Sentences with phrase «of wealthy foundations»

Parent Revolution is funded by the usual handful of wealthy foundations who spend billions experimenting with social engineering under the cloak of «education reform:»

Then again, the business of academic research endowments, especially in fields as conceptually confused as artificial intelligence or cognitive science, really is all about exploiting the credulity of wealthy foundations and corporations and private donors (sometimes with devious cynicism, sometimes in deluded innocence).

Not exact matches

While the Stop had started out raising money through conventional means such as grants, foundations and direct - mail campaigns, and continues to rely on these methods for the bulk of its funding, it saw opportunity in the wealthier constituency that lived near the Green Barn.

The foundation is part of the Giving Pledge, a commitment by the world's wealthiest people to dedicate the majority of their wealth through philanthropy.

We believe that wealthy families have a foundation of basic needs related to investments, budgeting, estate, income tax and insurance.

Huge amounts of money are available from governments and wealthy foundations for climate institutes and for climate - related research.

Why, foundations created by wealthy families, of course.

Nowhere have the weak social foundations of American liberal institutions been more evident than in the battered and tattered nature of the welfare state, and in the cynicism with which it is viewed by nearly the entire populace — from the wealthy to the poor, for different reasons.

And suddenly, the red - headed step - child of the New York basketball scene has one of the best foundations in the league (Harris, Lee, Williams, Brook Lopez, $ 25 million in cap space this summer), its wealthiest owner, and is about to move into the fastest growing borough in New York City, with a brand new stadium.

The one up side to not being independently wealthy is that it does make for good teachable moments, and could help lay a foundation for a lifetime of responsible, money - savvy habits.

While the Fabians have become an immensely powerful institution, wealthy, stable, competitive, king maker to Labour leaders and Prime Ministers, the foundation stone of one of our finest universities, the Bow Group has increasingly become an also - ran, first in wealth and stability, and then inevitably in thought and influence.

The board gave Nassau, one of the nation's wealthiest counties, until Feb. 15 to come up with a financial plan that eliminated risky revenue initiatives, expense cuts and contingencies contained in this year's $ 2.6 billion budget, which NIFA member George Marlin had contended was «built on a foundation of sand.»

He says the capital cities of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait «have been used as a base by wealthy individuals and religious foundations to channel millions of dollars to radical Sunni elements fighting Assad in Syria, either with the tacit approval of the regimes, or taking advantage of weak money - laundering protections within those states.»

Crowdfunding from interested people could raise a portion of the required funds, he adds, although much would probably have to come from wealthy donors and foundations.

Not just a hothouse for the already privileged, it uses money from foundations and wealthy individuals to provide financial assistance to half of its students.

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Even the wealthiest districts must contribute no more to the foundation formula than 27 percent of the foundation amount.

Last fall, the conflict between charter and district schools intensified after someone leaked a plan from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation to raise up to $ 490 million from foundations and wealthy individuals to double the number of charter schools in the city, with the goal of enrolling about half the students in the district within eight years.

Less than two years ago, when the retired publisher Walter H. Annenberg announced his plans to give $ 500 million to America's public schools, one of his hopes was that other foundations, corporations, and wealthy individuals would join his philanthropic crusade for education.

Although some grassroots parents undoubtedly did support the bill, it was the product of powerful political figures, backed by the wealthy foundations that shape much of the country's debate over education reform.

Ms. Ravitch's basic idea is that the education bureaucrats, the politicians, and the heads of a group of fabulously wealthy foundations have cleaved to the latest fads and theories, most of which can be subsumed under the business model of public education.

In fact, the Obama presidency became viable in part because many of his early donors were wealthy liberals and some conservatives connected to foundations and Wall Street, who themselves were advocates for school choice.

At the forum, held at PS 89 in New York City's Tribeca, Ravitch — author of the best - selling «The Death and Life of the Great American School System» — warned in her keynote speech about the harm done by excessive reliance on standardized tests, privatization through charter school expansion, and the growing influence of wealthy private foundations on education policies.

In the case of Pine Lake, the money comes from wealthier households or private foundations, which begs questions about whether the model can work in every community and whether it can ever be independent from the exclusive desires of the rich.

The group, of course, fails to explain that since it was founded, Families for Excellent Schools Inc. has collected an estimated $ 25 million from wealthy individuals and foundations to pay for its lobbying and advocacy work.

But as well as giving excellent thumbnail portraits of the Koch and Mellon families, this book goes on to explain the tax - efficient way very wealthy individuals have funnelled money through charitable foundations into political think tanks and astro - turfed grass - roots movements.

At times it has been extremely wealthy giving rise to a multitude of castles, religious foundations and great houses.

«You have the greatest number of artists there has ever been who are wealthy from their own creative work and have to make provisions for the posthumous stewardship of that work,» said Christine J. Vincent, the project director for the Artist - Endowed Foundations Initiative at the Aspen Institute, which helps private foundations created by visuFoundations Initiative at the Aspen Institute, which helps private foundations created by visufoundations created by visual artists.

The meeting is aimed at exacting hundreds of pledges from wealthy people, foundations, companies, and other entities aimed at the goals above.

Seitz was a co-founder of the George C. Marshall Institute (GMI), a conservative think tank that had been pushing climate science denial since the late 80s with the support of wealthy conservative foundations.

In a more recent email exchange from May, 2007, Albert Jacobs elaborated: «We pay our running expenses mostly out of the membership fees and donations of the several hundred individual members we have and in the few cases, when we are initiating larger projects (such as our video, our website and the like), we try to raise money from wealthy individuals and private foundations in this city and elsewhere.

Several of America's wealthiest and best - organised foundations have raised the temperature by making climate change one of their big issues.

Behind this RICO campaign of climate desperation lies a feeding machine of «Big Green» money: wealthy foundations with climate agendas (Energy Foundation, Soros Foundations, etc), well - funded media operations (InsideClimate News, Media Matters for America, etc), older environmental organizations anxious for a new strategy (Natural Resources Defense Council, Audubon, etc), billionaire newbies (Tom Steyer, Nathaniel Simons, etc), and clean - energy companies looking for long - term government subsidies that could only become available if larger, older organizations can no longer rececive them (Tesla, Solyndra, etc), andfoundations with climate agendas (Energy Foundation, Soros Foundations, etc), well - funded media operations (InsideClimate News, Media Matters for America, etc), older environmental organizations anxious for a new strategy (Natural Resources Defense Council, Audubon, etc), billionaire newbies (Tom Steyer, Nathaniel Simons, etc), and clean - energy companies looking for long - term government subsidies that could only become available if larger, older organizations can no longer rececive them (Tesla, Solyndra, etc), andFoundations, etc), well - funded media operations (InsideClimate News, Media Matters for America, etc), older environmental organizations anxious for a new strategy (Natural Resources Defense Council, Audubon, etc), billionaire newbies (Tom Steyer, Nathaniel Simons, etc), and clean - energy companies looking for long - term government subsidies that could only become available if larger, older organizations can no longer rececive them (Tesla, Solyndra, etc), and academics.

And yet, to this day, putting limits on human development continues to appeal to those who have been wealthy for so long that they have forgotten the material foundation of their affluence and are delusional about their ability to live without it.

Walter Olson, author of «The Litigation Explosion» (1991), explained in his Overlawyered.com blog that Mr. Thiel's approach was predictable after maintenance «metamorphosed around the 1960s into what we now know as the public interest litigation model: foundation or wealthy individual A pays B to sue C.