Sentences with phrase «financial backers for»

Now the Alaska Wilderness League has sifted the financial backers for Mr. Gingrich's campaign and released a list of donors that it says shows Mr. Gingrich's push for drilling is «funded by Big Oil, for Big Oil.»

People forget that publishers are basically financial backers for your work.

Hughes became the owner, publisher and editor - in - chief of The New Republic in March and has also been a strong advocate and financial backer for same - sex union campaigns.

The defendants portrayed the bribes as an accepted part of the NCAA, according to an undercover agent pretending to be a financial backer for two defendants» sports - management business.

In a report tonight on The Daily Beast, 24 - year - old Luckey is revealed as a financial backer for Nimble America, an organization that promotes Trump in the forthcoming presidential election through online and real - world advertising and viral posts.

Bagging a financial backer for your fledgling business is every founder's dream.

Less often, but not infrequently, a family member with leadership or business experience, or someone suggested by an important financial backer for the campaign, is brought on to fill that role.

And she voted against GOP conservative orthodoxy on reauthorizing the Export - Import Bank, which she saw as a helpful financial backer for North Country businesses seeking to export products.

Funding for the project comes from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — which also was a major financial backer for the development of the common core — the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.

Letv also happens to be the financial backer for the cutting edge Faraday Future FFZERO1, which was also revealed at CES 2016.

Not exact matches

BlackRock began in the headquarters of Blackstone, its first financial backer, which gave BlackRock a $ 5 million line of credit for a 40 % stake.

In a sense, a business plan used for seeking funding is part of a negotiation taking place between you and your prospective financial backers.

These models of crowdfunding basically break down into those that offer a financial return for backers and those that do not.

Some 33,000 backers have kicked in money for Crowfall's development, and ArtCraft — which has also raised money from traditional early - stage investors — likes the idea of offering them a stake in the game's financial outcome, said J. Todd Coleman, the company's creative director.

Then, Thiel emerged as the secret financial backer of a controversial lawsuit by wrestler Hulk Hogan against Gawker Media over a sex tape and took a victory lap for his successful attack and crowed that it was philanthropic.

It was clear even before Kraft Heinz came right out and said as much Tuesday that liberal Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and conservative Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and their respective backers had little reason to bash each other for not doing enough to keep Oscar Mayer's Madison plant open with taxpayer - backed financial assistance.

Getting their hands on a new product early or a shout - out on film credits is enough for backers although they have zero opportunity for a financial return.

While the Taxpayers Federation preaches transparency for government, it refuses to make public a list of its own financial backers.

While most of these groups will frequently call for increased transparency in government, some refuse to make public their own financial backers.

We saw in 2008 how weak links in the mega banking chain spilled out across Wall Street because of the invisible linkages to other banks and financial firms unknown to the public — like the fact that the big insurer, AIG, was the backer for tens of billions of dollars of credit default swaps while having no money to pay off the bets it had accepted from the biggest Wall Street firms.

In December, UEFA rejected a request to waive Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules for AC Milan, saying they remained unconvinced about the club's new Chinese backers.

Firstly, Bucharest has just released the first instalment of 60 million euros as part of a financial assistance agreement with Moldova, offering de facto support for the current governing coalition in Chisinau, which is oriented around the Democratic Party and its controversial backer, Vladimir Plahotniuc.

Paladino rarely donates to black political candidates and was a major financial backer of Brown's opponents for mayor in 2005 and 2009.

The new movement has been secretly under development for more than a year and is said to have secured # 50m from financial backers, including the multimillionaire founder of LoveFilm.

«Common Cause / NY advocates for a package of stringent disclosure requirements for independent expenditures, including the requirement that any mailer or advertisement include disclosure of the top five financial backers of the ad.»

All of which has raised the stakes for Sampson and Duane, who are feeling the heat from their liberal colleagues and gay - rights groups, which themselves are grappling with the frustrations of their financial backers.

Those same forces, big financial backers of Cuomo, are also huge players in the fight for control of the Senate and they are spending enormous sums of money to maintain or even strengthen Republican control of the chamber.

Missing from your reporting is any info about the Partnership for Educational Justice, especially their financial backers.

Aspiring entrepreneurs at the University at Buffalo will participate in a rapid - fire competition expected prepare them for pitching business ideas to potential financial backers.

Once these rascals get to Albany, instead of writing and passing legislation for the betterment of their communities and our state, they push legislation and push contracts that support their financial backers.

The announcement caught even some of Ms. Moskowitz's top backers by surprise, and threw open the question of who, if anyone, would carry the banner for school - choice advocates — including, among others, some of New York's financial elites — in a 2017 campaign.

Labour MP Eric Joyce's conviction for assault left a vacancy from 2015 in his Falkirk constituency that the Unite trade union - Labour's biggest financial backer - was determined to fill with their own man or woman.

The panel will introduce some of the communication strategies needed for communicating with potential financial backers.

It's primarily the fans that have supplied the funds for the project, and in doing so proven a viable audience for any other potential future financial backers.

Sonny heads to America with Muriel looking for financial backers to help launch the next jewel in his crown of exotic hotels.

While it lasted — for 13 years — the now - defunct Career Ladder had many of the elements that merit pay backers believed a good program should have, including multidimensional evaluations and a hierarchy of professional development (in other words, a career ladder) that was coordinated with significant financial and professional rewards.

The project had financial backers, and even though the actual charter hadn't yet been approved, signs were hung on the outside of the old school building announcing the plans for its new educational life.

In 1995, with TFA on the ropes from financial instability and a scathing attack by influential professor Linda Darling - Hammond, who argued that TFA teachers were ill - prepared for the challenges of today» s classrooms, founder Wendy Kopp needed the Carnegie Corporation and other influentials to convince TFA» s backers not to turn off the funding spigot.

Such programs receive public funding, and contract out services to for - profit providers, which in many cases are associated with the financial backers of the venture.

That brought outside fundraising for Tuck nearly even with outside fundraising by the California Teachers Association, the biggest financial backer of Supt. Tom Torlakson.

On April 16, Howard Blume reporting for the Los Angeles Times said, «Austin Beutner has emerged as a leading contender to run the Los Angeles school district, with backers saying he is smart enough and tough enough to confront its financial and academic struggles.»

As Zimmerman admits, they'd face an uphill battle for funding, as the major financial backers of the movement prefer supporting charter networks that can grow.

Sackler also created 50 CAN, a national charter school advocacy group and Sackler was a major financial backer and advocate for Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company formed by Stefan Pryor, Malloy's former commissioner of and his associate, Dacia Toll, who now serves as the CEO of Achievement First, Inc..

The Author's Guild is hoping for legal remedies; Amazon's financial backers might decide they need profits.

The essence of Kickstarter is that it enables its creators to offer different financial incentives for backers.

Jolla have decided to continue to disappoint its backers in 2016, by signing off a new year's greeting recently which read that Jolla has financial challenges, and that not all the backers will receive the tablet that they paid for.

Winograd's marketing plans shift like the wind, but to understand why this particular plan is being sold at this moment, it is important to realize who Winograd's backers are and why they get him to market these agendas — the breeding industry, that has been promoting him for years and advancing him as representing their financial interests.

In 2014, Niel Record, the founding chairman of his own specialist currency management company, and trustee of the free market Institute of Economic Affairs think tank, was named for the first time as a financial backer.

The last time I heard from my «Big Oil» financial backer was when they gave me a # 15 Argos voucher for my loyalty card.

If someone had a great idea that would overturn modern climate science — and it would have to be a Great Idea, given the vast amount of consilient observations and supporting physical theory — they would not want for financial backers.