Sentences with phrase «as national initiatives»

These programs remain few, but opportunities are increasing as national initiatives emerge, complementing the pan-European programs.

Not exact matches

The initiative could position Israel as a leader in digital health globally and serve as a bellwether for things like population health and national genomic sequencing systems.

A five year - content - led initiative between ITHRA, or the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, and National Geographic to propel Saudi Arabia as the region's center for creativity and entertainment.

McMillan said initiatives including the recently proposed replacements of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and the National Energy Board are harming Canada's reputation as a transparent and fair place to do business.

NEW YORK — As part of a new initiative to examine communities in more detail and enable locational comparisons, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York today released an interactive tool that provides information about home prices, distressed sales, delinquencies and foreclosures at the national, state and county levels.

His decision to invoke a rarely used national security clause to justify the new tariffs will further undermine the multilateral economic system — already challenged by protectionism, state capitalism and by Chinese initiatives such as the Belt and Road Initiative.

As a result, in May of 2016, OnDeck helped launch an initiative of the three largest online small business lenders, and a leading national non-profit microfinance trade association (the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO)-RRB-, to produce a disclosure solution that would help standardize a common set of pricing metrics and make it easier for small business borrowers to assess their options.

This study addresses the Atlantic Gateway initiative, and how it relates to Canada's global trading position as a national policy priority.

They include our flagship initiative, the National Disability Forum, as well as Customer Engagement Tools, Data Exchanges, Analytics Center of Excellence, Work Incentives Planning and Assistance Programs, and Health Information Technology.

In addition, the party has pledged other key health - related initiatives, such as limiting the commercialization of genetically modified crops; developing national goals for pre-natal care; reducing cigarette smoking through education and taxes; and promoting healthy eating and physical activity.

As a champion of the national Startup America initiative and leader of Startup Arkansas, Lee provides the vision and leadership for The Venture Center.

The National Institute of Transforming India, commonly known as the NITI Aayog, has lanced the initiative.

As a result, the government took a number of initiatives to prevent similar problems, including the creation of the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA).

On Wednesday, as high school students from DC, Maryland, and Virginia protested in front of the US Capitol and the White House, Sen. Jeff Flake (R - AZ) announced he and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) were working on a bill that would raise the minimum age to buy an AR - 15 rifle to 21 for buyers who aren't in the military (an initiative opposed by the National Rifle Association).

The ballot initiative was part of a national campaign brought by Personhood USA, a group that describes itself as a nonprofit Christian ministry.

Begun as a private initiative by John D. Rockefeller III with support from other national figures, including then Secretary of the Treasury William Simon, the commission's landmark reports were published by the Department of the Treasury in the 1970s.

Previously, she led diversity initiatives at the Human Rights Campaign and was the first transgender person to lead a national LGBT organization as exective director of OutServe - SLDN.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Shechtman, with 34 years of experience in the gourmet food, gifting and branding world, says a goal of the company is to facilitate a «rebirth of a regional [Hebert] brand into a national presence,» and she says the combined skills of the companies and her management team, as well as some new initiatives, will make that happen.

The We CareSM initiative was launched in 2008 as a joint effort of the National Pork Board, the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and state organizations representing farmers.

We hope this project will serve as a model for future national initiatives that can be scaled with funds from programs such as the Green Climate Fund.»

As 2017 marks National Breast Cancer Foundation's 25th anniversary, a new initiative — HOPE Kits — is being unveiled.

But let me first mention some of the initiatives that have been introduced by the Danish Government as part of the national Waste Prevention Strategy from April 2015.

The funds will contribute to Cheribundi's future marketing and sales initiatives as it grows its national presence.

But preliminary results already show powerful gap - closing effects for Educare students: If disadvantaged children enter Educare before their first birthday, they usually are, by the first day of kindergarten, essentially caught up with the national average on tests of basic knowledge and language comprehension, as well as on measures of noncognitive factors like attachment, initiative, and self - control.

Available free of charge on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents, and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season, and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.

It's a beautiful thing to spend time outside with your kids, and per my role as a founding mother for the National Wildlife Federation, I wanted to point you all to this Saturday's Great American Backyard Campout — an initiative designed to inspire families to enjoy a night of old - fashioned fun outdoors.

As part of the Small Schools Taskforce, a national initiative which aims to ensure that all small schools have the right menus and kitchen equipment to be able to offer a viable service, I've witnessed the huge benefits that a hot, healthy meal can have on classroom performance.

In front of a packed audience in the State Dining Room at the White House on Tuesday, first lady Michelle Obama rolled out her national initiative to combat childhood obesity with a show of force that included medical, business and government leaders, grassroots activists, celebrity public service announcements, cartoon characters as nutrition experts, as well as those most directly affected — the kids themselves.

Much has been achieved in 22 years, such as the adoption of the revised International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 183 and Recommendation 191 on maternity protection in 2000 — enacting stronger maternity entitlements, more country initiatives, and improving national laws and practices.

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.

This two - page document outlines national, state, and hospital quality improvement guidelines as well as legislative initiatives that reflect the philosophical principles and ten steps of the Mother - Friendly Childbirth Initiative.

As a part of the Healthy People 2020 initiative, the national goal is to increase the proportion of mothers who breastfeed their babies in the early postpartum period to 81.9 percent by the year 2020.

Maternity services will be asked to come up with initiatives that can be more widely adopted across the country as part of a national approach — such as appointing maternity safety champions to report to the board and ensuring all staff have the right training to enable them to identify the risks and symptoms of perinatal mental health.

«Our All Persons Trails initiative introduced at our wildlife sanctuaries has not only been a tremendous success statewide, it has become a national model, encouraging other groups and agencies across the country to engage their own communities as broadly as possible,» Clayton added.

This is my first post for The Kids Cook Monday, a national initiative encouraging parents to set aside the first day of every week for cooking and eating together as a family.

He organizes national fitness initiatives such as Project ACES each year, where millions of children exercise simultaneously each May.

Work Group members represent ACOG at meetings for the AAP SOBr as well as the United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC), and ACOG staff are involved with additional national breastfeeding initiatives.

Three years after NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray launched her signature $ 850 million ThriveNYC mental health initiative, she is tapping Alexis Confer, who has worked on de Blasio's successful universal pre-K initiative, on national gun reform and on former President Obama's campaign, to serve as the initiative's first - ever executive director.

Of course, others, such as the National Audit Office and the Institute for Government's Whitehall Monitor team also hold the government to account by scrutinizing reform initiatives against such data as is available.

As part of National Apprenticeship Week, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, has announced new initiatives to help young people kick start a career in cyber security.

Also at 8:30 a.m., an initiative of the National Women's Political Caucus of New York City, Sheroes of New York, is set to make history as the first campaign with 11 female candidates, Democrats and Republicans, collaborating to motivate people to vote and increase awareness and consideration for women candidates, New York Historical Society, 170 Central Park W., Manhattan.

Earlier attempts by the NPP to launch such an initiative had been plagued with similar misunderstandings when the party's suspended General Secretary, Kwabena Agyei Agyapong and National Treasurer, Abankwa Yeboah in September 2015, both launched parallel fund raising electronic cards for the party, leading to serious credibility crisis as both camps dismissed the others» initiative as fraudulent.

The redistricting of 2012 opened the door for New York Congressman Steve Israel to step into the political consciousness of northeast Queens, but despite conventional wisdom his national job as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) wasn't enough to raise his name recognition, it was a strong grassroots campaign initiative which helped ensure victory on Election Day.

Three years after First Lady Chirlane McCray launched her signature $ 850 million ThriveNYC mental health initiative, she is tapping Alexis Confer — who has worked on Mayor Bill de Blasio's successful universal pre-kindergarten initiative, on national gun reform and on former President Barack Obama's campaign — to serve as the initiative's first - ever executive director.

The National Health Students» Association Of Ghana (NAHSAG) has described as «modern day slavery» the initiative by government to contract the services of some unemployed graduate nurses under the Nation Builders Corps programme, in a module called Heal Ghana.

PROPOSAL 13: Launch a «Right Priorities» initiative to further New York's status as a national leader in criminal justice and re-entry reforms.

Stefanik counted the 21st Century Cures Act, national defense, combating the opioid epidemic and VA reform as key legislative initiatives she hashed out with the lawmaker.

New York State's open data initiative is particularly innovative and interesting from a national perspective, because it makes the state's data website available to local governments as a resource they can use to make their data easier for themselves and the public to find and use.»

«The 80 by 50 challenge is a significant goal and will require fundamental changes, which means that the early cost savings and sustainable applications of Schenectady and National Grid initiatives could serve as a model for other communities and utilities,» McCarthy said.