Sentences with phrase «dole out grants»

Twitch also today announced a partnership with the 1,000 Dreams Fund which will dole out grants ranging from $ 500 to $ 2,000 to four or more female Twitch creators in 2018.

They are led by Cuomo appointees and dole out grants at an annual awards ceremony where Cuomo receives a hero's welcome.

In 2013, Cuomo created a panel to advise stressed cities and dole out grants.

Franco also said Silver could unilaterally steer state money to Taub, the cancer doctor, using the controversial member - item process in which many lawmakers legally dole out grants to favorite causes.

The governor has previously been criticized for doling out grants to his biggest donors, which includes BFC.

«It is just a giant machine that takes in donations and doles out grants to donors.

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In addition to the fund, Stanford provided a $ 3.6 million grant to the accelerator program to be doled out over three years.

Everytown for Gun Safety, which was founded and financed by Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire and former New York mayor, proudly declared that it had doled out more than $ 1 million in grants to local organizers.

NPR reported that they took in over $ 200M and doled out less than $ 10M in grants.

State lawmakers doled out $ 52 million in pork - barrel grants before leaving Albany, including $ 500,000 for a solar - powered carousel in Buffalo and more than $ 29 million to local schools and libraries, according to the Empire Center for Public Policy.

Menin was appointed to the L.M.D.C. Board of Directors by then Governor Elliot Spitzer, and sat on the panel that doled out the first round of such grants in 2007.

But Cuomo says those grants are awarded through a «competitive process based on need,» while pork is doled out at individual legislators» discretion.

ALBANY — State lawmakers failed to renew mayoral control of city schools this week but they did find time to dole out $ 52 million in pork - barrel grants before they left the Capitol.

At a separate Sunday event in Westchester County, Cuomo announced he would be hiring Assemblyman Karim Camara — a Democrat from Brooklyn who is also a Christian pastor — to run a new Office of Faith - Based Community Development Services in charge of doling out $ 50 million in annual grants.

This year they will dole out roughly $ 750 million as well as $ 220 million in competitive grants and tax credits.

But pork - barrel spending has crept back into the state budget in the form of capital grants doled out at the discretion of the governor and favored legislators — to the tune of $ 1.1 billion over three years, with no competitive bidding or disclosure of which politicians requested what money.

His «nice» list reads much like a bunch of member - item grants — cash doled out for reasons of political connections, not policy principles.

However, says Sherry, if they claimed that the agency was flipping a coin to award grants or doling out funds to the friends of NIH officials, then they'd have a case.

That bothers Arne Ljungqvist, the world agency's health, medical, and research committee chairman, who doles out several million dollars in grant money every year to research groups looking at gene doping and its detection.

The idea of block grants to institutions — where the institutions themselves dole out the money — has gone.

The feds have also committed $ 2.4 billion for research and development into improving EV batteries, and another $ 115 million for the installation of EV charging infrastructure in 16 different metro areas around the country — not to mention some $ 300 million in clean cities grants to dozens of American communities working to reduce petroleum use, and the $ 25 billion being doled out to help U.S. automakers retool.

Axelrod also uses his fortune to provide for the families of his dead colleagues (without granting even one interview about this to the press), to form philanthropic foundations, to dole out thick donations to the NYPD and FDNY.

His program was a federal grant, called «Race to the Top,» which was doled out on a competitive basis.

The NEA criticized the draft for including «no requirement for multiple measures of school or student performance» and for not requiring non-test-based teacher evaluations under the Teacher Incentive Fund, which doles outs competitive grants.

States and education groups are curious about whether, if they win a grant, they can award a portion of their Race to the Top money to a select group of school districts, or if they have to dole out money to all of them.

The state has doled out School Improvement Grants to 39 Priority Schools statewide, amounting to $ 95 million dollars.

BATON ROUGE — A second private school tuition voucher proposal is on the way to Gov. Bobby Jindal's desk, with both legislative chambers on Tuesday approving a final version of a plan that would allow corporations and individuals to recoup state general fund rebates for contributions they make to private organizations that dole out tuition grants.

In 2014, the state doled out $ 250 million in competitive grants to develop linked learning programs, and it will match that amount in 2015.

On the right, advocates for vouchers and the free market are pushing for testing loopholes such as opt - out provisions and doling out federal money in block grants with no performance requirements whatsoever.

The New Museum's Rhizome and Tumblr have banded together to launch a new Internet Art Grant, to be doled out by a jury featuring very busy New Museum / Venice Biennale curator Massimiliano Gioni and artist Laurie Anderson, among others.

The real criminals are the politicians who shape behavior by doling out laboratory food pellets, excuse me, — correction — «research grants» for alarmist reports only.

It's all about doling out lucrative gifts (emissions credits, grants and subsides) to politically - favored companies who try to sell us unwanted electric cars or biofuels while the government punishes taxpayers and companies that produce vehicles American consumers really want» — Alan Reynolds, Cato Institute senior fellow.

In 2010, the participating nations in the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change established the Green Climate Fund, or GCF, a pot of money that would be doled out to developing countries to fund, through grants or loans, specific projects aimed at addressing climate change.

Here in the U.S., meanwhile, the Energy Department's support for next - generation photovoltaic research amounted to $ 21.7 million in grants that were doled out in 2007 to two dozen colleges and universities, a figure that pales by comparison with the billions of dollars in grants and loan guarantees the government is handing out for new industrial - scale projects.

While school grant money is doled out on a case - by - case basis, these numbers will give you an idea of just how far some schools are willing to go to land prized recruits.

Like Twitch subscriptions, these memberships will grant you special chat badges, as well as whatever rewards the broadcaster chooses to dole out.