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The Luminos Fund is a non-profit organisation helping children in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East excluded from school due to poverty, discrimination, or conflict to have access to education. [1] The fund was launched by Legatum in 2016. [2]
By February 2020, the Luminos Fund had provided education for 132,611 children in Ethiopia, Lebanon and Liberia, whose access had been limited due to conflict, discrimination or poverty. [33] Legatum founded the END Fund in 2012 to co-ordinate and support programmes to treat neglected tropical diseases, which affect over 1.5 billion people ...
[13] [14] Legatum also became co-founders of the Freedom Fund, which it started in 2013 with Pierre Omidyar, to end global slavery labour. [15] Chandler and his partners then launched the Luminos Fund, [16] a charitable organization founded in 2016 to bring educational initiatives to third world countries. [17]
Luminos placed 4th at the 2013 World Solar Challenge. Luminos, the team's eleventh car, was unveiled in the summer of 2013. It placed 4th in the Challenger class of the World Solar Challenge 2013, the best finish by an undergraduate team. Luminos was the team's most successful vehicle to date, proving sturdy and reliable with 10,000 safe miles ...
Glenview Capital Management is a hedge fund founded in 2000 with approximately $7.7 billion of capital under management as of March 2019. [5] Glenview manages capital for investors through a series of private investment funds. [1] [4] The firm was founded by Larry Robbins, the firm's CEO and portfolio manager, and is based in New York. [2] [7]
The fund lost US$2 billion in investments in Russia during the 1998 Russian financial crisis. [ 4 ] In July 2011, to avoid having to register with the SEC [ 5 ] and comply with reporting requirements under the Dodd-Frank reform act , the Quantum Fund announced they would be turning the fund into a family investment group and returning all ...
The fund has invested in two undisclosed Israeli hi-tech companies. [ 11 ] [ 2 ] The Wall Street Journal reported that "it is the first known instance that the Saudi Public Investment Fund's cash will be directed to Israel, a sign of the kingdom's increasing willingness to do business with the country."
In April 2020, Captain Sir Tom Moore, by the end of a fundraising walk, had raised £32,796,155 (the most ever raised on the JustGiving platform) by completing one-hundred, 25 metres (82 feet) laps of his garden in Bedfordshire to raise funds for the UK National Health Service (NHS), to aid the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United ...