Sentences with phrase «challenges around funding»

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A final wrinkle in Meza's misadventure is the challenge posed to law enforcement when crooks move funds around in the volatile cryptocurrency markets.

April 11 - Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business amid a challenging landscape, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

Now, the biggest challenge, according to Reuters, is to find a way around a reduction of the period over which U.S. - based entities can supply Russian energy firms with funding.

We also partner with other research organisations to ensure the best capability is brought to bear on a problem, such as leading a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded project involving institutions around the world to develop self - reproducing hybrid crops for African farmers or working with the University of Queensland and Queensland State Government researchers to solve challenges faced by the Northern Australian beef industry.

The Cranberry Marketing Committee recently launched the Summer Cran Fan Challenge to help raise funds for local food banks around the United States.

But we've also heard consensus about the challenges: Around funding, around how to procure locally grown food, around how to ensure food safety standards are met, and how to incorporate better salad bars in schools in a way that counts for reimbursable Around funding, around how to procure locally grown food, around how to ensure food safety standards are met, and how to incorporate better salad bars in schools in a way that counts for reimbursable around how to procure locally grown food, around how to ensure food safety standards are met, and how to incorporate better salad bars in schools in a way that counts for reimbursable around how to ensure food safety standards are met, and how to incorporate better salad bars in schools in a way that counts for reimbursable meals.

«By engaging a million Americans with millions of mothers in the developing world around issues that directly impact pregnancy, childbirth and children's health, the Million Moms Challenge will raise awareness and funds to help women and children everywhere survive and thrive.»

In FY11 the contractor has been funded to provide individualized, grantee - specific guidance around research and evaluation topics; begin analyzing and synthesizing challenges faced by grantees around research and evaluation; develop comprehensive, user - friendly synthesis of guidance for tribal grantees; and work with grantees on efforts to disseminate and share the knowledge they are building regarding effective home visiting in tribal communities.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

DiNapoli, a Democrat, has used the pension fund to throw some political weight around when it comes to social causes — think of the Chevron lawsuit, which is being challenged by former ethics watchdog David Grandeau, and the plan to divest from firearm manufacturers.

We need to adopt new ideas and system reforms to cater to the demands of this evolving world, especially in a country like Japan where we experience many dynamic changes and challenges,» states Igarashi, who emphasizes the importance of maintaining R&D and science education funding to make research careers attractive to young clinicians and scientists in Japan and around the world.

Since then, it has declined sharply and reached a plateau around $ 3 billion to $ 4 billion a year — a tiny fraction of the roughly $ 100 billion of total public research and development funding in the U.S. Public support for energy research is now inching up, but the effort falls short of that needed to tackle the climate challenge.

The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives.

The report, funded by the Commercial Education Trust, revealed that the negative perceptions around apprenticeships among students, teachers and parents hampers take - up and highlights how more needs to be done to ensure equal guidance for both academic and vocational pathways and challenge views about the suitability of different apprenticeships across genders.

Mega-gifts such as the Gates Foundation's high school funding initiative capture headlines around the world, while each year more modest contributions from local and national philanthropies capture the imaginations and bolster the resources of administrators and educators charged with meeting today's wide - ranging educational challenges.

Although there are the usual challenges for any new startup, particularly around funding, Enechi says she isn't fazed, thanks in part to her time at the Ed School.

«One challenge in this area with this proposal is that the Title I funding amounts on their own are not very large, so depending on how you defined an eligible child, you'd be talking (about around) $ 1,000 per student.»

Educational savings accounts are an end run around that challenge because they offer the funds directly the parents, who can then use them in a variety of educational expenses, including tuition, tutoring and school supplies.

Alongside David Pickens from DC School Reform Now and Tosha Downey from Memphis Education Fund, we discussed the merits, challenges and opportunities around instituting choice systems.

I challenge her to call for full wrap around services in all «high poverty» schools and to increase Title I funding available to schools serving poor children in general.

Through Race to the Top funding, states attempted to highlight and bring resolution to the challenges around comprehensive and research based evaluation for teachers and administrators.

Hear school leaders from around the state talk about some of the challenges they face because of New York's funding inequality:

f you spent most of your adult life budgeting around a steady paycheck, a departure from the workforce, by choice or circumstance, poses a new challenge: What funds will you use to meet expenses?

Testing Media was a joint project between The Contemporary Art Society and the Art Fund, designed to support the acquisition of significant contemporary works presenting particular challenges around display and conservation.

In the wake of such large - scale challenges, foundations such as the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts stepped in with major support through the Warhol Initiative, an invitational funding program launched in the fall of 1999 to support small contemporary visual arts organizations around the country.

The program's next challenge is to help push national leaders around the world to consider transportation when putting together Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs), the low - carbon, sustainable development plans written by developing nations to receive funding under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

I wasn't equipped to make that challenge, so went in to «straight IT» where my activism around AIDS funding and human rights would not be a problem.

First, despite strong bipartisan support in Congress, the most recent reauthorization only extended the program for two years.62 This kind of short - term authorization presents significant challenges for state - level administrators, as uncertainty around funding inhibits long - term planning and impedes program effectiveness at the state and local levels.

In FY11 the contractor has been funded to provide individualized, grantee - specific guidance around research and evaluation topics; begin analyzing and synthesizing challenges faced by grantees around research and evaluation; develop comprehensive, user - friendly synthesis of guidance for tribal grantees; and work with grantees on efforts to disseminate and share the knowledge they are building regarding effective home visiting in tribal communities.