The history project was initially financed with $250,000 from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, and then Columbia contributed $250,000 in development and staff expenses to produce the Web site and teaching materials, he said.
Founded in 1996, Flatiron, which was initially financed by and still has a partnership with Chase Capital Partners, set out to be the Silicon Alley version of the large Silicon Valley venture firms.
McCarthy was initially financed by a handful of big givers who agreed with his anti-Vietnam War stance.
It was initially financed by Dr. Jean Hoerni, a Swiss physicist who was a veteran of Silicon Valley.
The venture was initially financed by the News Corporation IDG VCC, a unit of the Boston-based International Data Group; and China Broadband Capital Partners.
EveryBlock, which was founded in 2007 and initially financed with a $1.1 million grant from the Knight Foundation, tried to pull together neighborhood-level information for users in cities like Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco.
Initially financed with donor funds, the businesses we create are designed to be profitable commercial enterprises.
Proponents of these national job subsidies, initially financed with $5 billion of stimulus money, say it is better to pay people for working in real jobs than to pay them jobless benefits for staying idle.
That foundation eventually became M.A.D.D. Rhythms, which Barrett formed in 2001 and initially financed with his own money.
The report found that while private money initially paid for many of the accountability efforts, the same kinds of measures were increasingly being financed with city dollars.
