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Check with the principal first to see if there are any restrictions about fundraising on campus.

Not exact matches

As I draw up spreadsheets of likely investors and put meetings on the calendar, I'm reminded of the many things I dread about fundraising, beginning with spending hours on traffic - choked 101 from San Francisco to Silicon Valley.

It's absolutely clear that whatever the «deal» was when the startup got started about everyone being consulted and having a vote on every important decision, it doesn't usually last beyond the first fundraising.

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.

Chances on Indiegogo, another crowdfunding site, are even slimmer; about 1 in 10 fundraising projects reach their goal.

For Cause Tweet - a-thons: A Tweet - a-thon is a fundraising campaign on Twitter for which users encourage their followers to tweet about and donate to a particular charitable cause over a specific period of time.

It sits on top of your Gmail to enrich each of your contacts with contextual information about where they work, their role, the company size, fundraising updates and much more.

With more than 18,000 entrepreneurs and CEOs on this site, this is the place to talk about investing and fundraising.

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.

What do you think about bitcoin having a negative impact on Mozilla fundraising campaign?

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VICTORIA — In the wake of serious revelations about Christy Clark's fundraising tactics, B.C. New Democrat Leader John Horgan is calling on the government to provide Elections BC with sufficient resources to complete its investigation before British Columbians vote.

«Follow - on» fundraising since raised its total venture capital haul to about $ 1.9 million.

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.

Additional information about companies fundraising on the Portal can be found by searching the EDGAR database.

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.

While only about 50 people came to the Westwood Hills fundraising event, it would only take the right person in this town to see the act and put it on television.

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...

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.

After LAC 2015, and this year's Celebration of Heroes, we wanted to learn more about the importance of fundraising, the future of the Annual Fund, and to get Janet's thoughts on how members can pursue their dreams — and make the world a better place in the process.

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?

This article from a local Boulder, CO paper discusses the newly - launched fundraising campaign, and points up the very issue we've been talking about so much in recent weeks here on TLT: namely, can a district offer the kind of healthful food that Chef Ann champions without extra funding (over and above what the USDA reimburses schools)?

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

This is not only about fundraising, but the availability of scholarships, tools members can use on their job, and so much more.

But in the case of these ads against Alexander and Murkowski, we're basically talking about ONE GUY who's built up enough of a fundraising apparatus to run list - building ads on major online publications.

I'd prepared two sessions, one of which I led twice: a three - hour «master class» on using digital advertising to build your online fundraising program, and a shorter talk about online advocacy and fundraising (I'll post the slides soon).

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.

Update: A couple of Loyal Readers sent in articles about a Rand Paul fundraising video released Friday that may have broken Senate rules by using footage from a speech on the Senate floor.

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.»

In a techPresident column posted yesterday evening, Nancy Scola raised some excellent questions about MySpace's plans to offer political campaigns new fundraising tools, including ones designed to allow supporters to raise money on behalf of a candidate.

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.

Proud said Astorino never expected to beat Cuomo when it comes to fundraising and that the pace of fundraising will increase as the campaign season wears on and more people learn about his campaign.

For more about about the Grassroots Mapping project, you can check out this piece from JustMeans.com plus their fundraising pitch on Kickstarter (video below).

An excellent article on the Wild Apricot blog arrived ealier via a Google Alert — it's an interview with Carie Lewis of the Humane Society of the U.S. about using social networking sites for advocacy and fundraising.

Cox, who won a battle for the state chairmanship against then - Niagara County GOP Chairman Henry Wojtaszek in large part due to his claim of fundraising prowess, has only managed to bring in a combined total of about $ 1.5 million to the party's three committees over the last six months and has a mere $ 657,814 on hand.

«Russ fights for the issues you and I care about: debt - free college, raising the minimum wage, fighting income inequality, and supporting hardworking families,» de Blasio writes in the fundraising email sent on Wednesday afternoon.

A quick search turns up evidence of Paul's new spending spree, and the article has lots of good details about his campaign's relative frugality to this point — even before the November 5th fundraising frenzy, he still had over $ 5 million on - hand.

It can also be used when talking about her position on the war in Iraq, campaign fundraising, the Michigan / Florida votes, etc..

Beth Kanter, author of the excellent Beth's Blog (a great resource on technology and the nonprofit world), writes in to talk more about fundraising with widgets.

Mayor Bill de Blasio was grilled by heavy - hitting federal prosecutors about his campaign fundraising for over four hours on Friday.

VoteVets sent out a fundraising email to its supporters on Tuesday about Democrat Roger Dean Huffstetler, whom it wasn't planning to officially endorse until later this summer.

MANHATTAN — The campaign treasurer for embattled City Comptroller John Liu was arrested Tuesday on campaign finance fraud charges — the latest blow to the presumptive mayoral candidate who has been wrangling with allegations about his fundraising efforts for months.

She recently said that she was about $ 20,000 shy of that threshold, as she focused on fundraising ahead of the most recent reporting cutoff on September 22nd.

A weary - looking Mayor Bill de Blasio — with growing bags under his eyes — trotted out tired talking points on Thursday even as he was barraged with a fresh round of questions about the investigation into his fundraising.

Lazio brushed off questions about his recent campaign shake - up and his anemic fundraising, insisting — as he has on multiple occasions — he'll have sufficient resources to mount a robust campaign through the rest of the election season.

The New York Times reported on Feb. 7 that federal investigators have narrowed their focus to three of about a dozen aspects of de Blasio's fundraising.

«Our candidacy would be a long shot — but as a chair in a red county that's increased membership by over 300 % this year, knocked the most doors of any DEC in Florida, improved fundraising by focusing on small donors, and won three elections with a whole lot of heart and about $ 6000 — I've learned to believe in the power of US,» Patel declared on Tuesday night.