Sentences with phrase «empowerment zones»

UrbanAmerica focuses its investment dollars in Empowerment Zones, Enterprise Communities and low - and moderate - income inner - city neighborhoods.

He proposed a «new - markets» tax credit to spur $ 22 billion in private investment in depressed urban and rural areas, and an expansion of empowerment zones.

There are currently 31 federally designated empowerment zones, depressed areas in which tax and other incentives are provided to encourage new business and development activity.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, during his State of the Commonwealth Address a week ago, touted a new education model called «school empowerment zones.»

Momentum to take the initiative statewide received a big boost when Governor Charlie Baker said in his state of the Commonwealth speech last month he would work with legislators who are pushing a bill that would help more school systems create empowerment zones.

As with charter schools, debate over expanding empowerment zones to other districts is raising concerns from critics about privatizing public education.

«To assist struggling schools, we'll work with Representative Peisch and Senator Lesser and their colleagues in the house and senate to create more «empowerment zones.»

Former President Obama was a huge fan, even creating federal Empowerment Zones to support similar programs.

Governor Charlie Baker wants empowerment zones for underperforming schools across Massachusetts.

He helped enact several key bills, including empowerment zones, low - income housing tax credits, and Obamacare.

Fortunately, the SBA has numerous programs in place to help minority - owned businesses and companies that are started in economic empowerment zones.

At the national level, the Empowerment Zone / Enterprise Community program awards block grants to foster local collaboration, and tax incentives to encourage private sector investment,

The new bakery will be located in an empowerment zone in the Bronx that includes tax incentives for the jobs the business creates.

«Whether it has been shepherding through passage of historic health care legislation, authoring Empowerment Zone legislation, or leading the fight for affordable housing and 9/11 legislation, no one has worked harder than Charlie Rangel to improve the lives and well - being of working men and women.»

«When I was President we worked together to establish an empowerment zone to give people incentives to invest money and start businesses and hire people in his district.»

The six - member board of the umbrella New York Empowerment Zone, which includes Rangel, unanimously approved the money to Dominicana on June 29 — just weeks before the House charged the embattled Democratic lawmaker with a litany of ethics violations.

Besides assisting communities affected by state facility closures, these funds will be used to provide more than $ 130 million for competitively determined economic development projects put forward by the Regional Councils, $ 100 million for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's capital program and $ 10 million towards the State's existing commitment for the New York City Empowerment Zone.

The Post yesterday reported that the Washington Heights - based charity, which owes $ 258,000 to its employees, will collect $ 2.6 million from another Rangel - allied nonprofit, the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone.

The nonprofit, which runs a variety of programs including day care and domestic - violence prevention, received a separate $ 2.7 million loan from the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone in 2008.

The six - member board of the umbrella New York Empowerment Zone, which includes Rangel, oversees the upper - Manhattan group and approved the grant.

«East Harlem has talented people, ready to work, but too many are unemployed or underemployed,» said Kenneth Knuckles, Chief Executive Officer of Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ).

Present at the morning ceremony on Mon., Nov. 16th were developers Oskar Brecher and Ari Sherizen; State Senator Adriano Espaillat; Assemblymember Guillermo Linares; Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez; members of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ); community leaders and residents.

Espaillat criticized the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone as unduly favoring so - called big - box stores and neglecting small businesses.

From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., the vice president for administration and finance of CUNY's Stella and Charles Guttman Community College, Mary Coleman, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone President and CEO Kenneth Knuckles, Food Bank For New York President and CEO Margarette Purvis and Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice Executive Director David Shuffler, will be honored by Rep. Jose Serrano and state Sen. Jose M. Serrano a Black History Month event; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, the Bronx.

A nonprofit with questionable finances is receiving a $ 2.6 million taxpayer - funded grant from the Rangel - sponsored Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone.

«We worked together to create jobs, to turn a persistent deficit into a surplus, and he authored the historic Empowerment Zone legislation,» Clinton says.

«That became the empowerment zone.»

Thirty five percent of those jobs will be sourced in the surrounding community, said Hope Knight, COO of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone.

As part of the «empowerment zone» proposal, the White House asked federal agencies to earmark at least $ 3 billion under existing programs for initiatives in the zones.

Catholic Grant: Continuing to push the limits of innovation, Chicago's Cristo Rey Jesuit High School has won a federal «empowerment zone» grant to help subsidize its unusual work - study program.

Teachers union officials initially signed off on the Springfield empowerment zone.

Education Reform Leader Touts Springfield Empowerment Zone as Model Program for Struggling Schools (MassLive) Adjunct Lecturer Chris Gabrieli discusses efforts to improve nine struggling schools in Springfield, Mass..

To be eligible for a QZAB, a public school must be located in an Empowerment Zone or Enterprise Community or there must be «a reasonable expectation that at least 35 percent of the school's students are eligible for the free or reduced lunch program.»

UH is located in the heart of Houston, the nation's fourth largest city, in the Third Ward, an inner city poverty area of Hispanic and African American cultures, which has been identified as a federal Empowerment Zone.

For example, the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) is an innovative partnership between ESE, Springfield Public Schools (the state's second largest urban school district), and a number of key school turnaround partners and organizations, all focused on turning around nine struggling middle schools.

But many urban districts are approaching state limits on charter - school enrollment, leaving policy makers to look for other options, such as Springfield's empowerment zone, where schools operate with autonomies similar to those at charters.

Last year, Drexel was authorized to administer a $ 6 million federal grant in the Mantua Empowerment Zone.

Stand has worked alongside the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership for the past year to oversee improvements to the district's underperforming schools.

The only one of its kind is in Springfield where the city's nine middle schools operate in an Empowerment Zone Partnership.

We initiated Parent Leadership Teams at all 10 schools in the Empowerment Zone to provide input for the school improvement plans.

Impact Prep is one of nine middle school programs that are part of the Empowerment Zone in Springfield.

Buzz about the empowerment zone has been growing since voters in November rejected a ballot question that would have accelerated the expansion of charter schools statewide.

Blackman sees the Congress Heights Arts & Culture Center as «an empowerment zone» where members of the community can «feel at home.»

Basement Sanctuaries is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and with support from the NoMAA Creative Grant Program, made possible by the JPMorgan Chase Foudation and the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation.

Not exact matches

The results of this program was mostly empowerment for primary sector, large corporations that moved into the zones, got many tax breaks, and provided few good paying jobs.

Today, he has been able to give every geo - political zone a sense of belonging in terms of infrastructure development, economic and human capital empowerment.

You get a feeling of freedom and empowerment when you step out of your comfort zone.