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Rise is a training, funding and mentorship network created by Eric and Wendy Schmidt’s Schmidt Futures initiative and the Rhodes Trust.Its founders created the programme to identify talented students aged 15-17 who come from any geography around the world and are interested in service and leadership. [1]
Schmidt Futures is a philanthropic venture [1] founded by Eric Schmidt and Wendy Schmidt [2] in 2017. [3] The philanthropy funds science and technology research [4] and talent networking programs. [5] The organization's grants include large-scale "moonshots". [6] Schmidt Futures is based in New York City [7] with offices in Washington, D.C., [8 ...
The Schmidt Family Foundation was established in 2006 by Wendy Schmidt and Eric Schmidt to address issues of sustainability and the responsible use of natural resources. [96] Schmidt and his wife established the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Fellowship, a University of Chicago summer school program for aspiring data scientists.
It has supported several Schmidt family projects. In 2010, it made a $1 million grant to the Marine Science and Technology Foundation, [4] a private operating foundation founded in 2010 by Eric Schmidt. [9] [10] The 11th Hour Project was founded by Wendy Schmidt in 2005, and
Schmidt, who led Google from 2001 to 2011, before handing the reins back to the search giant's co-founder Larry Page, stayed on as Google's executive chairman and technical advisor until 2020.
Eric Emanuel and the Fashion Scholarship Fund on Thursday launched three collaboration shorts designed by FSF scholars Jordan Bigelow of the 2021 class of Virgil Abloh Post-Modern Scholars ...
Schmidt has held several positions at Google, including a 10-year stint as CEO, where he led the company through the launch of Chrome and Gmail, its acquisition of YouTube, and its 2004 IPO.
Schmidt Science Fellows is a STEM postdoctoral fellowship awarded annually since 2018 by Schmidt Futures, in partnership with the Rhodes Trust. [1] Former Google chairman and chief executive officer Eric Schmidt , and his wife Wendy Schmidt , fund the fellowship award.