Sentences with phrase «of philanthropic dollars»

The Broad Foundation investment is helping to fund NGLC's effort to distribute millions of philanthropic dollars to transform schools across the country.

My paper was published in Rick Hess» book With the Best of Intentions, and it concluded that trying to reshape public education through the sheer financial force of philanthropic dollars was futile — like pouring buckets of water into the sea.

The cash envelope man and Mark Zuckerberg's California giving are misguided and wasteful uses of philanthropic dollars, says Jake Novak.

Did you know only three cents of every philanthropic dollar goes to media nonprofits, and only one cent goes to Latino nonprofits?

Not exact matches

The three - day camping trips and sea voyages have raised millions of dollars for various business and philanthropic ventures.

The server investigation put such political strain on the FBI in large part because of the environment of ethics stories that surrounded it — the business and philanthropic empire that arose out of and was hopelessly intertwined with the Clinton political operation, the high - dollar paid speeches, the political aides who were somehow getting so rich off this enterprise that one of them just bought David Rockefeller's mansion.

Now, she's helping guide one of the largest philanthropic operations in the U.S., one that distributed over a half - billion dollars last year.

By contrast, in the less urban area of western Contra Costa County, there are more available facilities and a growing population of students that match most charter schools» target populations — but fewer opportunities to access philanthropic dollars to start up new schools.

There is one area, however, where I think philanthropic dollars should probably fund products and services, which is in the category of assessments.

Many corporate headquarters have moved out of Indianapolis and Indiana altogether, and they have taken their philanthropic attention and dollars with them.

Hundreds of millions of philanthropic and federal dollars are flooding toward such national organizations as KIPP and Teach For America as well as to local and state - specific ventures in a hundred places.

The New York City - based Foundation Center has launched a Web portal to help the philanthropic community leverage federal education dollars, particularly the new grants available as part of the economic - stimulus package.

Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a long public letter to Bill Gates that drew lessons from earlier philanthropic efforts in K - 12 education — including many billions of dollars wasted by the likes of Ford, Rockefeller, and Annenberg.

At the risk of getting into trouble with other readers, let me note the huge impact — mostly positive — of the Common Core initiative that was undertaken outside government with philanthropic dollars.

-- Attracted millions of dollars in philanthropic gifts, including from Bill Gates, whose company Klein had once prosecuted.

(November 2016) The University of Pennsylvania's Center for High Impact Philanthropy featured AppleTree Institute as one of 11 organizations in its 2016 High Impact Giving Guide designed to help donors make a bigger difference with their philanthropic dollars.

The LA Times Editorial criticizes the Gates Foundation for their poor philanthropic use of billions of dollars spent on -LSB-...]

John Fitzpatrick, Texas High School Project and Communities, Foundation of Texas, urged that philanthropic dollars were utilized for innovative and creativity purposed.

To that end, states and districts, aided by hundreds of millions of federal and philanthropic dollars, are developing intensive evaluation systems meant to identify teachers who need help, and pinpoint which skills they need help with.

The University of Pennsylvania's Center for High Impact Philanthropy featured AppleTree Institute once again as one of 11 organizations in its 2017 High Impact Giving Guide designed to help donors make a bigger difference with their philanthropic dollars.

But the lion's share of the gap left over after public dollars are exhausted is closed by private philanthropic funding or from an alternative revenue source.

Unions picketed the opening of the Broad Museum in downtown Los Angeles in 2015 and later planned protests citywide against the «Great Public Schools Now Initiative,» which sought to raise philanthropic dollars to add 260 charter schools in Los Angeles that would enroll half of the city's students.

It seems quite obvious that to renege on charter school expansion plans would be contrary to the terms of the Compact and would undoubtedly put in jeopardy any unspent or future dollars under this philanthropic entity.

The remaining philanthropic dollars for education go toward a range of peripheral functions related to both public and higher education, including direct support of organizations, assessment development, adult and community education, and other functions.1

Social Ventures Australia, which directs philanthropic dollars into successful activities, has set up an education offshoot, Evidence for Learning, which ranks the impact of different interventions in school education.

It was only doing so well because of the millions of dollars worth of support from (unelected) corporate and philanthropic backers.

It involves calculating what the bare minimum philanthropic portion of the budget is (based on the donations listed on the website), and then using that number to calculate the bare minimum total budget (based on the fact that we know that philanthropy comprised 8 % of the total budget), and then finally using that estimation of the total budget to disaggregate the bare number of dollars that each portion must be composed of.

A mixture of public and philanthropic dollars funds Success Academy schools.

In the «shelters» we fund with our tax - dollars and our philanthropic donations, animals are routinely denied the most basic of necessities.

Since then, she has planned and coordinated several fundraising campaigns, and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for philanthropic causes supporting education, homelessness, literacy, suicide prevention, cancer research, prenatal research, and animal welfare.

Our operations will be self - supporting based on traditional sources of revenue and our growth and expansion based on transformational, philanthropic dollars.

Think of all the millions of dollars that have poured into San Francisco over the years from various foundations, governmental agencies, media outlets, philanthropic citizens, and educational and cultural institutions to document the city's art scene.

In the meantime, health it's nice to see that the Texas Prize — a formerly biennial, order now triennial $ 30,000 award Arthouse launched in 2005 for emerging visual artists — has survived the wedding of two former rivals for Austin's philanthropic dollars.