Sentences with phrase «by billionaire philanthropists»

Since authoring the report, Stern has shot to climate stardom, being sought by carbon finance firms, keen to cash in on his connections to government and his insider policy - making knowledge, by the media, and by billionaire philanthropists wishing to have him set up and manage climate research organisations that bear the benefactors» names.

This past Sunday, the personal post-war and contemporary art collection owned by billionaire philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, housed in Diller Scofidio + Renfro's meshed white box, opened for public...

Not to be outdone, a «platform» released by the Movement for Black Lives (a group of organizations organized by Black Lives Matter) issued a scorched - earth condemnation of every aspect of the reform agenda, which it characterized as «a systematic attack... coordinated by an international education privatization agenda, bankrolled by billionaire philanthropists... and aided by the departments of education at the federal, state, and local level.»

The «Ready for Hillary» super PAC will hold a high - dollar, LGBT - themed fundraiser next month, hosted by billionaire philanthropist Jon Stryker and featuring California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The Alliance, based in downstate New York, is an entity funded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros.

Myrna Castrejon, 50, is leaving her position as a lobbyist and strategist for the California Charter Schools Association to lead Great Public Schools Now, a nonprofit organization established to carry out the charter expansion strategy, which was first developed by billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad and his foundation.

Not exact matches

Giving a new college graduate an 832 - page book by a professor sounds like a terrible idea — except your gift will probably register when you say it's on the recommendation of none other than Microsoft cofounder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates.

The billionaire philanthropist proceeded to compare Facebook and Google to mining and oil companies, accusing them of earning their profits «by exploiting their environment.»

The billionaire investor and philanthropist, who gave $ 200 million to New York University's medical center in 2008, told CNBC an anonymous seven - figure donor felt slighted by the pope's recent comments.

Both organizations are funded by philanthropist and billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer, who backs LGBT rights, including same - sex marriage and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).

The self - described «genius billionaire playboy philanthropist» is beset by anxiety attacks and bad dreams, attempting to acclimate himself to a world where Norse gods clash with alien armies set upon New York.

The movie, of course, finds Robert Downey Jr's billionaire playboy philanthropist up to his metallic neck in trouble as he's targeted by the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) and other nasty types intent on taking him down a peg or 15.

Nowhere has the battle been more pitched than in Los Angeles Unified, where candidates funded by wealthy pro-charter advocates like billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad and Netflix founder Reed Hastings won a majority of school board seats in the 2017 board election.

He is chair of the Broad Center, which is funded by Los Angeles billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad to train and place school superintendents who've been recruited not only from the education sector but also from leadership positions in government, the military, and corporations.

These neo-gilded age philanthropists claim that the solution is for parents, teachers and education advocates to step aside so that the billionaires and their groupies can transform public education by creating privately owned and operated — but taxpayer funded — charter schools.

He's involved with the Broad Center, funded by L.A. billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad, which aims (among its other projects) to train and place reform - minded superintendents in the education sector.

Those of us who held even the slimmest hope that changes in presidential administrations might stem or perhaps turn back the tide have had those hopes dashed as waves of corporate - backed reforms pushed by Republicans, Democrats, and billionaire philanthropists continue to batter kids, teachers, parents, and schools.

«Investing with the Stars» is your first - ever opportunity to learn directly from six real - life superstars of investing, including billionaire Howard Marks, whose Oaktree Capital is among the most highly respected firms in the world, value investor and philanthropist Mohnish Pabrai, whose flagship fund has beaten the market indices by a wide margin over the long term, Holocaust survivor Arnold Van Den Berg, whose firm has earned the respect of investors for decades, and other fund managers who are giants in their field.

Finally embraced by museums that long considered him a pariah for his critiques of institutional power, Hans Haacke's critical eye remains unchanged: his new exhibition at Paula Cooper includes a new work about the Met's acceptance of donations from David H. Koch, the billionaire philanthropist who's financially supported conservative political campaigns.

It was founded by billionaire 19th - century steel baron and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Obama, together with billionaire philanthropists and other governments, has already led pledges to seed this private effort by funding energy research.

Selfridges is ultimately owned by the Canadian billionaire and philanthropist Galen Weston.