Sentences with phrase «major financial backers»

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.

Part of the concern is due to her past support of charter schools and connections to Broad, as well as her connections to Bill Gates and the Walton family, who are also major financial backers of charter schools that directly threaten union teacher jobs.

Proenza Schouler's major financial backers want out, reports WWD.

The hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, a prominent charter school supporter and a major financial backer of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and congressional Republicans, accused Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.»

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

The hedge fund manager Daniel S. Loeb, a prominent supporter of charter schools and a major financial backer of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and congressional Republicans, accused the African - American woman who leads the Democrats in the New York State Senate of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.»

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.

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 Dodge Jones Foundation was the major financial backer of the renovation of the building and the revitalization of downtown Abilene.

General Mills is also represented by the Grocery Manufacturers Association, a powerful lobbying group and major financial backer of the campaigns that defeated proposed GMO labeling laws in California and Washington.

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According to Yessi Bello Perez's report at Coindesk, one of South Korea's largest financial institutions Shinhan Bank was the major backer with close to half a million dollars.

«Mr Simpson and Mr Woodley are due to retire, and will be replaced by one general secretary, who will have a major influence on the Labour Party, of which Unite is the biggest financial backer.

Their role as major Trump financial backers emerged after the election as did Rebekah Mercer's purported role as a Trump advisor, getting...

The next major steps will be to find financial backers — people with capital to support the initiative — and to line - up buyers.