Sentences with phrase «innovation fund award»

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To support the Sustainable Winegrowing Program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service has awarded a $ 475,000 matching fund grant for the development of air and water quality innovations.

Find out more about the energy challenge and how National Grid is helping find solutions to some of the challenges we face at www.nationalgridconnecting.com The National Grid Energy Efficiency Innovation Award scheme was launched across National Grid's four gas distribution networks and provided a # 400k fund to support major innovations to tackle fuel poverty and deliver energy efficiency solutions in communities, with five agencies in total receiving awards.

AAAS letter to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee to resist any effort to undercut the National Science Foundation's ability to support research across all fields and concern on language in a pending innovation bill that seems to require awarding 8 percent of research funding outside the usual peer - review.

Like the bipartisan group of Members of Congress who support the Golden Goose Award, the founding organizations believe that federally funded basic scientific research is the cornerstone of American innovation and essential to our economic growth, health, global competitiveness, and national security.

Another state - based funder, Connecticut Innovations, has responded directly to national trends with its Connecticut Bioscience Innovation Fund (CBIF), which opened its doors in 2014 and has awarded approximately $ 4.5 million to five universities and four companies, with AAAS overseeing the scientific review of applications.

Like the bipartisan group of members of Congress who support the award, the founding organizations believe that federally funded basic scientific research is the cornerstone of American innovation and essential to our economic growth, health, global competitiveness, and national security.

The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists honor exceptional young scientists and engineers by celebrating their extraordinary achievements, recognizing their inspiring promise, and accelerating their innovations through unrestricted funding.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Science Coalition today presented Sen. Patty Murray with its Champion of Science Award in recognition of her commitment to funding the basic research that keeps the United States and the state of Washington at the forefront of scientific discovery and technological innovation.

Direct Student Services is an optional, 3 percent state - level set - aside in Title I that awards funds to LEAs to provide innovation to students.

The Innovation Fund directly supports the Center's trajectory towards ambitious idea generation, innovative project designs, community - supported implementation strategies, and the development of evaluation metrics that lead to actionable insights within a rapid cycle iteration process.This discreet award supports a process for integrating the Center's evolving business plan thinking into current and emerging initiatives to develop a more effective innovation ecosystem for early childhood development.

The award included a $ 500,000 grant, which he has dedicated to the Hrabowski Fund for Innovation to support and promote a culture of innovation; entrepreneurship through course design and redesign; development of unique classroom learning environments that support active learning, team - based learning, and entrepreneurial skill development; lab - and project - based capstone courses; faculty fellowships; and peer - learning initiatives.

The Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy has proposed language that would simply allow the Department of Education to reserve up to one percent of funding of all ESEA programs (except Title I) to award grants for innovation and research, with grant amounts based on the tiered evidence model used in i3.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Tap into award - winning innovation and success of one of the world's top liquidity fund managers, with over 30 years of demonstrated results across market cycles.

He is the recipient of the 2014 Michigan Pet Fund Alliance Award for Innovations & Best Practices — Creating Transformational Change.

She was awarded a MAP Fund grant for innovation in live performance in 2015, and her 2016 performance, Buffer Overrun, was chosen by the Chicago Tribune for The Best Dance of 2016.

Celebrating innovation and exceptional achievement in museums and galleries across the UK, Art Fund Museum of the Year awards # 100,000 to one outstanding winner and # 10,000 to each other finalist to support future activity.

Von Alemann says that at present they are in part funded by government grants and have won awards for innovation.

This award will come from Apple's $ 1 billion Advanced Manufacturing Fund, and is part of Apple's pledge to «support innovation and job creation by American manufacturers.»

SCOPE Portfolio Construction Award 2013 SCOPE honored the high level of transaction and innovation competence of KanAm Grund as a «first mover» in LEADING CITIES INVEST, the first new generation open - end real estate fund, with the Portfolio Construction Award 2013.