Sentences with phrase «direct millions of dollars a year»

This will direct millions of dollars a year of taxpayer money to much needed investment in infrastructure.

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Horgan committed to making things better for survivors of sexual violence and for those fleeing abusive homes by making sure crime prevention dollars go to deliver much - needed services that keep more women safe, improving public policy, directing more funding to provincial and community based programs that directly serve women and children, and increasing funding to violence prevention and intervention programs by $ 8 million a year.

The nation's defense agencies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year funding cognitive neuroscience research, Moreno noted, citing research projects to better understand and model «human behavior in social and cultural contexts» and explore systems for «direct neural interfacing to receive and react to operationally relevant environmental, physiological and neural information.»

For each of the past couple of years, Congress has given the agency's planetary - sciences division tens of millions of dollars more than it asked for, and directed it to spend the money on Europa mission concepts.

The $ 90.3 million that had previously been directed to the two grant programs was swallowed up by the LCFF, which in its first year gave local educational agencies a total of $ 4.5 billion in additional funding as well greater authority over how the dollars are spent.

Two new grants created in the 2011 budget exemplify the ways we can direct funding to encourage innovation and support successful programs and educators: the Excellence in Performance Grant for Teachers provides 15 million dollars over two years for districts to reward their best teachers, and the Innovation Fund Grant — which gave ten Indiana schools, districts, and organizations each a portion of 5 million dollars to support ground breaking new programs, like the one at Herron High School, a charter school here in Indianapolis led by Janet McNeal, who joins us tonight.

Get Judith's Briles» perspective — someone who has been there, done that, creating over 4.8 million dollars in combined speaking fees and direct book sales in a 25 year period — of speaking and selling books at the highest level.

We estimate that alternative rescue organizations, and thousands of caring, cat - loving individuals, raise and spend one million dollars every year - none of it on wages and salaries - all of it on direct compassionate work.

(5)(6) But last year tens of millions of US aid dollars were directed to the police and military, both of which are heavily implicated in violence against land and environmental activists.