Sentences with phrase «makes philanthropic investments»
After bringing in Meg Whitman to run eBay, Pierre founded the Omidyar Network to make philanthropic investments, and returned to his native Hawaii where he's done wonderful work for the community where he grew up.
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Ryan Cotton, the Bain managing director who led the investment, identifies three strengths that he believes will make Toms, one day, a multibillion - dollar public company: its reputation as a philanthropic pioneer, its enthusiastic customers (who may want to become shareholders), and its potential to expand beyond footwear into a broad lifestyle brand.
In 2014, Boston Beer again expanded the program, making an additional philanthropic investment of $ 1 million to support small business owners through speed coaching events in more cities and additional microloans.
Governments, development banks, other financial institutions, businesses, and philanthropic organizations should increase financing for food loss and waste reduction technologies, processes, and research and help make projects more investment - ready.
Lindsley and Conn credit The William K. Warren Foundation for its philanthropic investments along the way to make clinical trials for this investigational drug a reality.
This possibility makes it a lot tougher to raise philanthropic investment.
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the philanthropic organization created by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, is making an investment in a startup in India that offers personalized learning services to students.
Professionally, Jarl Mohn divides his time between being a corporate director and advisor to a number of media companies, making direct early stage angel and seed investments in digital media / technology ventures, and managing The Mohn Family Foundation — the philanthropic entity that he and his wife created in 2000.
Professionally, Jarl Mohn divides his time between being a corporate director and advisor to a number of media companies, making direct early stage angel and seed investments in digital media / technology ventures, and managing The Mohn Family Foundation — the philanthropic entity he and his wife created in 2000.
Over the past 18 months, I have been the subject of intense speculation and public scrutiny, in large part because of the philanthropic investments of the Mercer Family Foundation and the political contributions made by my father and me.