Sentences with phrase «annenberg challenge grants»

Employees can win equipment through «challenge grants» where they submit a proposal for an outdoor adventure that would be challenging.

Plus, staffers can also apply for an REI Challenge Grant to cover some costs associated with a bucket - list outdoor adventure (say, a mountain bike race).

SAN FRANCISCO — Bay Area - based foundation Taube Philanthropies announced today that it has made a $ 1 million emergency challenge grant to support Hurricane Harvey relief and rebuilding efforts.

Taube Philanthropies, led by Tad and Dianne Taube, made its challenge grant to All Hands Volunteers, a U.S. - based disaster relief organization which relies on a network of volunteers to help people affected by natural disasters all over the world.

September 1, 2017 Taube Philanthropies Taube Philanthropies makes $ 1 million emergency challenge grant toward Hurricane Harvey relief

Available free of charge on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents, and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season, and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.

The problem is that no such programs yet exist (although this is going to be a key objective of our SmartTeams program, and our pilot program for the NCAA and Department of Defense under our Mind Matters Challenge grant), and even if were implemented on a widespread basis (which, once again, I hope will happen once we launch the full SmartTeams program in 2016), it is unclear whether such a shift in emphasis in concussion education will achieve any meaningful increase in rates of self - reporting, at least in the short term.

Foster and Adoptive Family Services, a non-profit organization dedicated to foster and adoptive families, started an outreach program in 2000 through a $ 5000 challenge grant from Long Valley Presbyterian Church, called Fostering Wishes For Children (FWFC).

Restoration projects under way at Lyman Woods Forest Preserve in Downers Grove received a boost recently in the form of a $ 4,000 challenge grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

On July 15, the NCAA and Department of Defense (DOD) announced the selection of MomsTeam Youth Sports Safety Institute as a recipient of a Mind Matters Challenge grant for our application, Creating a Safe Concussion Reporting Environment: A Multi-Media Approach.

Learn more about Wisconsin and how other states are using RTT - ELC funds to strengthen their early childhood systems in ZERO TO THREEs paper: The Early Learning Challenge Grant Is Helping States Better Serve Infants and Toddlers.

A key goal of Maryland's Early Learning Challenge grant, awarded in December 2011, was to strengthen family engagement across the early childhood system.

The Early Learning Challenge Grant Is Helping States Better Serve Infants and Toddlers: http://www.zerotothree.org/policy/docs/elc-grant-update.pdf

«We've said this is, in effect, a challenge grant,» Mr. de Blasio said.

Can someone report on where the heck is the $ for the Challenge grant that nobody in the gov office seems to know when the $ will be released?

The money is being sought from phase 3 of the New York SUNY 2020 Challenge Grant program.

The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College received the $ 1 million in funding through a challenge grant from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.

Created the NYSUNY 2020 Challenge Grant Program making the State University of New York an engine of economic development with world - class centers of research and innovation.

I also propose extending our highly successful SUNY and CUNY 2020 rational tuition and challenge grant program.

The University at Albany has not yet presented a plan to Gov. Andrew Cuomo as part of its pitch under the NYSUNY 2020 Challenge Grant Program.

In addition to challenging Grant in the primary, Power has filed a lawsuit aimed at disqualifying Grant from running for re-election.

NIH's new 2 - year challenge grants — the only stimulus funding program open to proposals for new projects — are, Suter believes, perfect for giving «young people fresh out of their training, the hot, young Turks with the cutting - edge methodologies, an opportunity to move these very cutting - edge questions forward very, very quickly.»

Dr. Espinosa's research started with a Crnic Grand Challenge Grant organized by the Executive Director of the Crnic Institute, Dr. Tom Blumenthal.

That response is tiny compared with the 20,000 applications submitted for Challenge Grants, which 15,000 reviewers are now rushing to evaluate.

The work was supported by the University of Washington Department of Pathology and Department of Laboratory Medicine, a Provost Bridge grant, a Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging, Genetic Approaches to Aging Training Grant, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Challenge Grants 5RC1AR058520, R01GM083867, R01GM097372, and 1P01GM081619.

Last fall, the Traditional Values Coalition publicly challenged grants worth more than $ 100 million.

In August, two members of the IAS Board of Trustees gave the institute a challenge grant of $ 100 million, to be matched by $ 100 million from other donors over the next 4 years.

The small Burlingame, California — company has already attracted support from private investors and garnered a $ 1 million National Institutes of Health Challenge Grant, made possible by NIH's stimulus funding.

Their research is funded by the Stand Up to Cancer Immunotherapy Dream Team grant, Prostate Cancer Foundation Challenge Grant in Immunology, the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (CA1633793 - 01, P30 CA016672) and the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.

The current study is analyzing the results of a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Challenge grant to determine the effects of the intervention on nearly 1,000 early, moderate and late preterm infants, with a goal of improving care, improving outcomes, and decreasing costs.

In 2008, Dr. and Mrs. Jacobs created a challenge grant to establish endowed chairs for senior scientists.

The Crnic Grand Challenge Grants are an annual infusion of funding into a genetic condition that is one of the least - funded by the National Institutes of Health despite the fact that it affects one in every 691 births in the U.S..

Crnic Grand Challenge Grant recipients are chosen based on the strength of their proposed science and the likelihood such science will lead to improving outcomes for people with Down syndrome.

Thirty - three researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Colorado School of Medicine on the Anschutz Medical Campus applied for the 2014 Crnic Grand Challenge Grants.

Corbett and Pavlath recently were awarded a Challenge grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to investigate the mechanism of OPMD.

DENVER (March 21, 2014)- To commemorate World Down Syndrome Day, the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome announced $ 1.26 million in Crnic Institute Grand Challenge Grants to 13 researchers, raising the number of labs at the University of Colorado working on Down syndrome research to 24, and the total labs supported by Crnic to 29.

Construction has completed on this $ 41 million, 65,000 - square - foot laboratory building with a $ 20.5 million challenge grant from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine; this grant must be matched by $ 20.5 in gifts from other sources.

«In 1996, District 108 in Pekin, Illinois, received a $ 5 million Technology Innovation Challenge Grant from the U.S. Department of Education, because of the district's vision and groundwork in the area of technology,» teacher and school webmaster Madeleine Decker told Education World.

These goals were central to the 2009 Race to the Top challenge grants, where a key component was incentivizing states to create robust teacher evaluation policies.

Computer Associates Challenge Grants.

Wood, who began his career as a social studies and history teacher in South Carolina, says he didn't really understand the impact of policy on what he did in the classroom until U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley invited him to Washington in 1993 to write the guidelines and serve as chief reviewer for the department's new Technology Innovation Challenge Grants program.

By 1996 the virtual fire was beginning to blaze: an experimental WebSchool in Orange County, Florida (a precursor to the Florida Online High School), offered online courses to local students; Federal Way School District in Washington State founded the Cyber - School Academy with nearly 50 students (both elementary and secondary); the Concord Virtual High School (later to be called Virtual High School) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called Class.com).

Watson - Blagden says the concept of place - based education has taken root over the past ten to twenty years, fueled, in part, by Annenberg Rural Challenge grants, launched in 1995 to improve rural schools by linking them more with their communities.

The United Way of America received $ 600,000 to award challenge grants to the local literacy initiatives of six United Way chapters.

He has led three - year initiatives with the Florida Department of Education and with Florida Atlantic University, the latter supported by an Annenberg Challenge Grant Award.

This month, we talked to Elizabeth Steiner, a RAND researcher who has studied personalized learning in schools across the country that have received Next Generation Learning Challenge grants, including 13 in California.

Summit Public Schools has received a Next Generation Learning Challenge grant to expand personalized learning.

More than a dozen schools in California have received Next Generation Learning Challenge Grants, including nine in Oakland.

All of the 40 schools in the study received Next Generation Learning Challenge grants to help them pursue innovative strategies.

RAND Corporation researcher Elizabeth Steiner and her colleagues have found some personalized learning schools made gains, but it was difficult to determine which specific strategies worked and which didn't in schools that received Next Generation Learning Challenge grants to help them pursue innovation.