Sentences with phrase «to advance equity»

While individually our organizations and efforts may emphasize different principles, collectively we share the goal of advancing equity in college, career, and civic readiness.

Well - structured professional learning communities focused on implementing high - quality curriculum can help advance equity for all students.

Of the 21 most advanced equity markets in the world, all 21 are in the red for this quarter, no exceptions.

We support initiatives that address all forms of oppression, however, maintaining an explicit focus on race is essential to advancing equity across our communities.

Each of the provisions can be leveraged by policymakers, educators, researchers, and advocates to advance equity in education for all students.

Advances equity by upholding critical protections for America's disadvantaged and high - need students.

Advanced Equities brokers, for their part, made millions of dollars in sales commissions from these deals.

The Lab Launch will convene museum directors and educators, Lab alumni, thought leaders, advocates, policy makers, arts and culture enthusiasts and funders in a reception and conversational exploration of advancing equity through arts and culture.

It wasn't until December 2011 and into 2012 that the more dubious efforts of Advanced Equities became clearer to Fisker's hundreds of investors.

The SEC charges were originally over statements made by Advanced Equities co-founder Dwight Badger, who said Bloom Energy had more deals and had hit more milestones than it actually had in 2009.

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Investment firm Advanced Equities — which has raised money for cleantech companies like Bloom Energy, Fisker Automotive and SolFocus — has agreed to pay $ 1 million to settle charges by the Security and Exchange Commission that the firm misled investors around a fund raise for a Valley alternative energy company back in 2009 and 2010.

The Climate Equity Reference Project is a long - term initiative to provide scholarship, tools, and analysis to advance equity as a practical means to achieve an ambitious global climate regime.

Badger, who co-founded the firm in 1999, reportedly already resigned from Advanced Equities at the request of the board of directors.

The sources say Advanced Equities sold Fisker shares to over a thousand wealthy individuals.

Di Carlo, who works as the chief compliance officer for Advanced Equities Services Corp, a Wall Street investment firm, is indeed very conservative.

[With ImpactED, she] created opportunities for students in the program to deepen and sustain their work as leaders advancing equity and social justice at a time when this work has become more contested and the courage necessary to do it greater.»

The report, «States Leading for Equity: Promising Practices Advancing the Equity Commitments, «provides a brief overview of practices and policies states are currently engaging in to provide a stronger education for students.

WLMP Founder's Award — The WLMP Founder's Award recognizes excellence in advancing equity issues and the retention of women in the law.

Sources tell me that it wasn't unusual for investment calls with Advanced Equities and potential investors to feature Kleiner's Lane, as well as NEA's Scott Sandell, sharing Fisker's vision.

Over the course of three years, according to my sources, brokers at Advanced Equities raised somewhere between $ 600 million and $ 800 million of Fisker's over $ 1 billion in funding.

Advanced Equities raised funds for NEA and Kleiner's portfolio companies electric car maker Fisker Automotive and fuel cell maker Bloom Energy, among other companies.

Two months later Advanced Equities closed up shop.

In his lawsuit, he says Advanced Equities sent him a letter dated Jan. 18, 2012, stating that he needed to decide if he wanted to invest in Fisker's next round, and pay around $ 84,000 by Jan. 27, 2012 — a little over a week from receiving the letter.

As part of the settlement, Advanced Equities also sent letters to all investors in its funds Greentech III and Greentech IV — which raised money for Bloom Energy — explaining the charges and the settlement from the SEC and asking the investors if they want to sell their securities in the company.

As one of Canada's most advanced equity crowdfunding platforms, ConsiderFunding provides the resources and access for businesses and investors to learn, navigate, and participate in equity crowdfunding within the Canadian capital - raising ecosystem.

«Almost like the spicy spectrum on a menu where you have an extra logo that says «Hey, look this is a spicy thing,»» the ballot might begin to highlight projects «that really advance equity in the neighborhood, allowing individuals to decide whether they want to choose that or not,» Youdelman said.

The following best practices offer targeted advice to help principals in rural, suburban, and urban schools advance equity in their buildings:

Rigorous, engaging STEAM - based learning advances equity for all.

«Lillian's strongly held belief in the capacity of all children to learn to high levels, her expertise as an educator, and deep experience in the complexities of leading districts and states make her the ideal person to advance our equity agenda,» said John B. King Jr., president and CEO of The Education Trust.

How BCPS Uses Digital Curriculum to Enhance and Advance its Equity Initiative Within Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS), students speak 85 languages, hail from 108 countries, and have diverse socio - economic backgrounds.

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NACTO's research shows that the «one in each neighborhood» station siting model does not advance equity, as it reduces service quality and ridership and makes bike share a less convenient transportation choice, especially for low - income residents.

He also says that Advanced Equities assured him that he would have anti-dilution protection.

If you asked venture capitalists in the Valley around that time what they thought about Advanced Equities, a common response was that it didn't have a very good reputation — «snake oil salesmen» was the term often used.

Then another red flag: As the ball dropped on 2011, I noticed that Fisker was quietly raising more money using Advanced Equities.

Advanced Equities last week was charged by the Security and Exchange Commission with misleading investors around a fund raise for a Valley alternative energy company back in 2009 and 2010 (reportedly Bloom Energy).

I'm also not exactly sure what Advanced Equities» demise means for the startups it raised funding for, like Fisker and Bloom.

Advanced Equities recently agreed to settle charges from the SEC that it misled investors while raising funds for an alternative energy company, later revealed to be Bloom Energy.

Advanced Equities settled an SEC charge that it misled investors a couple years ago for raising funds for Bloom Energy.

The SEC also charged Advanced Equities» co-founder Keith Daubenspeck with failing to stop investors from being misled — he allegedly listened in on calls where Badger made misstatements and didn't correct the misstatements.

Updated: Last week an investor, Daniel Wray, who put a couple hundred thousand dollars into electric car company Fisker Automotive, filed a lawsuit against Fisker and Fisker's fund raiser Advanced Equities.

While the SEC doesn't name the company that Advanced Equities misled investors over, Crain's Chicago Business and Dow Jones have reported that the company is fuel cell maker Bloom Energy.

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Bay Area, CA About Blog Our Family Coalition advances equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) families with children through support, education, and advocacy.

As Casey states, «We are so sure of the increased equity that we are advancing the equity so they can move ahead.

[1] ESSA's website claims that the law «Advances equity by upholding critical protections for America's disadvantaged and high - need students» and that it is committed «to equal opportunity for all students.»