Sentences with phrase «initiative launched last year»

But along with a similar initiative launched last year by the administration to expand educational opportunities for Native American kids (and slowly revamp the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education), the new effort does bring attention to the low educational achievement among young black children — especially young black men — and reinforces Obama's generally laudable record as School Reformer - in - Chief.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito declared today that an initiative launched last year to guarantee legal representation to all of the undocumented immigrant children inundating the city has been a success — and has already obtained asylum for more than a dozen youth lacking proper paperwork.

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Last year, his Orlando Corp. launched a gift - matching initiative that will see it donate up to $ 15 million to William Osler Health System's three hospital sites in the Toronto area.

«When we launched our science initiative last year, I spoke about how we need to change that our government spends 50x more treating people who are sick than finding cures so people don't get sick in the first place,» he wrote.

Microsoft, which launched the YouthSpark initiative at last year's CGI to create jobs, education and entrepreneurship opportunities for 300 million young people by 2015, returned with a private dinner for young participants and nonprofit partners to discuss the progress so far.

The British government launched an initiative last year to boost skills and education and grow the country's AI industry.

The school credits its success to a suite of entrepreneurship programs and initiatives, many launched within the last few years.

Related: How to Be Profitable From Month One Co-founder Belsky — who helped manage a leadership development initiative at investment banking firm Goldman, Sachs & Co. before launching Behance — sat down with Entrepreneur last year for a video interview.

Last year the London Bullion Market Association launched a trade - data reporting initiative and the London Metal Exchange launched a suite of exchange - traded contracts intending to improve price transparency, according to the WGC.

Under Armour framed its involvement with Trump as focused on the manufacturing initiative, which complements its effort launched in Baltimore last year to test technologies for local production.

Oneida County's Office for the Aging / Continuing Care partnered with the Parkway Center and The Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties to launch the AARP Network of Age - Friendly Communities, and late last year, began the planning phase of the initiative which will address the needs of the community's elder population.

County Executive Molinaro said, «I appreciate my colleagues on the NYSAC Board of Directors for the support of our «Think DIFFERENTLY» initiative, which has been successful since Dutchess County launched it last year.

Former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is becoming a senior fellow for a campaign called What Works Cities — an initiative launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies last year to encourage 100 mid-sized cities to better leverage data and evidence in their policy making.

I appreciate my colleagues on the NYSAC Board of Directors for the support of our «Think DIFFERENTLY» initiative, which has been successful since Dutchess County launched it last year.

The #CarFreeNYC initiative, which launched last year as part of Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez's initiative to reduce car use on Earth Day, will take place this Earth Day, Saturday, April 22.

Normally, new research initiatives announced in the State of the Union address, such as the BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Technologies) neuroscience effort or the Precision Medicine Initiative launched last year, are part of the president's budget request to Congress released a couple weeks later.

At the launch of the Breakthrough initiative last year, Hawking said:» I am here today because I believe the Breakthrough initiatives are incredibly important.

The PlanBEE initiative was launched last year when Gateshead College and Ryder formed a powerful alliance with a network of architects, designers, contractors and engineering specialists.

This is the core aim of the REC Audited Education initiative which was launched last year to build on the legacy of the REC / DfE Quality Mark scheme.

Last year, Swindon Academy and Marlborough College launched a brand new initiative for Swindon; a Grammar Stream which will educate the most academically able students in the area.

The initiative was launched last year by two teachers who were fed up with the low turnout among the union's rank and...

But the new initiative is the product of a separate online pilot program the district launched last year, which provided online math courses to certain elementary school students.

New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that the state has seen a 74 % increase in electric car sales over the same time period last year, resulting from the Drive Clean Rebate initiative launched on 21 March 2017.

One initiative that launched last year was the News Corp Global Exchange, that brought together the ad space of 50 websites and mobile / tablet products including Times.co.uk, TheSun.co.uk, NYPost.com, TheAustralian.com.au, MarketWatch.com and News.com.au.

In addition, as part of our 2025 Save Them All initiative that started last year, we launched an enormous data collection effort to examine the country's shelter numbers county by county.

It has been a few months since we last heard from Microsoft's Virtual Reality initiative set to launch later this year with the Windows 10 Creator's Update.

In order to cater for demand - and with the goal of increasing availability and awareness around sustainable cotton, a raft of cotton initiatives have been launched in the last few years.

The French government launched its 4 parts in a 1000 initiative in Paris last year.

The French government launched it's 4 parts in a 1000 initiative in Paris last year.

The site includes a call to action, encouraging companies to support the Business for the Rule of Law (B4ROL) initiative, which was launched by the United Nations Global Compact last year, and to follow the B4ROL Framework, which provides guidance for businesses on how they can support the rule of law.

The Legal Education Foundation (LEF)- the charitable arm spun out of last year's sale of the College of Law - has formally launched with a series of six grants to initiatives supporting pro bono, social mobility and access to justice.

Discussions around this issue have resulted in schemes such as PRIME — a social mobility initiative launched by 23 major law firms in September last year, which will see participating firms provide an annual number of work experience placements to eligible students that is equivalent to 50 % of their trainee intake.

The answer to that and many other pressing questions in the news is provided by ABA Legal Fact Check, a website launched last August as one of the initiatives of this year's ABA president, Hilarie Bass.

Over the last 15 years, Ms. Friedman has worked in the civil society sector to advance social change around the globe, from helping social entrepreneurs launch new initiatives, to helping organizations scale for impact, to building cross-sector partnerships.

Last year Amazon launched Amazon Key which is a new initiative by the company where through a combination of hardware and software and a Prime subscription, users will be able to allow delivery people to make the delivery of your package directly into your home instead of leaving it outside.

As the director of the Trust Project, a pro-transparency initiative launched late last year, she could be one of the industry's emerging saviors.

Google launched an initiative last year to gather the industry around a common RCS profile that would work seamlessly across platforms, devices and service providers.

The Commission's FinTech plan also highlighted work already done within its Blockchain Observatory initiative, which was launched last year as part of an effort to create a common framework for use of the tech within the economic bloc.

Google launched Android One initiative in India in September last year and announced Karbonn, Micromax and Spice as its three initial partners for developing affordable range of smartphones in the country.

Codenamed Project Ara, the initiative was initially set to launch as a pilot in Puerto Rico later this year, but it was late last week and early into this week that we learned that Google had delayed the pilot into 2016 and moved it to the United States.

An IBM executive has been named as the chairman of the technical committee for the Hyperledger Project, the open - source blockchain initiative launched late last year under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation.

In recognition of some of the good work happening, last year Mind launched its Workplace Wellbeing Index — a benchmark of best policy and practice when it comes to employers putting in place initiatives to support and promote good mental health at work.

Last year Facebook launched a resource «Anti-Bullying Activism on Facebook» — a guide for schools who would like to set up their own anti-bullying initiatives on Facebook.

The program is a part of NAR's My Realtor Party ® initiative, which launched last year.