Sentences with phrase «about fundraising for»

She is passionate about fundraising for awesome causes and has been a member of various charitable organizations in New York City helping to raise much needed funds for those in need.

In this interview, Julie Menter of New Media Ventures talks about fundraising for start - ups — the topic of her upcoming Netroots Nation training.

What about fundraising for causes?

That's how I feel about the fundraising for the [School Nutrition] Foundation; it's payback for the opportunities that we have had to take training through the Foundation and the Association.

Not exact matches

«Start - ups are going to talk to a reporter about their fundraise, it will hit the media — they won't have filed their form in advance — and then, apparently, they will be ineligible for 506 for one year,» Joe Wallin, a start - up lawyer in Seattle, pointed out this morning as he live - blogged the hearings.

Elevator Pitch judges were skeptical about the market for the BatBnB, but fans helped the eco-friendly bat house raise $ 107,638, about 344 percent of its fundraising goal.

Companies focused on building and operating launch vehicles dominated first quarter investments, accounting for more than 72 percent with about $ 700 million, due to SpaceX's heavy fundraising.

WA Labor is operating a cash - for - access Leaders» Forum — which charges wealthy company bosses about $ 25,000 a year for private meetings with the Premier and his ministers and is a carbon copy of a secretive Liberal Party fundraising venture slammed by Mark McGowan when he was in Opposition.

It is not uncommon for a board to learn about the CEO's fundraising activities by having a friend forward a press article announcing a raise or the «leak» of a fundraising.

Some wealthy donors are approached in a more personal way, like being invited to meet for dinner to hear about a particular fundraising effort.

Some crowdfunding entrepreneurs boast that they'll «shout from the rooftops» about their company and promote their fundraising efforts far and wide, but later, when asked how many friends and family members they went to for support, their response is, «Oh, I don't feel comfortable approaching my own contacts.»

«An investment from Salesforce Ventures is much more than money, it's about a partnership first and foremost,» said Scot Chisholm, CEO and co-founder of StayClassy, an online - fundraising software for nonprofits that was another one of the first four startups to receive an investment from the $ 100 million fund.

Hoping to launch a web - based calendar, Nosek asked Thiel for advice about fundraising.

When asked about the SaaS sector in the country and the startup scenario, from a fundraising viewpoint, Subramanian stated that ventures like Freshworks (backed by Google Ventures) and BrowserStack (Secured $ 50 Million from Accel) have set precedents in terms of raising the bar for fundraising in India.

«This is a sham lawsuit about a bogus Russian collusion claim filed by a desperate, dysfunctional, and nearly insolvent Democratic Party,» said Brad Parscale, Campaign Manager of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. «With the Democrats» conspiracy theories against the President's campaign evaporating as quickly as the failing DNC's fundraising, they've sunk to a new low to raise money, especially among small donors who have abandoned them.

Top entrepreneurs with proven track records have historically not suffered from this capital market dynamic for idea - stage fundraising, but the pessimism about the U.S. economy and the prospect of a double - dip recession has terrified some investors, and now, even the top dogs are feeling the pinch.

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What advice do you have for women entrepreneurs about advocating for themselves and their ideas in a fundraising environment?

With almost $ 200 million raised in 38 deals, countries outside of the United States accounted for about 21 percent of the fundraising this quarter, the largest share since we started tracking funding activity in 2010.

Even as his counterparts like Atlanta rapper Killer Mike — who has been very vocal about America's racist war on drugs and his own political beliefs — used their celebrity for fundraising, meetings with politicians, and self - penned articles; the rapper usually left politics to the side as he expanded his business and rose to the top of the corporate ladder.

To shed some light on best practices for successful startup fundraising, I sat down with my partners Eric Feng and Randy Komisar to ask and answer the most frequently asked questions entrepreneurs have about fundraising today.

It's this continuous process that takes far longer then you have planned for, but if you think about it that way you'll be better prepared to have successful fundraises.

Thus began my education about how fundraising really works, and when I learned for the first time (of many) that «It's not over until the money's in the bank...»

From building homes to fundraising for causes to planting community gardens, we encourage our employees to support what they care about.

We talked with the group yesterday to learn more about the day, which is primarily designed to give female founders a chance to talk one - on - one with the VCs for at least 30 minutes, though networking and broader - based fundraising advice is also a key feature of the program.

We aim to provide a low - stress, friendly, safe environment for women from all backgrounds to ask all the questions that they want about fundraising or company building.

Knowing that venture funds have plenty of cash on hand from last year's unprecedented run of fundraising ($ 41.6 billion in 2016) leaves us optimistic about the funding prospects for NYC's seed - stage startups over the next few quarters.

Fundraise online and raise money for charity and causes you're passionate about.

About Conscious Commerce Conscious Commerce was created as a response to non-sustainable fundraising efforts for nonprofit organizations.

Napa Wine Auction Goes for the Bling Factor: Auction Napa Valley has thousands of special bottles of wine on offer, but the industry's biggest fundraising event hasn't really been about the wine for years...

Each September, No Kid Hungry hosts a national fundraising program that brings together thousands of restaurants and millions of consumers to help raise funds for the cause and to generate a dialogue about the problem of childhood hunger..

Learn more about our program, and our fundraising for the Larkey Swim Center.

There's chat about Jürgen Klopp's capacity for winding up other managers, discussion on the general pointlessness of the Hollywood Ball and even some talk about Barcelona's upcoming seasonal fundraising.

For more information about Pepper Fundraising or how to starting your own fundraiser, visit www.pepperfundraising.com or call 866-940-8748.

But the tour is a part of a $ 4 million fundraising campaign to restore the fountain, and your guide is very upfront about the need for support.

Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?

I will be posting throughout the month about activities, information on supporting grieving parents, and fundraising efforts for Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness month.

Within two weeks, they set up a fundraising page to tell people about Teddy and to raise money in his name, for the neonatal unit that cared for Teddy during his short life.

They generally made a fundraising ask, but it was often secondary to keeping supporters informed about the campaign's progress and motivated to help work for its success.

On October 30th we'll be talking in - depth about year - end online fundraising, always a hot topic for advocacy groups.

But candidates can also choose from an array of tailored professional offerings, particularly on the Democratic side, where vendors now offer integrated website / CRM / fundraising packages for just about every campaign budget, often accompanied by consulting on effective online strategy and tactics.

While we don't have the top lines from the challengers yet this morning, the robust numbers and fundraising cash on hand for Gillibrand indicates she's about to bring a political bazooka to a knife fight.

Cuomo also hasn't spoken at all about his inauguration plans, although it's a safe bet they won't be nearly as lavish as former Gov. George Pataki's big party in 1995 (he got in hot water with his fundraising for the event), or even Spitzer's historic outside celebration (he used campaign cash to pay for the festivities).

If that's true, it couldn't come at a worse time for the Republicans, who are being out - fundraised by about two - to - one by the Democrats heading into another electoral showdown over control of the chamber.

This fundraising email specifically affects tourism by paying for ads in airports, where they not only reach tourists (and the tourism industry) directly but also have a ripple effect: «we've found that ads in airports are unusually affordable — and that by warning tourists about a state's anti-woman policies, we can generate tons of local media coverage and put tremendous pressure on politicians to back off.»

Rep. Claudia Tenney's controversial remark about mass murderers has turned into a fundraising pitch for New York Democrats.

One could certainly make the point that in this environment, with a thirsty U.S. Attorney who is willing to investigate what has always been considered «business as usual» in New York State, everyone needs to be extra special careful about navigating and recognizing the boundaries when it comes to political fundraising which (rightly or wrongly) exist for a reason.

Ed Cox has been under fire in his role as chairman, drawing pushback over his son's campaign, as well as concerns about his own fundraising performance and decision to recruit the Democratic Suffolk County executive to run on the Republican line for governor.

The 2018 M+R Benchmarks Study includes data from 154 nonprofits who contributed data about email messaging, email list size, fundraising, online advocacy, web traffic, digital ads, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and more for the 2017 calendar year.

Steck also talked about his affinity for door - to - door campaigning, the role of endorsements, and fundraising.