Sentences with phrase «addition to funding groups»

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In addition to its growing sales, the startup, which now has 35 employees, has raised $ 9.25 million in outside funding, including $ 8 million from VC firm Boulder Food Group.

Today, in addition to raising capital for junior precious metals outfits, he runs Longwave Group, an economic think - tank based in White Rock, B.C., that has won the respect of billionaire fund manager Eric Sprott.

In addition to the Total Return Fund's positions in TIPS and short - dated Treasury securities, the Fund continues to hold about 30 % of assets in a diversified group of precious metals shares, utility shares, and foreign currencies.

The addition of the newest funds brings the total number of funds in the group to 20.

In addition, concerns of slowing economic activity in China have come to the forefront with industry behemoth Alcoa (AA — Free Alcoa Stock Report), the International Monetary Fund, and mining giant Rio Tinto Group (RIO) tempering growth expectations for the world's biggest aluminum user.

In addition to angel groups, these venture funds support growing startups in the Charlotte area.

So in addition to following the managers who owned the high - flying technology and consumer brand companies, I kept in touch with what the value managers were doing, including Francis Chou, Seth Klarman (Baupost Group), Mason Hawkins and his team (Longleaf Funds), and Jeremy Grantham and James Montier at GMO.

«Benesch's extensive experience representing clients within the alternative investment industry and their deep understanding of the issues and topics of greatest importance and interest to the industry makes it the perfect addition to the Roundtable's existing group of sponsors,» said Adam Weinstein, President of the New York Hedge Fund Roundtable.

In addition, Daniel spent time designing a poster on Corel Draw for the youth group, who are having a Tear Fund supper, both did some programming, both helped make some fudge and peppermint creams, both did some playing with midi on a keyboard we had been able to borrow; both helped to reinstal Windows on their computer, which had crashed.

In addition, the Legislature realigned funding to allocate money to service groups that are dedicated to helping residents in need.

These statements might sound like the rhetoric used by extreme animal rights groups, but they come from White Coat Waste — a new, unlikely coalition of fiscal conservatives and liberal activists that aims to end federal funding for research involving dogs and other animals by targeting people's pocketbooks in addition to their heartstrings.

The addition of prostitutes and heroin addicts to the list of high - risk groups did little to increase public sympathy, so at first funding for prevention and care remained scarce.

In addition to running his own lab, he directs the Applied Neurotherapeutic Research Group, a collaborative research initiative funded jointly by SFI and Wyeth, to understand the molecular underpinnings of changes in behavior and to identify new drug targets for diseases such as schizophrenia.

In addition to the struggle to find funding, the founder of the IR, Jimmy Reddoch, anticipated that some faculty members might view the presence of «industry» groups in an academic setting as inappropriate.

The new proposal, which Yuste believes would cost at least $ 50 million per year, in addition to existing BRAIN funds, to do well, is an attempt to remedy what the group sees as an important omission by BRAIN leadership.

In addition to providing funding for GSE's Change Leadership Group, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated $ 4.9 million to the Center for Collaborative Education to support the work of small schools.

In addition to this, the Cystic Fibrosis Holiday Fund, a group which raises money for children with the life - limiting illness, has said that parents who take their sick children out of school during term time have also been prosecuted.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

These groups understood the need for real reform of the system and advocated for major changes in addition to increased funding.

In addition, preference will be given to new applicants, although groups that have received funds in the past will still be able to apply.

In addition, these groups often set up more than one corporate entity to hide donations, reduce the potential to track funds or use the tax code to get around restrictions on lobbying.

According to published reports, in addition to raising money for Education Reform Now, the education reform industry group sponsoring the poker tournament also provides a variety of prizes for tournament participants including seats at the World Series of Poker Main Event, vacations, golf outings, and «power lunches» with hedge fund managers like David Einhorn (Greenlight Capital), billionaire Seth Klarman, Leon Cooperman (Omega Advisors) and Bill Ackman (Pershing Square Capital Management.)

In addition to SFER's contributions, the 50CAN Action Fund reported receiving $ 4,305 in cash from the student group and $ 10,000 from Arthur Rock, a San Francisco venture capitalist who sits on the board of Teach for America.

In addition, these seven cities were able to leverage U.S. DOT's $ 40 million grant to raise approximately $ 500 million more in funding — a vast majority of which comes from a diverse group of over 150 partners.

In addition to ProShares ETFs, ProFunds Group manages ProFunds mutual funds, the nation's largest lineup of indexed mutual funds.

In addition to ProShares ETFs, ProFunds Group manages ProFunds mutual funds, the nation's largest lineup of indexed mutual funds.2 Since 1997, ProFunds has provided mutual fund investors with easier access to sophisticated investment strategies, with offerings that include mutual funds that seek to magnify daily index performance and funds that seek to increase in value when markets decline.

In addition to Mutual Shares Fund, the group's line - up includes Mutual Beacon Fund, Mutual European Fund, Mutual Financial Services Fund, Mutual Global Discovery Fund, Mutual Quest Fund and Mutual Recovery Fund.

«This new ETF is a useful addition to our two ProShares ETFs currently offering short exposure to the U.S. Treasury market — the ProShares UltraShort 7 - 10 Year and UltraShort 20 + Year Treasury funds,» said Michael L. Sapir, ProFunds Group Chairman and CEO.

In addition, affluent individuals or groups feel there is not as much pressure to yield higher returns, so they allocate funds across multiple investment types.

And thanks to local businesses Dirty Feet Pet Care, Pet Portraits by Mara, flex USA, Alcott, Perfections Salon, Pet Wants and Silpada Designs Rep Lindsey, who proactively donated raffle items allowing us to raise additional funds for the rescue groups so that at the end of the day, combined with Neon's donations to the groups, PhoDOGrapher was able to contribute $ 470 to the rescues, in addition to finding homes for animals and promoting rescue!

This year also saw the return of two major acquisitions funds supported by major institutions, in addition to a record 230 groups in attendance from around the world.

In addition to Black Drop, the DMA owns Starling's Venus Mirror (2011), acquired through the DMA / amfAR Benefit Auction Fund; and the MFAH owns Starling's two - part Transit Stones (2012), acquired with the support of the patron group contemporary@mfah and the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund.

In addition, Saatchi joined the steering committee of the Patrons of New Art - a group set up in 1982 under the auspices of the Friends of the Tate Gallery to fund the purchase of new works of art and to stimulate interest in contemporary British art.

In addition, the Bren School will receive $ 5,000 to enhance its career - development program, and the Duke Fellows as a group will be receive funds to host a public event related to their environmental studies.

The senators outlined how, in addition to funding from the Koch network, many of the groups use untraceable «dark money» funneled through groups like Donors Capital Fund and Donors Trust to influence legislation, particularly with regards to climate and pollution.

A citizen advisory group is created to provide input in addition to the Economic and Environmental Justice Oversight panel regarding the development of project funding criteria and decisions.

Recent cases include: Axiom Litigation Financing Fund (acting for the «receiver / liquidator» of a Caymans Islands fund: # 110m dispute); Frauntled Management Limited v Featherwood ($ 13m investment dispute before the BVI Court of Appeal); BBX Capital Asset Management v Royal Bank of Canada & Ors ($ 30m Cayman dispute relating to transaction to defraud creditors / sham trusts); Trinity Management Group Ltd v Burke Consolidated Ltd (s. 184I / s.175 BVI dispute); Maruti Holdings PTE Limited v Sinclair Strategies Limited (BVI jurisdictional challenge); QVT Fund & Ors v China Zenix Auto International Limited (s. 184I and s184C BVI dispute: interim injunction) In addition, the international nature of commercial fraud often results in Paul advising in relation to proceedings before off - shore courts such as in VTB v Nutritek (advised on interim relief in Cayman Islands and maintenance of BVI injunction in light of UK Supreme Court decisions) and in other off - shore jurisdictions such as Jersey, Guernsey and NeFund (acting for the «receiver / liquidator» of a Caymans Islands fund: # 110m dispute); Frauntled Management Limited v Featherwood ($ 13m investment dispute before the BVI Court of Appeal); BBX Capital Asset Management v Royal Bank of Canada & Ors ($ 30m Cayman dispute relating to transaction to defraud creditors / sham trusts); Trinity Management Group Ltd v Burke Consolidated Ltd (s. 184I / s.175 BVI dispute); Maruti Holdings PTE Limited v Sinclair Strategies Limited (BVI jurisdictional challenge); QVT Fund & Ors v China Zenix Auto International Limited (s. 184I and s184C BVI dispute: interim injunction) In addition, the international nature of commercial fraud often results in Paul advising in relation to proceedings before off - shore courts such as in VTB v Nutritek (advised on interim relief in Cayman Islands and maintenance of BVI injunction in light of UK Supreme Court decisions) and in other off - shore jurisdictions such as Jersey, Guernsey and Nefund: # 110m dispute); Frauntled Management Limited v Featherwood ($ 13m investment dispute before the BVI Court of Appeal); BBX Capital Asset Management v Royal Bank of Canada & Ors ($ 30m Cayman dispute relating to transaction to defraud creditors / sham trusts); Trinity Management Group Ltd v Burke Consolidated Ltd (s. 184I / s.175 BVI dispute); Maruti Holdings PTE Limited v Sinclair Strategies Limited (BVI jurisdictional challenge); QVT Fund & Ors v China Zenix Auto International Limited (s. 184I and s184C BVI dispute: interim injunction) In addition, the international nature of commercial fraud often results in Paul advising in relation to proceedings before off - shore courts such as in VTB v Nutritek (advised on interim relief in Cayman Islands and maintenance of BVI injunction in light of UK Supreme Court decisions) and in other off - shore jurisdictions such as Jersey, Guernsey and NeFund & Ors v China Zenix Auto International Limited (s. 184I and s184C BVI dispute: interim injunction) In addition, the international nature of commercial fraud often results in Paul advising in relation to proceedings before off - shore courts such as in VTB v Nutritek (advised on interim relief in Cayman Islands and maintenance of BVI injunction in light of UK Supreme Court decisions) and in other off - shore jurisdictions such as Jersey, Guernsey and Nevis.

Linklaters has made a key addition to its City investment management group, with the hire of Latham & Watkins investment funds co-head Tom Alabaster.

Platt recently advised longstanding client Day Lewis on the addition of a # 5m property facility alongside an existing # 160m club financing (previously put in place to refinance the group's existing debt and to fund further corporate acquisitions).

In addition to providing property and casualty insurance with over 150 million annual customer interactions, The Hartford also has divisions for group benefits and mutual funds.

If you are in the 20 - 50 age group, you can also put the money in pension funds like the PPF, EPF, NPS, etc. in addition to opting for mutual funds or postal pension schemes.

In addition to today's funding news, Ripple announced its largest batch of banks will formally join its network: Standard Chartered, Westpac, National Australia Bank (NAB), Mizuho Financial Group (MHFG), BMO Financial Group, Siam Commercial Bank and Shanghai Huarui Bank

In addition to futures, several companies and groups including the famed Winklevoss twins have made attempts to get a bitcoin - based ETF or Exchange Traded Fund listed.

In addition to this general requirement, the funding guidelines specifically prevent NTRBs from using funding to cover costs associated with economic development or land management activites, (119) nor support reference groups or steering committees in relation to land or waters where native title has been recognised.

In addition to traditional competitors, there has been a significant increase in new competition from private equity funds that have a cyclical high amount of capital to put to work, says Steven Schwartz, a partner heading the acquisitions group at Torchlight Investors, an investment management firm based in New York City.

In addition to Blackstone the final contenders are Cromwell Property Group and South Africa's Redefine Properties; DEXUS Property Group and Middle Eastern fund ADIA; LaSalle Investment Management and Chinese Investment Corporation; and finally Canadian fund manager Brookfield.