Sentences with phrase «initiative grant competition»

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The Middle East Financial Health Competition, an initiative of MetLife Foundation and Village Capital, has awarded three MENA - based fintech startups grants worth a total of US$ 50,000 for their solutio...

Included in the initiative is a grant competition designed to accelerate promising work already underway.

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.

According to Nweke, our bank is a bank with strong affiliation to youths, evident in the Bank's scholarship and grants schemes through the UBA Foundation National Essay Competition amongst other educational initiatives.

Now in its second year, the 43 North competition will see ideas from around the globe submitted in hopes that they will be among 11 chosen companies to share in the $ 5 million in prize money granted as part of Cuomo's Buffalo Billion initiative for Western New York.

The NRC report inspired another of the initiatives: a new grant competition at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) for investigators lacking enough preliminary data for a full - fledged NIH proposal.

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.

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.

Race to the Top District, or RTT - D, which supports innovation and improvements at the local level, and Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge, or RTT - ELC, a grant competition to strengthen early learning, also grew out of ARRA's RTT initiative through congressional appropriations beginning in fiscal year 2011.

Sen. Jack Reed (D - R.I.) also took issue with Duncan's competitions, calling such initiatives «untested, large - scale competitive grant programs» employed «at the expense of some proven research - based programs.»

Reed did not mention those grants in his criticism of competition initiatives.

These sites will set off a virtuous competition among similar providers in which various US jurisdictions will also participate, no doubt with many funded through the Legal Services Corporation's Technology Initiatives Grant programme (tig.lsc.gov) for which the provision of initial sites of this kind was agreed as a priority at a technology summit in 2013.