Sentences with phrase «big foundations»

Of course, saying it that way or observing that these are time - tested virtues wouldn't seem all that new, cool, or worthy of big foundation investments.

Even with the substantial boost provided by Race to the Top and big foundation dollars, that was impressive and unexpected.

This stands to reason, as a big dog will logically need fairly large paws to carry her large body around while a smaller dog won't need as big a foundation.

Education policymakers — including big city mayors such as Chicago's Rahm Emanuel (D)-- see rating teachers by student test scores as reasonable and know voters and big foundations feel the same way.

«It does seem like a project that's taking a different direction than what we've been observing from big foundation philanthropy in recent years,» said Sarah Reckhow, an assistant professor at Michigan State who studies education philanthropy.

And will Gates, Broad, and other big foundations continue to have an outsized influence on education policy?

The «endowment model» practiced by most of the big university endowments and many big foundations (but also by some astute smaller endowments and foundations) has overwhelmingly outperformed virtually all other models over any reasonable time period, and has done so for a very long time now.

The other popular nostrum of our day is «choice,» which has captured the imagination of big foundations and many wealthy business leaders.

To me that destroys a big foundation in any church, and that is why I left.

The immense wealth of the bigger foundations bred corruption and scandal.

«A big foundation of this company is integrity and sticking to what we say we're going to do,» he says.

Indeed, in my book I pointed out that quite a lot of the big foundations of science preceded 1940, and then after the huge influx of American government funding, people said, «Well, the government's doing that,» and they started turning their attention to other things.

They have a big foundation; in Denmark it's one of the biggest resources for science.

I am not a big foundation fan, but I love a good BB cream, though.

Like you, I'm not a big foundation person, but when I do wear it I want it sheer and light.

And I certainly see the professional advantages of overcoming it; one is a much more impressive candidate for a Duke deanship, a major award, or a big foundation grant if they can project that imposing air of utter certitude and self - assuredness.

It is not too late for some big foundations to help out.

Those who held the levers of power at the U.S. Department of Education, in the big foundations, on Wall Street, and in the major corporations agreed on how to reform American education.

«I'd say a lot of the big foundations are looking at how to achieve scale,» she says.

The biggest foundations have billions of dollars at their disposal and no need to justify their policy positions to a wider constituency beyond their own board members.

That's why even the biggest foundations are seeking to leverage their funds by getting governments to change their ways, whether it's a school board's hiring practices, a state's funding formula for pre-kindergarten instruction or a national push for building data systems and changing basic standards.

In a recent interview with the Jewish Journal, Zimmer expressed his concern with the push by the big foundations.

When we develop to become a bigger foundation, we would like to invite other artists to become involved.

«The environmental community in the 1980s went crazy pressuring the donor countries and the big foundations not to support ideas like inorganic fertilizers for Africa,» says David Seckler, the director of the International Irrigation Management Institute.

Now a big foundation called us and we have a 2 - hour meeting scheduled this month.

To put it simply, bcash increases the capacity for more transactions by making a bigger foundation, the block itself.