Sentences with phrase «nonprofit funding models»

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Instead of adopting the traditional nonprofit fundraising model — i.e. constant fundraising — Watsi imitated the startup funding model, which allowed the company to ask for a set amount for a specific goal.

Since that time, the nonprofit media organization has adapted its funding model significantly and now receives the majority of its donations via cryptocurrencies.

Kimbal Musk is giving away his personal, fully - loaded Tesla Model 3 to help raise funds for Big Green, a nonprofit organization aimed...

Council aides said that poor defendants who can not make bail are often detained for days; they said a bail fund would save the city on incarceration costs and follow a model already used by nonprofit groups.

Other recent work includes developing a school funding model to simulate the impact of student - based budgeting at the state level, evaluating a rural school grant, and providing strategic and research support for a nonprofit working to build the supply of great public schools in a Western state.

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

Alonso's speech marked the first public acknowledgment that the city hopes to model its construction funding plan on a groundbreaking schools project in Greenville, S.C. Transform Baltimore, a coalition of education advocates led by the American Civil Liberties Union, has been lobbying city leaders to carry out Greenville's plan, which would require a nonprofit or other entity to float the bonds on behalf of the school system.

There are small presses that are nonprofit and operate on a funding model that factors in fair fees for translators, so we know that it's possible.

Gamelab spun off two successful companies: Gamestar Mechanic, an online site funded by the MacArthur Foundation that lets kids create games; and the Institute of Play, a nonprofit initiative that looks at the intersection of games and learning and which recently launched Quest to Learn, a New York City school using play as the model for learning.

The pivotal decision to remove its admissions fee was actually the realization of a larger strategic initiative by the Nonprofit Finance Fund and the Community Foundation to build capacity for arts organizations in Atlanta, and included several months of mentorship, consultation and $ 200,000 over three years in seed funding for Atlanta Contemporary to implement its free admission model.

Keya Chatterjee of the World Wildlife Fund discusses the ways WWF's Earth Hour City Challenge provides a model for how nonprofits and citizens can work with municipal leaders to build public support for climate action.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), a nonprofit organization funded entirely by auto insurance companies, crash tests nearly every model of car, truck, van and SUV sold in the United States.