Sentences with phrase «agency awards grants»

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This week, the SBA announced that it granted 20 awards of $ 95,000 each, for a total of almost $ 2 million, to technology - driven small - business support programs, according to a statement from the agency.

While this contract was not awarded by a federal agency — and therefore was not included in the procurement data — PREPA expected to get reimbursed by FEMA grants.

I was reminded of this with particular poignancy a few days ago, when I read that the Japan Science and Technology Agency had awarded a grant of $ 3.4 million to a group of Japanese and American researchers in «evolutionary science and technology» for a project to be conducted at Monash University, the ultimate aim of which is to determine — based on models provided by Integrated Information Theory (IIT)-- whether it is possible to create «artificial consciousness.»

USDA Risk Management Agency awards a $ 96,000 grant to CSWA to increase the understanding and adoption of risk management practices (2007)

The coalition has been awarded three grants over the past five years: Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease and Pulmonary Disease Grant with the goal of increasing the number of policies and practices that promote and support breastfeeding - friendly environments; Business Case for Breastfeeding Grant to educate employers on how to comply with the Workplace Accommodations for Nursing Mothers Act and a Women Infants and Children (WIC) Local Agency Breastfeeding Special Project Grant.

Gov. George Ryan awarded five municipalities and one government agency in southern Cook, Will and Kankakee Counties more than $ 3 million in grant money for open land and bike trail projects.

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with the Connecticut Audubon Society and the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, has been awarded a $ 69,632 Environmental Education grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to inform their members and the public about climate change and its impacts on local ecosystems.

The County of Chenango Industrial Development Agency (CCIDA) is pleased to announce that it has received a $ 12,500 Empire State Development grant through the annual Regional Economic Development Council Awards.

Grant amounts will be based on Federal Emergency Management Agency assessed damage levels as well as applications for new infrastructure and other mitigation, and will be awarded once a community's plan is approved by the state.

If your agency is approved for a grant from the Erie County Youth Bureau, you will be required to complete the following New York State Office of Child and Family Services (OCFS) Forms: 5001, 5002, 5003, and a revised program budget (5005) reflecting your award amount, as well as an OCFS 5007 form.

The state is on track this year to award $ 800 million across all 10 regions, including up to $ 225 million in performance - based grants and tax credits from Empire State Development, and approximately $ 575 million from two dozen state agency programs.

Grants will be awarded to a smaller number of targeted projects, rather than distributing money to a wide variety of nonprofit agencies.

Trump imposed a media blackout at the Environmental Protection Agency and barred staff from awarding new contracts or grants.

A Massachusetts - based veterans outreach organization and a Springfield anti-poverty agency have been awarded a federal grant for a partnership to help homeless veterans in western Massachusetts.

In a statement, HCR spokeswoman Stephanie Davis noted the agency «has granted 180 awards over the last five years through its annual competitive funding application for tax credits and low interest loans, and these projects were given the same consideration as all the others.

NYS DOH received the grant award from Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human SerAgency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Seragency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Poughkeepsie... Dutchess County Executive Marcus J. Molinaro announced grants totaling more than $ 142,000 have been awarded to local non-profit agencies through Dutchess County's 2012 Community Development Block Grant to fund a variety of community programs.

But the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance bypassed Syracuse for its body - worn camera pilot program, instead awarding millions of dollars in matching grants to 72 agencies nationwide.

The project, first announced by the County Executive in the fall of 2012, utilizes funding from a two - year grant awarded the state's Center for Environmental Health by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, (ATSDR) and was one of only two awarded nationally in that grant round.

If your agency is approved for a Primetime grant from the Erie County Youth Bureau, you will be required to provide a revised program budget (5005) and revised program details / calendar reflecting your award amount *.

The transportation company, a member of The Trans Group, LLC (Spring Valley, NY), has been awarded the grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to replace and / or upgrade -LSB-...]

The transportation company, a member of The Trans Group, LLC (Spring Valley, NY), has been awarded the grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to replace and / or upgrade the school bus fleets it operates for East Ramapo and Ramapo Central schools.

The state awarded the hospital another $ 12 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency grant money for the effort.

In May, the hospital was awarded $ 12 million by the state under the Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Grant Program for part of the plan.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — County Executive Robert P. Astorino today announced that grants totaling more than $ 6 million — $ 2,123,000 annually for 2018, 2019 and 2020 — will be awarded to 34 agencies for 56 at - risk youth programs under Westchester's Invest - In - Kids program.

However, even though it can raise the stipends for National Research Service Awards, which are given to individual postdocs, the agency does not have complete control over the salaries of postdocs who are paid directly from their advisor's grants — that is often up to the advisor.

When it awarded Horner a grant to study T. rex blood cells years ago, the agency timed the announcement to coincide with the theatrical release of Jurassic Park.

However, says Sherry, if they claimed that the agency was flipping a coin to award grants or doling out funds to the friends of NIH officials, then they'd have a case.

The effort is supported by Health and Human Services, which awarded the three - year, $ 750,000 grant through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

In addition to the current round of grants, the agency has previously awarded $ 365.7 million across more than 120 projects.

As a result, the agency estimates that in fiscal year 2018, the proposed funds would support about 8,000 new research grant awards, about 800 fewer than in 2016.

It awards grants to individual investigators for curiosity - driven, bottom - up projects that might not necessarily be in line with the strategic goals of the agency.

AHRQ, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, is responsible for improving the quality of healthcare in the U.S. Chesley's office oversees much of AHRQ's external research awarded through grants and small - business contracts.

She suggested that the directorate follow the example of other science agencies like the National Science Foundation in giving out grants, and «that funds be awarded on a competitive basis based on scientific peer review except in cases when that is clearly not feasible.»

PHUKET, THAILAND — Three U.S. agencies will award grants totaling $ 12.3 million to help speed an international effort to sequence the rice genome.

Currently, the agency's National Research Service Award (NRSA) training program gives grants to universities to help roughly 7000 graduate students a year pursue multidisciplinary studies.

For example, many funding agencies don't rely on scores alone to award all grants; they have program managers who review the scores and use them as one, albeit important, guide to picking winners.

Since the 1940s, when the U.S. government began to invest seriously in civilian research, the work has been done largely at the nation's universities and paid for through competitive, temporary grants awarded to individual professors by federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

The agency thus projects a 2.4 % drop in the number of new and competing research project grants it will award in 2012, a fall to 9,158.

Competitive grants are catching on at two agencies — the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency — that haven't been big investors in such awards in the past.

DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E) gave 1366 a $ 4 million grant in November 2009, the only grant to a solar firm in ARPA - E's initial awards.

The research was supported in part by three grants from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health — grants AI109711, AI109762 and AI067927 — and by a Defense Threat Reduction Agency award, HDTRA1 -13-1-0034.

The research was supported by the National Science Foundation (grant numbers DMS 1122519, DMS 122566, and DMS 1537228), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award (grant number W911NF -15-1-0084), and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

The eRA system handles more than 140,000 new and competing NIH grant applications each year, about 74,000 awards, and thousands of other documents and awards for other agencies, according to a 2009 fact sheet.

So she wrote to the granting agency that had awarded me a scholarship and told them I wasn't working.

Smith has publicly questioned at least 50 specific research projects — including a $ 340,000 (# 221,000) grant to examine the ecological consequences of early human - set fires in New Zealand — and demanded to examine the agency's peer review process underlying those awards.

It's not enough to only know the agencies that award a particular type of grant; you should be aware of the rules and regulations that come along with an award because there may be certain obligations that must be fulfilled.

But the three agencies with the next biggest portfolios — DOD [the U.S. Department of Defense], DOE [the Department of Energy], and NASA — «do not routinely collect demographic information about researchers who submit grant proposals and receive awards,» GAO reports in a 17 March letter to representatives Eddie Bernice Johnson (D — TX), Rosa DeLauro (D — CT), and Louise Slaughter (D — NY).»

And finally you can find a list of plant biology and botany organizations willing to discuss careers in these fields, plus a wonderful set of links to online Botany WWW sites listing everything from job search engines to educational sites to agencies that award grants and fellowships.

Researchers were supported by José Carreras fellowship, FIJC - 10; NCI T32 / K12 / R25 award; the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A * STAR), Singapore; the National Medical Research Council of Singapore (NMRC / CG / NCIS / 2010) and the DF / HCC Cancer Center Support Grant 5P30 CA006516.