Sentences with phrase «achieving equity include»

The best approaches to achieving equity include a multi-tiered system that uses PBIS and SEL.

Not exact matches

Understanding this issue requires a deep dive into the intricacies of the modern workplace, including equity and access, so companies can achieve inclusivity and reframe the metrics of «successful diversification.»

This relationship helped us to achieve more significant scale and to build greater awareness with prospective sellers, strengthened our board of directors by adding Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to our board for a 12 month period, and included an equity investment by Starbucks in our Series D preferred stock financing on the same terms and conditions as all other sales of our Series D preferred stock by us in that financing.

An earlier version of the column included a paragraph on some of the company's acts of good corporate behavior, including Starbucks» recent announcement that it had achieved 100 percent pay equity across gender and race for all of its U.S. employees and its goal of opening more stores in under - served neighborhoods.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

Under Title IX, to achieve gender parity between men's and women's sports, universities and colleges have to meet one of three different requirements: 1) equity in participation opportunities for both men and women; 2) scholarships offered proportionally based on the number of male and female athletes; and 3) comparable overall treatment of women's and men's sports (including but not limited to quality and maintenance of locker rooms and facilities, equipment and supplies, access to practice fields, publicity of teams and events, the quality of coaching, academic tutoring, traveling budgets, etc.).

Coleman found that Catholic schools achieve more educational equity than public schools because they follow a rich and demanding curriculum; provide a structured, orderly environment; offer lots of explicit instruction, including drill and practice; and expect every child to reach minimal goals in each subject by the end of the year.

Over 100,000 Los Angeles students are enrolled in independent charter schools; any effort to achieve educational equity through application and enrollment practices must include efforts to simplify and streamline charter school processes.

It will include experts in closing the attainment gap, achieving equity, and system reform, following First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's pledge to ensure Scotland's education system is world class.

We've also included international stocks in the breakdown, as many investors choose to invest 20 - 40 % of their equity holdings into international stocks to achieve even more diversification.

The Fund may engage in active and frequent trading of portfolio securities to achieve its investment objective... the Fund will invest in a portfolio of securities including: equities, debt, warrants, distressed, high - yield, convertible, preferred, when - issued... options, total return swaps, credit default swaps, credit default indexes, currency forwards, and futures... ETFs, ETNs and commodities.»

The Fund seeks to achieve this by investing primarily in the following categories of securities and instruments of corporations and other business entities: (i) secured and unsecured floating and fixed rate loans; (ii) bonds and other debt obligations; (iii) debt obligations of stressed, distressed and bankrupt issuers; (iv) structured products, including but not limited to, mortgage - backed and other asset - backed securities and collateralized debt obligations; (v) equities; (vi) other investment companies, including business development companies; and (vii) real estate investment trusts.

There are a number of ways geared funds can be constructed to achieve their objectives, including using combinations of traditional securities, like equities and cash, along with derivative products, such as futures, forwards and swaps.

To achieve this, Rebalance IRA seeks an individualized asset allocation using multiple asset classes, including U.S. stocks, bonds, real estate, foreign equities, and emerging market stocks.

The Global Real Estate Securities Fund (Russell Investments) is a multi-manager fund that seeks to achieve its objective by concentrating its investments in equity securities of real estate companies («real estate securities») located in a number of countries around the world, including the U.S., in a globally diversified manner.

Achieve long - term capital growth by investing primarily in U.S. and international equity mutual funds that provide exposure to a number of industrialized countries outside of Canada including countries in Europe, the Far East and Asia and emerging market countries, with some global exposure to fixed income securities for diversification.

Screening Process: Each Fund is a «fund of funds» that seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing in a portfolio of underlying Calvert fixed income and equity funds that meets the Fund's investment criteria, including financial, sustainability and social responsibility factors.

Pakistan has urged the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to work closely with regional organizations, including South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), as the UN body helps shape the post-2015 development agenda that will step up efforts to achieve a world of prosperity, equity, freedom and peace.

Along this line there are several issues in particular about which greater awareness is needed including greater public understanding of the ethical implications of any nation's ghg emissions reduction commitment in regard to an atmospheric stabilization goal the commitment is seeking to achieve and the coherence or lack there of the national commitment to an acceptable equity framework.

I don't think this is necessarily an easy thing to achieve, but if you can achieve it, then I think the opportunities and the results for a lot of people including those former equity partners can be hugely significant.

Our attorneys have helped a wide range of hospitality and leisure clients, owners and suppliers achieve success, including Diamond Resorts International, Equity Group Investments, Gemini Bistro, Hyatt Corporation, Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, Lou Malnati's, Marriott International, Midtown Athletic Clubs, Montage Hotels & Resorts, Rewards Network, Inc., Reyes Holdings, Rustic House, SBE Entertainment, Shubert Hotel Associates LLC, Ticketmaster, Trinity Hotel Investors, Umami Restaurant Group and Viceroy Hotel Group.

As Bloomberg reports, a group of major banks including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Credit Suisse saw a six - month Blockchain trial for equity swaps achieve «100 %...

Our Goal To make a significant and growing contribution towards achieving equity in health outcomes for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across our geographic service area, including the Mount Isa, North West and Lower Gulf regions.

Today, REITs are looking for new strategies to achieve their growth objectives, including accessing private and public equity capital; using secured and unsecured debt; issuing preferred stock; pursuing off - balance - sheet joint ventures, strategic mergers, and consolidations; and acquiring core and noncore assets in the United States and overseas.