Sentences with phrase «based public foundation»

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Prior to joining RGE, Ms. Sanchez spent four years as an institutional asset manager, serving at the California Endowment, a US$ 3 billion Los Angeles - based foundation, as managing director of public investments and at the Ford Foundation, a US$ 10 billion New York - based foundation, as director of public investments.

Highland's diversified client base includes public pension plans, foundations, endowments, corporations, financial institutions, fund of funds, governments, and high net - worth individuals.

Although bearing the same gay stigma in the public mind as does the disease, these groups typically are broadly based, receive public as well as private foundation funds, and seek to serve without discrimination all who are affected by AIDS.

Builders, based in Aledo, Texas, whose expressed goal is «to exert a positive influence in government, education, and the family by 1) educating the nation concerning the Godly foundation of our country; 2) providing information to federal, state and local officials as they develop public policies which reflect Biblical values; and 3) encouraging Christians to get involved in the civic arena.

Without this foundation, American democracy can only be based on a type of secularism that can not allow, let alone guarantee, the place of religions in the public realm.

(announced Dec. 3, 2015) Chairman and CEO of the Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research, Inc., a nonprofit public policy foundation based in HarriPublic Opinion Research, Inc., a nonprofit public policy foundation based in Harripublic policy foundation based in Harrisburg.

This is particularly so when such accusations are based on impure science, a flawed legal foundation, and completely inadequate or inappropriate public policy.»

Founded by Belgian polar explorer Alain Hubert, Prof. Hugo Decleir and Prof. André Berger in 2002, the Brussels - based International Polar Foundation provides a novel interface between science and society, and was recognised by Belgian Royal Statute as a foundation for the public good in 2002.

With a goal to have all students reading at or above grade level by the end of third grade, Arizona's Literacy Director Terri Clark seized the opportunity to utilize the 16 memos, sharing them with partners as well as the communities that signed on to work with Read On Arizona — a public - private partnership that includes the Arizona Department of Education, Arizona Head Start Collaboration Office, First Things First, and other state - based foundations.

The foundation is also working much more aggressively to change public policy concerning key elements of the portfolio approach: transparency in school finance, multiple independent school providers, and performance - based accountability.

The Ellis Center for Educational Excellence, a non-profit foundation based in Phoenix on whose advisory board I sit, decided in 2006 that it would focus its funding on improving public education through a district - wide strategy.

After all the community based, democratic, transparent, non profit public schools are the foundation of our republic and democracy, a foundation supported by the oversight of community based elected school boards.

But over the last decade, the charter school movement has morphed from a small, community - based effort to foster alternative education into a vehicle for privatizing public education, pushed by free - market foundations, big education - management companies, and profit - seekers looking for a way to cash in on public - education funds.

All three families / foundations fund a plethora of organizations, all of which endorse, promote or in some way support one or more of the following public school reforms: charter schools, vouchers, data - based decision making, high - stakes testing, parental choice, merit pay, eliminating tenure, union busting, and superintendent training.

About 750,000 of those children attend Defense Department - run schools on base or local public schools off base, according to a policy brief the foundation published Friday.

Greg Thompson continues his committment to public schools in his current role as program officer with The Pyramid Peak Foundation, a Memphis - based foundation focused on education reform.

Edgerley has also donated millions in support of the privatization of public education, including hundreds of thousands of dollars to New Profit, Inc. and Strategic Grant Partners, a Massachusetts based foundation that has been funding the expansion of charter schools and charter school advocacy groups in that state.

We are talking about billionaires and millionaires and the major education reform companies, organizations and foundations dumping tens of millions of dollars into state and local efforts to elect handpicked accomplices or even, where necessary, changing the rules to make it easier to open charter schools and dismantle the core elements of a broad - based public education system.

Since its inception as a family foundation, The Schott Foundation has possessed an unwavering commitment to equity and justice that guides its mission to develop and strengthen a broad - based and representative movement to achieve fully resourced, high quality PreK — 12 public education for all children.

If you are a city - based nonprofit or foundation, primarily focused on increasing the number of great public schools in your city, you may be eligible to join the Education Cities network.

Although the foundation implies that this market - based model will lead to the improvement of all schools in a system, a different endgame is clear through its philanthropic portfolio: The foundation endorses the eventual elimination of public education altogether, in favor of an across - the - board system of privately operated schools.

Charter schools are funded on a per - pupil basis with public dollars; many schools are also supported by generous businesses and foundations.

Jensen offers customized asset management services for a diverse client base including foundations, endowments, public plans, family offices and retirement plans.

August 17, 2016 Maddie's Fund ®, a national family foundation based in Pleasanton, CA, awarded Portraits of Hope (POH) $ 300,000 to support their public art initiative to make animal shelters more inviting, appealing and attractive public spaces to help drive people to those venues to adopt dogs and cats in need of a home.

Assembled against the backdrop of economic crisis and war in the 1930s and 1940s, Guggenheim's unparalleled modern holdings formed the basis of his foundation, established in 1937 for the public good.

Fundació Joan Miró closes exhibition rooms due to strike action The Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona has announced that it is closing its exhibition rooms to the public, beginning tomorrow, due to an indefinite strike called by workers of the Barcelona - based company Serveis Educatius Ciut» art, which provides services to the foundation along with many of the city's other cultural centres.

Through a working studio space, neighboring artists, supporting programs, and exposure to the public and art community, Studio Space will provide participating artists with a foundation to further the impact of their art, expand their patron base, increase their exhibit schedule and market their work.

Artists Chuck Carbia, SCAD foundation studies professor, and Jaimie Warren don the alter ego as versions of iconic public figures or characters, and base their artistic practices in performance.

The grants draw from the New York - based foundation's Art and Social Justice initiative, established in 2015 to with a mission to use «art as a tool for advocacy and creative change, inclusive community engagement, and the promotion of greater civic participation and public discourse.»

Amassed against the backdrop of economic crisis and war in the 1930s and 1940s, Guggenheim's unparalleled modern holdings formed the basis of his foundation, established eighty years ago in 1937 with the goal of encouraging art, art education, and enlightenment for the public.

Having said this, Professor Hunyadi's comment is not without foundation: numerical simulators are sometimes presented to the public as a way of obtaining accurate predictions based on the laws of physics, and therefore must be objective.

Those three foundation principles are: (1) operate independently from government; (2) serve the public interest (not government interest); and, (3) standards development procedures shall be based upon consensus — the achieving of consensus among all interested parties («consensus» as defined by the CAN - P - 1:2012 text, pp. 21 - 22).

Philanthropy News Digest: Provides listings of current full - time openings at US based foundations, public charities, corporate programs and nonprofit organizations.

The foundation is a US - based 501 non-profit organization that enables users to donate directly to public school classroom projects.

All families benefit from efforts to support these relationships, laying the foundation for a broad - based, universally applicable public health approach.

NBCDI supports and works primarily with Black children birth through age eight and their families, through coalition building with community - based organizations, foundations, corporations, school systems, elected officials, government, child care, Head Start and many other public and private partnerships.

Chapin Hall researchers published a series of looking at the state's Strong Foundations initiative, a public - private partnership to enhance the state infrastructure that supports close to 200 evidence - based home visiting programs in Illinois.

The old - school «lock»em up, sell, sell, sell, collect those commissions and keep those mega-dollar-dues-dollars a rollin» in from as many of you registrants as we can dupe into jumping onto the merry - go -» round» mentality is the foundation upon which public distrust of us as an industry is based.