Sentences with phrase «started philanthropic foundation»
Moskovitz and his wife later started philanthropic foundation Good Ventures, and became the youngest couple to sign Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge, which asks billionaires to bequest most of their wealth to charity.
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But as her husband plunged into politics, she decided to devote herself to raising their three daughters and to starting a philanthropic foundation.
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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.
Jenkins started Saildrone as a nonprofit endeavor with the backing of Eric and Wendy Schmidt's philanthropic foundation.
It's all part of the pop star's BeyGOOD foundation, which was started in 2013 as the overall organization for her global philanthropic work.
RL: Most estimates put the total philanthropic investment in CMOs at around $ 500 million, and most of the big foundations are no longer funding stand - alone charter school start - up.
The prize was started in 1959 by the foundation, the philanthropic wing of the Sikkens paint company, which started as a varnish producer in Groningen, the Netherlands, in 1792.