Sentences with phrase «competitive grants funded»

Since 1966, the Committee has awarded nearly $ 12 million in competitive grants funded from proceeds of our craft shows to the Smithsonian's 19 museums and galleries, nine research facilities, traveling exhibits and the National Zoo.

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.

«Through the President's Research Award, we are seeking to encourage collaborative projects that have a strong likelihood of realizing competitive grant funding.

(Sec. 6002) The bill retains competitive grant funding for Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native Education.

In October 2015, the Department of Education advanced a regulation that would, in its words, «require all copyrightable intellectual property created with Department discretionary competitive grant funds to have an open license.»

ESSA also reauthorized the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP), authorizing increased competitive grant funding for magnet schools to $ 4.1 million by 2020.

Applications for 21st CCLC competitive grant funds must be received by 4 p.m. on Friday, April 13, 2018.

But Obama has considerable leverage in his nearly $ 5 billion competitive grant fund, dubbed the «Race to the Top,» that was set aside in the economic stimulus law.

The main area of contention among House members of both parties is the administration's reliance on competitive grant funding instead of formula funding programs such as Title I of ESEA.

Enacted under Title IV, Part B of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the 21st CCLC program provides competitive grant funding to support before school, after school, and summer learning programs that focus on improving the academic performance of students in pre-Kindergarten through grade 12.

The Obama administration has said that such restrictions would hurt a state's chances of getting part of the $ 5 billion competitive grant fund, dubbed «Race to the Top.»

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced the availability of $ 5 million in competitive grant funds to enhance public transit service for American Indians, Alaska natives and other residents on rural tribal lands.

The Centre is funded through a combination of project grant funding from government and non-government organisations, competitive grant funding, philanthropic donations and University funds.

Not exact matches

These grants are awarded on a competitive basis, and funding is contingent on achieving measurable outcomes.

Grants can be very competitive with application requirements that are very specific regarding the type of business you can have and what the funds will be used for.

It has been nurtured in many ways: by research into basic issues in theological education underwritten by competitive grants offered by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) and funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.; by the work of some theological educators commissioned by the Endowment to think about these questions; and by a series of seminars and conferences convened by the ATS to discuss some of the results of this research and reflection.

The $ 17.6 million in grants are funded through a competitive process by NIFA's Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative, authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill, according to a news release.

Although the National School Lunch Program received $ 100 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and $ 25 million from fiscal 2010 appropriations, this funding, which is allocated through a competitive grants program, represents a fraction of what school districts need to upgrade their kitchen equipment and infrastructure and to adequately train staff.

The USDA's Farm to School Grant Program — originally funded as part of the Healthy Huger - Free Kids Act of 2010 — provides resources on a competitive basis to schools, nonprofits, farmers and government entities to assist in implementing farm to school programs that improve access to local foods in eligible schools.

Klein said it's «too early» to say for certain whether de Blasio's pre-K plan is «right» compared to the one the governor is proposing, which calls for using $ 1.5 billion over five yreas to fund pre-K statewide ($ 100 million total in the first year, $ 25 million of which is renewing the existing competitive pre-K grants).

Most recently, prekindergarten programs were primarily funded through competitive state grants.

If elected, Faso has proposed to establish a competitive grant program at the federal level to fund qualified nonprofits that provide peer - to - peer counseling services to veterans suffering from PTSD, TBI and other trauma.

Last year, he announced $ 25 million in competitive grants to fund pre-K in some schools.

The Assembly's budget resolution proposed that the $ 100 million would be allocated using a competitive grant process similar to the one Cuomo used to distribute $ 25 million in full - day pre-K funds this year.

Cuomo would discount financial assistance called Bundy Aid to private colleges and reinvest the funds in a new $ 30 million competitive matching grant program for capital projects on private campuses.

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.»

A bill that would provide direct state funding to museums through a competitive grant program is gaining ground in the Legislature.

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.

An afternoon session reviewed projects that the regional council would like to fund in next year's round of competitive grants.

The Community Development Block Grant is a competitive grant available to municipalities that can be used to encourage residential and economic growth and fund social progGrant is a competitive grant available to municipalities that can be used to encourage residential and economic growth and fund social proggrant available to municipalities that can be used to encourage residential and economic growth and fund social programs.

He said the funding, which will be distributed through a competitive grant process, would create full - day programs or expand existing half - day programs for New York's neediest students.

The Hotel Syracuse is receiving a multi-million dollar state grant through New York's competitive economic development funding program.

The governor earmarked $ 75 million in the state budget this fiscal year for competitive grants to fund pre-kindergarten and other programs; few districts applied.

New York already allocates around $ 400 million for pre-K, and Cuomo has expanded funding through competitive grants that have gone to 27 districts.

Cuomo proposed $ 25 million for competitive grant programs, which includes $ 20 million to establish a fund to supplement high - performing teachers» salaries and $ 5 million to expand early college high schools throughout the state.

The proposed increase is slightly smaller than what Cuomo presented last year: in 2013, he offered an $ 889 million boost, including funding for competitive grants.

Last year, he announced a pilot pre-K program funded by $ 25 million in competitive grants which will serve 27 of New York's roughly 700 school districts.

We need to stop competitive grants for school funding, which puts the poorer school districts at a further disadvantage.

EPA's Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, which funds competitive research grants and graduate fellowships, would be terminated across all four S&T research missions.

Eighty percent of NIH's funds go to 50,000 competitive grants to principal investigators who staff their labs with temporary labor — grad students and postdocs who become part of a constant stream of new scientific - job seekers.

The new fund is the latest example of a large research program to serve national goals that is created outside the regular channel of competitive grants to individual scientists.

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 request is also likely to zero out several EPA and NOAA programs that fund competitive grants for university - based researchers.

In one of the most competitive funding calls of European history, Moreno won an ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant, worth $ 1 million, to fund his research during the next 5 years.

To be competitive, I need a federally funded research grant to list alongside those publications in prestigious journals.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on 3 Feb. that the White House will request a doubling of funding for competitive grants under the department's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) in the president's FY 2017 budget, to be released next week.

A 2005 National Academy of Sciences report documented a shortage of veterinarian scientists in the biomedical enterprise, noting that few National Institutes of Health (NIH)-- funded competitive grants involving animals were awarded to principal investigators with veterinary training.

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.»

In my relatively short experience in Canada, I've found that funding is limited and grant applications are very competitive.

NIFA replaces the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, which distributes $ 200 million in competitive grants and about $ 280 million in «formula funding» to land - grant universities.