Sentences with phrase «of wealthy philanthropists»

Charter school opponents have manufactured and perpetuated a myth that a handful of wealthy philanthropists are getting rich off of charter schools and trying to destroy public education.

Canada has a board of wealthy philanthropists and a very successful fund - raising apparatus.

Not exact matches

Many wealthy people are true philanthropists and the best of these give quietly and carefully, without much fanfare.

America's wealthiest philanthropists donated a total of more than $ 3.4 billion to charity, including Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

Still, the fortune she inherited, making her the world's ninth wealthiest woman, according to the Bloomberg billionaires index, has catapulted her into the upper echelon of global philanthropists.

Ha, ha, a good observation about the Pharisees and Scribes» greediness but not all wealthy people are stingy, many are philanthropists, even unsaved liberals of noted notoriety.

Powell Jobs is one of the wealthiest women in the world, and a renowned philanthropist in the D.C. area.

Prominent Tory MPs joined wealthy philanthropists to attack government plans which could reduce the amount of money people give to charity by capping tax relief at # 50,000.

Large donations also came from unions — Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union sent $ 84,400 — as well as New York City real estate interests and wealthy New Yorkers: among them, the philanthropist Jane Forbes Clark and the businessman Andrew Saul, who sent $ 25,000 each.

Intervention from wealthy non-scientists such as the philanthropist Mary Lasker drove even deeper investment into animal - based vaccines despite growing evidence of their lack of safety and efficacy.

When drug smugglers kidnap the daughter of a narcotics agent, a wealthy philanthropist offers to help with her rescue.

Perhaps the deepest, darkest Batman yet, this film pits the wealthy philanthropist who is determined to save his city from crime, against one of his iconic enemies — The Joker.

Art museum dealings The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco — the de Young and the Legion of Honor — suffer from having a very powerful, wealthy philanthropist, Dede Wilsey, as board president for nearly 20 years [«Profit Motif,» July 19].

David Caruso plays David Corelli, a San Francisco assistant DA investigating the murder of Kyle Bedford, a wealthy philanthropist.

Another benefit of the «building new» strategy for philanthropists is that it avoids the Emperor's New Clothes problem, where philanthropists are encouraged to pursue flawed strategies to reform existing institutions because everyone is afraid to criticize the wealthy donor from whose largess they benefit.

Defenders of the education status quo often have little use for wealthy philanthropists, labeling them the «billionaire boys» club» and «deformers.»

Nowhere has the battle been more pitched than in Los Angeles Unified, where candidates funded by wealthy pro-charter advocates like billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad and Netflix founder Reed Hastings won a majority of school board seats in the 2017 board election.

Wealthy philanthropists, including Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, were pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into education reform.

Ravitch reserves special scorn for wealthy philanthropists like Bill Gates and other members of what she calls «The Billionaire Boys» Club.»

Wealthy philanthropists invested millions of dollars into their own playbook for reforms that spread to Newark and other cities, including Chicago: Close failing schools with low enrollment and test scores; create «charter schools» that get public money but are run by private groups; and move to a business model that makes fundamental changes in hiring, firing and evaluating teachers.

This lack of trust is reinforced when public officials cozy up to wealthy hedge fund operators, venture philanthropists, and school privatizers, take their marching orders from astroturf advocacy groups, or «rent» supporters, as recently happened during school closing hearings in Chicago.

His hands still remain at value investing, in spite of being a wealthy philanthropist, and decided to give up 99 % of his wealth for philanthropic interests.

1869 William Wilson Corcoran, a wealthy Washington businessman and philanthropist, founds the Corcoran Gallery of Art with holdings from his private collection, which included European works and an important collection of American art.

Shniberg, whose background is in data - mining tech startups, secured backing from investors such as Thomas Schimdheiny, the fourth - wealthiest man in Switzerland, Sir Harry Djanogoly, a prominent British philanthropist and art collector, and Raymond McGuire, the head of Global Banking at Citibank, investing on his own behalf.

Thomas Fahr «Tom» Steyer is an American hedge fund manager and philanthropist who is among the world's wealthiest and largest supporters of radical environmental groups, left - wing causes, and Democratic candidates.

Thomas Fahr «Tom» Steyer is an American hedge fund manager and philanthropist who is among the world's wealthiest and largest supporters of radical environmental groups,...

Thomas Fahr «Tom» Steyer is an American hedge fund manager and philanthropist who is among the world's wealthiest and largest supporters of radical environmental groups, left - wing causes, and Democratic...

It was considered extremely meritorious to commission a stepwell, an earthbound bastion against Eternity, and it's believed that a quarter of these wealthy or powerful philanthropists were female.

However, we should all be skeptical of things that seem too good to be true (particularly, lonely supermodels or wealthy philanthropists trolling the internet for companionship) and be wary of anyone who refuses to commit to a face - to - face interaction.