Sentences with phrase «of venture philanthropy»

«The Rise of Venture Philanthropy and the Ongoing Neoliberal Assault on Public Education: The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.»

Public School Reform in the Age of Venture Philanthropy.

The President of Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP) not only serves on the Board of Friendship Schools, but the education reform investment company has also played a major role in funding Friendship Schools and its aggressive expansion plans.

Mario Marino of Venture Philanthropy Partners recently blogged on the importance of great people for the success of any education reform.

In the domain of venture philanthropy — where donors decide what social transformation they want to engineer and then design and fund projects to implement their vision — investing in education yields great bang for the buck.

Parent Revolution markets itself as a grass roots parent «union,» yet it has access to millions of venture philanthropy dollars.

Citing scholarship by his former student, University of California, Berkeley, professor Janelle Scott («The Politics of Venture Philanthropy in Charter School Policy and Advocacy»), Rose argues that the sway of foundation money on education policy is completely undemocratic.

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She is also a Partner and Secretary of the Board of Directors of the venture philanthropy organization Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2).

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Dooling said the objectives are to educate people about venture philanthropy and raise the profile of the brand to support its fundraising goals.

He left IPC at the end of 2010 to pursue his interests in venture capital and philanthropy prior to his joining Bellwether Investment Management (parent company to archerETF) in October 2011.

Guggenheim Partners is now accepting applications for the Network for Social Innovation (NSI), the firm's venture philanthropy program designed to identify and support the growth of visionary non-profit organizations.

For over 15 years, Kirsch has quietly built New Profit into one of the nation's top venture philanthropy firms.

He left IPC at the end of 2010 to pursue his interests in venture capital and philanthropy prior to his joining Bellwether Investment Management in October 2011.

Where global seed and venture capital becomes a new face of philanthropy, and the vehicle of choice for driving sustainable impact.

This week's World Health Assembly included two closely linked hot topics: how WHO should interact with businesses and venture philanthropies and whether trade should come before health when tackling the marketing of baby foods and formulas.

The trials are supported through funding from CRI's venture philanthropy fund, and sponsored by one of CRI's clinical trial management partners.

Dr. Shalabi will oversee the program, working with a comprehensive set of nonprofit resources that includes a global network of more than sixty leading scientists, clinical trials management capabilities, venture philanthropy funding, along with operational, reagent access, and co-funding partnerships with more than twenty nonprofit and industry organizations.

Most recently, CRI has launched a new «venture philanthropy» program called the Cancer Vaccine Acceleration Fund (CVAF) as a means to catalyze development of next - generation therapeutic cancer vaccines and other immunotherapies by helping to address the critical shortage of capital available for early stage clinical trials.

About Site - The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) is the only venture philanthropy whose sole mission is to accelerate the discovery and development of drugs to prevent, treat and cure Alzheimer's disease.

Unbundling Capital: A Venture Philanthropy Firm's Exploration of Non-Monetary Investments & the Organizational Components That Influence Them.

From the start, attempts to turn philanthropy into social investing and to apply principles of venture capital to grantmaking have run into a single enormous obstacle: the absence of performance metrics that would allow one to determine anything remotely close to «social return on investment.»

On Top of the News Venture Philanthropy gives $ 5.5 million for expansion of KIPP DC charter schools 08/02/10 The Washington Post

Donors Make Personal Links to New Students Beth Rabbitt, a former associate partner at a venture philanthropy firm who aspires to lead a public school system, had two choices for grad school: a top - ranked business school or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.)

I want the U.S. Department of Education to operate like a venture philanthropy firm.

Beth Rabbitt, a former associate partner at a venture philanthropy firm who aspires to lead a public school system, had two choices for grad school: a top - ranked business school or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.)

Practitioners of what's now called «venture» or «strategic philanthropy» have been carried away by the conceit that they know best what needs to happen, and they often confine their support to those who take direction from them.

is co-founder and former CEO of NewSchools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy firm based in San Francisco, CaliVenture Fund, a venture philanthropy firm based in San Francisco, Caliventure philanthropy firm based in San Francisco, California.

But with their financial success from the sale of SunAmerica, the Broads focused their charitable giving in a new style of investing that was more akin to their business acumen: venture philanthropy.

Joanna Jacobson is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Strategic Grant Partners, a venture philanthropy organization that is both a foundation and pro-bono consulting firm.

This was not philanthropy; it was a profit - making venture.6 Investors quickly figured out that there was money to be made in the purchase, leasing, and rental of space to charter schools, and an aggressive for - profit charter sector emerged wherever it was permitted by state law; in states where for - profit charters were not allowed, nonprofit charters hired for - profit operators to run their schools.

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Struggles and triumphs are all part of the conversation at this annual conference by NSVF, a venture philanthropy that supports education reform and puts on a conference filled with networking, internal debates and plenty of soul searching about what is working in schools.

Stacey Childress, the CEO of the New Schools Venture Fund, a nonprofit philanthropy firm investing in school innovation, sees policymakers» new interest in social and emotional skills as both a blessing and a curse.

Stacey Childress is the CEO of New Schools Venture Fund, a nonprofit philanthropy that invests in charter schools.

Prior to joining Flamboyan, Marci was a Partner at Venture Philanthropy Partners, a nonprofit philanthropic investment organization that combines growth capital and strategic assistance to improve the lives of children and youth of low - income families in the National Capital Region.

She also sits on the boards of Sapientis, DC School Reform Now, Stand for Children, Teach For America * D.C. Region, and Venture Philanthropy Partners.

An illustration of what happens when some successful business leaders venture into philanthropy.

Stacey Childress, CEO of the New Schools Venture Fund, a nonprofit philanthropy firm investing in school innovation, sees policymakers» new interest in social and emotional skills as both a blessing and a curse.

Christy Chin — The Managing Director of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, the philanthropy arm of the venture capital firm, Draper Richards.

We helped the nation's top philanthropies establish a joint venture for investing in more effective communications around the importance of challenging education standards.

Board includes Gregory Prince (President, Educational Services Associates), Carol Thompson Cole (President & CEO, Venture Philanthropy Partners), Deborah McGriff (Partner, NewSchools Venture Fund), Chris Whittle (an education entrepreneur who founded the ill - fated Edison Schools and now serves as the chief executive officer of Avenues: The World School, «a planned international system of independent pre-K-12 schools) and Kevin P. Chavous (CEO of the Chavous Group, an education reform consulting and public relations group).

Venture Philanthropy Partners also invests in a variety of other charter school management companies including KIPP.

And the «venture philanthropy» principles are not the sole purview of the new guard — any funder can employ strategic investment with a guiding vision, clear expectations for grantees including measurable outcomes and accountability, and a clear articulation of the desired scale and nature of impact.

Like the Bill & Melinda Gates and Walton Family Foundations, funding tends to focus on particular issues, and funded activities tend more toward innovation and disruption of the status quo — an approach termed «venture philanthropy» in a nod to the notion of the business sector's venture capitalism and the application of related business principles to philanthropy.

Both the «venture philanthropy» approach and the increased profile of funders in the public policy arena have generated some criticism.

04/26/2017: The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Grants Roundup: Gates and Chan - Zuckerberg Back $ 12 Million Personalized - Learning Venture

The US Department of Education, which in recent years has hired into leadership positions a number of people from venture philanthropy organizations, has also actively promoted, and in some cases, funded these programs.

NewSchools is a national nonprofit venture philanthropy that supports teams of educators, and education entrepreneurs, who are reimagining public education.Their Diverse Leaders investment strategy works to close the racial and ethnic demographic gap between education leadership and students by investing in entrepreneurs who are advancing Black and Latino leaders in education.

In the venture philanthropy roles that I have held, I have been charged with supporting the development of leading non-profit charter school operators across over 26 states.