Help Refugees runs its programmes as a charitable fund under the auspices of another charity, Prism the Gift Fund, which provides administration, finance and governance services.
In 2006, Indian garment manufacturer Shahi Exports was selected by fashion brand Gap as one of the factories it would run its Personal Advancement and Career Enhancement PACEE) programme.
Back in the early 1990s the Scala cinema in King's Cross used to run its own programme of films from beyond the mainstream.
In Britain, the Bank of England has run its own programme of quantitative easing, spending 200 billion pounds (about 14percentt of GDP) mostly on UK government securities, and has introduced a scheme for financial institutions to swap mortgage-backed securities for UK Treasury bills.
Thunderbird has faced a storm of criticism over its plan to let Laureate run its online programmes, create undergraduate degrees and open overseas campuses in return for a share of the profits and seats on the school's board.
In the Czech Republic, experts from Shorebank, a small-business bank in the Chicago region, are helping Ceska Sporitelna run its SME lending programme.
For the past two years, Carat UK has run its Discover Media programme in local schools to introduce GCSE and A-level students to media.
Their troubles in AP stem from a mixture of institutional rivalry, politics and ideology.Among the MFIs' biggest critics is Budithi Rajsekhar, boss of the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty, an arm of the state government formed in 2000 to run its own microcredit programme.
Does your radiology department run its own PhD programme(s)?
Since 2012, marking the 10th anniversary of the partnership, ISUZU has been supporting UNICEF by assigning two vehicles, one ISUZU D-max double cabin and one ISUZU Panther, to help UNICEF run its donor acquisition programme in Jakarta and Bandung and surrounding areas.
