Sentences with phrase «of the best funded african»

Becoming one of the best funded African tech startups ever, he said, was a «major validation» of all the work that had gone into building the ecosystem, and specifically a pat on the back for every team member that has given their all to make the company successful so far.

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The Bush administration is well aware that shifting funds toward black churches provides a unique opportunity to reach out to African - Americans, only 9 percent of whom voted for him.

We also partner with other research organisations to ensure the best capability is brought to bear on a problem, such as leading a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded project involving institutions around the world to develop self - reproducing hybrid crops for African farmers or working with the University of Queensland and Queensland State Government researchers to solve challenges faced by the Northern Australian beef industry.

We will fulfill our collective commitment to achieve a successful 18th replenishment of the International Development Association, as well as 14th replenishment of the African Development Fund.

Werritty, the group's UK director, was funded by a raft of powerful businessmen including Michael Hintze, one of the Tories biggest financial backers whose hedge fund, CQS, has investments in companies that have contracts with the Ministry of Defence; Poju Zabludowicz, chairman of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, who chairs a US munitions company; and the Good Governance Group, a private security firm set up by a South African businessman, Andries Pienaar, who also has an investment firm, C5 Capital, focused on the defence sector.

Following her self - funded fiction debut, I Will Follow (2010), her path to success was eased after she became the first African - American woman to win the Best Director Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film, Middle of Nowhere.

African American and Latino students, as well as children and youths from low - income families, have been particularly hard hit, according to the unanimous court ruling, which pointed to dismal test scores and graduation rates as evidence of the impact of insufficient funding.

While Goodwood features concours level classic cars and the best hill - climbing machines, South Africa's event features an eclectic gathering of cars, even by South African standards, and allows local grassroots racers to mix it up with well - funded pros and amateurs that bring heavy hardware such as the 1989 Dallara Fomula 1 car that won King of the Hill after wrangling up the 1.18 - mile course in just 37 seconds or the R32 1993 Nissan GT - R that was less than three seconds off the Ford - powered F1 racer's pace.

The corruption and graft that have tainted so much of Africa's leadership in the post-independence period are well - known; the misappropriation of funds, outright theft, incompetence, and cronyism that have characterised too many African governments for decades have been often catalogued.

Axelrod has also donated his extensive research library of books about African American artists to the Museum, as well as funds to support scholarship.

A series of workshops organised in Dakar between September and October 2003 by Ousseynou Wade, Dak» Art former Secretary General, and Céline Savoye, designer and curator, as well as the visit of Michel Bouisson, funding manager and liaison officer for design schools at the VIA (Valorisation of Innovation in Furnishing) in Paris, gave the impetus for a more ambitious project on the scale of the African continent.

It's a diverse lot that includes the Alturas Foundation, which funded «Makin» Hay,» the public art installation of monumental sculpture by Tim Otterness at Hardberger Park; the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Foundation for the Arts, known for one of the best collections of African American art in the country; and Claudia Huntington and Marshall Miller, who loaned SAMA large scale figurative sculpture for the show, including the piece by Chia and Polish artist Igor Mitoraj's «Sonno Screpolato (Cracked Sleep),» a bronze of a fragmented face.

YINKA SHONIBARE CREATES A WORK FOR CAMPAIGN AGAINST CUTS A striking new work by Fourth Plinth artist Yinka Shonibare was unveiled today as part of the campaign supported by over 100 leading British artists against the government's proposed funding cuts of the arts.The artist's work shows a slash across a piece of brightly coloured African fabric for which the artist has become well known with the caption: «Stop Cutting».

Slave Rebellion Reenactment is / has been supported in part by: A Blade of Grass Foundation, Socially Engaged Artist Fellowship; Antenna; Art Matters; The Givens Foundation for African American Literature; The Kindle Project; The Joan Mitchel Center; The MAP Fund / Creative Capital; The McColl Center for Art + Innovation; Open Society Foundations; Smack Mellon as well as generous contributions from individual donors.

Purchased with funds donated by the Estate of Barbara Bingham Moore, Olga V. Hargis Family Trusts and the Members» Acquisition Fund Faith Ringgold is well known for originating the African American story quilt revival in the late 1970s.

At a recent fund - raiser at the waterfront offices of Sungevity, an Oakland, Calif., solar company, hedge fund managers and other well - heeled investors sipped cocktails and mingled with inner - city activists in the hope of raising $ 1.9 million for a turn - out - the - vote campaign that will is aimed at nine counties with large populations of African - American, Asian and Latino voters.

«The workshop also concluded that African countries could look at how best to link and leverage finance through the Green Climate Fund at the same time as increasing use of the CDM.»

Mediated through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, mechanisms exist that allow for the transfer of funds and capacity from richer to poorer countries to enable the latter to meet their obligations (i.e., the Central African Forest Initiative; Müller 2016), as well as a staged process for poorer countries to reduce emissions in line with their capacity to do so.

Gather Online's other backers include a collection of 10 investment bankers and angel inventors, as well as a South African hedge fund CEO who Price said has invested through a blind trust and wished to remain «anonymous».

In February, the startup was one of only two African startups selected to join Silicon Valley - based Y Combinator, where it received three months» intensive mentoring and training as well as US$ 120,000 in funding.

Hempstead, NY — Planned Parenthood of Nassau County (PPNC) has been awarded a $ 7,500 grant from the Long Island Fund for Women and Girls to fund the Trust Women Campaign, an outreach and advocacy initiative to empower African American women to speak out in support of women's rights, as well as access reproductive health cFund for Women and Girls to fund the Trust Women Campaign, an outreach and advocacy initiative to empower African American women to speak out in support of women's rights, as well as access reproductive health cfund the Trust Women Campaign, an outreach and advocacy initiative to empower African American women to speak out in support of women's rights, as well as access reproductive health care.

Currently, he is the Deputy Chairman of JSE - listed Fortress Income Fund and non-executive director of New European Property Investment PLC, as well as a director of the South African Property Owners Association.