Sentences with phrase «education grant which»

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After selling Trader Classified Media in 2006, John MacBain has been focused on philanthropic work, founding the Geneva - based McCall MacBain Foundation, which grants funding for efforts in education, health and the environment.

Once you open an RESP account, you can take advantage of the Canadian Education Savings Grant, which gives you a 20 % top - up from the government for every dollar you contribute, up to $ 2,500 a year per child.

For example, the US Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund, which offered $ 4 billion in grants to states that developed successful educational reforms, spurred innovations that hold promise for school systems across the country.

They were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote, but they were also protesting the limits and expectations placed on American womanhood, demanding changes to childcare and abortion policies and education and employment opportunities.

The conservative Public Notice Research and Education Fund took in $ 1,821,000 in grants in 2011, $ 1,244,000 of which — almost 70 percent — came from Donors Trust.

Low - income students can take advantage of federal Pell grants, which aim to provide need - based grants to low - income undergraduate and certain graduate or professional students, in order to promote access to postsecondary education.

In addition to tax advantages, we also receive an education grant, which matches upto 20 % of the saved amount (upto a max of $ 500 per year).

Following 12 months of full - time service, AmeriCorps volunteers receive the Segal AmeriCorps Education Award, which is tied to the maximum amount for the Pell Grant that year ($ 5,920 for 2017 - 2018).

Since 2004, employees have logged more than 650,000 volunteer hours and donated more than $ 5.2 million in Grants for Great Hours, which allows PNC employees volunteering at least 40 hours over a 12 - month period at a qualified, early education nonprofit, to donate a $ 1,000 grant to that nonprofit.

Web4Realty, which produces marketing software for real estate professionals, is giving a Newcomer and Refugee Realtor Education Grant valued at more than $ 5,000 to an eligible applicant.

The emperors and their nobles encouraged education by grants of land and money to mosques, to lodges which served as residences for religious training, and to individual saints and scholars.

Cain's tenure as warden came on the heels of The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act passed in 1994, which made prisoners ineligible for Pell Grants and devastated education within the penal system.

If the government closed its eyes to the manner in which these grants are actually used it would be allowing public funds to promote sectarian education.

In the eighteenth and the early decades of the nineteenth century Nonconformists had «academies» which, while not granting degrees, gave fully as good higher education as did the universities at Oxford and on the Cam.

They will also discuss the progress made by the FVIAC's five Working Groups, which cover the following topics: 1) Ports of Entry Inspection Delays, 2) Research and Grant Funding, 3) Agricultural Labor, 4) Education and Branding, and 5) Food Safety.

Mirroring the club's philosophy of giving young players a chance, the Arsenal Foundation is a grant - giving body which works to motivate and inspire young people — often through education and sport — to help them reach their potential and be the best they can be.

The initiative will be supported for the next three years by the Foundation for Global Sports Development (GSD), which has provided the ITF with a grant of $ 375,000 to fund workshops, education courses and professional development for women in sport.»

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 March 27, 2015 the Association for Waldorf Schools of North America (AWSNA) and the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education (the Alliance) announced a collaborative licensing agreement, which grants the use of the service mark Public Waldorf to the... more

On March 27, 2015 the Association for Waldorf Schools of North America (AWSNA) and the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education (the Alliance) announced a collaborative licensing agreement, which grants the use of the service mark Public Waldorf to the Alliance.

Just one day before the scheduled markup of the House Education and the Workforce Committee «s «Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016» (an Orwellian name if there ever was one, given how the bill would gut child nutrition), Congressman Todd Rokita (IN - R), chair of the subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, introduced a substitute amendment which, among other things, proposes a three - state block grant pilot for school breakfasts and lunches.

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This is one of eight pilot programs around the country begun two years ago with a $ 700,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to the Bank Street College of Education, which directs and coordinates the program.

Project Produce is a grant program sponsored by Healthy Skoop and the Walmart Foundation which helps schools increase kids» access to fresh fruits and veggies and provides nutrition education through fun, lunchroom learning activities.

HB 2025, which establishes a composting grant pilot project in Hawaii Department of Education schools passed Committee on February 14th.

SNA said it supports the Senate agreement on school nutrition standards, and opposes the House bill, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, which would restrict school eligibility for CEP and institute a block grant pilot that would cut funds for school meal programs.

Sarkozy granted the universities more fiscal autonomy, which some saw as an attack on public education and the unfair enforcement of higher fees and tougher entry requirements.

Last year, after de Blasio began the session calling on the Senate to make mayoral control permanent, the Republicans granted just a one - year extension, which was explicitly justified as a referendum on the mayor's education agenda.

Senate Republicans introduced a bill that would have granted de Blasio three years, but only if Democrats agree to an education tax credit, which enables public school children to attend private schools.

In the wake of his victory in 1997 Tony Blair abolished what he derided as the «internal market» in the NHS, he scrapped fundholding GPs and deprived patients of the right to choose which NHS hospital treated them; in Education he scrapped Grant Maintained Schools, restored them to Local Authority control and abandoned the previous government's plans to give all schools a status similar to Grant Maintained Schools.

Amber Rudd (Hastings and Rye): Will the Secretary of State join me in congratulating Conservative - run East Sussex county council, which, after a disappointing grant from the Department for Education, has stepped in with # 12 million of capital that it had not planned to give to ensure that the St Leonards academy is rebuilt to provide better education in Education, has stepped in with # 12 million of capital that it had not planned to give to ensure that the St Leonards academy is rebuilt to provide better education in education in Hastings?

NYS Education Commissioner David Steiner's judgment and his own personal integrity are at issue here, as well as the independence and disinterestedness of the panel he has named to advise him on whether to grant the waiver to unqualified Cathleen Black, which she needs in order to assume the post of NYC Public Schools Chancellor.

The funds will come from the Higher Education Capital Matching Grant Program, under which grantees must match every dollar awarded with three dollars of their own, according to a press release.

Back in 2012, I worked with volunteer firefighters and the Firefighters Association of the State of New York, known as FASNY, to get Erie County included in the HELP (Higher Education Learning Plan) grant, which was paid for with federal dollars.

She was one of the originators of the STEM Education Act of 2015, signed into law last year, which provides grants for those fields.

It said it was also false that a fresh N25 billion loan was applied for; saying that; «the only fresh loan taken by the government of Fayose was the N10 billion grant from the Excess Crude Account, which was released to all States for capital projects, N2.8 billion requested from Wema Bank to pay State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) counterpart fund out of which N1 billion has been accessed and N600 million for MDGs counterpart fund, which has been repaid.»

«There is a wealth of evidence which shows participation in post-16 education increased when these grants were offered.

Cuomo announced the recipients of $ 35.3 million from the Higher Education Capital Matching Grant Program, which requires grantees match about $ 3 for every $ 1 the state awards.

Ball has also co-sponsored a bill to ditch the Common Core altogether, along with the federal competitive grant program Race To The Top, which is President Obama's signature education initiative.

A letter Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver received this week from the city Department of Education indicates it is considering granting Lower Manhattan its wish to expand the school, which is slated to open in 2015.

The grants were announced yesterday by Governor Deval Patrick are through the state's Performance Incentive Fund, which is part of the administration's pledge to strengthen the state's public education system via the Vision Project.

«The mayor seems to be lost in his own fantasy world of education, the one where reality doesn't apply,» declared UFT President Michael Mulgrew in response to the mayor's State of the City speech on Jan. 12, in which, among other proposals, he threatened to fire half the staffs in 33 schools receiving federal School Improvement Grant support.

Cuomo and the state Education Department recently awarded competitive grant funding to launch or expand pre-K programs in 27 school districts, which will allow thousands more students to begin full - day programs throughout the state.

After leaving the Army he set up a consultancy called The Curzon Education Ltd, which won a # 120,000 grant to give lectures to schoolchildren about the role of Commonwealth soldiers in the First World War.

State law dictates that the New York City schools chancellor has to be certified as a superintendent, which requires three years of education experience, or obtain a waiver from the state, which would be granted by Steiner.

«The only fresh loan taken by the government of Fayose was the N10bn grant from the Excess Crude Account, which was released to all states for capital projects, N2.8 bn requested from the Wema Bank to pay the State Universal Basic Education Board counterpart fund out of which N1bn has been accessed and N600m for MDGs counterpart fund, which has been repaid.»

But much major legislation failed to get through in time, including Shirley Williams» education bill, which would have extended parental choice, made school governors more representative and introduce maintenance grants for 16 - to - 18 year - olds.

Dozens of teacher trainees besieged the Ministry of Education Wednesday morning to put pressure on the government to pay the feeding grant, which they claimed had not been paid to them.

The mayor also proposed $ 500,000 for the «Say Yes Buffalo», an education program which provides scholarships and grants to students.

The Athena Project, which is a UK - wide initiative that aims to increase the number of women working in science, engineering, and technology (SET) at all levels of higher education (HE), and to improve their career development, awards development grants to HE institutions for pilot projects that address those aims.