Sentences with phrase «private benefactors»

These «Jubilee Schools» received generous support from private benefactors and are now generating remarkable gains in student achievement, thanks to a combination of old - fashioned high expectations and a modern focus on measurable results.

Grants and donations from foundations and private benefactors support the program as well.

These funds are generously supplemented by private benefactors whose gifts, large and small, make River Parks one of the premier public park facilities in the region.

Another part of the old model is private benefactors who set up schools in their towns, and there are currently private organizations that raise money to pay for private school and college for deserving students.

In New York, it is particularly acute as students at traditional schools are in dire need while charters enjoy the spoils of both public funding and wealthy private benefactors.

Tate Thames Dig Artist: Mark Dion born 1961 Date: 1999 Classification: installation Medium: Wooden cabinet, porcelain, earthenware, metal, animal bones, glass and 2 maps Dimensions: unconfirmed: 2660 x 3700 x 1260 mm ss and 2 maps Purchased with assistance from private benefactors 2000 © Mark Dion

The rest has been donated by private benefactors.

According to government sources, the city's co-located charter schools receive, on average, nearly as much per - pupil taxpayer support (within 5 percent) as the zoned schools, in addition to whatever they rake in from their private benefactors.

Tate Thames Dig - Locker Artist: Mark Dion born 1961 Date: 2000 Classification: installation Medium: Steel locker, work overalls, lab coat, boots, baseball cap, fluo Dimensions: 1984 x 609 x 542 mm Purchased with assistance from private benefactors 2000 © Mark Dion

On the side of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the acquisition is supported by the Tijl Aankoop Fonds and a private benefactor, with the Bankgiro Lotterij supporting MOTI.

Mercer Union's programming is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council; through other government funding bodies, sponsors, foundations, private benefactors and earned income streams such as fundraising events, sales of limited edition and a biannual fundraising auction called Stellar Living.

With grants from the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, and generous donations from private benefactors and small companies, students from all three schools in the Cooper Union continue to work on a range of projects that address energy, water and shelter in remote, rural regions in the less industrialized world.

The gallery paid # 220,000 for the work, the balance gained from private benefactors.

Charles Thomson, co-founder of the Stuckist art movement, said: «These private benefactors were sourced by Victoria Miro... as part of a deal where they brought paintings by Ofili from her.

This exhibition is made possible with leading support of Stichting Hartwig Foundation and support of a private benefactor.