Sentences with phrase «government award from»

Kentucky receives Innovations in Government Award from the Ford Foundation and Harvard University

Former Minnesota State Senator Ember Reichgott Junge is author of Minnesota's 1991 first - in - nation charter school law, a winner of the 2000 Innovations in American Government Award from Harvard University's JFK School of Government.

The Indianapolis charter school program received the Innovations in American Government Award from the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Not exact matches

Cleveland has also benefited from a new government program that has awarded more than $ 160 million in tax credits to the city's development projects, leveraging almost $ 1.5 billion in redevelopment, according to CBRE, a commercial real estate services company.

One former employee of the bank recalls a ceremony 10 years back at which Fridman's partner Pyotr Aven, a deputy prime minister who has headed the group's government relations, was due to receive an award from Putin.

In 2008 he won an award from the Association of Government Attorneys in Capital Litigation.

May's government also faced questions from the opposition Labour Party about why it awarded the company 1.3 billion pounds of state contracts after Carillion fell into financial difficulty in July last year.

A grant or an award for economic development from a Federal, State or local government will qualify.

SEPTEMBER 2004: Chris Tenove's series of reports from towns hard - hit by government cutbacks in B.C.'s «Heartland» garners first of many Webster Award nominations for Tyee.

By: Henry Lazenby 28th September 2016 Multinational drilling equipment and services provider Boart Longyear has received an award of C$ 1.37 - million from the Ontario government to help improve safety at mineral exploration drilling sites and the efficiency of drilling systems technology.

He received the prestigious Padma Shri award from Government of India in 2011.

Nearly 200 delegates from around the world, representing governments and leading technology company executives, were in attendance at the annual conference and awards presentations to discuss and recognize ways that broadband communications is making a practical but profound impact on the infrastructure, economy, businesses, governments and social growth.

Royal LePage says the award comes with a «generous donation» from the federal government to the foundation.

That includes funding awards to boost entrepreneurship in communities, the Business Smart Toolkit from the U.S. Small Business Administration and the National Association for Government Guaranteed Lenders — which will assist new entrepreneurs in building a credit - ready business — and the expansion of the The Innovation Corps program, which provides entrepreneurship training for scientists and engineers.

Other awards he has received include Order of Distinction from the government of Jamaica and Business Man of the Year from former President George W. Bush.

He has also received honorary degrees from McGill University, Canada, and the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, as well as numerous honours and awards from governments, and national and international institutions.

All this follows on quite naturally from the first substantial piece of fatherhood legislation introduced by this government: the awarding, in December 2003, of automatic Parental Responsibility to all unmarried fathers registered on their babies» birth certificates — a right which, until that time, had only been automatically conferred on married fathers.

In 1997, Darren was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to research modern family structures in Northern Europe, where he worked with governments, NGOs, and many dozens of couples living in non-traditional family relationships to understand what the needs of non-traditional families are, and what the United States could learn from how non-traditional families were being recognized abroad.

The park district is one of 46 agencies statewide awarded a total of more than $ 16.5 million from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources» Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development program, which helps local governments pay for the purchase and / or development of land for parks and open space, officials said.

The Park District's Annual Operating Budget has received the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada for the past thirteen consecutive years.

Convention Peoples» Party's presidential candidate Ivor Greenstreet says he sees nothing wrong with President Mahama receiving a gift from a Burkinabe contractor after he had been awarded two contracts from government.

At 9 a.m., City & State hosts the Digital NY Summit and Awards, with New York's top information technology leaders from government and industry for a daylong, dynamic program of candid discussion and thought - provoking presentations, Manny Cantor Center, 197 E. Broadway, Manhattan.

Evaluating Three Decades of Reform and Change in UK Central Government» which recently won the 2015 Louis Brownlow Book Award from the US National Academy of Public Administration.

«While we acknowledge that there are considerable practical challenges associated with extending entitlement to unmarried couples, awarding Bereavement Support Payment only to those who lose a spouse or civil partner appears hard to reconcile with the definition of family adopted by the government in the Family Test and the position adopted within other benefits,» a report from the committee concluded.

Also speaking, Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde said in continuation of the government's effort to fix the roads, the Governor approved the award of 114 roads, two from each of the 57 local governments across the state.

Miner awarded Jewett a no - bid contract through an obscure arm of city government, the Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency, which Miner controls without oversight from the city council.

The # 99M scheme has been awarded # 50M of funding from the Government and works will be carried out by Carillion Construction.

President Akufo - Addo has stated that his government has saved some Ghc5.7 billion from road contracts that were awarded under the John Mahama administration.

The awards ceremony, which was well attended by leading figures and awardees from most parts of Africa, including government officials and diplomats, is the sixth in the series, having been previously held in Kenya, South Africa and Ghana.http: / / ghanapoliticsonline.com

The government decided to act after the supreme court ruled last year that a terror suspect accused of targeting British troops had the right to return to Britain from Turkey after being stripped of his British passport, which was awarded in 2000.

CHRAJ's report follows a petition by the youth wing of the Convention People's Party, which demanded a probe into the conduct of the President, for accepting the gift worth GHc100, 000 from the contractor who was subsequently awarded some government contracts.

How can we expect a president who admits to accepting a $ 100,000 gift from a foreign contractor who was awarded a government contract through the efforts of the President, to have the courage and desire to stop his Ministers and other officials from dipping their hands into the state coffers?»

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

Margaret Hodge was awarded Best Non-Fiction by a Parliamentarian for Called to Account: How Corporate Bad Behaviour and Government Waste Combine to Cost us Millions, reflecting on her time as chair of the Public Accounts Committee from 2010 - 2015.

The Herald's information is that, US$ 25million from COCOBOD to Construction Pioneers (CP) in January 2016, to settle judgement debt awarded against Ghana in the UK, was occasioned by ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor's government.

A case in point is the payment of US$ 25million from COCOBOD to Construction Pioneers (CP) in January 2016 to settle judgement debt awarded against the Government of Ghana in the UK.

As New York nears the midpoint of its five - year, $ 8 billion project to reform Medicaid, hundreds of millions of dollars awarded from the federal government have yet to be spent, and that could negatively impact the Cuomo administration's effort to overhaul the system.

The two MPs got into a heated argument in Parliament over the controversial Ghana Expatriate Business Awards, following claims by the Minority that government charged $ 100,000 from expatriates to make them...

The government has awarded teachers a 2.45 per cent pay rise from September, above its two per cent target for the wider public sector.

INTEGRITY — CONTRACT AWARD ¶ Within the past five (5) years, has the Business Entity or any Affiliate entered into a formal monitoring agreement as a condition of a contract award from a government enAWARD ¶ Within the past five (5) years, has the Business Entity or any Affiliate entered into a formal monitoring agreement as a condition of a contract award from a government enaward from a government entity?

The EFCC had commenced investigating Azibaola last year sequel to a list sent to the commission by a committee set up by the Federal Government to probe contracts awarded by the ONSA from 2011 to 2015 which indicted more than 300 companies and prominent citizens, including serving and retired officers of the Nigerian Armed Forces.

Both Labour and the Conservatives benefit greatly from FPTP, which exaggerates the number of seats awarded to the winning party (and often the second place party too), meaning a government with an overall majority can be elected with barely a third of the popular vote.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. government announced Tuesday that it will award $ 18.5 billion worth of disaster recovery grants to Puerto Rico to help repair homes, businesses and its crumbling power grid as the U.S. territory struggles to recover from Hurricane Maria.

Mark Field MP wrote yesterday that the next Conservative Government should restrict the awarding of any future peerages to those taking up ministerial appointments - or at the very least to stop any retiring MP tainted by the expenses scandal from being ennobled - in advance of creating an elected second chamber.

Okupe, who was also quizzed for allegedly receiving some dubious contracts from a local council in Niger State to the tune of N76.5 m, said his company, Romix soilfix, was one of the over 20 construction companies who were duly awarded contracts for rural roads some five years ago by the Niger State Government.

Representatives from FreshDirect were invited to the EPA NEDC 2015 Partner's Meeting to accept the award and engage with industry and government leaders in discussions about ways to achieve cleaner, more sustainable, and efficient transportation throughout the Northeast.

Present local law fails to reasonably preclude — and could actually enable — county officers and employees from accepting an overabundance of questionable gifts, skirting campaign contribution limits through the use of the LLC loophole, abusing their offices and taxpayer funded items to freely self - promote their personal names and images (or «brand»), and awarding contracts to those vendors who unabashedly pay to play in county government.

A statement by the Special Adviser on Communications to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Hakeem Bello, on Thursday said N119, 369,520,000 liability had resulted from a judgment entered against the government over a litigation from a metering contract awarded by a previous administration in 2003.

By the time he joined IMM, he had secured research grants from the Calouste Gulbenkian and the Michael J. Fox foundations, two awards from the Portuguese government, and a Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant from the European Commission.

These range from awarding companies cash prizes or extended patents, to «public - private partnerships» in which the government pays for the R&D, then controls sales.