With additional funding from the Social Innovation Fund, the program aims to enroll 500 more people.
The top three were Qualcomm Ventures, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, and Aberdare Ventures.
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This story highlights the work of the Social Innovation Fund, established by the bipartisan Edward M.
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After creation of the Social Innovation Fund by Congress in the Edward M.
The money is part of the government's High Street Innovation Fund which was set up following the Portas Review.
The High Street Innovation Fund was part of the government's response to Mary Portas' review of the High Street.
In 1999, the government launched a small-business innovation fund, for instance, but its bureaucratic DNA tells it to place only safe bets.
The aim of the Innovation Fund is to give out loans and grants for new ideas to improve Jersey's prosperity and create jobs.
Real Virtuality has been made possible through a 2007 Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund award, with additional support provided by Barco and Flanders House.
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Paul Carttar: The Social Innovation Fund is still early in what we expect to be a multi-year process aimed at driving sustained, transformational change.
All of us engaged with building the Social Innovation Fund are very mindful of the daunting challenges involved in demonstrating that this approach can work.
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We launched the first phase of the Social Innovation Fund Knowledge Network, a web-based vehicle for facilitating dialogue, exchanging information, and posting documents among grantees.
In addition to the creating the Digital Publishing Innovation Fund, Google has agreed to give French media access to its advertising platforms at a reduced cost.
Today, the White House is happy to report that four new intermediaries have been awarded funding in the third round of the Social Innovation Fund.
It meant AGMA's application for government Transport Innovation Fund (TiF) cash could not go ahead, and left officials searching for other ways of raising cash for transport improvements.
Scaling the winning solutions through the SME Finance Innovation Fund is just the most immediate of the many benefits that are expected to emerge from this novel Challenge.
Tom Loosemore, head of 4iP, Channel 4's Innovation fund, said he suspected that active citizens and frustrated users could become a big catalyst for change in public services.
After its completion, the President directed the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) to launch a cornerstone initiative of the new law, the Social Innovation Fund (SIF).
The Social Innovation Fund embodies the belief that this capability, thoughtfully applied, can enable the federal government to take a limited amount of money and generate impressive, lasting social impact.
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The Department of Transport said it had no plans to change the Transport Innovation Fund but stressed councils would still continue to receive funding if they did not pursue congestion schemes.
Both of us think that there will be the follow-up of this innovation fund, which here in Poland will also result in the form of modernity, new technologies and human intellectual capital.
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One particularly innovative partner which illustrates our approach is the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) whom we worked jointly with to establish the first ever US Financial Capability Innovation Fund.
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Juniper also has a JUNOS innovation fund that invests alongside venture capitalists to place bets on early stage or growth stage companies that might offer innovations Juniper can later deploy in its networking gear.
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Among other recent accomplishments, we received a grant from the Social Innovation Fund this year that will propel our work in housing, where we are promoting shared equity forms of homeownership for low-income families.
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In addition to creating the advisory council, COMESA has also adopted decisions to set up an innovation fund, promoted efforts to harmonize intellectual property rights, and committed to promoting infrastructure to facilitate regional trade.
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Particularly noteworthy this past year was definition of a specific framework and process for evaluating the performance of the Social Innovation Fund itself over the next five years relative to the expectations of Congress and the Administration.
And then as I said, the Race to the Top and that pool of dollars and the innovation fund are two ways that we're even trying to push the ball forward even further and go down the field when it comes to education reform.
Moreover, the Innovation Works fund has made early investments in 12 startups.
First, the President should tie the shale natural gas boom to building the clean energy future by creating a dedicated tax on natural gas and oil drilling that is earmarked for a clean energy innovation trust fund.
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