizations and charter schools to implement all or parts of ECR in their preschool classrooms.

Parents and community members most likely do not know that SFC now has private equity investors and venture philanthropists on the board, making decisions for the organization as it grows new chapters.

October 2008: Invited to participate in a presentation on «High Quality Preschool» before the New Schools Venture Fund Community of Practice in Philadelphia.

November 2011: A Gates Foundation grant to the New Venture Fund — «to support efforts to better engage and mobilize public support for educational policy and advocacy goals, especially around common core standards and effective teaching reforms within and among the faith community and faith leaders.»

However, limiting access to titles would seem to defeat the purpose of Bradshaw's new venture, especially considering his interest in furthering books in the community.

Tonight, across the US, more than 25,000 bibliophile volunteers — hoping to spread their love of books and reading — will venture out into their communities and give away 500,000 free copies of books to new and light readers.

Credit unions and community banks can offer attractive lending terms to people looking to refinance student loans or finance a new educational venture.

What's so great about volunteering abroad is that you spend your donations on a worthwhile project of your choice to help out local communities, wildlife and the environment while having a nice (deserved) break venturing in to a new country.

Rather than doing that, Mexico City - born photographer Amanda Gutiérrez seeks to document her surroundings as she ventures through Brooklyn's Sunset Park, focusing both on her «subjective experience as a Mexican woman living and working in New York» and painting a photographic portrait of the neighborhood's Mexican immigrant community.

From LA to New York, this joint city action will also signal to gentrifiers across the nation that any «pioneering» ventures will be met with hard resistance from our communities.

Plus Gallery is set to roll out two exciting new exhibitions early in 2015, both collaborative ventures with community associates in an effort to maintain the presence of our strong pool of represented artists during our interim period.

Taking inspiration from the growing volunteer tourism industry, Venture With Impact is a new startup that combines coworking with travel and volunteering in local communities.

The point raised by Fearnley - Whittingstall, while conveniently aligning with the release of his new show and book, do tap into a double - standard which exists in the meat - eating, puppy - loving community — which, I would venture to say, is most people.

Three new attorneys have ventured into our community to try their hands at solo practice, and I cheerfully refer as much work to them as possible.

In 2016, Hilton announced that she is venturing into the new millennium of technology, community and social services.

Bonfire does align with Facebook's new mission statement of «build [ing] community and bring the world closer together,» and might prove to be a more successful video venture than the grayed - out desert that is currently Facebook Stories.