Sentences with phrase «awards program competitive»

«This panel is instrumental in keeping the industry's longest running, independently judged awards program competitive and relevant,» said Yasmin Siddiqi, global packaging relationship manager, DuPont.

The panel is instrumental in keeping the industry's longest running, independently - judged awards program competitive and relevant.

Not exact matches

Entrepreneurial Winning Women is a competitive award and executive education program that identifies a select group of high - potential women entrepreneurs whose businesses show real potential to scale — and then helps them do it.

The Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program awarded over $ 26 million in competitive grants, divided equally between the Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP) and the Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP).

Our award winning gymnastics program is the place to go for all of your favorite kids activities including: preschool gymnastics classes — recreational gymnastics classes — competitive gymnastics teams — parkour classes — tumbling classes — kids birthday parties — kids fitness — kids summer camps — open gym — parents night out.

Whether it's through the integration of our award - winning healthy vending machine program, the sourcing of healthier products for your student stores and a la carte lines, or through fundraising, HUMAN can work with you to ensure your competitive food and beverage options are healthful, meet all federal mandates, taste delicious, and generate revenue for your school.

Now in its sixth year, the Winston Industries Equipment Award Grant program will award one school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant proAward Grant program will award one school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant proaward one school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant process.

On an annual basis, USDA awards up to $ 5 million in competitive grants for training, supporting operations, planning, purchasing equipment, developing school gardens, developing partnerships, and implementing farm to school programs.

Westchester, NY — Westchester Congress Members Eliot Engel (NY - 16), Nita Lowey (NY - 17), and Sean Patrick Maloney (NY - 18) announced today that Westchester County has been awarded a $ 3.6 million federal grant from the United States Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration for new vehicles under the Bus and Bus Facilities Competitive Grant Program.

The bill is expected to boost high - tech manufacturing in the state through a competitive program that awards selected state and regional partnerships with around $ 2 million in federal funding.

Cuomo's office said that grants made available through the program «will be awarded through a competitive process, with priority given to nonprofits with State contracts that provide direct services in high - need communities, particularly smaller nonprofits and nonprofits that lack access to other capital funding opportunities.»

Senate Democrats earlier this year pushed for a community schools grant program that would provide wraparound social services and empower the education commissioner to award competitive grants to eligible school districts that use existing buildings for community - based hubs.

A New Scotland lawyer has gone to court in an effort to halt the review of bids in a $ 500 million program created by the Cuomo administration to expand broadband access across the state, saying the guidelines that Empire State Development is using to award the competitive bids are «arbitrary and capricious.»

The money, administered by the New York State Spinal Cord Injury Research program, represents the first round of competitive awards since program funding was reinstated in 2013.

Cuomo and the state Education Department recently awarded competitive grant funding to launch or expand pre-K programs in 27 school districts, which will allow thousands more students to begin full - day programs throughout the state.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse has been awarded a $ 1.35 million competitive grant from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Innovation Teams program.

Later in the day, she teamed up with fellow Democrat Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney in Orange County, at the Hudson Valley Technology Development Center in Newburgh, where she discussed how her legislation would create a competitive program that awards states and regions with funding to support local manufacturers through low - interest loans to build new facilities and upgrade equipment, and give access to capital and technical assistance to develop exporting opportunities and to connect small suppliers with larger companies.

«Paying Success Academy NYC for pre-Kindergarten programs when it has not met the requirements for payment is not only inconsistent with the DOE's assurances to the [SED] and the competitive award process, but also with section 328 of the New York City Charter,» Elia wrote.

Nearly half of the 773 grants awarded to schools have gone to JROTC programs, which put students through a basic military curriculum and offer an array of small competitive clubs, like the rifle team at Broward's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

For the 26 most competitive programs, less than 15 % of applicants were awarded the grants.

As a member of the Education & Workforce committee, I strongly oppose recent efforts to reduce federal funding in these areas, and I am the author of H.R. 258, the STEM Master Teacher Corps Act, which would award competitive grants to school districts or states to partner with colleges and universities or nonprofit organizations to establish a program which will develop, support and retain exceptional teachers in the STEM disciplines.

The Institutional Postdoctoral Research Associate program at the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (COAS) of Oregon State University, Corvallis, now entering its second year, awards a couple of highly competitive positions each year.

The research was funded by the National Science Foundation International Research Fellowship Program 0852986, by a North Dakota Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research award to Timothy Greives, and by The Max - Planck - Gesellschaft to Michaela Hau.

The SBIR and STTR programs, which were begun in 1982 and 1992, respectively, make competitive awards intended to move discoveries into the market.

With the party backing the program, provincial governments dove in, setting targets for the number of recipients they would attract and starting competitive local programs like the Leading Talent award.

The Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) is a highly competitive program that provides $ 700,000 awards over five years for physician - scientists, who are committed to an academic career, to bridge advanced postdoctoral / fellowship training and the early years of faculty seAwards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) is a highly competitive program that provides $ 700,000 awards over five years for physician - scientists, who are committed to an academic career, to bridge advanced postdoctoral / fellowship training and the early years of faculty seawards over five years for physician - scientists, who are committed to an academic career, to bridge advanced postdoctoral / fellowship training and the early years of faculty service.

NSF EPSCoR -LRB-(Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) Track 1 awards are intended to improve the research competitiveness of jurisdictions by improving their academic research infrastructure in areas of science and engineering supported by the National Science Foundation and critical to the particular jurisdiction's science and technology initiative or plan.

Berkeley Lab received these competitive awards from ARPA - E's Rhizosphere Observations Optimizing Terrestrial Sequestration (ROOTS) program, which seeks to develop crops that take carbon out of the atmosphere and store it in soil — enabling a 50 percent increase in carbon deposition depth and accumulation while also reducing nitrous oxide emissions by 50 percent and increasing water productivity by 25 percent.

An award for a program on «Conception and Implementation of Nanoscale Spin Electronics» allowed Coey at last to equip an internationally competitive research laboratory for magnetic nanostructures.

The center also participates in the national «MICROMouse» program, which awards competitive one - year grants up to $ 75,000 for research projects that have the potential to enhance and advance the mission of the MMPC as a resource for scientists using mice to study diabetes and obesity.

Founded over two decades ago, The Communicator Awards receives entries from across the US and around the world, and is the largest and most competitive awards program honoring creative excellence for communications professiAwards receives entries from across the US and around the world, and is the largest and most competitive awards program honoring creative excellence for communications professiawards program honoring creative excellence for communications professionals.

In awarding grants for homelessness programs, federal housing officials will give a «competitive advantage to providers who keep families together and strengthen the family structure,» Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry G. Cisneros said in announcing the policy last month.

At the same time, the Race to the Top program offered competitive grants that awarded points to states based on their implementation of policies like performance - based evaluations.

In addition, ED shall annually award competitive grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to eligible entities for the purposes of enriching students» academic experience by promoting: (1) arts education for disadvantaged and disabled students, (2) school readiness through the development and dissemination of accessible instructional programing for preschool and elementary school children and their families, and (3) support for high - ability learners and high - ability learning through the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Program.

Through the Teachers and School Leader Incentive Program, ED shall award competitive grants to eligible entities for the development, implementation, or expansion of performance - based compensation systems or human capital management systems.

(Sec. 4301) The bill replaces the existing charter school grant program with a program awarding competitive grants to state entities and, through them, competitive subgrants to charter school developers to open new charter schools and expand and replicate high - quality charter schools.

Often bypassing Congress, Duncan used the money to work directly with states, persuading them to adopt favored policies by providing incentives through Race to the Top, a $ 4.35 billion competitive grant program in which states were awarded points for adopting ideas such as performance - based teacher and principal evaluations, higher academic standards, and raising charter school caps.

This year, 371 schools applied for national merit awards, making 2016 the most competitive year in the award program's history.

This year, 389 magnet schools applied for national merit awards, making 2018 the most competitive year in the award program's history.

Additionally, the U.S. Department of Education began using state charter laws as a consideration in the awarding of the federal Race - to - the - Top competitive grant program.

The Title II program awarded and supported over 90 competitive grants to states and to partnerships of universities and high need schools to improve the quality of teacher preparation policy and practice in the United States.

The competitive grant award allows Georgia's charter schools, traditional schools and school districts to move forward with small - scale programs that directly engage students.

ASCD publications received four REVERE (Recognizing Valuable Educational Resources) Awards from the Association of American Publishers (AAP), which every year selects the most outstanding educational publications and products through a competitive juried awards prAwards from the Association of American Publishers (AAP), which every year selects the most outstanding educational publications and products through a competitive juried awards prawards program.

Similar to the K — 12 version, this program seeks to promote systemic reforms in higher education by awarding competitive grants to states that have shown a commitment to increasing college access, quality, and graduation rates.

While considered a prestigious awards program, CEP's Schools of Character program is not actually competitive.

«Paying Success Academy NYC for pre-Kindergarten programs when it has not met the requirements for payment is not only inconsistent with the DOE's assurances to the [SED] and the competitive award process, but also with section 328 of the New York City Charter,» Elia wrote.

The REVERE Awards is a well - respected awards program hosted by the Association of American Publishers, and every year, it picks the most outstanding educational products through a competitive, juried awards prAwards is a well - respected awards program hosted by the Association of American Publishers, and every year, it picks the most outstanding educational products through a competitive, juried awards prawards program hosted by the Association of American Publishers, and every year, it picks the most outstanding educational products through a competitive, juried awards prawards program.

The first $ 40 million of excise tax (a wholesale tax before the product reaches the store shelf) on marijuana raised each year in Colorado is dedicated to a program called BEST, which awards competitive grants to school construction projects — mostly to improve buildings in rural districts

The Wallace Foundation awarded a competitive grant to UChicago CCSR in 2013 to undertake the project, which included a review of relevant literature spanning decades as well as interviews with national experts in research, policy and practice, and young people and the adults who work with them in schools, programs and agencies throughout Chicago.

The U.S. Department of Education today announced the launch of the «State - Tribal Education Partnership» — or STEP — pilot program, which will award $ 1.9 million in competitive grants to tribal education agencies (TEAs) to increase their role in the education of American Indian and Alaska Native students.