Word: funder
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...That may be a scary outcome when you're talking about public health, but our economy needs people willing to give up certainty for the possibility of grand success. Of course, some people take on too much risk: the day trader who loses his house; the hedge funder who turns an investor's life savings into dust overnight. But right now policymakers should not be afraid of stoking our anger--and therefore our risk-taking. As Lerner has written, anger is associated with a desire to "change a situation for the better...
...truly fantastic part of this six-year, $26 million initiative is that it is a generous, cohesive, public/private collaboration. The Boston Foundation, a major funder of non-profit organizations in Boston, will be providing $1 million every year. In addition, the State Street Foundation, United Way, the Alchemy Foundation, the Lewis Family Foundation, the Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation, the Barr Foundation, and the Baupost Group will all be supporting the program financially...
...this extraordinary ability to reach kids and their parents. People say he's like the Pied Piper because people just seem to follow him." - John Rogers, a longtime friend of Duncan's and funder of an inner-city mentoring program Duncan ran before going to work for the city, Chicago Tribune, June...
...cure the disease, and more than 40,000 women still die every year." Visco is worried that donors will feel they have done their bit by buying pink. What's more vital, in her view, is keeping pressure on the Federal Government to adequately support the biggest U.S. funder of breast-cancer research--the National Cancer Institute...
Even when Bill doesn't get in her way, Hillary has trouble pulling off what came so naturally to him. "I wish she hadn't come out against flag burning," says her supporter and funder Rapoport. "The worst mistake she can make is to move to the right. She's going to lose a lot of the enthusiasm of the people who can get her elected." But others point out that by supporting a statute banning flag burning, she helped defeat a more drastic constitutional amendment that would have done the same thing--very much like what her husband...