Sentences with phrase «leading funding efforts»

Leading funding efforts for nonprofit organizations in the Seattle metropolitan area focused on environmental laws and climate change initiatives; writing government and foundation grant proposals, performing interviews to fulfill grant requirements, producing QA and progress reports, and successfully securing funds to accelerate organizations» missions.

As Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Senator Leahy led funding efforts to preserve coastal, littoral, and reef resources in the world's richest marine habitats.

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NEW YORK, April 25 - Venture capitalist Peter Thiel on Wednesday abandoned his effort to buy the irreverent news website Gawker.com, as part of a settlement freeing the billionaire from possible lawsuits for having secretly funded litigation that led to its demise.

NEW YORK, April 25 - Billionaire Peter Thiel on Wednesday abandoned his effort to buy the irreverent news website Gawker.com, enabling the Silicon Valley venture capitalist to avoid a possible legal fight over his having secretly funded litigation that led to its demise.

Toronto - Dominion Bank, The Bank of Nova Scotia, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and National Bank Financial led the effort, along with five pension funds.

The federal governments has been making efforts to boost entrepreneurial outcomes, with a new startup visa for foreign - born entrepreneurs and $ 400 million in funding to create venture - capital funds led by the private sector.

But without specific numbers as to what percentage of his investment went to women and / or minority - led startups (as opposed to funds), we have no way of knowing how effective these efforts are.

The organization is leading efforts to impact these numbers directly with Female Founder Office Hours supporting women who are seeking funding, to having tech founders and CEOs commit to increasing diversity in their team, board and investors.

Mr. Tilson also led the effort to create ICV Partners, a national for - profit private equity fund focused on minority - owned and inner - city businesses that has raised nearly $ 500 million.

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) is also leading broader efforts to list bitcoin - based exchange - traded funds (ETFs), a move that could link crypto to a multi-trillion-dollar market, and one of the fastest growing to boot.

He was co-founder of a healthcare startup funded by Rubbermaid and led its marketing, new product development, and commercialization efforts from inception through maturity.

The new fund marks the latest effort from Chinese government entities in taking the lead on blockchain development initiatives in the country.

The leading fast - casual concept, known for its better - for - you food and smoothies with a tropical twist, is launching a 25 Days of Giving social campaign beginning December 1st in an effort to raise funds, awareness and recognition for a long standing partner of the brand, Camp Sunshine.

Dianne's good friend, Ed Metivier, and her son, Karl Engelhardt, led the effort, which resulted in the establishment of the Dianne Engelhardt Fund for Nature Education.

Hours later, House Majority PAC, the group leading the Democratic Party's efforts to take back the House of Representatives, put out a statement asking: «Why won't Michael Grimm come clean on support for Sandy relief fund - denier Ted Cruz?»

He said the police investigation had been a «shock to the system» and was on the whole a «good one» because would result in changes in the way political parties were funded and had led to renewed efforts to finish the reform of the House of Lords.

By increasing funding for lead inspections and remediation efforts, we are protecting more at - risk children in our community.

Not matter what others do, Erie County will do its part to protect our children from the hidden risk that is lead poisoning and I call on the legislature to approve this new funding by the end of this month so we may strengthen our efforts to eliminate lead from our area's homes.

What: As Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Congressman Rangel will be leading the way in New York's efforts to secure federal funding from Washington.

Councilman Joe Marino, who has led the effort, said the city will pay for the increased pending with a mix of funding sources.

A group of mainline conference Democrats and members of the Independent Democratic Conference in the state Senate signed on to an effort led by Sen. Brad Hoylman to include more funding in the state budget for homeless runaway youth shelters.

There's no mention of politics (i.e. the merits of the U.S. strategy of «leading from behind» in the effort to oust the longtime ruler) but a general sense that the death of the man who helped fund the deadly Pan Am bombing in 1988 is a good thing.

For many years, a friendly division of work within the Alzheimer's Association called for the New York City office to deliver programs and the national office in Chicago to lead advocacy efforts and promote funding for major research.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. and Utica Mayor David Roefaro today announced that the City of Utica will receive a $ 2 million grant as part of the federal stimulus package, opening a new chapter in the county - city partnership to reduce lead exposure in the City of Utica by funding efforts to abate lead in some 190 rental and... Read more

Congresswoman Kathy Castor, a Tampa Democrat, says she «led efforts» by the bipartisan Tampa Bay Congressional Delegation to include funding for MacDill Air Force Base.

The contours of that fund - raising strategy have become familiar, as state prosecutors and F.B.I. agents are now investigating an effort led by Mayor Bill de Blasio to channel donations to a group of Democratic candidates around the state in 2014.

The New York State Department of Agriculture and markets and the Erie County Community Development Block Grant program provided key funding for the project, and the Erie County Department of Environment and Planning led the local effort to gather and assess public input with guidance from the Erie County Agricultural and Farmland Protection Board;

A coalition of advocacy groups led by the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, the Fiscal Policy Institute, and the Human Services Council are leading an effort to have state - funded nonprofits pay workers at least $ 15 / hour.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Led by Republicans, the New York Senate voted to increase state funding to help schools pay for armed police and security upgrades Monday — but turned back Democratic efforts to advance new restrictions on firearm access.

The whole Whatsapp Group fight appears to have been triggered by Stan Dogbe, the trusted aide of former President John Mahama, who is making every effort to lead the NDC for the 2020 elections when he accused former Deputy Health Minister, Rojo Mettle - Nunoo of being «bitter about funds.»

To restore the public trust in public service, he's leading the effort to bring ethics reform to Albany by helping to pass a constitutional amendment stripping officials convicted of a felony of their taxpayer - funded retirement and instituting term limits on legislative leadership position, ensuring no one can accumulate entrenched power and use it to his or her advantage.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham accused the Republican - led Florida government of neglecting the needs of affordable housing and vowed to change that with full funding of the state's Sadowski Affordable Housing Trust Fund and efforts to get housing money quickly into communities.

The issue is immense and there are many older homes in our area needing inspection and potential lead abatement work, so this funding will critically strengthen our efforts and allow us to help more homeowners and landlords to recognize and ameliorate their lead problems.»

Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein explained that the county relies on funding from sources including the CDC and Department of Housing and Urban Development for its efforts, including child lead poisoning prevention.

Topics included his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statement that he is not planning to approve a specific amount of pre-K funding set forth in the state senate proposed budget, how confident he is of pre-K funding, the status of his administration's review of the city's Sandy relief programs, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statements on mayoral control of the city school system and charter schools, the current status of site clearing and the investigation into the cause of the East Harlem building explosion, whether New Yorkers should be concerned about gas leaks, his reaction to a tweet yesterday by Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito critical of Governor Cuomo's reaction to the East Harlem building explosion, how the church services he attended this morning for victims affected him personally and the relief efforts being led by his wife, Chirlane McCray, and the Mayor's Fund for NYC.

Led the effort to oppose a repeal of the Affordable Care Act that helps cover nearly 20,000 county residents and provides almost $ 3 million in direct funding to the county.

The effort to restore funding and disprove the Valley View operating figures provided by Diana was led by Legislator and fellow Republican Michael Anagnostakis.

That leads to Mr. Recchia's next problem: his effort was steered and funded largely by the DCCC.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - NY), who helped lead the effort to establish the Tubman Home park, says it could also get federal funding for the country's centennial celebration of women gaining the right to vote.

Kim, who lives in Bay Terrace and acts as deputy director of community affairs for Ackerman, is currently leading fund - raising efforts among the seven candidates vying for Avella's seat, according to city campaign finance records.

She also led Project 2061's evaluative studies of science and mathematics textbooks and currently serves as principal investigator on curriculum development efforts funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The study was funded and led by the EPA's Office of Research and Development and Region 10, through a Regional Applied Research Effort grant.

Jim Woodgett of the Lunenfeld - Tanenbaum Research Institute at Toronto, Canada's Mount Sinai Hospital has been leading an effort to change how Canada's leading biomedical research funder does business.

The study is a collaborative effort by partners from the UK, Europe and USA, led by the University of Surrey's Professor Prashant Kumar, under the umbrella of H2020 funded project, iSCAPE: Improving Smart Control of Air Pollution in Europe.

Joe McHugh, curator of the arthropod collection at the museum and professor of entomology at the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, will lead the National Science Foundation - funded effort.

His first book related the story of how he led a private effort that raced a government - funded consortium to decipher the DNA sequence that makes up the human genome.

Habib leads the «Computing the Sky at Extreme Scales» project or «ExaSky,» one of the first projects funded by the recently established Exascale Computing Project (ECP), a collaborative effort between DOE's Office of Science and its National Nuclear Security Administration.

Environmental Defense Fund, Austin Energy and more than a dozen other stakeholders are leading a broader effort in Texas» capital city.

IMO is leading a European Union — funded effort called FUTUREVOLC to build a comprehensive database of local volcanic data and develop new tools — including new seismic stations, water chemistry samplers, and ground - and airplane - based ash detectors.

Responding to recommendations made in 2011 by an international review panel led by Elias Zerhouni, the former head of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the agency launched a three - pronged reform effort that revamped its funding streams, the way researchers submitted proposals, and the way proposals are reviewed.