Not exact matches
You don't have to be courting VCs to notice the
change in mindset: According to Alicia Robb, a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation who analyzed more than 25,000 Kickstarter
projects, female crowdfunders on the site are more likely to get fully
funded than men.
Danae Ringelmann describes how she left a job in banking, started a crowdfunding platform, and
changed the way artistic
projects get
funded.
When you purchase a broad swath of equities, say an S&P 500 index
fund, the returns you can expect over the next decade or so comprise four building blocks: the starting dividend yield,
projected growth in real earnings per share, expected inflation, and the expected
change in «valuation» — that is, the expansion or contraction in the price / earnings (P / E) multiple.
Not only could the traditional
funding model for such
projects change, but so too could how much will be made available to
projects in the three areas the Liberals want to
fund.
Another experiment
funded by the now defunct Alberta's Oilsands Environmental Review
Project (AOERP)
changed the global politics of acid rain.
Despite interest rates remaining very low by historical measures, any dental organization looking to utilize external
funding for
projects this fiscal year should be aware of potential
changes and possible budget implications.
Over a year which has seen large banks halt
funding for fossil fuel
projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate
Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.
«This
funding and the demonstration
project ensure that Ontario will continue to lead in the development of smart grid technology,» said Bob Leigh, President, Prolucid Technologies Inc. «Utilities globally face significant challenges to
change the model of power consumption, reducing greenhouse gases and increasing the efficiency of the grid.
Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has
funded dozens of village - led community development
projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely
change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living
When you buy Girl Scout Cookies, you help
fund new adventures and life -
changing opportunities for girls — from trips to our nation's capital to community
projects, summer camp, and earning Girl Scouting's Highest Awards.
We are a fully licensed crypto
fund looking to support teams and
projects creating world
changing blockchain technologies and applications.
After a dramatic conversion to Christianity, former hedge
fund manager Martin Zuch
changed career direction, launching two banana farm
projects... More
It is true that CHD
funding criteria give high - priority consideration to
projects that «work to bring about institutional
change.»
Sonoma County Snares $ 8 Million to Fight Drought and Climate
Change Sonoma County secured an $ 8 million federal grant to fund conservation projects and acquire land development rights that help combat the impacts of drought and climate change in the Russian River watershed, local and federal officials said Fri
Change Sonoma County secured an $ 8 million federal grant to
fund conservation
projects and acquire land development rights that help combat the impacts of drought and climate
change in the Russian River watershed, local and federal officials said Fri
change in the Russian River watershed, local and federal officials said Friday...
The climate
change - ready rice varieties that have reached millions of farmers in Asia were developed by IRRI and its partners under the BMGF -
funded project, Stress - Tolerant Rice for Africa and South Asia or STRASA.
He also uses his profile to raise
funds for
projects, which use cooking as a driver of social
change.
Please note: The nature of voluntary and community sector
funding, and the often crucial role of individuals in creating and sustaining
projects, means that case studies described on this website may have
changed substantially since time of writing or may no longer be in existence.
Please note: The nature of voluntary and community sector
funding, and the often crucial role of individuals in creating and sustaining
projects, means that case studies described on this website may have
changed substantially since time or writing or may no longer be in existence.
One of the
changes administrators made in the new budget was to decrease
funding for capital
projects by about 26 percent to around $ 2.2 million from $ 2.8 million from previous year, documents show.
«I do n`t think (the museum board «s decision)
changes the fact the park board is interested in continuing the
project, using the
funds available, ``
The Park District is being asked to help
fund the
project because plans for the theater building had to be
changed to accommodate the office space and enlarge practice spaces.
«A lot of programs have gotten started off by parents going into the school and saying, «We need some sort of
change happening,»» said Anupama Joshi of Farm to School, a
project funded by cereal giant Kellogg Co..
Also at noon, Democratic Nassau County executive candidate Laura Curran pledges to uphold the Pre-Trump Rule ensuring taxpayer
funded infrastructure
projects are built to accommodate effects of climate
change if she's elected, the Boardwalk at Riverside Boulevard, Long Beach.
Currently, Alison is PI on the ESRC
funded project «International Professional Fora: a study in civil society participation in internet governance» (September 2015 - September 2018) with CIs George Christou (Warwick) and Seamus Simpson (Salford) and an ESRC Senior Fellow on the ESRC UK in a
Changing Europe programme with the
project «The impact of a proposed UK Brexit from the EU: the UK communications industries».
«The
change in
funding source for these
projects from the Transformative Investment Program to the New York Works program appears to be a deviation from what... [ESD's] board approved,» Henrik Westin, a lawyer for the comptroller, wrote in a letter to the board.
The department also provided
funding via the union modernisation
fund and strategic partnership
fund to support modernisation
projects to help trades unions respond to technological, economic and other
changes in the workplace.
But the biggest
change to the
project was a requirement that the developer shift 30 percent of its proposed $ 17 million donation to the High Line Improvement
Fund — roughly $ 5.1 million — to affordable housing
projects in the neighborhood.
A bill in Congress introduced by Rep. John Faso, R - Kinderhook, would address this by
changing the absolute liability standard, which mandates that employers are on the hook for injuries, regardless of worker negligence, by allowing
projects receiving federal
funds to be exempt.
The up - to - date information would include the county's revenues and expenditures,
fund balance, trust account activity, outstanding capital
projects and
changes to county personnel as well as asset inventory, including vehicles and equipment.
However, they are very sensible to losing EU
funding for the
projects they are involved into (EU
funds enabled significant
changes from rural development to advanced IT research).
The SUNY Polytechnic institute said the
funding for the Buffalo - portion of the Athenex expansion was recently released, noting adjustments to the
project's scope
changed its timeline.
The final Erie County plan will summarize results of greenhouse gas emission inventories, set short - term and long - term energy goals, define new operations policies and
changes to existing policies, identify implementation strategies and
projects, present a detailed timeline for implementation and identify
funding opportunities.
He has been a lifelong volunteer for causes he believes in, including conducting climate
change science field research with the Harvard Department of Forestry in Southern Africa, working on get - out - the - vote efforts for John Kerry, Barack Obama and Zephyr Teachout, building agricultural databases for USAID
funded international
projects all over the world, and providing technical assistance to schools in Senegal (for which he was awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award by the Obama administration).
The
funds expended and the work completed from this
project is very important to us and can be used in the future should conditions
change.»
In New York City, the
funding is used almost entirely for housing
projects, and under a mayor who has promised to vastly expand the city's affordable housing stock by creating and preserving 200,000 units over a decade, that pattern was not going to
change.
The blog provides regular insights into the European
project, government waste, Gordon Brown's burdens on the economy, the dangers of state
funding of political parties and it offers a sceptical view of a big government approach to combating climate
change.
On - topic question topics included the amount of HPD
funding in this specific
project, possible
changes in City Planning Commission rules on building height, how many of the 20,000 units reported by the Mayor were new construction and how many were preservation work, how people can seek to live in the units being constructed at this specific
project and a lawsuit challenging the City's community preference policy.
Okanlawon, while congratulating the Federal Government for looking in the direction of Sukuk as an alternative revenue source for infrastructure provision, said Nigerians have reasons to give kudos to Aregbesola for his ability to identify and raise the awareness on Sukuk as an easier avenue of raising
funds for live -
changing projects.
Changes to the campaign finance system would include an expansion of «the current pilot
project for public
funding of the Comptroller's race to all statewide and legislative races.»
Auditors also questioned whether government
funds were wasted by paying conductors 2 hours and 40 minutes of overtime every day for tasks such as
changing clothes, traveling to and from
project sites and washing up for work.
When asked he verified there is NO reason to believe or infer that any
change is on the foreseeable horizon — yet he insisted that the
funds will go away, the
project would end, and the public would suffer solely if public questions continued.
He also proposed using the Mortgage Recording Tax, which is paid when property
changes hands, to leverage the
funding of capital
projects, which he argued would minimize the impact of fluctuations in the real estate market.
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) BARDA and its
Project BioShield initiative would see essentially no
change from FY 2017 omnibus
funding levels, with each
funded at or just above $ 510 million.
A123 is also contributing to two game -
changing research
projects funded by DOE.
Joshua Busby is an assistant professor of public affairs at the University of Texas and one of the lead researchers in the Strauss Center
project on Climate
Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS), a $ 7.6 million grant
funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.
Even so, the notice doesn't embrace any of the OIG report's suggestions on how NSF could improve its oversight of university RCR plans.One such
change would be to broaden the scope of the training beyond the current requirement that applies only to undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers working on NSF -
funded projects.
If you don't have the
funds to do what the
project takes — because the initial budget was wrong, or because expenses have
changed, or the nature of the
project has evolved — then you need to contact the program director about
changing the scope of the
project.
«The crane fly link was made as part of several longer - term studies —
funded by The Natural Environment Research Council and Defra — investigating blanket bog ecosystems across several UK upland sites, including the Yorkshire Dales, Peak District and North York Moors.Dr Heinemeyer, who is currently leading a # 1m Defra -
funded SEI
project to further study the impacts of climate
change and management on blanket bogs, said it wasn't only rare birds that were at risk from climate
change.
It is extraordinarily important,» said study author Andrew Holland, the program manager of the IISS's Transatlantic Dialogue on Climate
Change and Security, a
project funded by the European Commission.
Projects funded during the 2007 - 2008 International Polar Year, for example, documented different Arctic native populations» rich vocabulary for different types of sea ice and plumbed the communities» observation of
changing caribou behavior.