Not exact matches
At the time, Sex and the
City was at its zenith, and Nixon threw her star power behind the
organization, at one point chaining herself, along with a group of other public - school parents, to the
gates of
City Hall.
Living in the
city that's home to the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation and other
organizations focused on world health, she acknowledges that she has many opportunities.
To increase the impact of its initiatives, the
Gates Foundation has involved 13 other foundations and is working with more than one hundred intermediary
organizations in two hundred
cities located in almost every state.
And the
Gates Foundation, which has for some reason backed Tucker and his
organization with millions of dollars, must be playing the residents of River
City, because they have bought this pitch and are pouring their savings into a band that can never play music except in a fantasy finale.
In addition, a number of external partners join state and
city leaders to support these schools and their initiatives; for example, philanthropies and national
organizations like the
Gates Foundation and Jobs for the Future provide financial and strategic support for schools, and industry partners like Con - Edison and IBM support P - TECH programs.11
A second report, Approaches of Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation - Funded Intermediary
Organizations to Structuring and Supporting Small High Schools in New York
City, prepared by Policy Studies Associates, Inc., examines the roles of 18 intermediary
organizations that were funded by the
Gates Foundation to start and advise new small schools.
Through the College - Ready Promise,
Gates gave the
city's five major high - performing charter - school - management
organizations a combined $ 60 million in funding for the program.
Although the Parks Conservancy's Golden
Gate Bridge walking tours have ceased operations, if you are interested in the history of the Golden
Gate Bridge, we highly recommend the twice - weekly free Bridge walks offered by
City Guides, a non-profit
organization associated with the San Francisco Public Library.