Ms. Smoot will oversee the fund-raising effort and a broad portfolio of projects.
Fundrise has built up a $10m portfolio of projects that are rebuilding communities.
"They have a good portfolio of projects, but until they start delivering, investors are generally skeptical of their guidance.
"The company is left with a strong portfolio of projects and some large, long-term projects which should deliver strong stable cash flows for years to come".
The broad portfolio of projects, Dow claims, meets international standards and the International Carbon Offset and Reduction Alliance Code of Practice, the global benchmark for offsets.
"Any experience you get will enable you to build up a portfolio of projects and transferable skills, possibly opening doors to permanent, paid positions".
As design work in America has disappeared, KPF's growing portfolio of projects in China, South Korea and the Middle East has protected its 550 employees from the worst of the domestic slump.
The kind of administrative unit fit for engaging with the developing countries of the future is unlikely to be a large aid ministry with its own portfolio of projects, programmes and spending.
They manage a $9 billion portfolio of projects — from construction of roads and transmission lines to health and small-business development — being carried out by 26,000 Afghans and 6,000 people from other nations, all working at some risk.
BP's fortunes were transformed when it converted its exploration division, BPX, into a portfolio of projects, each of them more or less free from head-office control a structure which the company describes as an "asset federation".
Pavegen's portfolio of projects also includes kinetic powered lighting for a pedestrian bridge at West Ham Tube Station, one of the access points to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.
