Sentences with phrase «comprehensive national approach»

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Amherst developed and pursued a comprehensive sale process, identifying and approaching a robust list of potential acquirers that included global Fortune 500 companies and national private equity firms, in addition to numerous middlemarket strategic and financial buyers.

Note that the National Venture Capital Association has developed a comprehensive set of annotated draft agreements for its members, and this provides entrepreneurs with a useful starting point to understand the manner in which VCs approach corporate governance and other issues.

The policy sets out a comprehensive agenda for national co-ordinated action on waste across six areas, and marks a fundamental shift in the approach to waste management and resource recovery.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

The Council further invites Member States to promote a multi-sectoral approach and strengthen or develop comprehensive national strategies or action plans.

NCA is the national authority on multi-disciplinary approaches to supporting child victims of abuse, NCA's purpose is to empower local communities to provide comprehensive, coordinated and compassionate services to victims of child abuse.

As the national authority on multidisciplinary approaches to supporting child victims of abuse, the purpose of National Children's Alliance is to empower local communities to provide comprehensive, coordinated and compassionate services to victims of chilnational authority on multidisciplinary approaches to supporting child victims of abuse, the purpose of National Children's Alliance is to empower local communities to provide comprehensive, coordinated and compassionate services to victims of chilNational Children's Alliance is to empower local communities to provide comprehensive, coordinated and compassionate services to victims of child abuse.

And, most importantly, they advocate that the world ditches the comprehensive approach of national climate emissions targets laid out in the U.N. climate process.

Sponsored by Kales» program, the national multidisciplinary panel of experts met in Michigan to create a comprehensive approach to behavioral management.

The White House today released a national Bioeconomy Blueprint, a comprehensive approach to harnessing innovations in biological research to address national challenges in health, food, energy, and the environment.

«Platform of Associations in Charge of ASAMA and Post-ASAMA», an NGO in Madagascar that developed a comprehensive approach to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by establishing partnerships between the national authorities and 66 other NGOs.

National Schools of Character exemplify CEP's Eleven Principles, among them defining ««character» comprehensively to include thinking, feeling, and behavior»; implementing «a meaningful and challenging academic curriculum that respects all learners, develops their character, and helps them to succeed»; providing «students with opportunities for moral action»; and using «a comprehensive, intentional, proactive, and effective approach to character development.»

The funding will support a new national approach for identifying and supporting more able learners, backed with comprehensive new guidance.

At the national level, Head Start parents, children's advocates, and civil rights leaders feared that a move would undermine Head Start's comprehensive approach that emphasized health care as much as education.

Alexandria, Va. (July 15, 2015)- As the U.S. Senate approaches the end of debate on the nation's largest education law, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) continues to actively engage with our nation's lawmakers in support of a comprehensive, strategic modernization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

School safety concerns have tragically been thrust to the forefront of a national discussion, but too much of the talk has been at schools and educators rather than with them.This webinar is an opportunity to explore and discuss school safety strategies centered on a comprehensive approach to violence prevention and crisis response that focuses on all hazards and is derived from an educational perspective.

Approaches to Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness: Research Synthesis (Chicago, Ill.: National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, 2008).

This BBA blog highlights a comprehensive approach to early childhood education in the context of the national election.

This BBA blog highlights a comprehensive approach to early childhood education in the context of the national election, which in general is not paying much attention to public education issues.

Teachers College, Columbia University; New York, NY $ 656,000 over two years on behalf of the National Center for Children and Families for a comprehensive analysis of variation by NYC UPK program setting, governance, and community district in teacher characteristics, professional development, instructional approach, and program structure.

This comprehensive approach to ingredient sourcing, product manufacturing and distribution made us among the first to earn the National Animal Supplement Council Quality Seal.

DAVID ADJAYE, «Making Place: The Architecture of David Adjaye» @ The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago «Making Place» is the first comprehensive museum survey of global architect David Adjaye «s portfolio of more than 50 built projects, which includes the forthcoming National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.. His approach to design is unique: «Rather than advancing a signature architectural style, Adjaye's structures address local concerns and conditions through both a historical understanding of context and a global understanding of modernism.»

Coptic Solidarity applauds Mr. Trump's declared intentions to combat terrorism and provides some recommendations, summarized below, for the new US administration, urging it to formulate a comprehensive foreign policy approach towards Egypt, which incorporates US values and priorities without sacrificing human rights to trade or national security:

UNHCR interventions will focus on increasing the integration of refugee response programmes with comprehensive national and regional protection and development frameworks; enhancing productive and coping mechanisms of refugee and host communities; and strengthening resilience through partnerships and innovative approaches such as cash - based interventions and other self - reliance initiatives in close cooperation with governments, humanitarian and development actors, civil society and the private sector.

Although there is no comprehensive national survey to buttress their view or to document the extent of savings for clients, «anecdotal evidence and our own recent, small - scale survey confirm the trend that we perceived: law firms increasingly moving to alternative billing approaches at clients» request,» said Richard C. Reed, who is a consultant at Altman Weil Pensa, a Philadelphia - based legal management consulting firm, as well as chairman of the American Bar Association's alternative billing task force.

Politicians and their advisers do not seem to have contemplated either a more comprehensive federal approach, relying on either its inter-provincial trade power or the national dimension branch of the «peace, order and good government» power, or a more co-operative federal - provincial approach.

The Blueprint also calls for the establishment of an independent central agency with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander oversight, to co-ordinate a comprehensive, current and consistent national approach to related data collection and policy development.

Lessons Learned: PIP Development [Teleconference] National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement & Federal Child and Family Services Review Team (2008) Highlights approaches that have helped agencies develop and implement comprehensive PIPs that involve critical stakeholders and focus on key systemic factors for improving child and family outcomes.

Jennifer Grossman, Ph.D., is currently principal investigator of an R21 award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)-- Adolescent Communication with Family and Reproductive Health, which includes the first comprehensive assessment of teens» sexuality communication with extended family and its associations with sexual behavior as well as an exploration of extended family approaches to talking with teens about sex.

This model promotes a comprehensive approach to sexual and reproductive health in Burkina Faso, while focusing on areas with the greatest need and focusing on a national policy on youth friendly services that directs funding to the local level to support these services.

Grossman is currently principal investigator of an R21 award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development — Adolescent Communication with Family and Reproductive Health, which includes the first comprehensive assessment of teens» sexuality communication with extended family and its associations with sexual behavior as well as an exploration of extended family approaches to talking with teens about sex.

Homestretch, a Falls Church based nonprofit, is becoming a national model for organizations that serve homeless families by providing a comprehensive and personalized approach to redirect futures on a positive path, according to Hennessey.