Twitter: @CAFVenturesome Phil is chief operating officer for Allia, the social profit society, where he has overseen the creation of an online fundraising platform to enable charities to raise grant funds through social investments in Allia's charitable bonds.
An accelerator that helps tech nonprofits develop their products and raise grant money, Fast Forward, has attracted $1.25 million in philanthropic funding of its own.
He stuck it out until December 2005, when he quit, disgusted with an ill-advised raise granted to a bloated civil service.
Instead, Mr. Lax writes, Dr. Howard Florey, a professor of pathology who was director of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University, carried out that work, in part because of his ability to raise grants from foundations and government agencies and in part because of his organizational skills in administering a large laboratory filled with talented but often quirky scientists.
He raised grant money for Louisiana to create a position of state folklorist, to which he was promptly appointed.
She works at the International Youth Foundation, a youth development organization in Baltimore as the director of fund-raising, grant management and program development for Africa and the Middle East.
She raises grant money for research projects, writes reports on issues including food allergens and acrylamide in foods, and informs Hawaiian food producers about new regulations and other developments in the food industry.
M.A.B., A.D.R., B.S., and D.N.W. supervised the work and raised grant support.
DC, DS and SH conceived the idea for this work and raised grant funding.
The group raises grants money from private sources and holds an annual fund-raising concert.
President Bush signed legislation overhauling federal student-aid programs, raising grants to low-income college students and cutting subsidies to companies that make federally guaranteed student loans.
