Sentences with phrase «creating social capital»

What interests me as a social scientist is this strategy of creating social capital.

They often narrow academic achievement gaps, create social capital, and foster democratic behavior — including adult voluntary activity.

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Social Finance: Unlocking the Potential for Developmental Lending, a new research report conducted my firm Impakt, reveals that the Indian Business Corporation, a company owned by the three treaty areas of Alberta, has pioneered an approach called «developmental lending» that is providing aboriginal entrepreneurs such as Ms. Saliwonczyk with capital to create new businesses, or maintain or expand existing ones.

Social media has created a new form of capital that can be used to create influence spur action.

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.

The workplace collaboration company is teaming with several venture capital firms — including Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Spark Growth, and Social + Capital — to create an $ 80 million fund that will invest in software projects that complement its techcapital firms — including Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Spark Growth, and Social + Capital — to create an $ 80 million fund that will invest in software projects that complement its techCapital — to create an $ 80 million fund that will invest in software projects that complement its technology.

«To galvanize the necessary capital to have real impact, sustainable investing can't be limited to investors willing to accept unattractive returns in order to create social good.

It is a hard concept to explain precisely and to quantify, but the idea of differing levels of social capital helps explain why, for example, French entrepreneurs (not to mention Indian, Chinese, Mexican and Nigerian) are more likely to create successful tech startups in the US or the UK than at home, or why it is easier to start a business in Sidney than in Beijing, or why technological innovation is not evenly spread out among countries, even among countries at similar development levels, but rather tends to cluster in a few areas in a few countries where tech entrepreneurs seem to believe that their work is made easier and the rewards greater.

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.

In this way, the scorecards theoretically 1) minimize Root Capital's risk as a lender; 2) ensure the alignment of missions between borrower and lender; and 3) provide opportunity to measure how specific social and environmental investments and programs can create financially beneficial relationships throughout the supply chain.

The project aimed to improve the quality of life for the population by creating more stable local economies, greater food security, improved gender relations and increased social capital.

A combination of soaring rents, cuts to benefits, and a shortage of social housing has created a crisis in affordable housing in the capital.

Follow us this week through our social media channels Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin and follow us as we promote your community and work our mission — to create jobs and attract capital investment to Saratoga County.

So borrowing social capital, creating women - rich environments, changing perspectives, and negotiating is all that is needed to make it to the top.

When 2017 comes around, I'll start thinking about what I am going to do with the social media capital that I've built up and the value that I'm creating for people.

Watch how Boxgirls International is changing Kenyan women's lives by creating social change in the capital of Nairobi one punch, jab and kick at a time.

The Qudwa Forum showed how effective learning environments constantly create synergies and find new ways to enhance professional, social and cultural capital with others.

With help from Social Capital, Inc., Salem has created an online guide to all the youth - focused programs and organizations in Salem.

And I think we need to think a lot about thoughtfully helping students from low - income neighborhoods build social capital around them to help them see and create opportunities they never otherwise would have to motivate them to learn and make progress in their lives without having to resort to criminal acts.

It's also something of an open question whether these brand - new schools can create true social capital beyond their four walls; the authors of Lost Classroom, Lost Community aren't so sure.

We use basic multiple linear regression models along with factors in the US Census data that relate to community social capital and family human capital to create predictive algorithms.

Their work uncovered that turnover and repeated waves of new teachers create several problems for schools and communities: (1) high turnover schools employ a large number of novice teachers; (2) turnover creates unstable teaching assignments; (3) turnover hinders relationships between teachers, students, and families; and (4) turnover disrupts the social capital needed to support expanded leadership opportunities for teachers.

While a school voucher proposal is likely, critics say that DeVos» voucher plan would exacerbate educational inequality, that «voucher programs do not work to improve student achievement», and «voucher programs and charter school expansion drain both money and social capital from the traditional public schools, creating even more of an imbalanced, two - tiered system.»

Education is viewed as an opportunity to maximise human capital, abandoning education's role of creating cultural good and social cohesion.

Rather than creating policies with the new white middle and upper - class families in mind, policy and school administrators also need to consider their positions and sentiments, even if they do not have the same social capital or resources as their white counterparts.

Such a change could create a new generation of web - savvy micro activists, who control only a handful of shares but understand how to use social networking media to influence boards, much like Jackson does with Ironfire Capital and his blog.

GÖKCAN DEMIRKAZIK: In previous exhibitions such as «Tomorrow» (2013 — 14) at the V&A and «The Collectors» (2009) at the Danish and Nordic Pavilions of the fifty - third Venice Biennale, you have created fictional domestic environments to reflect on capital, social structures, and alienation.

Freedom to Create Exhibitions celebrates the power of the creative arts to heal, inspire and build social capital.

Julien visualizes the potential of capital to both create social mobility and produce obstacles to it, foregrounding the way each character inhabits and traverses the sweeping high - tech cityscapes, contemporary architecture, and sublime natural landscapes of these worldly locales.

During KAPITAL's creation process Julien described, «As I can not film the thing itself, capital, I hope to film its shadow: its effects, its movements and the social relations it creates.»

LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital uses social documentary and portraiture to create a personal visual history of an industrial town's decline.

Some managers like Impax Asset Management even focus on placing capital with companies that are creating the technical and business solutions to environmental and social challenges.

The Federal government, through the office of the president, can direct the SEC and the IRS to create a more favorable regulatory environment for capital markets, or preferred tax incentives for companies that meet certain standards for accountability, transparency, or social and environmental impact.

Recently, StreetWise partnered with Neighbor Capital, a social enterprise that focuses on sustainable solutions to health, job creation, and promotion of the environment and green spaces in underserved communities, to create Neighbor Carts.

To this end, he and his colleagues at the Natural Capital Institute have created WISER Earth, an «open source, community - editable international directory and networking forum that maps, links and empowers the largest movement in the world — the hundreds of thousands of organizations within civil society that address social justice, poverty, and the environment.»

It is a fortunate and honorable feat to be a securities lawyer, and to create greater economic and social value for enterprises through the capital market with the professional knowledge and vast experience.

HyperChain Capital, a digital assets hedge fund focused on Blockchain companies and Initial Coin Offerings, is delighted to announce that it has entered into a collaboration agreement and made a strategic investment into CoinDash, a digital assets social media platform which allows investors to create and maintain their Crypto Assets whilst interacting with other investors in the space.

Our mission with Forbes Councils is to curate successful professionals from every industry, creating a vetted, social capital - driven network that helps every member make an even greater impact on the business world.»

• 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

Simply creating capital may not address underlying social and economic development issues, particularly in remote areas.

Finally, the ability to influence change or community empowerment is created by all of the other elements of Indigenous social capital and enables Indigenous communities to influence events and control their own destiny.

that Indigenous empowerment or the perceived ability to influence change, rather than being an element of an individual's sense of comm unity, is instead created by a sense of community, clarifying the connection between social capital and empowerment.

The process of non-voluntary immigration, transitioning and acculturating to a new country may have a negative impact on the mental health of immigrants.1 — 3 Postmigration factors (eg, stress, lack of social capital, social isolation and loss of social network) as well as acculturation problems and experiences of discrimination in the host country affect the mental health of the parents and the children.4 5 Moreover, immigrant parents face challenges concerning their role and responsibilities as parents while adjusting to the host country, all of which tend to create stress in parenting.1 3 6 The mental health problems of parents have been reported to be a risk factor for children's behavioural problems and may negatively affect the parent — child attachment and their relationship.7 8 Studies have also shown that parents with mental health problems have a low perceived sense of competence in parenting and may lack the ability to employ positive parenting practises.9 10

Our mission with Forbes Councils is to curate successful professionals from every industry, creating a vetted, social capital - driven network that helps every member make an even greater impact on the business world.»