Sentences with phrase «philanthropic investment from»

Benjamin Fenton, the founder of New Leaders, a New York City - based group that trains aspiring principals and consults on school and district leadership, said the district's focus on school - level leadership, and philanthropic investment from local and national foundations, had brought his organization to the city in 2004 and opened the doors for others since.

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Saildrone started as a nonprofit endeavor with the Schmidts» philanthropic foundation, but in August 2015, Jenkins decided to turn it into a for - profit venture and raised $ 14 million from venture capital firms Social Capital, Lux Capital, and Capricorn Investment Group.

The portfolio spans asset classes, from traditional equities and direct investments to philanthropic programs.

Investment crowdfunding will speak to highly diverse congregations of motivations, from philanthropic to profit, and a thousand shades of color in between.

«The great attraction was the Hudson River view and the fact that it was raw space, so we could create something from scratch,» says Leat, an investment banker and philanthropic fundraiser.

The California - based company received $ 15 million from Google's philanthropic arm (the tech giant's largest clean - energy investment) and just secured a $ 3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

But these seeds represent an extraordinary investment of science and capital harnessed from public (the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, CIMMYT), private (Monsanto), philanthropic (Gates and Buffet foundations) and government (USAID) players.

From tax planning and investment management, to wealth preservation plans, establishment of foundations, and other philanthropic entities, Excel Tax & Wealth Group offers its clients a full range of tax, financial and estate planning services.

Forest Trends is a Washington D.C. - based international non-profit organization that was created in 1999 by leaders from conservation organizations, forest products firms, research groups, multilateral development banks, private investment funds and philanthropic foundations.

It has enjoyed significant, long - standing private investment and oversight from the George Kaiser Family Foundation, perhaps the country's largest philanthropic entity dedicated primarily to improving the quality of early childhood education, and a successful history serving children six weeks to kindergarten transition.