Sentences with phrase «funds working at scale»

His clients have ranged from hedge funds working at scale to community - minded socially conscious developers involved in neighborhood stabilization projects and the National Community Stabilization Trust or NCST.

Not exact matches

«The role of philanthropy here is not to be the primary funder, but rather to fund pilots, to fund new ideas, to let people — it's always the educators coming up with the ideas — to let them try them out and see what really works super well and get those to scale,» Gates said while delivering a keynote address at a Cleveland schools conference, according to the Post.

«We don't have this wall of secrecy that we had at one time,» said Kalvoda, who previously worked at fund - of - hedge - funds Collins Associates Inc. and Citigroup Inc. «We're a block of investors working together with more scale.»

Similar examples of the federal government at work range from the creation of an industry for producing natural gas from coal seams to the ongoing Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy (ARPA - E), a small - scale funding agency with outsized ambitions.

Sponsors: This work was primarily supported by the Materials Synthesis and Simulation Across Scales (MS3) Initiative through the Laboratory Directed Research and Development fund at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).

Just prior to Stanford, she was a researcher at the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), where she worked with state departments of education to evaluate their publicly funded pre-K programs through large - scale and longitudinal research studies.

The Back Door is presented concurrently with Public Art Fund's installation of a new large - scale work by Creed, on view May 4 to October 23, 2016, at Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 6.

He is currently designer - in - residence at Bangor University's CoLab, a department which bridges Applied Sciences with their soon to open Pontio arts building, where he is working on a large scale digital installation funded by the Arts Council of Wales.

In 2013, she debuted her first large - scale commissioned public work at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and 2015, she presented a new large - scale sculpture commission in City Hall Park, New York City through the Public Art Fund.

Although the sculpture was never realized — Caro was unable to scrape together the necessary funds — the artist and his assistants fabricated a series of models at 1:4 scale, giving a sense of what the final work might have looked like.

My argument here is that if alarmism works at a broad level (climate research funding for global warming) for getting funds, it should also work at the finer scale (within climate research).

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