The company's exit from the program comes as
the heavily funded initiative is facing fierce criticism from skeptics questioning it's effectiveness.
Not exact matches
We rely
heavily on social media to get our message out, and on Feb. 13 I took part in a Google hangout arranged by Virgin StartUp, with a group of young entrepreneurs who were launching their businesses with assistance from the Start - Up Loans Co., an
initiative funded by the British government.
Similarly, a school or district's access to adequate
funding for a technology
initiative can depend
heavily on whether the state's budget reflects education as a priority.
The push,
heavily motivated by federal
funding initiatives such as the $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top program, and major education reform philanthropies, seeks to accelerate the rate of improvements in education and the number of United States students succeeding in school, career and life.
Sparinvest has been
heavily involved in setting up a new
initiative with LuxFLAG, the Luxembourg
fund - labelling agency, to launch a new LuxFLAG ESG label.
There have been some shifts within the foundation world toward a broader view of power, with more enthusiasm for
funding scrappy
initiatives, and a hint of rethinking the wisdom of depending too
heavily on wholly owned subsidiaries.