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Center for Ecotechnology: Top Honor & Funding Opportunity
Center for EcoTechnology Receives the Top Honor and $300,000 Funding Opportunity FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNAPOLIS, November 1, 2017 – The Rathmann Family Foundation is pleased to award the Top Honor of the 2017 Rathmann Challenge, Mitigating Climate Change: Expanding the Use of Compost, to the Center for EcoTechnology, Pittsfield, MA. The Center for EcoTechnology…
Read MoreVision To Learn Receives $200,000 for Even Bigger Idea
Last month, the inaugural Even Bigger Idea grant was awarded to Vision To Learn. DECEMBER 13, 2016 The $200,000 award will provide funds to help support the organization’s expansion into several new states. In 2015, Vision To Learn was selected as the Rathmann Challenge Recipient. “With the help of the Rathmann Challenge, Vision To Learn…
Read MoreA Surprising Prize: Passion and Vision
The Rathmann Challenge is helping to address the basic needs of two million kids across the country. Maybe someday soon the Challenge will assist in cooling the earth’s temperature. NOVEMBER 17, 2016 Having constructed a hybrid granting vehicle that we hoped would provide all the upside of prize philanthropy while minimizing the downside (see Part I,…
Read MoreA Surprising Prize: Small Dollars, Big Ideas
The Rathmann Challenge is helping to address the basic needs of two million kids across the country. Maybe someday soon the Challenge will assist in cooling the earth’s temperature. NOVEMBER 14, 2016 My family has been fortunate in the for-profit world to experience firsthand how a relatively small amount of money, if applied well…
Read MoreRathmann Challenge Finds Even Bigger Idea
Vision to Learn Receives Inaugural $300,000 Funding Opportunity UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL NOVEMBER 12TH AT 9 AM EASTERN ANNAPOLIS, November 12, 2015 – The Rathmann Family Foundation announced the inaugural recipient of the Rathmann Challenge which recognizes organizations with the entrepreneurial ethos, directed passion and innovative spirit to make a positive difference in the world.…
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