Sentences with phrase «local growth fund»

Hon. Anne Milton MP, visited Fareham College today to learn about the # 2.8 m Local Growth Fund investment from the Solent LEP into the college's # 4.1 m Civil Engineering Training Centre (CETC).

City Deals and the Local Growth Fund have made important steps towards devolution, but it has been a struggle to get the civil service to change and reforms that could make a difference have often stalled on technicalities.

With the creation of the Single Local Growth Fund, money due to be allocated to a second round of the Local Sustainable Transport Fund supporting cycling and other sustainable transport has been handed to Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs).

The LCCC scheme will receive # 38.4 M from the Local Growth Fund with local match funding of # 6.3 M.

How the Government can reform the Local Growth Fund to better support places to grow their economies

This is on top of a record # 6Bn for maintaining local roads, # 7Bn for the Local Growth Fund, # 1.25 Bn for local transport schemes and a further # 250M to help councils tackle road issues in their areas.

Not exact matches

The UK capital hopes to lure talent with its East London «Silicon Roundabout,» (OK, a «roundabout» sounds a bit dinky compared to a whole «valley,» but the area boasts a new Google - sponsored space for start - ups as well as 300 innovative companies) as well as measures to boost the city's start - up scene, including # 75 million in funding for high - tech small and medium businesses from the government's new Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth and the Digital London summit showcasing local tech talent that's due to be held March 13 to 14.

They also need to show high - growth potential — evidenced by successfully raising at least $ 345,000 in funding from a qualified U.S. investor or attracting grants of at least $ 100,000 from federal, state, or local governments.

Given Osiris's strong five - year record of growth and profitability, Bowers was able to help make Miller's wishes come true: he structured a deal that raised $ 13 million from a large local pension fund — the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (see «What Pension Funds Want,» [Article link]-RRB--- by selling a package of subordinated debt and convertible preferred stock, which included a fixed interest rate and dividend yield.

The Fund managers follow a growth - oriented investment process with emphasis on qualitative research, as well as knowledge of local languages and business cultures.

The key to the city's continued success lies in ensuring that local entrepreneurs have access to reliable funding and growth opportunities.

Qualtrics helps local governments gather workforce growth data to identify which industries are growing the most and determine where to invest and appropriate funds.

As Kerry landed in New Delhi on Wednesday night, Amazon.com Inc. announced it will invest $ 2 billion to expand its India division, upping the ante for local competitor Flipkart that a day earlier said it had raised $ 1 billion to fund its own growth.

New organisations designed to spur on local growth will need continued funding from Whitehall, MPs have warned.

The ESRC is delighted to announce the funding of the new independent «What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth».

As a taxpayer I am sick of paying for the unchecked growth of charters.I even got a flyer today offering a $ 100 incentive for those referring students to enroll in a local charter school.The charter school industry seems well funded enough to pay for all these ads — how about donating the funds for these ads to reduce local taxes — listen to local taxpayers!.

The Partnership Fund The Partnership Fund for New York City is continuing its successful efforts to promote the growth of local industry clusters around fintech, health IT and life sciences and launch new efforts around smart cities technology and advanced manufacturing.

«The Autumn Statement contains some small measures to enhance local growth with the Single Pot proposal a clear precedent to decentralise economic development powers and funding.

«Years of decreasing, stagnant or slow economic growth have led local governments to cut vital services and tap their rainy day funds to balance budgets, a practice that is not sustainable in the long term,» the comptroller said.

The grant scheme was established by the coalition in late 2011 «to enable the development of local funds to address infrastructure constraints, and promote economic growth and the delivery of jobs and houses».

In 2016, 10 communities across the state were each awarded $ 10 million in state funding to revitalize the local neighborhood and generate new opportunities for long - term growth and prosperity.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

I may not agree with our Governor often, but I agree with him on this issue when he stated in his announcement: «PAVE NY funds strategic investments in local roadways, helping ensure roadways across the state are in good repair, remain reliable for motorists and able to help foster regional economic growth for years to come.»

1556 - BIS - Funding opportunity: What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth - from ESRC.

«PAVE NY funds strategic investments in local roadways, helping ensure roadways across the state are in good repair, remain reliable for motorists and able to help foster regional economic growth for years to come,» Cuomo said in a release.

New York has had universal prekindergarten on the books since 1997, but it has never been close to fully funded; recessions curtailed the program's growth, and many local districts, which are required to pay for part of it themselves, never bothered.

It is important for the Government to guarantee it will protect this vital funding to avoid essential growth - boosting projects stalling and local economies across England being stifled.

This funding will be used to support local growth and productivity by testing how best to get adults to return to learning.

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Local philanthropic support for charter school growth in Nashville and Memphis that helped attract national funding; and

As we document in Public Impact's new report for the Charter School Growth Fund, Growing a High - Quality Charter Sector: Lessons from Tennessee, the state benefitted from the convergence of favorable policy conditions, political leadership, public - private grants, and an existing supply of local high - quality charter operators.

Given the growth of national charter school networks, such as the Challenge Foundation — a national group that funds a pair of schools, accounting for nearly 11 percent of the student population, in rural Rutherford County — proponents say it's essential to maintain some local control over charters.

I differ on this point as to the weight of its contributing impact, because this one - time decrease in state funding for public education doesn't alter the fact that for the past 20 years in Texas, total annual public education funding from all sources — local, state, and federal — has increased by almost twice the sum of inflation and enrollment growth over that period, even after an adjustment for the growth in special education students.

This could put a big squeeze on local districts that must fund enrollment growth and potentially never receive reimbursement from the state.

Increase advocacy efforts at the federal, state, and local level to ensure funding and policy decisions meet the needs of their community, school, and professional growth as a leader.

Much of a local school district's funding is based on the number of students it enrolls, so an increase in revenue might simply be a result of enrollment growth.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities» analysis found that since the end of the recession, local revenue growth has only averaged 1.5 % above inflation, not remotely enough to make up for lost state funds and increasing student populations.

It will still be able to run a local formula using the same factors as now, to help it redistribute some funding like rates, PFI costs and pupil number growth where the need might be slightly different to the assumptions in the national formula.

«Private funders have been instrumental to charter school growth, but federal, state and local legislative bodies must also respond by investing a larger percentage of public education dollars to support the opening of new, high - quality charter schools to meet the demands of the families they serve.»

July 17, 2017 / Buffalo, NY: Mary's Little Lambs, a child care center and preschool in Buffalo, celebrated its grand opening by hosting an official ribbon cutting with Mayor Byron W. Brown and representatives from local lending organizations New York Business Development Corporation (NYBDC) and Excelsior Growth Fund.

«We are proud to be partners with Excelsior Growth Fund in delivering valuable assistance in order to start and grow local small businesses,» Syracuse Small Business Association (SBA) executive director Bernard J. Paprocki said in a press release in February.

Excelsior Growth Fund (EGF) provides loan programs for local New York businesses with a quick and simple process that allows the businesses to improve what they already have or expand into something better.

San Mateo, CA, January 10, 2011 — Franklin Templeton Investments today announced the introduction of Franklin World Perspectives Fund, an actively - managed global growth equity fund that draws upon the investment expertise of Franklin's global network of local asset management teFund, an actively - managed global growth equity fund that draws upon the investment expertise of Franklin's global network of local asset management tefund that draws upon the investment expertise of Franklin's global network of local asset management teams.

The sub-advisors who construct the Fund's regional sub-portfolios include the senior investment professionals from Franklin's local asset management teams in Brazil, Japan, India and South Korea — as well as the heads of the U.S., Canadian and European Franklin Equity Group growth teams.

Judging by emerging market fund flows, which improved in 2017 but saw no huge step - change in growth, that thesis still seems valid — so while local demand helped, I suspect a significant portion of emerging & frontier market returns simply came from price mark - ups, rather than incremental foreign demand.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ from the results or implied in forward - looking statements include the size and growth of the market for the Company's products, the Company's ability to fund its capital requirements in the near term and in the long term, pricing pressures for the Company's products and services, the Company's ability to obtain needed resources, and the local, regional and global markets.

Unfortunately, it is hard for some of us who know the city's history to walk around the museum and not recognize that the growth in wealth that has funded these donations of artworks (and the expansion itself) has, as a side effect, resulted in the displacement of people whose lives were rooted here and disruption to local residents which local planners have failed to address.

This report reviews the benefits of programs funded through 2014 by RGGI investments, which have reduced harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution while spurring local economic growth and job creation.

Boulder and Denver Counties have set aside nearly $ 8 million of the grant funds to create a finance program to improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings and stimulate local economic growth.

Handled SBA and NYS «General Assembly» and local (political) leaders to secure funding for economic projects and small businesses develop strategic plan to advance the county's mission and objectives and promote revenue, profitability and growth as an organization.