Launched in 2011, Project Leadership and Investment for Transformation, or L.I.F.T., is a five - year initiative in nine low - performing schools in Charlotte, North Carolina.35 The project focuses on
innovative strategies to provide students with extended learning time and increased access to technology while supporting community engagement and excellent teaching.36 Project L.I.F.T. worked with Public Impact — a nonprofit organization that works with school districts to create
innovative school models — to design
hybrid teacher - leader roles that «extend the reach» of high - performing teachers to more students.37 These «multi-classroom leaders» continue to teach while leading teams of teachers and assuming responsibility for the learning of all students taught by their team.38 For this advanced role, teachers earn supplements of up to $ 23,000 annually,
funded sustainably by reallocating
funds within current budgets.39
Perhaps one of the most
innovative new
funds emerging from this space is the Brooklyn - based blockchain startup ConsenSys, lead by Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin, which just debuted a
hybrid VC - hedge
fund called ConsenSys Ventures.