MacLean tells is that this investment is consistent with the Accel growth fund theme of funding fast-growing companies and authentic entrepreneurs who have built a solid company and a great culture.
It will also be used to fund railway-themed improvements to public-spaces, play parks and gardens.
Also see "Asking the Public for Money," and this compelling riff on the crowd-funding theme.
In the 2009 annual report, published in June, he wrote: "I like the discipline of C4 having to earn its living in the marketplace rather than being dependent on government funding," a theme reprised at the conference.
From the interviews with the research and training institute representatives it became clear that the way funding is theme- and target group-oriented leads to a situation in which each research and training institute produces its own, theme-related and/or target group-specific (research-based) knowledge (e.g., especially on smoking or migrants).
The third theme was funding including dimensions related to funding and reimbursement of screening, surveillance and treatments.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2393/14/216/prepub wouldulikeike to acknowledge South Yorkshire Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care [CLAHRC SY] (Obesity theme) for funding the manuscript submission fee.
We are also most grateful to Professor Simeon Yates for mentoring the project and to Engineering for Life [EFL] and South Yorkshire Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care [CLAHRC-SY] (Obesity and Telehealth & Care Technologies [TACT] themes) for funding this project.
Publication costs for this article were funded by bioinformatics theme from LINA UMR CNRS 6241, University of Nantes.
They cover all the bases: group of New Yorkers self-publishing a book where everyone gets a page, a photographer exploring Iceland, a writer funding travel for a regional cookbook, a NYTimes crossword puzzle creator funding the release of Brooklyn-themed puzzles.
In a city where the names of generous benefactors are affixed to everything from hospitals to bookshelves, a college is putting its own spin on a fund-raising theme: let donors put their tributes to professors, relatives, friends and to the school itself underfoot.
