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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Gates Foundation"”.
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Opening Gates: Elevating Corporate Social Responsibility Communication and Strategic Philanthrocapitalism for Social Change
… to name a few. Now, nonprofit organizations and foundations are building on the social and financial capital of successful business titans, such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Ted Turner, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and others, to address ongoing and growing social issues of health, education, …
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Foundation influence on Race to the Top policy
… research study examined the grant giving of the Gates, Broad, and Walton Foundations during the RTTT policy development stages by analyzing 2008 and 2012 990-PF tax records to determine funding alignment with key RTTT policy components. The study also closely examined the Gates Foundation’s …
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Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapy (ACTs) Drug Resistance Trends in <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> Isolates in Southeast Asia
… and dealt with accordingly. In support of the Gates Foundation Artemisinin Consortium, we conducted a blinded study to elucidate the phenotypic response of artemisinin derivatives of parasites derived from patient blood samples from Cambodia and Thailand. Blood samples containing Plasmodium …
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The Challenges Associated with the Implementation of the New Teacher Evaluation Model, Achieve NJ: A Building- Based Administrators Perspective
… teacher evaluation to student test scores; and foundations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Milken Family Foundations, and the Broad Foundation have invested significant dollars to support teacher evaluation reforms. In promoting Race to the Top, President Barack Obama’s 4 …
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Development of a low-firepower continuous feed biomass combustor
… systems as part of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Reinvent the toilet challenge for over 7 years. The goal is to develop stand-alone treatment technologies that can process waste for less than 5 cents per person per day. Thermal processing is an attractive solution because it not …
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More money, more science? : how the malaria research community responds to funding opportunities
… through the entry of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. This provides a quasi-experimental setting to explore how scientific communities react to funding incentives. In particular changes in productivity of scientists, the entry of other biologists into the field of malaria, the …
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Synthesis and translation of novel gram-negative antibacterial agents
… model in collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. While the initial results were inconclusive, using the drug in combination with another established Mtb drug could drastically improve efficacy.
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Cost-Benefit Analysis and Potential Spillover Effects of Farmer Field Schools in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Cocoa
… Program (CLP-I), a current World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) development project, sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and aimed at improving the livelihood of small scale cocoa producers in Sub-Saharan Africa. The first study uses a difference-in-differences econometric model …
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Who shapes agricultural transformation in Africa? exploring the case of the alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) from a think tank perspective
… (AGRA), which was initiated by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2006 and is often labelled as an agricultural think tank. Through its activities, AGRA aims to improve food security in African countries by establishing industrial agricultural practices which …