Sentences with phrase «fund grants competition»

Not only has President Barack Obama announced a $ 250 million public - private initiative to recruit and train more STEM teachers, but also the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund grants competition is giving bonus points for applications that stress STEM instruction.

Not exact matches

Winning $ 20,000 in grant money from the competition funded the Danehys production of Fair Harbor's first collection of board shorts and swim trunks made exclusively of recycled plastic bottles.

Through grants and competitions, the company has secured $ 20,000 in funding.

EcoScraps's business plan took second prize in BYU's Social Venture Competition and won a grant from Sparkseed, a nonprofit fund that provides seed money and mentoring services to social entrepreneurs.

As an example of our firm's commitment to citizenship and community engagement, Goldman Sachs Gives continued to expand its reach in 2017, through initiatives such as the second annual Analyst Impact Fund, a competition whereby teams of analysts from the firm vied to win a Goldman Sachs Gives grant to the nonprofit of their choice.

The content is tailored primarily for those preparing proposals for the Animal Advocacy Research Fund, but should generalize in some ways to other granting competitions as well.

Typically, this venture may have small amounts of funding through grants, university programs or competitions but has not taken any significant private investment.

We support over 80 sports clubs by giving funding both to clubs and individuals (grants and scholarships), administering their competitions (BUCS and Varsity) and offering support and advice on development, sponsorship, funding and more.

He proposed a new program for distributing education funds modeled on President Barack Obama's state competitions that will grant awards based on school performance and administrative efficiencies.

Senate Republicans are balking at Cuomo's plan to create a competition for upstate development grants, and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli is warning that the $ 1.5 billion fund is being shifted among state agencies — giving the governor «great latitude in spending.»

Local leaders will be in Albany today to find out how much state funding will come to the community as part of two separate regional grant competitions.

Last year New York seemed like a loser in the competition for federal rail funds — being granted only $ 151 million of the $ 4 billion it applied for while California received over $ 2 billion.

The reaction from the organization representing New York's cities and villages was mixed: grateful for additional funding from Albany, but not sure that a competition for a single jumbo grant is the best way to distribute the money.

The Governor is also asking for $ 750 - million to fund the sixth round of the Regional Economic Development grant competition.

The deferred list includes a new, $ 1.08 billion competition by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation for research infrastructure grants to begin 3 years down the road, as well as modest funding toward buying a 15 % to 20 % stake in the colossal Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) to be built in a dormant Hawaii volcano by 2024.

He published more than 20 papers in peer - reviewed journals and won additional funding from KAUST in internal competitions designed to keep faculty members» grant - writing skills sharp.

In future, the money should be open to competition from research council institutes, which are normally funded by block grants, commercial research organisations, and government laboratories and agencies such as the Building Research Establishment.

But then, about 2.5 years ago, she had breakfast with Kirschner at Harvard, and he mentioned his own concern about the increasingly fierce competition for grants and jobs arising from the rapidly growing numbers of scientists chasing a limited supply of funds.

And as federal and state funding continues to hang in the balance, along with ever - increasing competition for grant dollars, this makes looking for alternative funding sources a priority.

First, it makes the funding of any particular lab inherently unstable and dependent on winning repeated grants and renewals, which places individual careers at the mercy of annual competitions.

When you click on the gray Apply for Grant Electronically button on an NIH funding announcement issued after 15 June 2006, the download page posted on Grants.gov indicates in the Competition ID field the form to use: «Version -2-Forms» or «Version - 2A - Forms.»

In June, the Polish government announced a new grant for young scientists who earned high scores in an international funding competition; Dobrzyn is one of only 10 scientists who qualify.

ACD members seemed generally supportive, although some suggested NIH should first study the matter more, asked about NIH's ultimate targets for redistributing funds, or wondered about potential adverse consequences, such as even fiercer competition for grants.

Senate lawmakers would also like to see DHS consider a grant program aimed at increasing the amount of extramural research funding going to universities in states whose scientists typically fare poorly in the competition for federal science dollars.

It urges the government to foster cooperation — as well as healthy competition — among the centers and between them and outside labs by following a U.S. - style funding model that emphasizes research programs that cut across many institutions rather than block grants to individual facilities.

PRF offers separate competitions for scientists at Ph.D. - granting institutions and undergraduate institutions, starter grants for new faculty members, and small colloquium grants intended to fund travel for foreign presenters.

Given the requirements of the NSF grant process and today's tight funding, it is possible that lab chiefs desperate for an edge in the grants competition could turn postdoc services into a new arena in which to try to outshine rivals.

Often, scientists in the same field are in competition for grant money to fund their work so there is an inherent need for discretion and confidentiality until results are made public.

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An advanced instructional program in the workings of the U.S. government that is class infused with competition, We the People was established by the Center for Civic Education in 1987; a grant from the U.S. Congress has funded it each year.

But failure in the highly competitive grants competition produced a constructive counter-reaction here, where the lack of targeted state funding for dropout programs might have made the loss seem doubly discouraging.

The article examines how the 16 U.S. school districts awarded federal grants through the Race to the Top (RTT) competition are applying the funds to personalized learning initiatives.

At the federal level, former U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. prioritized school diversity through a number of federal grant programs, including the Investing in Innovation Fund, or I3, Magnet School Assistance Program, and Charter School Program grant competitions.11 Additionally, in December 2016, the U.S. Department of Education announced the Opening Doors, Expanding Opportunities grant competition, which will use funds from the 2016 fiscal year to support school districts in increasing socioeconomic diversity in their schools.12

Additionally, in the Cohort 4 grant competition, more than 600 elementary, middle and high schools requesting over $ 100,000,000 dollars were denied funding for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program.

The funding will enable them to run state - level grant competitions to support approximately 400 new and expanded public charter schools, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

The scope of this year's competition is notably smaller than i3's first round, which awarded $ 650 million to 49 districts and nonprofits, but the department is still able to fund about half the number of awards as the previous year because so many applicants are receiving the smaller $ 3 million development grants slated for promising but unstudied activities.

Investing in Innovation The department has announced that all 23 Investing in Innovation (i3) grant finalists successfully secured a total of $ 18 million in private donations, ensuring that they have met the competition's matching requirement and qualifying them to receive $ 150 million in federal funding from the i3 program.

Seven state chapters of AACTE will share $ 50,000 in funding from the 2017 State Chapter Support Grant competition.

The groups also call on lawmakers to maintain discrete and significant funding for disciplines beyond reading, math, and science and to promote grant competitions within the disciplines, not between them.

The funding from Title II, Part B from the U.S. Department of Education supports a competitive grant competition for projects that increase the academic achievement of students in mathematics and science by encouraging state education agencies, institutions of higher education, local education agencies, elementary schools, and secondary schools to participate in programs that improve instruction and upgrade the status and stature of mathematics and science teaching.

The Development category, which funds grantees with promising but relatively untested ideas, has been the most popular of the three grant categories throughout the previous three i3 competitions.

In the midst of the financial crisis, the federal DOE enticed states with promises of funding via the Race to the Top grant competition.

The U. S. Department of Education is announcing today the first grant competition under the Teacher and School Leader (TSL) program to provide funding for states, districts, and nonprofit organizations to support, train, and reward excellent teachers and school leaders.

For this competition, Validation grants will provide up to $ 12 million to fund projects with moderate evidence of effectiveness.

2010: AppleTree Institute won a five - year, $ 5 million grant from the US Department of Education's Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund competition and raised $ 1.5 million in private matching funds to support the project, the further development and evaluation of AppleTree's groundbreaking Every Child Ready preschool instructional model.

The U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top grant competition, announced in 2009, set off a flurry of legislative action from cash - starved state governments ready to do whatever it took to preserve school funding.

The bill funds federal education programs at $ 2.9 billion below President Obama's FY13 budget request and $ 1.8 billion above the FY12 education budget; it is a marked departure from the Senate's recently approved appropriations bill, which maintains the aforementioned grant competitions.

The department is accepting pre-applications for the Development grants until April 26, 2013; these grants fund promising but relatively untested ideas and were the most popular grants during the previous three i3 competitions.

The House panel cut all funding for the Race to the Top program -LRB-- $ 550 million), School Improvement Grants -LRB-- $ 533 million), and the local Investing in Innovation grant competition -LRB-- $ 150 million).

Federal auditors will focus attention in 2013 on selected recipients of grants issued under the Race to the Top competition, Vocational Rehabilitation State Grant Program and the Investing in Innovation fund.