Unesco, which handles United Nations cultural projects, is raising money for 12 sites in Russia, including the Bolshoi and the Hermitage.
Funds for Amma's projects are raised from donors and from the sale of books, recordings, jewelry and clothing at her hugging sessions.
This is an obvious takeaway from the boom in initial coin offerings (ICOs) in 2017 and early 2018, when projects were raising hundreds of millions of dollars seemingly overnight by issuing blockchain-based assets.
The average project raised $2 million, and while more than half of funds went to the top 10% of projects, a massive long tail of shows that even smaller, less well-known projects are raising money this way.
The Hummingbird Project is raising money to carry out its work in Calais.
The project is raising concerns among preservationists that it could become the latest of the city's architectural treasures to fall victim to commercial pressures.
But as the Medill Innocence Project is raising concerns about another case, that of a man convicted in a murder 31 years ago, a hearing has been scheduled next month in Cook County Circuit Court on an unusual request: Local prosecutors have subpoenaed the grades, grading criteria, class syllabus, expense reports and e-mail messages of the journalism students themselves.
Now, however, a new report by a group called the New Teacher Project is raising questions about how the city handles teachers who are not finding schools that will accept them as permanent staff members and are still collecting salaries even though they fail to find permanent jobs for significant periods of time.
His latest project is raising capital to take over a lifestyle cable TV station.
Magic, an SMS-based on-demand delivery service that started as a YC company's weekend project, is raising $12 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia, according to sources.
