Sentences with phrase «common fund initiative»

The other new Common Fund initiative launching in 2013 will focus on RNA molecules that cells secrete to communicate with each other.

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Patrick Doherty is Director of Corporate Governance in the Office of the New York State Comptroller, where he helps develop and administer corporate responsibility initiatives for the $ 209billion New York State Common Retirement Fund.

Brought together as part of the Farm Animal Investment Risk & Return (FAIRR) initiative, they include the fund arms of insurer Aviva and Norwegian lender Nordea, asset management groups Boston Common and Impax, several Swedish state pension funds and several other charities and ethical investors.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

«We in the minority raised questions about it because we said that the common fund is supposed to go to the districts for development in the districts... The government can not turn round and depend on the same common fund it cut by 25 % and wants to use the same common fund to finance these initiatives in the districts.

Along with the federal government, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has funded the Common Core initiative.

In the waning months of the Bloomberg administration, however, the iZone initiative, and schools like Global Tech — which have benefited from extra funding and support offered through the program — are being buffeted by a series of changes, from budget cuts to city - wide implementation of the Common Core state standards.

This initiative will be funded by the Common Council as part of the city's current budget, the mayor said.

Despite his assertions, it should be noted that the Government budgeted GHc 600 million for the Nation Builders Corps initiative and there is no official allocation for it in the District Assembly Common Fund formula.

One part of the initiative is a grants program funded at up to $ 6.75 million over 3 years, $ 6 million of it from NIH's Common Fund, a pot of money for cross-cutting projects.

The study was the result of a joint initiative between MedUni Vienna and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Health Promotion Research (which has meanwhile ceased its activity) and was funded from «Common Health Goals» within the framework pharmaceutical contract, a cooperative agreement between the Austrian pharmaceutical industry and the social insurance system.

Different from other NIH initiatives that are funded purely based on a grant's peer - review scores, the Common Fund program staff handpick from the most highly - ranked applicants, taking into account the investigator and institution's level of innovation, history of collaboration, and how well the proposed project fits in with the overall goal of the initiative.

The awards total approximately $ 127 million and represents contributions from the NIH Common Fund; the National Cancer Institute; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; National Institute of General Medical Sciences; National Institute of Mental Health; and the Big Data to Knowledge initiative.

This new initiative is supported by the NIH Common Fund, which funds high - impact, trans - NIH projects that have the potential to dramatically affect biomedical research over the next decade.

I think [Common Core] is essentially a federal initiative at this point, having been created by a small group of people, including very few if any teachers, working in conjunction with the Duncan administration, and it has been at the very least aggressively encouraged for states to adopt, particularly through the Race to the Top funding.»

And, possibly most curiously, despite Duncan's earlier warning that a state's unwise use of early ARRA funds would cause it to be tremendously disadvantaged in the RTTT competition, this issue only comprises 1 percent — 5 of 500 — of the total points available (by comparison, not signing on to the common standards initiative would cost a state 8 times the number of points).

It was not difficult for opponents to cast Common Core as a federal initiative, given 1) the Obama administration's use of RttT incentives (and later, waivers to NCLB requirements) to encourage states to adopt the standards and 2) the administration's funding of the consortia.

Pressure by the Obama Administration, using the carrot of incentives (RTTT) and the stick of proposed penalties (denial of access to Title I funding), to induce states to sign on to the common standards initiative raises serious questions about further federal involvement in standards - setting and assessments.

In fact, the Common Core isn't a national policy, though the federal Race to the Top initiative did provide encouragement and funding to states that adopted the standards.

The AFT also has been supporting the Common Core with an array of partners, including the AFT Innovation Fund and TES Connect, which is teaming up with the union to expand their joint Share My Lesson initiative — an online «digital filing cabinet full of materials, lesson plans and ideas, many aligned to the new standards,» Weingarten explained.

The Gates» foundation also «bought» many of the Common Core State Standards initiatives and it funds multi-state projects where teachers who produce above average gains in test scores are defined as «effective.»

The fact that the foundation not only funded — directly and indirectly — such a large percentage of the development of the standards but also the validation and some implementation measures has raised concerns about the ethics and desirability of a single private entity being able to influence a public initiative of the Common Core's scope.

Two initiatives, codeveloped by teachers and funded by the Gates Foundation, point the way to successful implementation of the Common Core State Standards.

The Common Core was also sold as a voluntary initiative which states would agree to: it was agreed to state by state with the promise of federal funding from Race to the Top grants, not imposed through federal legislation, and was said to be designed by and for educators.

While Bill Gates may have been central to funding the development of the Common Core State Standards, we simply would not see them in classrooms across the country with standardized testing rolled out already and teachers» evaluations connected to those tests without Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and his signature initiatives.

Dedicated to promoting the privatization of public education, more taxpayer funds for privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools, the Common Core, the Common Core testing scheme and a host of anti-teacher initiatives, Students for Education Reform, Inc. (SFER) was created in late 2009, according to their narrative, by a couple of undergraduate students at Princeton University.

«[S] o the large pot of funding that we had to offer was a significant inducement for states to compete,» she writes, adding the surprise number of 46 states willing to sign onto the Common Core standards initiative was due to «our decision to leverage the spirit of competition.»

The top - down, test - driven regimen of Bush's «No Child Left Behind» and Obama's «Race to the Top» initiatives in K - 12 education is now in the process of being nationalized with those Common Core standards championed by the Times — an enterprise largely funded, and relentlessly promoted, by corporate groups.

Supporting a no - kill initiative, discovering a cure for canine cancer, connecting service animals to those with disabilities or providing resources to support local rescues and shelters all have one thing in common: the challenge to find ways to continuously fund these missions.

Further on this «just say no to open access,» it needs to be recognized that this greater public access is happening on a number of fronts, not least of which is the Canadian Tri-Council research funding agencies declaring a common OA policy for 2014, as well as the recent White House initiative intended to see all federally funded research (following on the NIH requirement dating back to 2008) requiring «public access» of the final, peer - reviewed draft, within twelve months of publication.

Money seized from criminals in America will fund the biggest intelligence - sharing initiative of its kind, offering new strategies to companies to combat common types of online fraud like phishing to access personal data.

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Through the federal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood initiative, the state finances training to all home visiting programs, regardless of their funding, as a way to share common information, resources and tools, and to build consistency in assessment and practice.