In addition, the Fresh Works Fund committed 200 million dollars to eliminate food deserts in California.
In California alone, the Fresh Works Fund has committed 200 million dollars to this effort to increase access to healthy food.
Moreover, the Innovation Works fund has made early investments in 12 startups.
This type of fund works well for smaller charities, since they may not be set up to accept certain types of donations.
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Next Innovation will charge a 2% management fee and a 20% carry on profits after an 8% hurdle, somewhat akin to the way a venture fund works.
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Disenchantment with the way fund management works, combined with excess capacity, is likely to bring a long wave of consolidation.
And Mexican government officials have created matching programs aimed at using the money Mexicans sent home to fund public works projects south of the U.S.-Mexico border.
In response to a previous Forbes story, readers wrote in alleging that Scher's wife works for a hedge fund that might be short Dendreon stock (betting against its rise).
He works at a hedge fund, of course.
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Clore Duffield Foundation, the University of Oxford and Parish Church Council have also helped fund the works, which also include refurbishing the shop, conserving the tower and restoring rooms adjacent to the Clore Old Library to provide a public space for community events.
The Blackstone Group also has a RMB private equity fund in the works, with the Pudong government and earmarked to make investments in this Shanghai financial and shipping center.
Stefan Renold works for the LMR Partners hedge fund he co-founded in Hong Kong.
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This seemingly impossible scheme works, thanks to a sinking fund that compensates lenders if the two indexes go in opposite directions.
Though social programs in Latin America are often associated with the vote-buying populist subsidies so familiar to economically-troubled countries like Venezuela and Argentina, the social fund now in the works in Brasilia is different.
The much talked about fund has been in the works for the past several weeks.
It wants to cut spending on public works, but raise consumption taxes to fund better pensions.
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Take PDM-DKE, a state-sponsored program that works with non-governmental organizations to fund local food and employment projects.
China's local authorities are barred from borrowing directly and use such vehicles, backed by state banks, to fund welfare and public-works projects.
Jean-Rene Saillard works in Geneva for the British Fine Art Fund, an investment group devoted to buying art.
The dilemma for British museums and galleries is twofold: without knowing what will become available, how to decide which are the best works to buy, and then how to fund their purchases.
But two years ago she closed down the Malawian office of her charity Raising Malawi, which was headed by President Joyce Banda's sister, Anjimile Mtila-Oponyo - who now works at the education ministry - and opted to fund 10 schools instead.
The people who invest in the fund rarely, it seems, see the works of art they have put their money into.
Mervyn Barrett in Lincolnshire, who resigned in June from Nacro, a charity that works at reducing criminal offending, says he worries about fund-raising all the time.
Keen to have these works inspire new scholarship, Mr. Jaffe decided to fund an Indo-Pacific gallery for his alma mater, endow a curatorship and promise a collection that now totals 700 pieces.
Sir Denis made the arrangement for his bequest via the Art Fund charity, with specific instructions on where the works should be displayed.
Summitt devotes much of her time now to the Pat Summitt Foundation, which works to provide grants to nonprofit organizations to help educate, fund research and fight Alzheimer's.
Under the plans, any revenue raised from the lane rental charges would be used by councils to fund measures which could help to reduce future road works disruption.
Warner Bros. also works with global organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, the World Wildlife Fund and Doctors Without Borders.
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