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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"private funds"”.
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Challenges and opportunities for private investment funds in Western Africa's startup ecosystem
… number of regional research on the operations of private funds in Africa exist with varying levels of depth and detail. These research focus on the continent's regional hubs-North Africa, West Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, and South Africa. Given the varying economic realities among …
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California Education Foundations: A Mixed Methods Study
… has inspired supporters of schools to seek private funds to help pay for public education. Private funds generated at the local level could also, conceivably, reinstate at least a modicum of local control of public schools. Local control, in California at least, has been minimized over the …
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Essays in Asset Pricing
… trust on mutual fund investor behavior and private fund capital raising, respectively. The third essay proposes a valuation model for bitcoin options. In the first essay, I investigate the impact of investment adviser disciplinary actions on mutual fund performance and investor redemption …
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University development efforts: a study of four Virginia public institutions
Institutional attempts to raise private funds, once limited almost exclusively to private colleges and universities, are now commonplace at public colleges and universities. To increase private support, many public institutions have reorganized and refocused their development efforts to meet these …
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A case study of the role of six Catholic social agencies as mediating structures in social welfare service provision in Virginia
… of marketization and dependence upon public and private funds. An empirical portrait of the purposes, organization, funding, programs and scope of delivery, target populations, advocacy role, and influence of the bishop reveals that these agencies provide many different services to a limited …
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A rating system to test private investment decisions in public infrastructure projects
… quality of proposed infrastructure projects for private sector financial investment. INFRATEST is meant to aid both potential private infrastructure developers and public entities, which desire to privatize certain infrastructure projects, in selection of the most appropriate infrastructure …
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The Fiber of South Carolina Higher Education Philanthropy: A Historical Case Analysis of James C. Self and the Self Family Foundation
… on fund raising among two and four public and private higher education institutions. In South Carolina and other states student-generated revenue is the primary source of institutional funding. In order to keep tuition and student fees as low as possible, colleges and universities are seeking …
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An Analysis of Rangeland Preservation in Western States
… The majority of these working landscapes are privately owned and are situated on the wettest and most productive lands in the West, but ranchers often require access to public grazing lands to feed their cattle. Ranchers face narrow profit margins, and many are rich in land, but lack …
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The Dodd-Frank Act : impact on real estate investment entities
… the provisions within the Act that will impact private and publically traded real estate investment entities and analyze the extent of any such impact. The hypothesis of this paper is that certain real estate investment entities are not systemic to the U.S. financial system and if new regulation …
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Financing equitable TOD in Denver, San Francisco, and the rest of the nation
… TOD. In response to this challenge, two public-private funds have been established to make available new financial tools that help expand access to equitable TOD. Through a review of the literature and interviews with practitioners, funders, and researchers in the field of community development, …
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“Impact is our true North”: a relational approach to the global distribution of U.S. foundations’ philanthropic gifts
… increased demand for financial assistance from private sources, including foundations. Yet these resources are scarce relative to the needs of grant-seeking organizations. While much has been written about the normative implications of U.S. foundations, whose private funds ostensibly serve …
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Public School Foundations' Support of K-12 Public School Divisions in Virginia
… public school foundations as a means to obtain private funds to support a variety of purposes in their public school divisions. Research was conducted ten years ago regarding the characteristics of education foundations supporting Virginia's public school divisions. The purposes of this study …
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Analysis of the 1966 Summer Olympic Games on real estate markets in Atlanta
… Seoul, that spent many billions of public and private (but mostly public) dollars transforming their city in preparation for the Games, Atlanta relied upon primarily private funds to prepare for the 1996 Games. Public funds were spent for some important infrastructure improvements, but these …
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Assessing the Performance of Public-Private Partnership Highway Projects: From Anecdotes to Comprehensive Evidence
… governments worldwide have implemented public private partnerships (P3s) to mobilize both private funds and public resources to develop transportation infrastructure, which has provided private entities contemporary opportunities to design, finance, construct, operate and maintain these …