Sentences with phrase «doling out funds»

The Department of Energy has been busy doling out funds from the Stimulus package lately, and now it's clean coal & carbon capture and storage's turn: $ 2.4 billion in support has just been announced.

With no contributions, though, the state group tasked with doling out funds doesn't have answers for parents wondering how much money, if any, they can expect.

In total, this report is an important contribution because it suggests that SIG is failing both because turnarounds seldom work and because state processes for doling out funds have been unsound.

ARPA - E, the U.S.'s energy transformation agency, is doling out funds for greener power, but is it too conservative?

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.

Yet while the U.S. government doles out funds to connected entrepreneurs, it lacks an integrated strategy to deal with the lack of public market financing for critical growth industries.

The legislative leaders» control over fundraising by party committees also enhances their control over members of the Legislature, to whom they dole out the funds.

The Yankee - supported fund, which is governed by a board and is not administered by the team, has doled out funding to politically - connected groups, some of which are for - profit.

Cuomo's budget address in Albany Tuesday will include a $ 1.5 billion, five - year UPK proposal that will dole out funds to any district in the state that wants it — along with more stringent regulations and teaching requirements, according to an administration source.

The same program doled out funds to electric car maker Tesla Motors (s TSLA), which went public, and large automakers Ford Motor and Nissan North America.

Not exact matches

Zipmark closed a total of $ 2 million in funding in late 2011, but it was doled out across two years via three payments after certain milestones were met: establishing a working system, then a beta version and, finally, exiting beta - testing.

Every year, admissions officials from top MBA programs across the country gather in a St. Louis hotel to dole out millions in funds from the single largest MBA scholarship fund in the world.

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

Under Republican Gov. Rick Perry, Texas has actively chased economic - development projects, closing deals by writing big checks from the Texas Enterprise Fund, a special pot doled out largely at the governor's discretion.

Even so, many entrepreneurs don't pursue the strategy because of difficulty locating funding sources, which can include states, municipalities and nonprofit groups that dole out public funds.

The problem is, those Web sites charge a hefty price to post my company's information, which I don't mind if I can be sure to find funds for my company — but I'm not going to dole out hundreds here and there without any sense of what return I'll get.

That may get some sneers from the skeptics — but the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (a separate entity from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative) is forging ahead, doling out $ 50 million in funding to 47 researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, and the University of California, San Francisco.

Uber has raised about $ 15 billion in funding since 2010, enabling it to discount fares and dole out bonuses to drivers that have at times exceeded $ 1,000.

Founded in 1999, Donors Trust (and an affiliated group, Donors Capital Fund) has raised north of $ 500 million and doled out $ 400 million to more than 1,000 conservative and libertarian groups, according to Whitney Ball, the group's CEO.

«Banks are happy to dole out these HELOCs because they can come after your home if you don't pay,» said Terence Michael, a mortgage broker with Omni - Fund.

You can set up a fund and then then you now have the opportunity to dole that gift out over the next 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 years.

Going forward, changes will be made to funding agreements, application forms and approval letters for any funding doled out by the Heritage Department and the Canada Council of the Arts, requiring recipients to explicitly commit to providing a harassment - free workplace.

The party is instinctively more comfortable doling out publicly - funded resources, because then it can keep tabs on how the change impacts on equality.

Just like others who had benefited from the slush funds doled out by former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison - Madueke, Chime is being investigated in connection with the N450million believed to have been allocated to the state which he received from the ex-Minister.

The designation, Lewis argues in a memo, was done in compliance Legislative Law 5 - A, which stipulates how leadership funds are doled out.

But the governor called out the region's legislators for wanting to shift control of state economic development funding away from the regional economic development councils that Cuomo created and put the money back in the hands of the Senate and Assembly for them to dole out individually.

Of the nearly $ 3 billion in federal funds the city - state venture was created to dole out, $ 540 million has yet to be dispensed and $ 250 million hasn't been earmarked for anything.

ALBANY — Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña received a mouthful in Albany Wednesday when Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo charged that the chancellor used taxpayer funds to dole out frivolous programs like «Santa...

United Way's Teresa Regnante estimates a million has been spent and another half - million doled out to hurricane victims by the Roundtable, an arm of the Long Island Unmet Needs Fund.

It would specifically bar ACORN from getting any funding doled out by the spending bill.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton is using a nonprofit that funds crucial police programs to dole out cushy consulting jobs to cronies — and springboard them onto the public payroll, The...

Included in the massive list of «member items» — funds individual council members dole out to non-profits — is a $ 5,000 allocation to Angeldocs, whose city funds are under examination by the city Health Department.

In the past, funds would be doled out by state lawmakers, an «ad hoc» approach the governor criticized as ineffective.

The state doled out a total of $ 104.6 million for six providers across the North Country, including $ 66 million in state funds.

The state has once again earmarked $ 50 million in funding for lawmakers» hometown projects, drawing criticism that the money isn't being doled out fairly.

But the politicians who dole out money aren't particularly interested in funding mathematicians because that isn't going to win any appreciable number of votes - but wasteful spending will lose votes, as will cuts to welfare, nutrition programs, education, etc..

According to him, «imagine a scenario where a president can order the CBN to create an intervention fund for national stability and CBN literally «prints» say, N3 trillion, and doles it out cash to the Presidency to prosecute an election campaign or for just about anything he fancies.

The Cuomo administration is branching out from Buffalo in doling out millions of dollars worth of economic development funds.

Whether it's in Albany or City Hall, allowing pols to dole out public funds to specific groups without any vote is a breach of the most fundamental responsibility of a democratic legislature.

When Silver's acquaintance Dr. Robert Taub started dropping unmissable hints that he wanted Silver to fund his mesothelioma research in exchange for Taub referring terminally ill asbestos victims to Silver's law firm so Silver could reap millions in finders» fees, Silver went back to unspent money from one of the $ 8.5 million annual Health Care Reform Act stashes and started doling it out.

Ms. Barron also noted that her husband, despite being relegated near the bottom of the list when it comes to discretionary money doled out to the district from the speaker's office, secured funds for park renovations, school constructions and affordable housing.

Quinn's critics have regularly accused her of using the process of doling out member items to reward friends and supporters, while cutting back funds to her enemies, regardless of overall needs in individual members» districts.

This is an illuminating look into how New York doles out educational funds.

In the previous filing period, Bruno doled out a whopping $ 742,500 in campaign funds to his defense team, which included three separate law firms.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, included $ 1.5 billion for the funding competition in the just - passed state budget.Despite grumbling from rank - and - file lawmakers and some local officials, the money will be doled out to implement bids in three regions north of the Bronx and east of Buffalo.

Mr. de Blasio, despite his repeated vows to end the member item system, also confirmed that council members would have discretionary funding that they can dole out to favored groups in the new budget.

And though the body does not dole out the discretionary funding Ms. Quinn brandished to reward allies and punish opponents, the Assembly functions entirely under the thumb of Mr. Silver.

The feds charged him in 2006 for doling out state slush - fund money to Bronx charities and using the cash for his rent, credit card bills and Yankees tickets.

City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D - East Elmhurst) said she focused on domestic violence, sanitation, education and parks in doling out her about $ 629,000 in discretionary funds this year.

During the White Plains federal corruption trial of Halloran (R - Queens), defense lawyer Vinoo Varghese tried to shoot down the government's claims that the pol in 2012 offered to dole out $ 80,000 in no - show city consulting work on a Queens YMCA to the wire - wearing undercover agent in exchange for funds to boost what would be a failed congressional run by Halloran.