Sentences with phrase «new funding models»

Given the cultural shift this entails, and the need to explore new funding models, a more incremental approach to Flex Time legal education may be advisable.

We continue to drive thinking about the development of new funding models for water projects and are expert partners in a group of more than 30 corporate, government, academic and NGO partners including Carlsberg, Munich Re, World Vision and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies who have come together to contribute to the development of a new Water Benefit Standard initiated by First Climate, the Swiss Agency for Development & Co-operation and The Gold Standard Foundation.

Wilson says Gambitious got into this business not for a gold rush, but rather the opposite — to carefully protect and enhance the massive opportunity that the new funding models present for independent developers, rather than see it squandered by over-promising and under - delivering on projects, especially in cases where people are investing significant amounts of their money hoping for a return.

Without new funding models, schools in low - income areas will be unable to meet even the most basic standards for health and safety,» said Rachel Gutter, director, Center for Green Schools at USGBC.

«Without new funding models, schools in low - income areas will be unable to meet even the most basic standards for health and safety.»

We're looking for people who can speak on summit topics such as fintech, crowdfinance, online lending / debt, P2P marketplaces, equity crowdfunding, royalties, new funding models, alternative finance, crowdsales (ICOs), rewards and product pre-sale, social impact, real estate, crowdsourcing, innovation and other trending topics.

Portfolio companies that have received investments from Brightspark under the firm's new funding model include Hubba, Nudge Rewards, CrowdCare, Classcraft, gShift, nGUVU, AdHawk, and NanoMagnetics.

Less thought went into the impact of the new funding model on the universities themselves and what we can see in retrospective was a de facto privatisation.

Among the major decisions made is the adoption of a new funding model for the AUC, which will see all the 54 member countries contribute some 1.2 billion dollars to the Union's coffers every year through levying 0.2 per cent tax on eligible imports.

Among them is a group of scientists at the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Bloomington, who proposed a new funding model in an article published last week in EMBO reports.

«If the public wants more research, we need a new funding model.»

Imposing a new funding model on top of the existing business typically doesn't work.

In Hackney, schools will lose # 2.7 m in the first year of the new funding model.

This week's report also urged «hold - harmless» provision to protect districts from funding cuts under any new funding model, as well as continued support for position allotments, rather than dollar allotments.

The Superior Court's sweeping ruling stated that Connecticut does not fund its schools in a way that provides a minimally adequate education for all students as constitutionally required, and called upon the General Assembly to construct a new funding model within 180 days.

Local Control Funding Formula / Local Control and Accountability Plan: California has adopted a new funding model called the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) that is designed to make the schools more equitable and provide resources for students who have been historically underserved, such as English Language Learners, low income students, and youth in foster care.

The PAC collaborated with our community and district partners * to gather input from families across the district on the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP), a requirement under California's new funding model the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF).

The campaign website www.schoolcuts.org.uk will be updated when the Government publishes further details of their new funding model.

According to the paper's authors, «cryptocurrencies have provided us with the new funding model, which can be used by non-profit organisations, start - ups and networks to rapidly develop the use of the decentralized cryptographic technology in numerous different industries.»

A new funding model, which sets a fair management fee, puts an emphasis on funding into activities and achieves an effective rate of utilisation of allocated CDEP places;

Not exact matches

«With our analysis and predictive models, Own the Podium will be able to make new funding decisions that will better help Canadian athletes train, compete and dominate on the world stage,» said Canadian Tire senior vice-president Duncan Fulton in a press released this week.

The viability of crowd funding has taken on added importance as governments have begun promoting a new model, one that doesn't depend on donations.

The International Monetary Fund sees Canada's fiscal policy as a model for other countries, but a new report highlights some concerns, too

With respect to analyzing the sort of models that gets investors interested in pumping - in funds to significantly newer entrants in the financial lending vertical, More explains that it was the customer experience focus over which the business models were developed.

Unless a new model for funding free content online is discovered, it's likely that the current love - hate relationship consumers have with ads will remain.

GM has abandoned several money - losing markets over the past three years as part of a broader strategy to boost profit margins and conserve capital to fund electric and automated vehicles as well as new models for core markets in China, the U.S. and Latin America.

Since today's venture capitalists (even angel investors) mostly seeking robust technology - driven models from new ventures, it only makes sense to track UrbanPiper's models and how these were leveraged to obtain funding from Vembu and others.

But beyond continuing to grow its specializations model, another area of focus for Coursera as it digs into its new funds is international expansion.

For Point72, it's a new way of of finding talent in the still relatively untested world of quantitative investing — a style that relies largely on numbers and statistical modeling but dominated the list of top earning hedge funders of 2016, according to Institutional Investor's Alpha.

A Kansas City firm turns the traditional VC funding model on its head and captures new opportunities.

Harrington says the crowdfunding model will offer new ways for inventors to gain funding, a business he's been in for almost 30 years.

«This issuance reflects OnDeck's most successful securitization issuance to date, with strong investor interest resulting in broad participation by existing and new institutional investors, expected improvement in credit ratings, and a significant reduction in cost of funds despite a rising interest rate environment, and is a testament to the strength of OnDeck's business model.»

The 17 - story series was produced by the Tyee Solutions Society, which is a new model for funding and sharing first - rate solutions - focused journalism.

January 31, 2012 POWERFUL NEW «CROWD FUNDING» MODEL FOR START - UPS — Will Canada Keep Up with the U.S.?

These trends have fueled speculation about whether the venture model is broken and have driven interest in new paradigms in venture capital that better align the interests of fund managers and investors and that provide the potential for outsized investment returns.

The MaRS Cleantech Fund LP ushers in a new model in early - stage technology investing by leveraging the strength of a non-exclusive, but strategic relationship between MaRS Discovery District and the private sector.

Discover new alternative funding models, investment strategies, and deal flow opportunities.

The company also defended Evans Dixon's vertically integrated model in which it places clients into funds such as URF, New Energy Solar and the Evans Disruption Fund.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

As a pioneering systems and eco-system architect, he and his team remain active in creating new models and new technology, including the creation of more than 70 funding hubs worldwide.

China's startup ecosystem has earned a reputation of fast rises and hard landings: during the last two years, sky - high funding rounds and valuations for less - than - ideal projects have made (over) saturation of companies and business models the new normal.

CIFF has indicated a significant interest in funding up to 50 % of Living Goods» costs for 2015 - 2018, with the condition that Living Goods raises approximately $ 1 for every $ 1 CIFF contributes.152 Regardless of CIFF's decision, Living Goods is actively seeking funding from new and existing donors to fill its funding gap and plans to use these funds to support scaling up in Uganda and its partnerships and advocacy team's efforts to help organizations replicate the model in other places.153

The 2nd discussion was in the second half of the event which was on - Rise of new business models and niche opportunities — building businesses on customer - centric unit economics with Mahendra Sharma — Co-Founder & CTO MatruBharti Technologies Pvt Ltd, Hemang Desai — HR Advisor & Success Coach, Hetang Shah — Director Suryam Energy Solutions, Nikhil Suthar — Co-Founder Pixel Perfect Technologies and Pravash Dey — VC Fund India.

Outspoken leveraged buyout investor Guy Hands is pushing a new compensation model for big institutions like sovereign wealth funds.

The main argument for evergreen funding for new ventures are the cautionary tales of startups that grew too fast and quickly outpaced their business model to the point that a profitable business on one scale becomes a ruined venture on the larger scale.

Read the new model funding agreement for Free Schools: http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/leadership/typesofschools/freeschools/a0074737/free-schools-model-funding-agreement Changes to the Curriculum, curriculum development and delivery, and RE and collective worship section of the funding agreement include: Section 22 — it is no longer expected that Free Schools will have a subject - based specialism.

The Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) and infrastructure specialists Parsons Brinckerhoff and Balfour Beatty today launched the results of an initiative that provides a detailed «route map» for change and suggests new and innovative models for funding transport infrastructure.

And despite growing support - from India to Sierra Leone - for publicly funded health and education systems modelled on our own, the Conservatives are pushing for private sector provision in DfID's new private sector strategy.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has welcomed a new revision of the model funding agreement for Free Schools by the Government in order to preclude «the teaching, as an evidence - based view or theory, of any view or theory that is contrary to established scientific and / or historical evidence and explanations.»

Cuomo would like to model the state's system on the New York City campaign finance system, which offers candidates matching funds, once they have solicited small contributions from individual donors.