As the Teacher
Incentive Fund moves into its fourth round, the program's priorities have shifted, partly reflecting challenges faced by several grantees in the third round.
Not exact matches
In the end, the state of Minnesota gave the company a $ 900,000
incentive to
move, including $ 500,000 forgivable loan from the Minnesota Investment
Fund and $ 400,000 in tax credits from the Job Skills Partnership Program.
This paper and others show that the dominant influence of Morningstar on
fund flows has the potential to create these kinds of backwards
incentives for
fund managers, where a
move that hurts investors benefits the manager's salary.
A plausible argument could be made that upstate hick Senators have
incentives to block progress in the NYC schools so that they have greater reason to
move towards Cheaters Schools — another source of big hedge
fund donors for the TEAPubs Senators!
However, IF they decide to
move forward (most postdocs will be getting the minimum; there are only a few colleges / institutes left), UMich will provide some bridge
funding as an
incentive.
For example, support for the improvement of student testing, for the development of improved databases and value - added measures, and for initial payments of expanded salaries under performance - based pay could provide important
incentives for the states to
move toward more logical and more effective
funding systems.
For instance, thoughtfully crafted competitive grant programs, like the Teacher
Incentive Fund, CAN
move the reform ball down the field.
This Center manages the Accelerating Innovation Deployment Demonstration grants, which support States or local agencies in deploying innovations that are unique to their way of doing business; the Advanced Market Readiness grants, which provide
funding to
move a prototype innovation into a market - ready condition that would then be eligible to be advanced in the biennial list of EDC innovations; and the STIC
incentive grants, which provide
funding to the STICs to foster a culture for innovation and make innovations standard practice in their State structure.
Since banks prefer customer balances to remain high, they often provide
incentives to set up direct deposit, which ensures a quick and consistent source of
funds moving into customer accounts.
That can sometimes be an
incentive to
move you from one
fund to another even if the current
fund is already doing the job.
The Conservatives had
moved to phase out the federal tax credit by next year, but the Liberals restored the
incentive to 15 per cent on purchases of provincially registered
funds this year.
While
incentive funding measures can be an important complementary strategy for clean energy deployment, by themselves they will not
move the private sector at the required pace.
«The company
funds the program,» explains Doleac, «which is intended to give
move - up buyers the
incentive to buy.»