Sentences with phrase «based social capital»

Although they find modest advantages for charters in terms of parental satisfaction, school - based social capital, and civic instruction, they emphasize that these differences — some of which diminished over time — fall well short of the promises made by the charter movement's most ardent supporters.

The second, building place - based social capital, explains the system's abiding resistance to reformers trying to change it.

What they love, in particular, is the place - based social capital that school districts provide.

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• Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings, a Palo Alto, Calif. - based SPAC, said it plans to raise $ 600 million in its IPO.

Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp, a Cayman Islands - based investment vehicle, is aimed at helping technology companies valued at $ 1 billion or more «achieve their long - term objectives and overcome key deterrents to becoming public,» according to an SEC filing.

Created in 2007 out of the venture capital arm of BCE Inc., Summerhill Venture Partners earned a huge payday last spring with the sale of Fredericton, N.B. - based Radian6, a company that monitors social media habits, to Salesforce.com for US$ 326 million.

Faith - based investors have long recognized that their capital can catalyze social and environmental benefits.

The Creative Destruction Lab leverages the Rotman School's leading faculty and industry network as well as its location in the heart of Canada's business capital to accelerate massively scalable, technology - based ventures that have the potential to transform our social, industrial, and economic landscape.

Mamoon Hamid Mamoon Hamid is a co-founder and general partner at Social Capital — a venture capital fund based in Palo AlCapital — a venture capital fund based in Palo Alcapital fund based in Palo Alto, CA.

Entrepreneurs apply by going to Social Capital's website, where they're greeted by the motto «Raise capital based on the merits of your business, not your network.Capital's website, where they're greeted by the motto «Raise capital based on the merits of your business, not your network.capital based on the merits of your business, not your network.»

«Planned markets are sick markets, markets that are always in crisis, because their most - important social function — facilitating selection between competing pools of capital on the basis of what way of doing things in the real world works best in practice, distinguishing between real capital formers and fools — has been disrupted by the planner's clumsy interference.

This fund has $ 1 million in seed capital provided by Virgin Unite Canada and the Vancouver - based Mindset Social Innovation Foundation, founded by Alison Lawton.

In your work you make a distinction between «bonding social capital» (social connections based on affinity) and «bridging social capital» (social connections across genuine differences).

In our work on Better Together, we discovered that computer - based communication contributed most to the building of social capital when it functioned as a supplement to face - to - face communication, not as an alternative to it.

Moreover, for nearly two decades under the leadership of Dr. Norman Kurland, an economist and lawyer, the Center for Economic and Social Justice in Washington, D.C., has advised businesses as well as governments on expanded capital ownership, based on the ideas of Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler (the latter a Thomist philosopher) in their book The Capitalist Manifesto (1958).

This creates a stratified society based on unequal social relations that fails to provide equal opportunities for every individual to maximize their potential,... Socialists argue that socialism would allow for wealth to be distributed based on how much one contributes to society, as opposed to how much capital one holds.

St. Pete - based Poli Solutions Consulting received $ 7,000 across three checks, while Jacksonville - based Political Capital received $ 2,500 and Tallahassee - based firm Supernova Digital Communications received $ 1,365 for social media work.

«If similar school - based programs can promote social capital among parents within a school community and reduce mobility, this could benefit many students and schools,» Turley said.

Venture firms initially poured capital into basic dating sites before moving towards more social media - based offerings, such as 360 Capital Partners» $ 2M investment in Smartdate, a Facebook - integrated dating platform, icapital into basic dating sites before moving towards more social media - based offerings, such as 360 Capital Partners» $ 2M investment in Smartdate, a Facebook - integrated dating platform, iCapital Partners» $ 2M investment in Smartdate, a Facebook - integrated dating platform, in 2010.

«The winner will be freemium and mobile», says Pavel Bogdanov, a partner at Almaz Capital, a backer of Estonia - based social dating site Flirtic.

What would be great to see is Microsoft move away from just focusing on the content creation marketplace of its traditional Office suite and instead leverage its acquisition of LinkedIn and Lynda.com to do three things: support competency - based learning — through badges, portfolios, and rich profiles for all students; invest in building students» social capital — a key determinant of life success that education typically ignores — in a deliberate way; and, through both of these efforts, help students discover and cultivate their true passions.

Maybe he wants to consider how faith - based urban schools contribute to social capital or how choice empowers low - income families.

It is the most viable solution to promote a sustainable society by activating Social Common Capital in the culture based on holistic traditional thoughts and traditional community lifestyle, and weaves them again repairing once broken bonds as a direct result of living within an ongoing industrialization and materialism based society.

The ASMS approach is based on a framework centred on three levels of professional capital: working on the individual, social capital and decisional capital, which the school terms «contributive leadership».

Working in close collaboration with school - and community - based partners, a team of researchers and program developers at Harvard University is developing, implementing, and evaluating a dual - generation program that supports low - income children's academic and social - emotional development while simultaneously building skills and social capital among low - income parents.

To address these gaps, a coordinated system of programs and services needs to be crafted so that every child has access to preschool, expanded learning, summer, and work - based opportunities that enrich them as learners and help them build the important skills, networks, and social capital that will serve them in the future.

In my previous post I argued that any such policy should be based on a broad concept of disadvantage, taking account of economic, social and cultural capitals.

Jackson is the founder of Ironfire Capital, an activist fund manager that uses «Internet - based social networking tools to gather information and amplify the impact of current focus campaigns,» and is perhaps best known for his campaign against Yahoo! Inc (NASDAQ: YHOO).

In the current passive investment space, market participants can choose from a wide range of indices that relate to personal values, including human capital, climate change mitigation, long - termism, faith based, and social responsibility.

Ironfire Capital is an interesting activist investor because it uses «Internet - based social networking tools» to «amplify the impact» of its campaigns.

Livelihoods are understood as the enhancement of the full range of natural, financial, human, social and physical capitals on a sustainable ongoing basis.

-- Responsibility Report 2004 Business for Social Responsibility «The global consequences of climate change — some of which we are seeing already — threaten to both disrupt natural ecosystem functions and jeopardize the natural capital that provides the economy's resource base.»

The social discount should not exceed the real economic growth rate on a per capital basis.

LA - based space startup Relativity has raised $ 35 million in Series B funding, in a new round led by Playground Global, and including existing investors Social Capital, Y Combinator Continuity and Mark Cuban.

LA - based space startup Relativity has raised $ 35 million in Series B funding, in a new round led by Playground Global, and including existing investors Social Capital, Y Combinator Continuity and Mark

Paris, France - based Videdressing, which operates a social marketplace for all things fashion, has announced today that it has raised $ 6 million in Series A funding from a group of investors, including DN Capital, Earlybird, Piton Capital and Generis Capital.

Last week, 21 Inc, a Silicon Valley - based bitcoin startup which raised over $ 121 million in venture capital funding, officially rebranded to Earn.com, to focus on allowing users to monetize social media channels, accounts, and email addresses.

In its annual Internet Trends report, US - based venture capital company Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers found that the average mobile user looks at their phone 150 times a day — checking social media, buying goods, paying bills, and increasingly, looking at jobs.

• Created a comprehensive Strategic Marketing Plan which produced growth of 41 % in 2008 • Designed print, radio, and television advertisements to enhance brand awareness and build customer base • Conducted user research to determine client profiles and more effectively tailor marketing efforts • Utilized social media to build company following, community, and research pool • Built a Twitter following of 1800 +, Facebook fan page with 400 +, and a customer email list • Developed partnerships with local professional sports and launched engaging marketing events • Supported various non-profits to build social capital and enhance market positioning • Appeared in local and region broadcasts, community events, and online outlets to promote company

Community Social Capital, Built Environment, and Income - Based Inequality in Depressive Symptoms Among Older People in Japan: An Ecological Study From the JAGES Project.

The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of social media marketing on online shopping of customers based on mediating role of value capital, relational capital and brand capital by path analysis method.

By privileging the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from across the country, and taking a strengths - based, solutions - focused approach, the book reveals the depth of knowledge, social and cultural capital, and leadership among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

The theoretical framework for this study was based on the conceptual theory of Bronfenbrenners ecological and environmental model, Coles social capital theory and Stowers theory of optimum social distance.

This publication is based on data stemming from the research project «Step - Out: Social Capital and Family Processes as Predictors of Stepfamily Outcomes» conducted at the Department of Sociology of the University of Geneva between 2009 and 2011 and financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)[grant number 122413].

While social capital theory and self - determination theory suggest that quality colleague relationships have a positive impact on life satisfaction, social role theory suggests that the strength of this relationship varies on the basis of gender.

Referral Network A referral network where Realtors gain exposure and build «social capital» based on their contribution to and participation in various online communities will be part of MLS 5.0.

Walter Conn, CEO of Los Angeles - based private real estate investment firm Figueroa Capital Group, boasts online connections with about 1,200 members of LinkedIn, arguably the most popular social networking site among U.S. businesspeople.

The CPMG Foundation was founded by the leadership of both the Menkiti Group, a Brookland - based integrated real estate services firm, and Keller Williams Capital Properties (KWCP), a real estate brokerage network in DC, MD and VA, with the intent to respond to diverse social needs existing in the National Capital Region.