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Rotman launched an initiative for women in business in 2008; four years later, it joined the Forte Foundation, a non-profit that promotes women's careers through education and access to opportunities.

«We have dramatically increased access to school options for Newark families, provided grants directly to teachers at 37 schools, given 300,000 books to Newark students through the My Very Own Library program, and just recently, we committed to a $ 1 million initiative to improve early childhood education in Newark,» the foundation said in a statement to CNBC.

It comes on top of a separate 2017 initiative from the company that gave drivers access to data about their speeding and braking habits, in hopes of boosting safety.

Since its inception, Idealz has been partnering with Dubai Cares, a part of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, which works towards providing children and young people in developing countries with access to quality education.

The Liberal government has signalled that next Tuesday's budget will include initiatives to promote gender equality, improve the economic success of women, ensure more gender equality in boardrooms and ease access to capital for female entrepreneurs.

«We have been working closely with the local planning authority and meeting with the public in the surrounding communities on the proposal, and we are partnering with local organisations to provide public benefits from the mast, including community radio, wireless broadband access and education initiatives.»

For example, the group was instrumental in supporting and helping to pass the 1988 Women's Business Ownership Act, which expanded women entrepreneurs» access to credit markets; instituted a three - year, $ 10 million training and technical support initiative for women business owners; and created a National Women's Business Council.

The ACCESS school was in desperate need of a new playground to better serve the students here, and through the Let's Play initiative they were able to provide the students in this community with a resource they badly needed.

«This collaboration will help us identify and support breakthrough innovations in IoT, and look forward to having early access to new technologies with a focus on high quality products and ideas that will develop through this initiative,» he added.

We encourage you to consider investing in this initiative, and have developed sponsorship opportunities to raise your corporate profile, align your organization with the remarkable award recipients, and gain access to the most active and progressive members of the business community.

Last week's Auditor General's report on the Beyond - the - Border Action Plan — the latest in a series of initiatives aimed at improving border access — identified shortcomings that should be Canadian priorities with U.S. negotiators.

«We expect this to be the first phase of a much larger initiative that will provide our network with the opportunity to gain perspective into emerging technologies and will also provide access to best - in - class Canadian entrepreneurs.»

Many of the Chinese companies that are taking their business abroad branded themselves as part of the one belt, one road, in order to receive support and preferential access from the Chinese government, but whether they are actually contributing to the one belt, one road initiative is questionable.

In addition, the Dermalogica FITE (Financial Independence Through Entrepreneurship) initiative helps women and girls on the path to entrepreneurship by providing access to education, vocational training, small loans and leadership skills.

Carson's proposals, and other initiatives aimed at low - income Americans receiving federal assistance, amount to a comprehensive effort by the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress to restrict access to the safety net and reduce the levels of assistance for those who do qualify.

Both partnerships — currently in beta — fall under the umbrella of SecondMarket +, an initiative that is selectively partnering with leading platforms to give SecondMarket investors centralized access to high - quality deal flow.

A Clean Water Campaign for Puerto Rico is an initiative to increase access to clean water for 1.2 million people in Puerto Rico.

An initiative of the Canadian Film Centre's Media Lab, in partnership with Corus Entertainment, IDEABOOST provides high - potential Canadian startups with seed investment, mentorship, and access to its network, including investors, customers, and partners across the world through the Global Accelerator Network.

The conclusion: given relatively unlimited availability, heroin users will voluntarily stabilize or reduce their dosage and some will even choose abstinence; long - addicted users can lead relatively normal, stable lives if provided legal access to their drug of choice, and with few side effects; and ordinary citizens (in Switzerland at least) will support such initiatives.

(NEW YORK)-- The Alliance for a Healthier Generation and America's beverage companies announced today that New York City will now be part of a community - based initiative to help reduce beverage calories consumed by 20 percent per person by 2025 in neighborhoods where there has been less interest in or access to lower - calorie and smaller - portion beverages.

The initiative will have a long term effect on the delivery of school sport as it is anticipated that half of the 6,000 teachers involved in the scheme will also access free training offered in partnership through the Youth Sport Trust.

This annual initiative, now in its 12th year, aims to celebrate access and inclusion for disabled sports fans across England and Wales.

In announcing the partnership, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said, «We are pleased to be part of this initiative, which will give children in underserved communities access to new helmets, and to reach coaches and parents with educational information to help protect young athletes from head injurieIn announcing the partnership, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said, «We are pleased to be part of this initiative, which will give children in underserved communities access to new helmets, and to reach coaches and parents with educational information to help protect young athletes from head injuriein underserved communities access to new helmets, and to reach coaches and parents with educational information to help protect young athletes from head injuries.

They continue to work together in Task Forces on strategic initiatives that will increase access to safe, respectful, affordable maternity care; improve inter-professional education; and enable patient - responsive and population - specific research on maternal choice, experience and outcomes related to birth place.

Turning to the tiniest kids in «kids and food,» the office of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced a new initiative under which participating city hospitals will restrict access to infant formula in an effort to encourage breast feeding by new moms.

• In fact, the initiative does not require hospitals to «hide» or «lock up» formula, nor does it restrict access to it for those who want it.

Turning to the tiniest kids in «kids and food,» the office of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced a new initiative under which participating city hospitals will restrict access to infant formula in an effort to encourage breast... [Continue reading]

A new initiative related to Coordinated Intake for Oklahoma is ParentPRO which promotes Oklahoma's home visiting system by directing families to community connectors to access home visiting services in their hometown.

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As the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom (PBIC) initiative enters its third round of funding, the founding partners — NEA HIN, the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), School Nutrition Foundation (SNF), and the National Association of Elementary School Principals Foundation (NAESPF)-- are working to increase access to school breakfast for students around the country.

New York City has put forth an initiative to end free formula milk samples and make it more difficult to access formula in hospital.

SHEDD JOINS MUSEUMS FOR ALL PROGRAM Shedd Aquarium is now a participating member in the Museums for All program, a cooperative initiative between IMLS and the Association of Children's Museums, to offer a signature access program that encourages families of all backgrounds to visit museums regularly and build lifelong museum habits.

I have created and support a number of initiatives within the community both in the UK and overseas to help provide support and education to parents, baby massage training and classes to those who may not be able to access these vital services.

Support our initiatives in animal care, education, community access and conservation.

Mohammed said the initiative was aimed at partnering with government in accelerating access to water and sanitation for all people in the state, as it commenced the mission of achieving sustainable development goals (SDG - 6) by 2030.

The event was a culmination of a joint initiative of the Senate President and DFID's ENABLE 2 and GEMS 3 programmes and had been preceded by a comprehensive research into laws inhibiting businesses in Nigeria leading to specific legislative proposals to improve the business environment in terms of competition and consumer protection, transportation and infrastructure, improving MSMEs access to finance, reform of land use and construction laws and administration, doing business reforms amongst others.

Some, such as The Washington Post, have gone «all in» with several Silicon Valley - led initiatives; for example, Facebook's Instant Articles hosts publishers» content within Facebook to increase the speed of access.

In the 2014 State of State handbook which accompanied the speech, the governor detailed these as well as other reform initiatives, emphasizing that matching small donations with public funds would give «voice to small donors» and «help enable a diverse pool of candidates with substantial grassroots support, but little access to large donors, to run competitive campaigns.»

Critically, this budget provides funding support for affordable housing, preserves access to quality health services for millions of low - income New Yorkers, and makes important investments in anti-poverty initiatives throughout the state.

As Councilman Ellis pushed plans and initiatives to deal with abandoned buildings, address lack of diversity in the fire department, and create public access TV, and introduced a measure requiring city department heads to live in the city.

As part of the Regional Council initiative, a NYS Consolidated Funding Application (CFA) was created to serve as the single application economic development projects must complete to be eligible to access the $ 1 billion in state resources that have been made available to support the Regional Councils.

In his third State of the State address, Gov. Andrew Cuomo outlined a new initiative to create ten «Innovation Hot Spots» - areas where startup businesses can receive support, access venture capital and possibly tax breaks.

He argues that income is an insufficient measure of individual happiness and his work has resulted in the creation of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) initiative.

At 1 p.m., Assemblyman Michael Blake participates in Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Panel «Federal and State Policies & initiatives Advancing Minority Access to Capital,» The Harvard Club of New York, 35 w 44th St., Manhattan.

People across England and Wales will be able to access details of crime levels and trends in their local communities from today, under a government initiative.

Speaking at the launch of the British Council Skills Hub in Accra, Vice President Amissah Arthur commended the British Council for the initiative adding that the hub will create the opportunity for the youth to gain access to innovate products and the space to share expertise and knowledge.

The gateway visitor center projects are part of Governor Cuomo's NY Parks 2020 initiative, a multi-year commitment to improving and expanding access to outdoor recreation by leveraging $ 900 million in private and public funding through 2020.

In Ohio, the statewide petition drive deadline for ballot initiatives seeking ballot access in 2012 is July 4, 201In Ohio, the statewide petition drive deadline for ballot initiatives seeking ballot access in 2012 is July 4, 201in 2012 is July 4, 2012.

Below is a summary of key initiatives being circulating in certain states, the requirements that must be met to obtain ballot access and the date of states» deadlines.

The projects are part of Governor Cuomo's NY Parks 2020 initiative, a multi-year commitment to improving and expanding access to outdoor recreation by leveraging $ 900 million in private and public funding through 2020.