Sentences with phrase «directed funding of»

The obsession restricted focus to higher temperatures and increased CO2, which directed funding of impact analyses, whether economic or environmental to cost only, instead of cost / benefit.

An amendment from Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D - N.Y.) would have maintained direct funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau through the Federal Reserve, while the CHOICE Act gives Congress control of the CFPB's budget.

In particular, state policymakers need to consider the role of the private sector when deciding the right balance between direct funding of public institutions and vouchers that students can use at any institution (in the state or more broadly).

The other vehicles involve either direct funding of service providers by the federal government, e.g., Head Start, or transfers to states from the federal government, and through them to providers or individuals, e.g., the Child Care and Development Fund.

Will barriers be removed to direct funding of private schools and teaching religion in public schools?

With direct funding of schools by DfE on the horizon (although no - one knows exactly when it might happen), will Schools Forums still have a role?

The least restrictive Blaine Amendments, such as the one in Kentucky, forbid only direct funding of religious education; the most restrictive Blaine Amendments, such as those in Florida and Georgia, prohibit both indirect and direct funding of any religious organization.

Just as the Protestant public schools were being funded directly by the state, they wanted direct funding of their schools.

This is probably one of the last incidents of direct funding of anti-environmental lobbyists by car companies that we know of.

Portland's Bureau of Environmental Services currently offers direct funding of up to $ 5.00 per square foot on approved projects through their Ecoroof Program.

Not exact matches

• Swrve, a San Francisco - based developer of an in - app direct marketing platform, raised $ 25 million in Series D funding.

And some of the LPs in this fund are interested in making direct follow - on investments, so they're looking to us to not just generate good returns from the fund but also interesting deal flow that might be of interest to them down the road.

SVB Capital, separately, has a funds business that invests across a family funds including funds of funds and direct equity funds.

This decision resulted in a flurry of organizations called «Super PACs,» which enable individuals and corporations to donate unlimited funds as long as there is no direct coordination with the candidate.

A growing number of people are turning their IRAs — regular or Roth — into «self - directed» IRAs, using the funds to invest in anything they want, including start - ups.

Sold direct - to - consumer and funded by Kickstarter, the company is able to use premium materials and invest in research without having to add in the cost of middlemen.

Pensco has a success story of a young entrepreneur who put $ 1,800 into a self - directed IRA and, along with some friends who also invested their modestly funded IRAs, formed a company.

The Abbott Fund is giving a total of $ 900,000 in grants to the American Red Cross, Americares and Direct Relief.

The emergency declaration would also free up public health emergency funds at the Department of Health and Human Services, and grant individual states more flexibility in how they use federal dollars, and allow them to direct more funds toward addiction treatment and prevention.

After that, minus a monthly maintenance charge, most of it was directed toward funding a future settlement.

The financiers then direct potential funders to virtual communication platforms such as Skype, according to Nicholas Ryder, professor of financial crime at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

It then throws in plenty of growth factors (direct government funding, networking support, connections to customers, heavy promotion to outside investors, and relaxed regulations) and incubates them for years.

While the Stop had started out raising money through conventional means such as grants, foundations and direct - mail campaigns, and continues to rely on these methods for the bulk of its funding, it saw opportunity in the wealthier constituency that lived near the Green Barn.

After tracking cash flow in and out of mutual funds to measure investor sentiment, the research found that in response to hype, general market enthusiasm or a mass exodus, «retail investors direct their money to funds which invest in stocks that have low future returns.

Sullivan supervises a staff of professionals performing direct investment of discretionary funds and providing investment advice to other portfolios.

While handling these details might not be as thrilling as raising funds part of the campaign, they have a direct impact on an entrepreneur's ability to execute his or her vision, fulfill orders and make the transition from a campaign into a fully sustainable business.

NEW YORK, March 6 - Citadel, one of the world's largest hedge fund managers, has cut staff by more than 30 percent in one of its stock - picking units in what several people with direct knowledge of the layoffs described as a surprise move.

With the rebrand, she also accelerated the program's focus on connecting participants with investor networks — a direct response to a 2014 Babson College study that indicated only 5 percent of female entrepreneurs receive funding from VCs.

It requires every fund seeking new leverage to direct more investment to «smaller» companies, and increases the maximum investment an SBIC can make in one of its portfolio companies.

This is probably one of the best places to direct funds as a high - quality, clever video can mean the difference between a campaign going viral or not.

Also, about 54 percent of programs offer direct funding.

Effective immediately, I am directing City Departments under my authority to bar any publicly - funded City employee travel to the State of Indiana that is not absolutely essential to public health and safety.

A trio of hedge fund managers have secretly directed one of the largest pools of philanthropic capital for years, undetected by design.

Besides direct loans and lines of credit, it also licenses the Kabbage platform to other financial institutions to provide automated funding to their own customers, including ING, Santander and Scotia Bank.

Jarvis also noted that while Facebook is a collaborator and funder of the project, «we designed the governance to assure that neither Facebook nor any other funder would have direct control over grants and to make sure that we would not be put in a position of doing anything we did not want to do.»

Or consider a Rule 506 of Regulation D private offering, a direct public offering or even a Regulation A funding path, depending on the company's stage of growth.

The plans goes something like this; people are advised to move their RRSP into a self - directed RRSP and then transfer the funds outside the retirement plan and into shares of a phony company, trust or fund.

Common themes among the companies Amazon has brought into its inner circle: startups that adopted the retailer's technology early on; that help put it in direct orbit of Apple, Google, and Netflix; or that vault it into a new geography or category, as it's doing with its more recent Alexa Fund, which is funneling $ 100 million into artificial intelligence startups.

Performance does not include the effect of any direct fees described in the fund's prospectus which, if applicable, would lower your total returns.

You also have to agree to electronic services such as paperless bank statements and one of the following each month: online bill payments, direct deposits, transferring funds between BECU accounts or debit card purchases.

Prior to joining Cerberus, Mr. Read was a Managing Director at CIBC World Markets from 1995 to 2005, where he was responsible for the distribution of structured finance products including CLOs and CBOs, mezzanine financings, leveraged finance and direct fund raising.

Figures include reinvestment of capital gains and dividends, but the performance does not include the effect of any direct fees described in the fund's prospectus (e.g., short - term trading fees) which, if applicable, would lower your total returns.

This is Gramophone's pre-Series A funding round, a person with direct knowledge of the development told TechCircle.

We sourced the oilsands direct jobs figure from The Decade Ahead: Labour Market Outlook to 2022 for Canada's Oil and Gas Industry, a 2013 Petroleum Human Resources Council report that was funded in part by the Government of Canada and The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.

One of BlackRock's five largest funds has not yet disclosed 2016 data, while another does not direct trades to brokerages in exchange for research.

If the state funds these unproductive workers by borrowing at repressed rates from households, or by otherwise raising direct or hidden household taxes, this way of managing unemployment will indeed serve simply to prevent or even reverse the adjustment process.

Chinese foreign direct investment in Europe has soared from under $ 1 billion in 2008 to $ 35 billion in 2016.2 Examples of Chinese economic activities include: acquisitions of European companies in a variety of strategic fields, most notably in the technology sector; sustained investment into existing critical infrastructure; and the provision of funding for new infrastructure projects.

With pensions, as with cemeteries, we have chosen to switch from pay - as - you - go funding, combined with direct in - kind transfers from younger generations, to a regime of pre-funded savings plans.

The Jenkins Panel promotes a higher proportion of direct funding support for innovation commercialization while retaining traditional tax credit based support for science and technology R&D efforts, more in keeping with what most other countries do.

That will be partially funded by $ 6 billion of annual cost savings — and a pledge not to direct the bounty toward buybacks or dividends.