Sentences with phrase «funded successful efforts»

She then funded successful efforts in states including Indiana, where most of the money goes to religious schools.

Not exact matches

While cost may be an issue, if you are confident that your efforts will be successful, there are sources of funding available to get the ball rolling on your expansion campaign.

Despite efforts from the likes of Shell, BP and Exxon to reassure investors their business models are compatible with a low - carbon economy, some 71 per cent of fund managers said they have not yet decided whether they think oil companies can make a successful transition to a low carbon economy, and 41 per cent do not have a strategy for engaging with oil companies on the issue.

The effort was partly successful, with the taxpayer's leaving Connecticut but agreeing to keep the hedge fund here.

This pro-fiduciary editorial came on the heels of a Times news article that reported on JPMorgan's successful and profitable efforts to promote its own proprietary mutual funds ahead of non-proprietary funds.

The fund, which is now the iShares S&P / TSX 60 Index ETF (XIU), preceded the first U.S. - listed ETF by three years, according to an article in The Globe and Mail that also noted how earlier efforts at creating an exchange traded fund south of the border were thwarted by a successful lawsuit from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

On the other hand, without successful fund - raising efforts our work will end.

Glen Ellyn Park District officials say they hope the third effort to secure state funding to dredge Lake Ellyn will be successful.

The Partnership Fund The Partnership Fund for New York City is continuing its successful efforts to promote the growth of local industry clusters around fintech, health IT and life sciences and launch new efforts around smart cities technology and advanced manufacturing.

They cited his successful efforts to secure funding for building projects, such as East Side Access to bring the LIRR to Grand Central Terminal and the Double Track project between Farmingdale and Ronkonkoma.

Woolwich — Senate President Steve Sweeney, Assemblyman John Burzichelli and Assemblyman Adam Taliaferro joined with local officials, educators and others today in a community forum to mark the increase in school funding for the Kingsway Regional School System as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE»

Bridgeton — Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assemblyman John Burzichelli joined with local officials, educators and others in a community forum to mark the increase in school funding for the Bridgeton School District as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE»

«I think it would be fairer to have an equal distribution,» she said, adding that she focuses on securing millions in capital funding for her district and has been very successful in her efforts.

The proposed city - wide fund would be modeled after the Bronx Freedom Fund's successful pilot program in an effort to provide the same effective and cost - saving program to all New Yorkers across the five boroufund would be modeled after the Bronx Freedom Fund's successful pilot program in an effort to provide the same effective and cost - saving program to all New Yorkers across the five borouFund's successful pilot program in an effort to provide the same effective and cost - saving program to all New Yorkers across the five boroughs.

He even tried to stonewall the recent (partially successful) effort at additional federal funding, because he thought it would hurt suburban highways.

«There have been reports in the news recently of successful drug busts and that is the exact reason why we must continue to fund the Sheriff's efforts.

The 2012 audit contained findings that Thornton had failed to disclose to the authority board a romantic relationship with an administrative assistant that he later married, and that he had used taxpayer funds to fly to Cleveland in a successful effort to land a new job.

Carry out «funding efforts [that are] sufficiently successful that 2 to 3 graduate students are supported on external funds at any given time.»

Thus far, all three organizations have been successful in raising funds to support their efforts.

The Little Rock, Ark., public schools are facing a cash - flow crisis that will force them to close next month unless efforts to secure an infusion of funds prove successful, the district's superintendent, Ruth Steele, said last week.

SMB: We should take a page from the successful, ongoing efforts that address the lingering lag in girls» and women's participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields and leadership positions: 1) mentoring and role - modeling programs that involve more men in schools, particularly men who hold other than traditionally male jobs so that students see men in a variety of careers; 2) a national fathers» reading campaign to engage more fathers in reading to their children; and 3) increased funding for innovative programs that engage students in literacy activities in and out of school.

But since the 1960s, successful efforts by teachers» unions to pass state laws forcing districts to bargain with them, along with school funding lawsuits and property tax reforms such as California's Proposition 13, have led to states taking a more prominent role in all aspects of education.

At a time when school districts must be expanding their efforts to cooperate regionally, Governor Dannel Malloy's new budget eliminates state funding for a vital and successful regionalization operation — the Regional Education Service Centers.

In addition to the millions of dollars that Commissioner Pryor wasted on out - of - state consultants and his successful effort to divert hundreds of millions in scarce taxpayer funds to Connecticut's charter school industry, another one of Pryor's controversial actions was to hire his close personal friend and former Newark aide, Adam Goldfarb, to serve as his chief of staff.

Their growth has been aided by Pence's successful efforts to increase their funding and give them access to low - interest loans for facilities.

Roberts: Fund raising events with rescues has been my most successful marketing effort to date, but there are no shortcuts.

The gross proceeds of these shares are then used to buy a portfolio of securities that are traded by the professional fund managers in an effort to meet this objective (an effort in which some funds are considerably more successful than others).

Efforts to produce lower - volatility returns may not be successful and may make it more difficult at times for the funds to achieve their targeted returns.

There have been successful crowd - funding efforts in the past couple of years to help people pay their student loans, their personal credit card debt, medical bills and much, much more.

The fund, which is now the iShares S&P / TSX 60 Index ETF (XIU), preceded the first U.S. - listed ETF by three years, according to an article in The Globe and Mail that also noted how earlier efforts at creating an exchange traded fund south of the border were thwarted by a successful lawsuit from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

If those efforts are successful, the funds in the account are eventually used to settle the debts.

The fund's efforts to produce lower - volatility returns may not be successful and may make it more difficult at times for the fund to achieve its targeted return.

Advocating for Animals — Animal Legal Defense Fund The Animal Legal Defense Fund marks their first successful effort to halt a Kansas predator derby.

To achieve this goal, Maddie's Fund is investing its resources in building community collaborations where animal welfare organizations come together to develop successful models of lifesaving; in veterinary colleges to help shelter medicine become part of the veterinary curriculum to train veterinarians to save the lives of sick and injured dogs and cats in animal shelters; and in the implementation of a national effort to promote accountability and transparency in animal shelter operations.

But animal advocates agree that the decrease in euthanasia has been dramatic, driven mostly by successful spay - neuter programs and, more recently, by savvy adoption campaigns, greater efforts to reunite lost pets with owners and the proliferation of advocacy groups both small and large that have swept in to help municipal shelters, often poorly funded and sluggish.

To be successful as we move ahead, we'll continue to rely upon the integrated efforts of our participating groups and the generosity of Maddie's Fund and the ASPCA.»

According to the New York Times, this single commercial «raised roughly $ 30 million for the organization since the advertisements started running in early 2007, making it the A.S.P.C.A.'s most successful fund - raising effort — and a landmark in nonprofit fund - raising, where such amounts are virtually unimaginable for a single commercial.»

Their fund - raising efforts were so successful that there was money to spare, and when they asked Cunningham what he thought they should do with it, he replied, «We're all in the same boat — why don't you give it to other performing artists?»

I am delighted to be able to announce that our combined efforts have been successful and ZBGA funding is restored for 2009.

She led successful legislative efforts to establish clean energy programs and accompanying funding sources, clean vehicles and fuel technology standards, air and water quality rules, and natural resources protection programs.

Modeled on the successful effort to get colleges, pension funds, churches, cities, and states to divest from apartheid South Africa, the groups are asking ethical investors to freeze new investments in fossil fuel companies and divest from direct ownership or commingled funds, which include public equities and corporate bonds.

2008 University of California - Berkeley graduate Rachel Barge also won a Brower Youth Award, though her efforts were focused closer to home: She helped lead the successful Green Initiative Fund, in which students passed a referendum supporting a $ 5 - per - student tuition increase that gave the school an additional $ 200,000 each year to put toward green projects.

Near where I live there is an example of successful habitat preservation thanks to the efforts of the «Totoro Hometown Fund Campaign» to save areas of satoyama located in the Sayama Hills on the outskirts of Tokyo in Saitama Prefecture.

Most notably, the course faculty included a former BC Attorney General who had orchestrated a 40 percent cut in legal aid funding a decade prior, and who had been censured by the Law Society of BC for his successful efforts.

Of course, this allocation of funds assumes successful project management and that efforts do not fall prey to the typical challenges of government IT projects.

In addition to the central role that access to Planned Parenthood's health care services played throughout the campaign, the advocacy and political arm of PPFA, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, launched a successful effort to educate and mobilize the women's vote.

But Gov. Jeb Bush refused to fund the train and went further by launching a successful effort in 2004 to remove the constitutional mandate for high speed rail that had been previously approved by voters.

After just one year, advocacy efforts funded by these dues dollars have been extraordinarily successful in grassroots efforts across the country..