Sentences with phrase «on venture philanthropy»
Read archived essays on Venture Philanthropy, Angel Investing, & Entrepreneurship by Jesse Rasch.
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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
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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Ms. Christina Culver oversees her own consulting firm focusing on global venture philanthropy.
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.
Mario Marino of Venture Philanthropy Partners recently blogged on the importance of great people for the success of any education reform.
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.
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.
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.
«The Rise of Venture Philanthropy and the Ongoing Neoliberal Assault on Public Education: The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.»
Backed by a grant from NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit education reform philanthropy, the group has accumulated about 60 articles for its history platform on topics ranging from ancient China to the American Revolution.
In March, technology entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, representatives from big - name companies and philanthropies and some teachers descended on Austin, TX for a conference meant to highlight new solutions to the biggest...
The social gaming giant's nonprofit organization Zynga.org and venture philanthropy firm NewSchools Venture Fund will create an «ed tech» accelerator focused on enhancing the quality and reach of learning games -Lventure philanthropy firm NewSchools Venture Fund will create an «ed tech» accelerator focused on enhancing the quality and reach of learning games -LVenture Fund will create an «ed tech» accelerator focused on enhancing the quality and reach of learning games -LSB-...]
For many years he was a trustee and Chair of Poet in the City, a venture philanthropy charity, and he remains on the corporate panel.