Word: perkinses
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The premise is that it is not just money that makes a nonprofit foundation succeed or fail; it is also talent, expertise and creative ideas--the same attributes that make a profitable business. This is the sort of thinking that is "breathing fresh air into the whole world of philanthropy...
Kleiner Perkins founding partner John Doerr leads the $20 million New Schools Ventures Fund, a foundation dedicated to educational causes, which gets its money from venture capitalists and CEOs. Doerr says he looks for the same attributes in his philanthropic projects as he does in his tech investments. "I like...
In other words, Eldorado just closed its gates. That bright shining myth we became so accustomed to over the past two years, the idea that you can make your millions simply by being at the right junction of Silicon Valley's Route 101 at the right time, no longer applies...
Indians are running FORTUNE 500 companies (Rono Dutta is president of United Airlines, and Rakesh Gangwal is president and CEO of U.S. Airways) or, as consultants and securities analysts, telling others how to do so. (Calcutta-born Rajat Gupta, managing director of consulting giant McKinsey & Co., does both.) But above...
But through substantive events like DG's performance of "The Miracle Worker" to benefit the Perkins School for the Blind, the sororities have gained campus respect.