Sentences with phrase «philanthropic impact of her work»

Get her talking about the philanthropic impact of her work — with every sale, each of her brands contributes to a related cause in the developing world — and it's apparent there's nothing at all flippant about her audacity.

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As the online voice of Ask, Listen, Learn: Kids and Alcohol Don't Mix and manager of #TalkEarly, Genevieve Adams, Manager Communications, has always had a philanthropic spirit and enjoys working for a non-profit that positively impacts our nation's youth.

Last week, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrote a Washington Post opinion piece in favor of natural gas development in New York state and awarded a $ 6 million grant from his philanthropic organization to the Environmental Defense Fund for work to minimize adverse environmental impacts from natural gas operations.

Tom Payzant, the veteran superintendent who heads up Boston Public Schools, says large school districts get funding from a variety of philanthropic organizations, but he has had to work hard to persuade these funders to align their efforts to support a system - wide vision of how to improve education and avoid contributing to what he calls «project-itis,» which is just a series of ad hoc donations that make givers feel good but have little impact on students.

A significant milestone in this work was the launch of President Obama's My Brother's Keeper Initiative, which seeks to shine a light on the issues impacting young black male students both in the classroom and in their communities and to leverage governmental, philanthropic and private sector support to address these issues.

Not only has Mr. Bleckner had a profound impact of shaping the New York art world, his philanthropic efforts have enabled many community organizations to perform their vital work.

The Qiandao Lake Water Fund was established with first phase funds of $ 1.58 million (10 million RMB) to reduce non-point source pollution using the best available science, work with businesses and industry to reduce their impacts to the environment, and collaborate with government, communities and other philanthropic institutes to develop long - term watershed management system for non-point source pollution.

That's why we are working with the UN and our other development partners to create the conditions that will attract investors and to get all forms of finance — public, private, philanthropic — working together for maximum impact.»