Sentences with phrase «challenge grants for»

In his presidential campaign platform, Mr. Obama pledged to establish a Presidential Early Learning Council to coordinate federal, state and local policies; to quadruple financing for Early Head Start; to provide federal challenge grants for states to use for early care and education programs; and to expand home visiting programs for low - income mothers.

It did however receive $ 75 million in Early Learning Challenge grants for early education and preschool initiatives from the Race to the Top fund.

Providing children with access to quality early childhood education from birth to age 5 by providing Early Learning Challenge Grants for states to implement and expand universal pre-K programs, expanding Head Start, and quadrupling Early Head Start enrollment.

The department recently awarded 24 new grants totaling $ 23 million to school, community, and business partnerships in 16 states under its Challenge Grants for Technology in Education Program.

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.

MAJOR GIFT COMPLETES CHALLENGE GRANT FOR PRESIDIO TRAILS Realizing the Vision of the Presidio as a Beautiful National Park For All

Recent & Upcoming Awarded a Knight Challenge Grant for 2018!

Tiff Massey (Metalsmithing» 11) was recently awarded a $ 200,000 Knight Arts Challenge grant for her tentatively titled «Spring» art installation at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.

Not exact matches

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).

On Thursday, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted a request for a preliminary injunction to the states of California and New Mexico, which are challenging Interior's suspension.

After the Court granted the Government's petition for leave to serve the summons, managing partner of Berns Weiss LLP and Coinbase customer Jeffrey K. Berns filed a motion challenging the summons, arguing that the IRS had no legitimate purpose in seeking the requested records, that enforcement of the summons would constitute an abuse of process, and that the categories of requested documents were overbroad.

A performing arts program for teens in foster care, service dogs for children with disabilities and a global effort to help children in extreme poverty are among the 27 charities that will receive a $ 25,000 grant as winners of the Upstanders Challenge.

Grant Maheu (captain), Daniel Johansson and Matthew Nakaska won an all - expenses paid trip to Boston as a result of winning the regional competition for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute Research Challenge in February 2018.

The coalition against the pipeline is already challenging the first permit granted to ETP by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources with a case filed by the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, with a court date set for Jan. 4, 2018.

When environmental groups succeeded in getting a federal judge to grant a February 24 order that temporarily halted work in the Atchafalaya Basin while a permit for the pipeline is being challenged, Rosinski wondered whether construction could still legally move forward on her land.

Rep. Joseph Kennedy, for example, was just challenging Zuckerberg about how it grants access to user data to advertisers.

Your grace is pleaded to continue that climb for America and the world... We ask that you grant our president the will to act courageously but cautiously when confronted with danger and to act prudently but deliberately when challenged by adversity.

Most of these lectures aim at bringing the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism closer to Indian and Western Christians as well as philosophers, to deepen their understanding of faith and expand it to other forms of belief.43 His anthology «The Vedic Experience» which has been accepted and respected by many Hindus, tries to present texts from the Veda and the Upanishads in such a way that they become open towards other beliefs and transparent for the depth of faith.44 An important aspect of his literary production, already central at the beginning, but gaining prominence again lately, has been to address a Western public that faces the challenge of having to seek its religious identity and not being able to take it for granted.

The preacher is summoned by the gospel to present an imaginative Word that lives «out beyond» and challenges the taken - for - granted world of the congregation.

Whereas the Harvard group would take for granted the basic structures of the global economy, the WCC group would question and challenge it fundamentally.

Like the Russian Orthodox Church's 2008 statement on human rights, the Council's documents offer an alternative model, a challenge to the subjective, more or less secular understanding of human rights that most in the West take for granted today.

Application by Wylie Steel Pty Limited for review of grant of authorization to Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited re acquisition of BHP / GKN Holdings Ltd. and John Lysaght (Australia) Ltd (1980) ATPR 40 - 170 [TRIBUNAL] On the issue of «sufficient interest» to challenge TPC authorization determination: (1980) 47 FLR 384

In partnership with Closed Loop Partners» Center for the Circular Economy, Starbucks launched the NextGen Cup Challenge initiative to issue grants for potential inventors of a fully recyclable and compostable cup.

The reason we can't seem to mount a consistent challenge but Leicester can is because Ranieri's team learned to take advantage of opportunities and to never take the opponent for granted, that's something most of our players are incapable of doing.

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.

On July 15, 2015, the NCAA and Department of Defense (DOD) announced the selection of MomsTeam Youth Sports Safety Instituteas a recipient of a Mind Matters Challenge Educational grant for our application, Creating a Safe Concussion Reporting Environment: A Multi-Media Approach.

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).

Although it appears so deceptively simple that we take it for granted, learning to go to sleep is often as much of a challenge to children as learning to walk.

We don't necessarily want to traumatize our kids by making them watch videos of babies from Third World countries starving to death, but we can challenge their assumptions about the things they take for granted.

In 2012, Wisconsin reapplied for and was awarded the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (RTT - ELC) grant and proposed the following targets to improve its early learning and development (ELD) sy...

In 2012, Wisconsin reapplied for and was awarded the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (RTT - ELC) grant and proposed the following targets to improve its early learning and development (ELD) systems.

Schools face a variety of challenges when trying to provide something — water — that Americans take for granted.

It seems to me that these claims, reducible to «the internet (or this internet tool) is a singular and powerful causal force that will affect change, and that change will be for the better,» are often driven by the posturing of publicity - seeking pundits and people looking for grants or business opportunities (see the first part of this story on the U.S. State Department)-- and the professional pessimists who live to challenge them.

Burstein said the grant will also address another challenge: a shortage of doctors providing treatment for those who are addicted.

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?

He said that while the current agitation for local government autonomy enjoys a degree of support among Nigerians, granting the LGs autonomy with highly limited economic potential is more likely to complicate rather than resolve the challenges confronting them.

Host Grant Reeher engages her in a discussion of the challenges facing the museum, her strategies for renewed financial and artistic vibrancy, and the cultural function of an art museum in a small city.

Each of the arms of government can check each other but not in the way of the President or any other person saying after a court of law has delivered a judgment and set free an accused person on bail, after looking at the various factor for the grant of bail, including severity of the punishment, including the weight of the alleged crime, including whether the accused person would jump bail or not, including whether you would produce surety or not, including whether he has health challenges or not, and the court has finally weighed all these and decided that the accused person must go on bail upon fulfillment of certain condition of bail.

It has backed Betty Jean Grant in a primary challenge to Tim Kennedy, a Democratic Senator from Buffalo, and spent money on mail advertising for Jesse Hamilton in his race against Rubain Dorancy for an open seat in Brooklyn.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running for reelection and faces a Democratic primary challenge from actress and education activist Cynthia Nixon, promised to grant 35,000 felons currently on parole in New York State the right to vote.

These polls, detailed though they may be, are just a snapshot and the SNP are taking nothing for granted — hard work and good policies are what win votes and we know the scale of the challenge we face if we are to make gains.

While Grant's challenge to Kennedy is a proxy for the larger Democratic struggles against the I.D.C., it is also pitting Erie County executive Mark Poloncarz and his ally, Erie County Democratic chairman Jeremy Zellner, against a faction of Democrats lined up behind Kennedy that includes Rep. Brian Higgins and Buffalo mayor Byron Brown.

This week on the Campbell Conversations, host Grant Reeher talks to Dana Balter, the Democratic Party's endorsed candidate to challenge Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus) for central New York's 24th Congressional District seat.

He acknowledged that Entergy faced more challenges in its bid for a new license, but was confident a renewal would eventually be granted.

Asked about Smierciak's challenge, Collins» political adviser, Christopher M. Grant, said: «We welcome anyone who wants to engage in the political process... We're looking forward to putting Chris» record of delivering for his constituents up against anyone.»

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

Among the questions asked by the press: whether the city is working with Mexican government officials to encourage any eligible Mexican nationals to register with the city for assistance, whether all victims have been located and identified, what is the biggest remaining challenge at the site, whether there are continuing concerns of gas leaking at the site, whether there is any evidence of illegal gas connections in the basements of the destroyed buildings, what damage or evidence the FDNY will look for, the number of people needing housing assistance, whether any victims asked about the investigation when meeting with the mayor, the number and location of apartments being made available by REBNY to temporarily house victims, what the mayor would say to any employer not granting time off to a victim and whether the mayor is concerned about the pace of gas main replacements.

The amicus brief argues that the DOJ denying sanctuary cities the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant, a prominent federal funding source for local enfacement agencies, is against federal law, seizes local control in public safety policy and «poses serious challenges for local governments.»

Normal Siegel, former director of the ACLU and a candidate for public advocate, said he and others were researching a possible legal challenge to the granting of a waiver.