Sentences with phrase «fund response efforts»

For the U.S. Geological Survey, the legislation provides $ 42.2 million to fund response efforts to recent wildfires.

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The move was in response to a union effort after a maid accused Dominique Strauss - Kahn, then - leader of the International Monetary Fund, of sexual assault.

In response, loss aversion tightened its grip on investor behavior, causing many business development companies, hedge funds, and private equity firms to redeploy their capital elsewhere in an effort to avoid further losses.

By funding the relief efforts of organizations in the Caribbean, there's potential to build stronger response capacity so that these organizations are better equipped to face future challenges.

Although discussions of monetary policy since the crisis have mainly had to do with the quantity of money, and central banks» efforts to expand that quantity so as to stimulate spending, the effects of the crisis, and of governments» response to it, on the quality of money, and especially on the investments its holders have been funding, deserve at least as much attention.

«This funding will allow us to together rebuild safe, resilient schools in areas most impacted by recent natural disasters to keep children safe, but also to ensure that these communities are not forgotten when the emergency response efforts are complete.

November 14, 2017 My Social Good News All Hands Volunteers and Happy Hearts Fund Unite To Form All Hands and Hearts — Smart Response, Expanding Disaster Relief Efforts and Creating More Impactful Change Worldwide

In response to questions from the Herald, a spokeswoman for Coca - Cola South Pacific said: «We have made a good - faith effort to disclose all the funding that meets the inclusion criteria.»

As reported by the New York Post's Yoav Gonen, Kavanagh joined Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett for a press briefing on the City's proactive response to the threat of the Zika virus, and the need for Congress to fund a robust, decisive effort by the federal government — in New York and especially in warmer places where mosquitoes known to transmit the virus are prevalent — to avert a health crisis in the United States.

The Mayor's announcement came as a response to a longstanding effort by local elected officials and community advocates to fund and build a continuous esplanade to close the gap.

The total would include $ 7.4 billion for the Homeland Security Department's Disaster Relief Fund, which will be used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support ongoing hurricane response efforts.

He similarly did not give a direct response on City Council efforts at creating a bail fund financed by the City.

In response to a question about the White House budget proposal's potential impact on NIH's ambitions, Collins pointed to passage late last year of the 21st Century Cures Act, a $ 6.3 billion measure that authorizes a decade of funding for the «moonshot» program to cure cancer, the Precision Medicine Initiative, the BRAIN initiative and efforts to combat opioid addiction.

Response efforts now need to target funds, supplies and staff to the particular epidemiological characteristics of each outbreak.

As part of a large NIH - funded effort to develop immunotherapies for this allergy (the Inner City Asthma Consortium, or ICAC), the Sette lab has thus identified dominant epitopes to characterize T cell responses in allergic individuals before and after immunotherapy.

In response to longstanding concerns about the nutritional quality of school meals, five school districts this fall began using new menus and recipes in an unusual effort funded by the U.S. Agriculture Department to lower the amount of fat and sodium in school breakfasts and lunches.

These coveted awards, known as i3 grants, were created in response to the recession of 2009 in an effort to help supplement school spending and to fund experiments that aimed to improve the achievements of disadvantaged students.

In its initial response to the report, a spokesman for the State Board of Education responded that the report's narrow focus doesn't consider other efforts that the state is pursuing under state law and the new school funding formula to redirect resources to transform low - performing schools.

As board member and president of the Oregon School Boards Association, she led the association's proactive response to the state's severe funding crises following passage of a property tax limitation and was involved in the development of Oregon's comprehensive standards - based reform effort.

And the Blaine amendments are a response to their efforts to get equal funding, equal direct funding.

It also builds on the disaster assistance efforts President Obama approved in the last several days, including major disaster declarations, which make federal assistance - like these emergency relief funds - available to supplement state and local response and recovery efforts.

Part III contains a summary of DOT funding programs that may assist with disaster response efforts.

We deployed an expert, bilingual disaster response team to assist with the care and TNR of community cats, and provided emergency funds to local organizations to aid in relief efforts.

The rapid response fund, established by Morris Animal Foundation in honor of longtime trustee Betty White, will begin supporting Fauna & Flora International's efforts to study this rare and beautifully unique antelope in Kazakhstan.

Donating to the Betty White Wildlife Rapid Response Fund provides individuals and corporations with an opportunity to support wildlife conservation efforts by ensuring that funds are available to provide a rapid response to unexpected wildlife healthResponse Fund provides individuals and corporations with an opportunity to support wildlife conservation efforts by ensuring that funds are available to provide a rapid response to unexpected wildlife healthresponse to unexpected wildlife health crises.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, «In the high - stakes conflict over U.S. climate - change policy, groups that deny or cast doubt on global warming brought in $ 7.2 million from 2003 to 2010... «Powerful funders are supporting the campaign to deny scientific findings about global warming,» reported Robert J. Brulle...» In the eighth paragraph, the Inquirer noted the response by James Taylor of the Heartland Institute, who observed that many of the groups «support other causes as well» and, in some cases, spend «less than 10 percent of their funding... on climate - related efforts.»

In response to legislation that was passed in early 2010, three organizations — Washingtons Department of Early Learning, the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, and privately funded partner Thrive Washington — co-led an effort to develop a comprehensive birth - to - 3 state plan.

Calster's, the second - largest U.S. pension fund, plans to reallocate about $ 25 billion into new assets over the next three years in response to changing risks and efforts to obtain higher returns.