Sentences with phrase «social capital changes»

You've said this focus on social capital changes our thinking more generally.

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Founder and CEO Social Capital LP and Golden State Warriors Owner Chamath Palihapitiya has a mission which is, «To advance humanity by solving the world's hardest problems including the advancement of human capital, the eradication of disease, solutions to global climate change, and other really difficult things that are non obvious.Capital LP and Golden State Warriors Owner Chamath Palihapitiya has a mission which is, «To advance humanity by solving the world's hardest problems including the advancement of human capital, the eradication of disease, solutions to global climate change, and other really difficult things that are non obvious.capital, the eradication of disease, solutions to global climate change, and other really difficult things that are non obvious.»

Showcase the successes of growth - oriented, venture capital — funded women entrepreneurs in order to change the social perception that only male entrepreneurs can be successful in venture capital funding

Certainly, Social Capital has some support by VCs who also see the winds changing.

Robyn joins Align from U.S. Trust where she served as a Vice President and Private Client Advisor and focused her wealth management practice on bridging the gap between traditional investment capital and financing social change.

I'm a dedicated champion of Community (with a capital «C») as both an agent of social change and a driver of business goals.

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This foundation's website says it is an «exclusive membership organization and platform for successful individuals» that aims to bring about «social change» driven by venture capital funding.

«We believe we are on the threshold of a major change not unlike the early days of the modern venture capital industry...» - Sir Ronald Cohen and William A. Sahlman, Social Impact Investing Will Be the New Venture Capital on Harvard Businesscapital industry...» - Sir Ronald Cohen and William A. Sahlman, Social Impact Investing Will Be the New Venture Capital on Harvard BusinessCapital on Harvard Business Review

What makes that task especially difficult now is that the social changes of the past four decades have taken a heavy toll on the nation's human capital.

When the changes were first announced, the Government was hit by criticism including from Boris Johnson, the London Mayor, who suggested that the capital would be subjected to «Kosovo style social cleansing» if families were evicted from expensive areas and moved into cheaper housing in the suburbs.

So borrowing social capital, creating women - rich environments, changing perspectives, and negotiating is all that is needed to make it to the top.

Twenge and colleagues were interested in understanding how cultural change over the last 40 years has affected social capital — the cooperative relationships that are critical for maintaining a democratic society — in which public trust plays an important role.

«The wages of workers in cities that feature strongly inclusive institutions, whether measured by social capital or immigrant ordinances, respond much more sharply to changes in immigrant diversity in their urban context,» they write.

Watch how Boxgirls International is changing Kenyan women's lives by creating social change in the capital of Nairobi one punch, jab and kick at a time.

And since then Doha, the capital of Qatar, has made great strides ahead, modernizing more and more, and precisely Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned is one of the greatest inspirations for the social and cultural change that has been seen in the country for the last 20 years.

The second, building place - based social capital, explains the system's abiding resistance to reformers trying to change it.

The Institute contributes to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change and energy, and management of natural and social capital, as well as the enabling role of communication technologies in these areas.

He is equally caustic when it comes to those who pursue change via accountability, incentives, and choice, faulting their failure to pay sufficient heed to the importance of local culture, social capital, and trust in making change real.

He is one of the authors of a new book, Future Directions of Educational Change (edited by Helen Janc Malone, Santiago Rincón - Gallardo, and Kristin Kew; Routledge, 2018), an anthology which brings together timely discussions on social justice, professional capital, and systems change from some of the leading global scholars in the field of educChange (edited by Helen Janc Malone, Santiago Rincón - Gallardo, and Kristin Kew; Routledge, 2018), an anthology which brings together timely discussions on social justice, professional capital, and systems change from some of the leading global scholars in the field of educchange from some of the leading global scholars in the field of education.

Yet there are also other areas of change happening across education — social justice, professional capital and change — that are making great impact, as explored in their book.

The change process required a comprehensive and strategically - planned and implemented home, school, and community collaboration that included social - capital and other economic - development initiatives targeting entire low - income neighborhoods.

Her recent books include: The Growing Out - of - School Time Field: Past, Present, and Future (Information Age Publishing, 2018); The Future Directions of Educational Change: Social Justice, Professional Capital, and Systems Change (Routledge, 2018); «Empowering Teachers: The Role of School - Community Partnerships» (book chapter with IEL's Reuben Jacobson in Flip the System: Changing Education from the Ground Up, 2015); Leading Educational Change: Global Issues, Challenges, and Lessons on Whole - System Reform (Teachers College Press, 2013), The Futures of School Reform (Harvard Education Press, 2012, co-authored chapter with Jeffrey Henig and Paul Reville).

«The capital and the country during that epoch were roiled by enormous political, cultural, and social changes; journalism was changing too, and Bernstein quickly came to understand that every good newspaperman was part truth - teller, part would - be savant, and, not incidentally, something of a huckster and scamp,» Holt said in announcing the deal.

Liberals: Start a new, 10 - year investment in social housing infrastructure, prioritizing affordable housing and seniors» facilities (including building more units and refurbishing existing units); encourage the construction of new rental housing by removing all GST on new capital investments in affordable rental housing; loosening the existing qualification rules for the Home Buyers» Plan to allow more Canadians affected by sudden and significant life changes to access their RRSP savings for a down payment; review escalating home prices in high - priced markets, including Toronto and Vancouver, and review all policy tools that could keep homeownership within reach for more Canadians.

Such a change could create a new generation of web - savvy micro activists, who control only a handful of shares but understand how to use social networking media to influence boards, much like Jackson does with Ironfire Capital and his blog.

In the current passive investment space, market participants can choose from a wide range of indices that relate to personal values, including human capital, climate change mitigation, long - termism, faith based, and social responsibility.

I would describe capacity building as improving human capital rather than changing social capital although capacity building could be argued to be the building of any productive assets of a person which would include some aspects of social capital.

REIT funds may be subject to other risks including, but not limited to, changes in real estate values or economic conditions, credit risk and interest rate fluctuations and changes in the value of the underlying property owned by the trust and defaults by borrowers.In addition to normal risks associated with equity investing, international investing may involve risk of capital loss from unfavorable fluctuations in currency values, from differences in generally accepted accounting principles, and from adverse political, social and economic instability in other nations.

In January, Tides Foundation and RSF Social Finance will join forces to present Play BIG 2013, a gathering on impact investing to inspire those with large capital reserves to drive social and environmental cSocial Finance will join forces to present Play BIG 2013, a gathering on impact investing to inspire those with large capital reserves to drive social and environmental csocial and environmental change.

The artists each talked about their practices using their Creative Capital - supported projects (and others) to illustrate their experiences in working closely with communities to bring about change through creative engagement, embedding themselves in particular neighborhoods to realize social goals, build networks and affect cultural practices.

No longer a fortress in an uneasy city, the Whitney Museum of American Art opens itself up to a changed New York, a glittery emblem of new urban capital signaling a definitive shift in the city's social geography.

Research elsewhere in the world also indicates that elements of social capital (such as associations, networks and levels of trust) are important determinants of social resilience and responses to climate change, but how these develop and are used in mitigating vulnerability remains unclear.

«Nancy Pfund is a global leader in the growing field of impact investing and has been instrumental in helping to tap the power of venture capital to promote social and environmental change.

Katherine Vincent specialising in «Social Capital and Climate change» at the UEA, only began her PhD thesis in October 2003.

-- Responsibility Report 2004 Business for Social Responsibility «The global consequences of climate change — some of which we are seeing already — threaten to both disrupt natural ecosystem functions and jeopardize the natural capital that provides the economy's resource base.»

Earlier planned litigation strategies (such as campaigns for school desegregation and for the abolition of capital punishment) took place primarily within the court system, employing legal argumentation as the mechanism for social change.

From identifying change resistance to visualizing your social capital, WMC's experts have been weighing in on LinkedIn.

Finally, the ability to influence change or community empowerment is created by all of the other elements of Indigenous social capital and enables Indigenous communities to influence events and control their own destiny.

that Indigenous empowerment or the perceived ability to influence change, rather than being an element of an individual's sense of comm unity, is instead created by a sense of community, clarifying the connection between social capital and empowerment.

MacArthur is placing a few big bets that truly significant progress is possible on some of the world's most pressing social challenges, including over-incarceration, global climate change, nuclear risk, and significantly increasing financial capital for the social sector.

Real estate agents can more readily understand and manage the patterns and changes in their clients» desired and perceived levels of control, and consequentially their clients» satisfaction with the client / agent relationship, by building social capital through a quality relationship with the client.