Sentences with phrase «nonprofit foundations»

Many initial coin offerings divide funds between startups and nonprofit foundations based in tax haven nations like Switzerland, which Tezos did as well.

There are nonprofit foundations and countless companies devoted to spreading bitcoin.

Conducted internal investigation for New York, Connecticut, and Delaware nonprofit foundations in connection with a seven - figure embezzlement by an employee of the foundations» management company.

The Connecticut School Finance Project is funded entirely through the generous support of nonprofit foundations.

HTLA was conceived as a model school for the 21st Century by education entrepreneur Roberta Weintraub in partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District, a group of leading high - tech firms and nonprofit foundations.

The lack of accountability for nonprofit foundations, again?

But another group — nonprofit foundations — also exerts influence on the process and outcomes of reform efforts by supporting initiatives that lead to specific changes in the system.

By providing financial incentives, along with other benefits, such as access to patients and disease expertise, nonprofit foundations that fund research can change the culture and structure of the medical research enterprise.

But thanks to early progress on would - be drugs for neglected diseases, Calibr has already attracted funding from nonprofit foundations such as the Wellcome Trust, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

The study, published in Nature Medicine, was partially funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, and more than 25 nonprofit foundations devoted to finding cures for childhood brain cancer.

The City University of New York, troubled by federal and state investigations, plans to overhaul the rules governing its affiliated nonprofit foundations as part of an effort to reassure alumni and donors.

Stuart Reid, executive director of the Food Co-op Initiative, a Minnesota - based nonprofit foundation that advises cooperative grocery stores, says he thinks Howard's Organics move to accept credit cards is a smart one — as most shoppers in today expect that from grocery stores, whether large or small.

In 2014 came the Ethereum Foundation (Stiftung Ethereum), a nonprofit foundation created to promote and support the Ethereum platform, shortly followed by an initial coin offering (ICO), and development of core technology.

TRON was founded by a Singapore - based nonprofit foundation.

By the time this issue reaches you, we will have produced the first annual report for the Institute on Religion and Public Life, the nonprofit foundation that publishes First Things and firstthings.com as well as running a variety of programs.

CSWA is a 501 (c)(3) educational nonprofit foundation established by Wine Institute and the California Association of Winegrape Growers to support widespread adoption of sustainable winegrowing practices.

Elizabeth Pivonka is President of the Produce for Better Health Foundation, a nonprofit foundation devoted to increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables.

On Tuesday, de Blasio will attend a fundraiser in Seattle hosted by venture capitalist and early Amazon.com investor Nick Hanauer and his wife Leslie Hanauer, philanthropists who run a nonprofit foundation dedicated to education and income inequality.

In addition, the Merck institute — a nonprofit foundation set up by the giant drug company — is pulling together a committee of six prominent biologists who will select 150 clones for development into mouse strains over the next few years.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a nonprofit foundation established by the Federal Republic of Germany to promote international research cooperation, offers the Humboldt Research Fellowships * for scholars not resident in Germany to undertake research in that country.

He is also senior fellow at the Milken Institute and president of the Council for Technology and the Individual, a nonprofit foundation addressing the human dimensions of technology.

Taking a page from biomedical research, they lobbied Congress to charter a nonprofit foundation and authorize the U.S. Department of Agriculture to accept funding from it.

Once fully operational, the CRG — a nonprofit foundation formed by the Department of Universities and Research (DURSI), the Department of Health of the Catalan government, and the 4 - year - old Faculty of Human Biology of the public University Pompeu Fabra (UPF)-- will employ about 220 scientists.

Italy's Minister of Health Beatrice Lorenzin announced yesterday that Stamina, the Turin - based nonprofit foundation that developed the treatment, will not be allowed to test it on humans — at least not in Italy.

Every day, week, month that goes by, there's further nerve damage,» said Jocelyn Duff, who lives in Massachusetts and started Cure CMT4J, a nonprofit foundation to find a cure for her daughter, Talia.

Is the IRS okay with Charles Koch's nonprofit foundation funding research that appears to have directly influenced state and national politicians?

WARF, the nonprofit foundation that patents and commercializes campus inventions, has granted the university $ 58.5 million for the 2015 - 16 academic year.

In 2015, Susan helped start the Institute for Sustainable Weight Loss, a nonprofit foundation whose mission is research on achievable and sustainable weight loss.

Dr. James Anderson happens to be the chairman of the National Fiber Council, an organization that is funded by HCF [High Carbohydrates and Fiber] Nutrition Research Foundation (a nonprofit foundation reputedly funded by large carbohydrate containing food corporations and whose chairman happens to be Dr. Anderson), and other not very unbiased entities such as Procter & Gamble.

, TED is a global set of conferences owned by a private nonprofit foundation dedicated to showcasing «ideas worth spreading.»

Actor Paul Walker's death was a horrible tragedy — the beloved and big - hearted father and friend was killed in a car crash in November after an event for his nonprofit foundation, Reach Out WorldWide.

The George Lucas Educational Foundation is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to improving the pre-K — 12 learning process through innovative, replicable, and evidence - based programs and practices that prepare students to thrive in their studies, careers, and adult lives.

The answer for Grand Rapids was a new superintendent intent on sustaining new leadership and a local nonprofit foundation intent on helping.

So Stormont visited Thailand and Laos, where she trekked through mountains, visited villages and temples, and traveled down the Mekong River on a summer sabbatical paid for by the nonprofit foundation Fund for Teachers.

The nonprofit foundation Fund for Teachers, started in 2001 by businessman Raymond Plank.

Thus, though it shifted operations of the museum to a nonprofit foundation in 1992, one of the most disadvantaged districts in the state owns paintings by Benjamin West, Milton Avery, John Singer Sargent, George Bellows, Raphaelle Peale, Julien Duprà ©, Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse - and dozens more.

Although the measure was more about politics than policy — it was designed to raise the Hollywood actor's stature in advance of a future run for governor — the ballot initiative did reflect Schwarzenegger's sincere interest in inner - city schools, dozens of which he had toured during work for his nonprofit foundation, the Inner - City Games.

That was when Dierke made the decision to launch Quiet Time, partnering with the meditation experts at the Center for Wellness and Achievement in Education (CWAE), a San Francisco - based nonprofit foundation.

Broad, whose nonprofit foundation has pushed for mayoral control in urban districts around the nation, criticized the Los Angeles plan because it would force the mayor to share power with the school board and the teachers union.

A proposed bill would authorize the State Charter Schools Commission to create a nonprofit foundation that would lend financial aid to new charter schools in Georgia...

Community schools have been supported by numerous AFT affiliates, including the successful programs in Hartford and Syracuse, N.Y., where Say Yes to Education, a nonprofit foundation, links students and their families to needed services.

WFI has been a proactive advocate by informing, educating and facilitating individual investor participation in the Stichting Volkswagen Investors Claim, a nonprofit foundation established in the Netherlands to represent the interests of victims in seeking a resolution of investor claims against VW.

The Orthopedic Foundation for Animals is a nonprofit foundation that uses readings by three radiologists to read each x-ray.

The MAF — the world's largest nonprofit foundation dedicated to funding research to protect, treat, and cure animals — supports studies in more than 50 of the world's leading research institutions, colleges of veterinary medicine, and zoos.

MAF, founded in 1948, is the largest nonprofit foundation dedicated to funding research studies to protect, treat and cure animals.

Morris Animal Foundation is the largest nonprofit foundation in the world dedicated to funding studies to improve and protect the health of companion animals and wildlife.

Our nonprofit foundation is committed to improving the well - being of pets and communities.

For its upcoming edition, which opens on June 11, Liste will now be handed over to a nonprofit foundation as it seeks Bläuer's replacement.

He is presently a board member at the Fred Sandbank Archive; project director, Robert Ryman Catalogue Raisonné; and executive director, The Greenwich Collection, Ltd., a nonprofit foundation.

E-mail us at [email protected] Founded in 2009 in Puebla, Arquetopia is an award - winning, Mexican official nonprofit foundation promoting Development, social transformation and productivity through artistic, cultural, and educational programs.