Sentences with phrase «boards partner with»

Urban school boards partner with religious organizations, charities, civic groups, and local government agencies to rally community resources to meet the needs of students and their families.

National Board Partners with Mississippi Department of Education to Boost Early Literacy Instruction for Mississippi's K - 3 Students ARLINGTON, VA — The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, with the support of a $ 2.4 - million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), will work to strengthen literacy instruction and outcomes for students across Mississippi in the critical early elementary years.

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The board partnered with Halton Healthcare Services» Navigator Program as part of this year's President's Charity.

But recently I saw that Beth, from Home Stories A to Z, was doing a contest on Olio Boards partnering with West Elm, and I thought well it might be time to figure out this whole board thing.

Not exact matches

Ellis and partner Nikolay Djibankov use a strategy called Gender Lens Investment, which targets companies with at least three women on their boards of directors, in the creation of a so - called «parity portfolio» for clients.

After the conclusion of the internal investigation, which started with sexual harassment investigations and discovered other employee misconduct, Gurley left the board, replaced by Benchmark partner Matt Cohler.

«These guys just need a clear understanding of what to build, and how to build it,» says Andreessen Horowitz partner and former SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard, who's joining the Gigster board with this announcement.

The first phase of exit negotiations should have concluded in October, but only ended last week after a last - minute push to bring May's junior coalition partner — Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)-- on board with the deal.

The board, too, has been restructured, with nearly half the members having been appointed by KKR, Pessina, or activist investor JANA Partners, which ended up with two seats and the right to veto a third after buying just 1 % of the company.

The College Board is partnering with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America to promote the new program in communities where students may not have home computers.

It was a strange formulation, given that the occasion for the reading was Etsy's acceptance of a $ 27 million investment led by Jim Breyer, a venture capitalist with Accel Partners who sits on the boards of Facebook, Dell, and, to the consternation of the Etsy faithful, Walmart.

JA: You're partnering with major companies such as Uber, Marriott, and JetBlue and they seem to be getting on board with your effort to value sleep.

Dan Scholnick, a general partner at Trinity Ventures, is on the board of Bulletproof, which sells coffee blended with butter and triglyceride oil that claims to help consumers «perform better» and «think faster.»

Delta says it is partnering with CLEAR to power the back end of its biometric boarding system, which at the moment is a pilot program.

«It's a $ 36 - billion investment that they are making, so it was always clear that once they got our piece completed that they would move on to making sure that their numbers across the board with their partners work,» he said.

While Amazon had reportedly considered at least partnering with Flipkart, the Indian company's board ultimately decided that Walmart would be a better acquiring party, according to Bloomberg's sources.

«We don't have free trade deals with China and they're still our second - largest trading partner,» says Jacqueline Palladini, a senior economist with the Conference Board of Canada.

Once TownWizard signs up a partner from a given locale, that area is off the board: «You own that market — we won't compete with you,» Ragsdale says, adding that each partner can designate a ZIP code they wish to serve, with all adjacent ZIP codes included in their exclusivity deal.

Wilson's choices include partnering with a private equity firm in a buyout of the company, launching a proxy battle to gain additional board seats, or selling his stake, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Ex-oversight board staffer said to have taken confidential information from PCAOB and shared it with his new partners at KPMG, which had been struggling to improve its inspection results.

With every firm that grants you a meeting, take time to get to know the partner who will be your company's primary contact (and possibly a board member).

Even Trian Partners» Nelson Peltz, who narrowly won a blockbuster proxy campaign with P&G (pg) this fall, is still feuding with that company to accept him onto its board.

Bill Gurley, a partner at Benchmark Capital and a member of Uber's board of directors, has urged caution for the past year, believing late - stage investors have «essentially abandoned traditional risk analysis» and are pouring money into companies with unsustainable burn rates.

Diverse talent pools value transparency and will get on board for the longer - term when they partner with those that share the same goals and ideals.

She managed to largely fend Peltz off with a compromise: Earlier this year the two sides agreed on a «neutral» nominee to the board, former Heinz CEO Bill Johnson, an adviser to Peltz's Trian Partners.

San Francisco - based Airware brings the former CEO of Cisco on board and partners with insurance giant State Farm.

LinkedIn plans to partner with schools and their own job boards so it can feed appropriate job listings from them to students on the app, along with the listings posted on LinkedIn.

This may sound like a lot to do, but keep in mind we're talking about bringing on board a partner who is going to be vested in and engaged with growing your business for the long haul.

«We believe strongly that we should back our winners with as much capital as we have available if they are experiencing explosive growth in to huge markets with strong management teams that have a proven track record of success,» explains Foundation partner and AdRoll board member Charles Moldow.

Hours later, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) announced it had teamed up with European private equity firm BC Partners to buy Suddenlink Communications for $ 6.6 billion.

«They're not building this business on the backs of banner ads,» says Eric Liaw, a general partner with IVP and new member of the board of The Players» Tribune.

With this investment, Jeff Leiberman, Manager Director at Insight Venture Partners, Ryan Sweeney, Managing Partner at Accel Partners, and John Ruffolo, Chief Executive Officer of OMERS Ventures have joined HootSuite's Board of Directors.

He is a partner of ValueAct Capital, a governance - oriented investment fund that invests in a concentrated portfolio of public companies and works actively with executives and boards of directors on issues of strategy, capital structure, mergers and acquisitions, and talent management.

In a statement, the company said, «We don't discuss specifics as we negotiate with partners, but we do hope to quickly reach an agreement that meets the desires of Sandicor's board.

Strategic partners play an important part in expanding the reach of the network, but also as trusted advisors with a seat in the advisory board of the project.

«As the system grows and the likelihood of it scaling grows, and as new speculators come on board with piles of cash, it compounds together and has created this exponential growth,» said McKie, the crypto firm partner.

After decades of M&A advisory experience, first with Bain & Co., then as founder, chair and managing partner of the Parthenon Group, plus a distinguished director career, Bill Achtmeyer has an acute, board's - eye view of M&A.

Convertible shares come with nearly half the board, giving GNC's partner the muscle to block any future rescue deals.

In another unprecedented cooperative initiative, The Vancouver Board of Trade supported the efforts of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce and partnered with 12 others chambers of commerce across the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley to release a landmark research study on the economic importance of the Fraser River.

For example, we will not be required to comply with the requirements that a majority of the board of directors of our general partner consist of independent directors and that we have independent director oversight of executive officer compensation and director nominations.

Your relationship with the partner, your board, and the firm is a lifelong relationship, something that's really important to remember.

Equally important was the insight that Carrick provides in their Board member's earlier involvement in the business model and in dealing with the complex operating issues that arise from a for - profit company partnering with not - for - profit universities in a BPO environment.

«I think the CSA will start with a soft - glove approach and evolve to more iron - hand in a few years,» says Paul Gryglewicz, managing partner of Global Governance Advisors, a Toronto firm that advises company boards and senior managers on corporate government and executive pay issues.

The Uber board is searching for a chief operating officer to be a partner to Kalanick, Uber director Arianna Huffington said this week during a conference call with reporters.

«We are thrilled with the quality of our new investor partners,» said Dr. Praveen Jain, Sparq's founder and chairman of its board of directors.

Delta - v managing partner David Schaller joins Label Insight's board along with the deal.

From executive search at the Caldwell Partners to leading a product team at job board giant Monster.com, to delivering career and outplacement services (both individually and corporately sponsored) since 2002 and more recently, acting as Director of Graduate Career Services at UBC Sauder School of Business which entailed engaging with hundreds of companies.

The two new board members are Mark Holdsworth, operating partner and co-founder of Tennenbaum Capital Partners, a Los Angeles - based private investment firm with approximately $ 6.5 billion of capital under management, and Peter Lacey, founder and chairman of Cervus Equipment Corporation, a Canadian public company with 2015 sales exceeding $ 1.1 billion.