Sentences with phrase «equity of opportunity for»

The right to equity of opportunity for health, education and social justice is fundamental.»

I was invited to address the ATSIC National Treaty Conference in 2002 to argue for the right to equity of opportunity for health, education and social justice for indigenous people.

Her focus at the Ministry of Education is on equity of opportunity for all students.

The issue is very much one of equity of opportunity for New Jersey's students as well as California's students.

Oakland Promise was launched in a landscape that was already engaging in innovative collective impact efforts, particularly ones focused on providing equity of opportunity for all children.

With five comprehensive high schools, more than 13,000 students, an 80 - percent - and - growing Hispanic population, and a large number of economically disadvantaged families, Thorstenson was faced with the challenges of increasing student achievement, making curriculum relevant, and promoting equity of opportunity for students when she first took office in 2000.

As part of the first Askwith Forum this semester, Kamras spoke passionately about equity of opportunity for children.

My passion continues to be providing equity of opportunity for ALL students.

Since the era of high - stakes accountability initiated in the early 1980s has not, in fact, closed the achievement gap, can you commit to ending accountability - based education reform, including a significant reduction in high - stakes testing, and then detail reform based on equity of opportunities for all students?

Not exact matches

«But for many other thousands of entrepreneurs that have started up, they are only looking to find a few hundred thousand dollars, Title III (the provision of the law referring to equity crowdfunding) is a wonderful opportunity.»

The characteristics noted above are often what a lender looks for in a borrower and are also signs of untapped opportunity to a private equity fund.

Conversely, the low spend on sales and marketing could be a sign of an untapped opportunity for a private equity fund.

Lithium Australia's CEO, Adrian Griffin, said «For Lithium Australia shareholders, the new partnership with MetalsTech represents an outstanding opportunity to gain direct equity leverage to new pegmatite projects in an established hard - rock lithium jurisdiction located in the province of Quebec, Canada.

While Google's arsenal of perks — which includes everything from «stock equity,» to «free 24/7 gym access,» «aaaaaamazing holiday parties,» and «mini-kitchens, snacks, drinks, free breakfast / lunch / dinner, all day, errr «day» — are notoriously cushy, the company wins real points with employees for attracting «the best talent and best people to work with in the world» as well as providing abundant «opportunities for career growth, and tons of career development resources.»

Look for speaking opportunities to raise the awareness, reputation and equity of your brand.

«But given the financing opportunities that exist for us in the private - equity arena and our growth rate this year of 25 % per month, we were able to win a loan commitment from a bank that would come into effect as soon as we carried out a private placement,» notes CEO Brad Galle.

It's a (mostly) short term, higher risk, higher reward place to invest cash that has a low correlation with the stock market, but is far more passive than buying and managing properties, has more opportunity for diversification than private placements (minimums of 5 - 10K, rather than 100K), and most of the equity offerings (and all of the debt offerings) provide monthly or quarterly incomes.

Still, after accounting for the possibilities of some specific equities experiencing a disproportionate share of mini flash crashes, and variations in trading activity creating more opportunities for mini flash crashes to occur, the evidence continues to suggest that an abnormal level of instability could have been detected in the U.S. equity market during the test window on October 15, 2014.

We are open to partnership opportunities to develop brands or to the transfer of a domain in exchange for equity in promising businesses.

WDN marshals resources for a number of issues — like reproductive justice, racial equity, and economic opportunity — but the cause closest to Hall's heart is civic equality for women.

Collectively, they provide detailed equity market coverage for more than 80 countries across developed, emerging and frontier markets, representing 99 % of these investable opportunity sets.

This could create trading opportunities for long short equity managers, which may have a more well - defined universe of stocks, in terms of potential winners and losers.

I asked Wade Pfau, associate professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, to calculate the long - run opportunity cost of bond investment versus equity investment.

The HRC did not alter the overall compensation program for named executives for 2011, which consisted of base salary, an annual incentive award opportunity and an equity - based long - term incentive award opportunity.

In the past, companies have viewed instances of strong equity markets as an opportunity to take advantage of their highly valued stock to make acquisitions or as an opportune time to fetch a good premium for shareholders by being acquired.

The renewed energy our liquidity transactions bring is always exciting: While our deals involve creatively solving the liquidity needs of shareholders, we approach our investments with a growth mindset and relish opportunities to deploy equity for organic or inorganic growth initiatives.»

Shareholders are also taking notice of issues related to socioeconomic and political equity, access and opportunity — such as public disclosure of corporate funding for political action committees (PACs), campaigns and lobbyists.

In the face of the repayment burden shrinking the U.S. economy, the Fed's idea of helping the banks «earn their way out of negative equity» is to provide opportunities for predatory finance, leading to a flood of financial speculation.

The firm looks for opportunities to partner with founders and strong management teams, investing $ 5 - 30 million of equity per transaction.

In addition, the narrow focus of Canada's equities markets in three sectors — financials, energy and materials — further reduces opportunities for diversification.

But with long - term bonds and non-cyclical equity sectors trading at historically extreme valuations while cyclical sectors trade at valuations below their long - term average, we think that risk aversion is creating numerous investment opportunities for investors willing to build a portfolio of more economically sensitive companies.

I think that will be a key point for equity markets going into 2017, and while we remain constructive on the US market, we believe there's also an opportunity to pass the baton from the US equity market in terms of global market leadership.

There are new offerings, like Calvert Foundation's Women Investing in Women Initiative for fixed income and the PAX Ellevate Global Women's Index Fund or Morgan Stanley's Parity Portfolio for public equities, and initiatives like The Women Effect bringing a new community together to accelerate deployment of interested capital into gender - lens investment opportunities.

At the same time, we think the market's decline is creating an attractive opportunity to rebalance to the mix of equity and fixed income appropriate for your situation, including (where appropriate) capitalizing on the pullback.

Before May 2016, only accredited investors earning $ 200,000 or more a year or having a net worth of $ 1 million (excluding their primary place of residence) were given the opportunity to invest in private companies for equity return.

I have fortunately gotten offers to work at a startup and in several different contexts similar to my previous position — and these are things I would potentially enjoy, yes, but to waste the potential equity that «personal brand», dirty as it may sound, creates for me (or anyone else) to leverage into client work that pays well and speaking gigs that open up other opportunities — would be a true «lighting on fire» of that which I had done to build that before quitting.

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Ultimately, the underlying fundamentals of Royce Special Equity Fund's holdings, with low market expectations, provide excellent opportunity for outperformance moving forward.

While both debt and equity require some degree of expense to compensate lenders and shareholders for the risk of investment, each also carries an opportunity cost.

Increased availability and popularity of vehicles that allow for cheap, convenient, well - diversified market exposure increases the pool of money inclined to bid on equities as an asset class — not only during the good times, but also when buying opportunities arise.

For patient investors, we believe these sectors likely offer some of the best longer - term opportunities in equity markets today.

Following one of the worst periods for value on record, and with the style still trading at significant valuation discounts even after a nascent rally, we believe there is cause for cautious optimism, and that «value unbound» describes the most compelling opportunity in equity markets today.

Bill Miller, CFA is the founder of Miller Value Partners, and currently serves as the Chairman and Chief Investment Officer1, and co-Portfolio Manager for Opportunity Equity and Income Strategy.

While this environment has been (and may remain) painful for some time, the eventual normalization of these extremes represents the most compelling opportunity in equity markets today and our portfolios are positioned accordingly.

«There is a backlog of investment opportunities, both from private equity firms looking to exit their positions and from local corporates that are looking for strategic partners to grow their core competencies and fund their regional expansion plans,» Beyhum says.

Grace Hoefig, research analyst and portfolio manager for Franklin Equity Group ®'s US Value Equity team, says that recent stock market dips have presented value opportunities in some market sectors, but, as through all market conditions, a little patience and a lot of research and flexibility are required to uncover them.

Up next, I would assume, will be the circling of the private equity sharks, who are doubtlessly beginning to look for an opportunity there.

Angela Glover Blackwell, Appointee for Member, President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Angela Glover Blackwell is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Policy Link, a nonprofit organization that strives to advance economic and social equity, improving access and opportunity for all low - income people and communities of color, particularly in the areas of health, housing, transportation, education and infrastructure.

But it gave a rolled gold opportunity for CHAMP Private Equity to start crunching the potential of a clean sale of the Accolade Wines portfolio which it has owned for five years.

Under Title IX, to achieve gender parity between men's and women's sports, universities and colleges have to meet one of three different requirements: 1) equity in participation opportunities for both men and women; 2) scholarships offered proportionally based on the number of male and female athletes; and 3) comparable overall treatment of women's and men's sports (including but not limited to quality and maintenance of locker rooms and facilities, equipment and supplies, access to practice fields, publicity of teams and events, the quality of coaching, academic tutoring, traveling budgets, etc.).