Sentences with phrase «goal of raising funds»

The players truly are a great group of people who come from all different walks of life but come together with a common goal of raising funds, so we can make an impact on the lives of local children.

For the last three years, I have organized a Boxing Day charity hockey game with a goal of raising funds for local children's charitable causes.

Menu of Hope was created with the goal of raising funds to provide healthy meals and nutrition and physical education to Ohio's at - risk children who do not have consistent access to the food they need to grow, learn and thrive.

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The organization raised the funds to purchase micro: bits for a pilot program focused on 25 middle - school classrooms, with the eventual goal of purchasing the device for every 7th grader attending the county's schools.

A year ago, after the company announced it had raised $ 50 million in Series D funding, Wojcicki said that they were focused on lowering cost to bring in more users — a million by the end of 2013 was the company's stated goal.

So, instead, create a 10 - page pitch deck, which is a more concise and visual version of your plan, and you'll be better prepared to raise some funding and accomplish your early goals.

A quick stat directly from Kickstarter: 80 percent of projects that raised more than 20 % of their goal were successfully funded.

Minuum's Indiegogo campaign in spring 2013 raised 873 per cent of its initial funding goal.

Wide distribution over the internet • Low cost, efficient, transparent capital • The «great equalizer «• Media / PR, awareness • Increase customer engagement and • Evangelize backers into investors (customer acquisition) • Reduce risk by getting feedback on new launches (product or ventures) • Market research Access to Capital Marketing Platform Validation • Raising funds via crowdfunding markets is a very public and transparent • Protect your IP and speak to a lawyer • Crowdfunding takes a lot of effort and commitment • The majority of Ideas fail to reach their funding goal • How will this affect your companies brand?

«Liquid Story used its technology and strategic insight to guide Jamstack to connect with our target consumer to our first Crowd Funding Campaign on Kickstarter resulting in achieving over 300 % of our fund raising goal.

One dollar of every room night booked through April will be donated to the El Yunque Rainforest Restoration Fund, with the goal of raising $ 10,000.

Now, having accomplished its primary objective, and still 15 days to go for the end of the token sale, the team is raising more funds in order to reach newly introduced extended goals and add exciting new features to the game, like player vs player and user - generated tournaments via smart contracts.

The initiative, known as Yasuní - ITT, failed to raise the necessary funds as northern Annex 1 countries balked at contributing to keeping fossil fuels in the ground — a strategy that is now a scientific imperative if the world is to meet its declared goal of avoiding a 2 °C rise in temperature.

Now, a rewards - based funding platform where a «crowd» of users fund their favored projects, and, if a pitch reaches its goal - funding amount — a.k.a. «rocking the post» — then prizes are divvied out and the platform takes a percentage of the funds raised.

I was able to raise nearly half of Passo's funding goal in about 90 days with SeedInvest — any startup should consider that a success.»

«The goal was to create a world - class event and food festival that helped raise funds in Florida for education and in New York City for the hunger causes,» says Lee Brian Schrager, founder and vice president of corporate communications and national events at Southern Wine and Spirits of America.

Taking their dream to Kickstarter for funding shortly after their success in the dorm, New Grounds Food generated their goal of $ 10,000 in 15 hours and raised $ 45,000 in total.

Helping to achieve that goal is Saranac Thursdays, a series of concerts at the brewery every Thursday in the summer that is attended by up to 2,500 people and raises funds for the United Way.

Their goal — to raise awareness of the bud logo and raise funds and awareness for Oxfam.

Its goal — to raise enough funds by the end of 2016 to plant 20 million coffee seedlings to replace trees that are declining in productivity due to age and disease, such as coffee leaf rust.

Each spring and summer, the nation's hottest chefs and mixologists donate their time, talent and passion at nearly 40 Taste of the Nation events across the United States and Canada, with one goal in mind: to raise the critical funds needed to end childhood hunger in America.

«The goal of this virtual auction is to raise maximum funds for five deserving charities by expanding the audience able to bid on auction lots,» said Jennifer Porter, Executive Director of the Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance.

The event helps raise funds for Save Mount Diablo (via participant donations), but the main goal is to build community and support of our parks and outdoor activity.

Michael Antonio grabbed a couple of goals in last night's fund raising friendly for Dagenham and Redbridge and then declared: «I've feel I've got the goals in me to keep West Ham up.»

Our 2014 Celebration of School Nutrition Heroes was so successful that SNF is bringing it back with the dual goals of honoring the School Nutrition Heroes in our ranks, and to help raise funds for the Foundation.

For more than 30 years, the School Nutrition Foundation has been raising funds to provide SNA members with the opportunity to achieve their higher education goals through a wide variety of scholarships.

For over 20 years, the School Nutrition Foundation has been raising funds to provide SNA members the opportunity to achieve their higher education goals through a wide variety of scholarships.

«For over 20 years, SNF has been raising funds to provide SNA members the opportunity to achieve their higher education goals through a wide variety of scholarships; to date, SNF has awarded members over $ 2 million in scholarships.»

If the goal of the K Street Project was to earmark and fund raise our way to a filibuster - proof «governing» majority, the goal of «compassionate conservatism» was to spend our way to a governing majority.

Having chosen investment in innovation as one of the ten pillars of the Industrial Strategy, the Government's hope is that the Fund will raise research and development (R&D) spend, improve productivity and ultimately contribute to its goal of driving «growth across the whole of the UK».

To fund his goals Fuleihan must identify cost savings or the mayor - elect could be faced with the unpopular choice of raising property taxes - something de Blasio did not explicitly rule out when asked at the announcement.

The coalition is backed by businesses, private sector labor organizations and elected officials, and it can raise unlimited funds to meet his goal, according to Board of Elections guidelines and court rulings.

$ 20 Million In Private Donations Raised For Mayor de Blasio's Computer Science For All Initiative The fundraising campaign is half - way toward meeting a $ 40 million goal that will ultimately be matched in public funding for one of the cornerstones of the Mayor's Equity and Excellence education reforms.

He will also continue to be the main draw in a fund - raising campaign that has a goal of taking in at least $ 750 million by Election Day, which would match his 2008 figure even though he does not face the long primary battle that he did four years ago.

The plan is to work with international partners to put scientists in the field, with an initial fund - raising goal of $ 500,000.

And this past May Guardant Health announced it had raised $ 360 million from investors, on top of earlier funding, with the goal of deploying its liquid biopsy test to one million people over the next five years.

State higher education performance funding is falling short of its intended goals of raising student retention and degree completion rates at community colleges, according to new research published today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

Scientists raising funds for the world's first imaging study of the brain on LSD raised more than $ 65,000 earlier this year, more than twice their goal.

Our crowdfunding campaign at Experiment.com concluded last night at midnight, with $ 10,643 raised — 124 % of our original funding goal.

Help to meet my fund - raising goal of $ 10,000 to cover video production costs.

Broken Lizard, the comedy team behind the original film, raised more than $ 4.5 million to fund Super Troopers 2 during a crowd - funding campaign on Indiegogo last year, shooting past their initial goal of $ 2 million.

An awesome looking documentary about the fans of the Evil Dead films is coming via DiggerFilms, which is currently raising funds on Indiegogo and needs to reach its goal of $ 30,000 to make it happen.

Reform's Academy chains unlocked report brings together results from the first survey of academy chain chief executives and recommends reforms to the funding and oversight of academy chains to raise standards and achieve the original goal of improving education for all children.

You might have heard of or considered some of these ideas, but others might be just the ticket to raising funds to reach grade - level or school - wide goals.

Although among the group only Utzinger had any prior fundraising experience, they decided to issue a «cohort challenge» to their Ed.D. peers with the goal of convincing every member of the first - year cohort — 32 in total — to contribute to the HGSE Fund, which seeks to raise resources for many areas of the Ed School including financial aid, Gutman Library, and faculty and student support services.

The Director - General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, will take part in the Third Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where world leaders will seek to raise funds for achieving the sustainable development goals that will be adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in September.

In November 2009, I unofficially formed H.E.R.O. (Housing, Education, and Rehabilitation of Orphans) through a self - created blog with the ultimate goal of raising sufficient funds to build a residence for street children and orphans.

But raising standards in the absence of proper funding for implementation, clear thinking about whether these changes will really allow our kids to compete globally and ensuring that the whole exercise isn't just an exhausting and expensive dance of «move the goal» is equally important.

On the other hand, if the Legislature increases LCFF funding after reaching full implementation — instead of raising the targets beforehand — it would mean more than raising the funding goals.

reaching full implementation — instead of raising the targets beforehand — it would mean more than raising the funding goals.