Sentences with phrase «for broader initiatives»

For broader initiatives, it can be even harder to assess success.

Not exact matches

We continue to focus on initiatives to promote broad and seamless access for patients,» stated Jim Robinson, President and Chief Operating Officer of Alkermes.

For these reasons, Washington needs to factor in the European dimension when it decides how to approach Chinese initiatives with broader Eurasian strategic implications.

«Stakeholder interest in the initiative and the upcoming IEEE Blockchain for Clinical Trials Forum is strong, and we encourage even broader participation and input from vested healthcare and regulatory partners in order to identify pertinent issues and more viable use cases that can help us advance industry - wide adoption,» said Tim Mackey, co-chair of the IEEE - Standards Association Supply Chain / Clinical Trials Industry Connections Program.

Austin will undoubtedly be a test market for some of these broader technology initiatives as Amazon extends its reach into brick and mortar.»

To help more small businesses achieve financial success, in 2014 Wells Fargo introduced Wells Fargo Works for Small Business ® — a broad initiative to deliver resources, guidance and services for business owners.

The GOP leadership of the Florida House and Senate quickly stood with Scott in backing a broad package of legislative initiatives, including funding for increased school security and setting up a new process to take guns out of the hands of those deemed to pose a danger.

But two obstacles stand in the way of moving from something like the WSGR term sheet generator to a broad - based document - assembly initiative for drafting contracts.

NACO's newest research initiative covers the broader early - stage funding opportunities for entrepreneurs in Canada.

To help more small businesses achieve financial success, Wells Fargo introduced Wells Fargo Works for Small Business ® — a broad initiative to deliver resources, guidance and services for business owners.

These initiatives, in turn, may well represent responses to broader social conditions; and their consequences may be for the most part unforeseen and even undesired.

The initiative came out of a strategic directive adopted by the Association, which calls for «positively impacting the human condition,» and evidences a growing support for spiritual social action among the broader membership of Unity.

Recognizing the scale of this crisis, Hollywood producers Mark Burnett and Roma Downey have joined with the Institute for Global Engagement to create The Cradle Fund, a broad - reaching initiative to partner with suffering churches in Jordan and Iraq to serve refugees in their communities.

The two day dialogue, second in the series of its kind for media practitioners across the country, forms part of a broader initiative between the sector ministry and DANIDA Ghana, with funding from the Denmark Government, towards ending SGBV in the country.

Beyond this, it is an open question as to whether this initiative mechanism should be limited only to constitutional issues, or rather become an agenda - setting device for generating a citizens» assembly on any broad political issue where the relevant number of signatures can be collected.

In 1995 he led the famous «Kume Preko» demonstrations of the Alliance For Change (AFC), a broad - based political pressure group, which mobilised thousands of people onto the streets of Ghana to protest the Value Added Tax (VAT) initiative which was being introduced by the government of Ghana under the then President Rawlings.

While it doesn't lay out specific curricula, such as lists of books or lessons, the initiative seeks to enact broad concepts to help ensure that students are truly ready for college or work after high school.

Since then she has led major initiatives for our community to protect small business owners and has been a promintent voice here with broad support from all quarters.

Both Diaz and Torres are allocating funds for two new LGBT initiatives — the development of an LGBT - friendly senior housing facility spearheaded by SAGE, Services and Advocacy for GLBT Seniors, and a medical facility that the Callen - Lorde Community Health Center will establish in partnership with Boom!Health, a Bronx - based agency that provides a broad range of health, social, and legal services.

The grant money is part of a broader federal initiative by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to rid the country's housing stock of lead - paint hazards.

According to him, industrial parks will help the country bridge infrastructure gaps, develop targeted sectors, economies of scale and can also be used as testing grounds for broader economic reform initiatives.

On a broader level, I hope that the MCB Grad Network and other sustainable initiatives will help change cultures within universities for the better.

In order to remain globally competitive in the 21st Century, we must continue our broad support for federal initiatives that have helped foster thousands of innovations like the microchip, GPS, the Internet, and the bar code, just to name a few.

Furthermore thanks to the European Research Area initiative launched by the EC, our unit covers European research from a broad perspective — not just concentrating on EC - supported activities (see, for example, our research headlines).

In addition to Amgen's work to improve cancer patient treatment through science - based innovation, CRI will also recognize the company's commitment to the broader scientific and patient communities, both through its support of CRI's Cancer Immunotherapy Month education and awareness initiative, and for its support of the CRI - CIMT - EATI - AACR International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference, a joint program of four cancer research organizations that convenes world - leading scientists to discuss the latest in cancer immunology and immunotherapy research.

ASAPbio is an advocacy group founded by Ron Vale — an initiative instigated by scientists for scientists it aims to make new discoveries within the life science available to a broad audience much faster than previously possible.

«Jim Mullikin is the ideal choice to champion the broad scientific portfolio of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center, which is one of NHGRI's premiere research assets,» said NHGRI Scientific Director Daniel Kastner, M.D., Ph.D. «Dr. Mullikin brings a comprehensive experiential and academic background to NISC, taking on the wealth of basic and clinical research initiatives already underway and planning for the genomic contributions that this center will be making well into the future.»

Three decades later, the Birmingham non-profit organization is deeply involved in a broad - based initiative to find a cure for HIV infection, which the World Health Organization has blamed for 35 million deaths globally.

At the Mount Sinai Health System's Division of Gastroenterology, we are pursuing a broad array of initiatives with a central focus on translational research that will lead to advances in care for gastrointestinal and liver diseases.

Further initiatives include increasing interdisciplinary projects and pathway models of study that reflect the contemporary need for a broader and richer learning framework.

For those young people, the merits of a year to refocus on their own sense of self while engaging in service to a broader community are persuasive, says Weissbourd, who is leading an initiative calling for broad reforms to the college admissions proceFor those young people, the merits of a year to refocus on their own sense of self while engaging in service to a broader community are persuasive, says Weissbourd, who is leading an initiative calling for broad reforms to the college admissions procefor broad reforms to the college admissions process.

Happily, this sort of common sense is starting to re-enter the conversation (thanks, in part, to the persistence of the folks at Harvard's Pathways to Prosperity initiative, who called in 2011 for a broader approach to education reform, one that includes high - quality career technical education).

In focusing on individual school models and putting forth an open call for ideas — rather than insisting on a prescribed list of policy - related preferences — the initiative appeared to depart significantly from the kind of education grant making that has been practiced for the past 15 years by philanthropists such as the Gates, Walton, and Broad families.

For the best development I chose Race to the Top, because the initiative, the key reform effort of the Obama Administration, demonstrated broad political support for charters, merit pay and data - driven education refoFor the best development I chose Race to the Top, because the initiative, the key reform effort of the Obama Administration, demonstrated broad political support for charters, merit pay and data - driven education refofor charters, merit pay and data - driven education reform.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

The foundation supports a number of what Katzir calls «branded flagship initiatives,» such as the Broad Center for the Management of School Systems or the Broad Institute for School Boards.

The rubric examines how organizations store, access, and use available data to support broad areas of function: Goal - setting for, and evaluation of, programs and major initiatives; system - level performance management and accountability; and resource allocation and budgeting.

Rollins executes a broad range of strategic and tactical activities related to the identification, development, and delivery of diversity and inclusion initiatives for faculty, students, and staff.

From the Gates Foundation high school initiative to the Annenberg Challenge, from the Children's Scholarship Fund to the Broad Prize for Urban Education, philanthropic efforts are playing a catalytic role in contemporary school reform.

And it could thwart early education initiatives aimed at getting all children ready for kindergarten and broader efforts to ensure every child masters reading by the end of third grade.

The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP) is an interdisciplinary initiative committed to mobilizing the resources of Harvard and the broader research community in support of the struggle for racial and ethnic justice.

Calling their entrepreneurial venture the Happy Eating Place (HEP), the students originally set out just to prepare healthy snacks on campus and raise money for a yet - to - be determined nonprofit organization, but Malamud saw the opportunity for a service learning initiative with broader goals that would include social justice issues within our society.

Universality can create broad public support for an education choice initiative to increase its likelihood of long - term viability.

The breadth and reach of the program has expanded with an aggressive outreach for public and corporate support that allows Calhoun to benefit a broader audience of institutions, raising awareness and providing education with a hands - on initiative to improve food service for children.

The Republican governor supports the teacher - tenure initiative as part of a broader «reform agenda» that calls for revamping...

Last year Mr. Broad and Bill Gates gave $ 60 million for an initiative called ED in» 08, which was supposed to make education a priority issue in the presidential campaign.

King 5 Up Front Polls, September 11, 2012 KING 5 poll: Widespread support for legal marijuana, same - sex marriage The KING 5 poll also suggests broad support for two other initatives — I - 1240 [up 52 - 26 %] The KING 5 poll also suggests broad support for two other initatives — I - 1240, which would authorize the creation of up to 40 public charter schools in the state, and I - 1185, the Tim Eyman - backed initiative that would affirm a state law that requires two - thirds majorities in the legislature to approve a tax increase... [Return to Top]

Dave now serves as Senior Policy Analyst with the Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives at Tulane University, and is currently developing a broad engagement strategy that outlines communication and staffing needs to better connect with school board members at the local and state level.

The NoVo Foundation has committed to fund, through a $ 220,000 grant, a broad research study examining process outcomes and program impact for this initiative.

In a broader instructional intervention working with ELL students across grades K - 6 for whom science instruction replaced traditional reading / language arts, Klentschy (2003) showed that grade 6 students who participated in the initiative for 4 or more years averaged a percentile rank of 64 on a state - administered nationally - normed reading test.