Sentences with phrase «funding agency priorities»

Managing an academic research group means keeping an eye on the big picture — long - term goals, funding agency priorities, and a publication plan.

Not exact matches

Before President Obama took office, his allies at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a nonprofit organization lobbying for a centrist Democratic agenda *, drafted a whitepaper outlining new priorities for the agency.

In 2009, the Park District enlisted the services of Leisure Vision, a nationally recognized research agency to complete a series of community input meetings and administer a statistically valid communitywide survey that addressed the needs, unmet needs, and funding priorities of the Park District of Highland Park residents.

The city's transportation commissioner, Polly Trottenberg (who is also an MTA board member) asked that the agency think more creatively about how to procure the funds, and potentially change the agency's priorities to make the subway repairs of the utmost importance.

«While total state spending has been held to 2 percent annual growth and most state agency budgets have remained flat, school aid has increased by 27 percent over the last five years, proving that it's already a funding priority,» Peters said.

For New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a second - term Democrat, it poses the annual opportunity to lobby for the city's priorities, including small and large policy changes and additional funding for city agencies.

The Council has repeatedly called for more agency efficiencies and savings but has largely capitulated as they also advocate for funding their own priorities worth hundreds of millions, which is happening again this year, highlighted by Johnson's push for both Metrocard subsidies for low - income New Yorkers and property tax rebates for middle - class homeowners (while de Blasio has been resistant to both).

«I want to focus on what will be a recurring theme of these hearings — ensuring that the City budget is fair, transparent, and accountable to New Yorkers,» said Council Speaker Corey Johnson, in his opening statement, kicking off the series of hearings at which agency heads and top city officials will present to the Council their funding priorities for the next fiscal year while defending their programs and practices.

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled the first executive budget of his tenure on Thursday, a $ 73.9 billion spending plan that manages to fund his political priorities without widespread agency cuts or tax increases, thanks to higher - than - expected revenues and spending from two reserve funds.

Mr. Raskin criticized the governor's proposal, arguing that Mr. Cuomo already had power over the agency's spending priorities and its funding in the state budget.

The Council identified eight major priorities in its response: increased investment in city youth; investment in healthcare, education, jobs and legal services for immigrants; specific funding for the diverse communities; capital investment in infrastructure; creating a Rainy Day Fund and adding to existing reserves; baselining essential city services; expanding criminal justice, community support, and human services; and more accurately tracking city agency performance.

Like every government agency, NASA faces sharp cutbacks as part of the larger effort to tame the federal deficit; this was underscored in July, when the House Appropriations Committee stripped funding for the high - priority (and over-budget) James Webb Space Telescope.

This is an open scheme in which national funding agencies, on a voluntary basis, come together to support a priority topic through a joint Call and Programme specification and a single international peer - review process, but with the grants being implemented at the national level.

Its funding priorities are determined every year based on the Science and Technology Basic Plan, which is a midterm national S&T policy revised every five years, explains Takashi Ohama, director of the Washington, D.C. office of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), one of the major research funding agencies.

ASTRONET — a network of European funding agencies and research organizations set up in 2005 to develop a strategy for European astronomy over the next 20 years — was almost done identifying key scientific priorities, and program officials were looking for a postdoctoral scientist to help coordinate the development of a road map to build the necessary infrastructure.

Asked at a 9 February budget briefing to explain how agencies decided which programs would be funded with discretionary spending and which with mandatory spending, presidential science adviser John Holdren said that «the mandatory items were those that were both high priority and for which pay - fors could be readily identified.»

They can help you hone your approaches, set priorities, and identify collaborators and funding agencies to fund those fledgling ideas.

Asked to speculate on what that third category should be, Hudson said one priority is simply funding more innovative research that the agency has been unable to fund with its current budget; another would be NIH's role in the $ 110 million Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.

According to Blommaert, these activities often start with objectives which respond to the priorities of funding agencies but are not necessarily connected to the needs of young people.

One «lower priority» activity that will be cut is funding for new acquisitions of federal lands, an interest of multiple DOI agencies, including BLM, FWS, and NPS.

The Senate also had its way on supporting the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, an Obama - era priority in which individual agencies fund large centers that attract significant amounts of private sector money as well.

Administration officials have long maintained that the agencies funding the research — such as the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-- are best qualified to set their own research priorities to ensure nanotech safety.

Establishing research and funding priorities that take into account the needs of impoverished and marginalized people (e.g., funding agencies in health and agriculture including as a priority the development of scientific applications to improve the economic well - being and health of vulnerable populations); and

Massive cost overruns on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will imperil funding for the agency's on - orbit astronomy missions while potentially wiping out big - ticket space observatories and a host of less - expensive development projects deemed high priorities by the science community, according to experts.

Elias Zerhouni, who has served as director of the agency since 2002, has vigorously resisted any consolidation of institutes, and has instead promoted increased flexibility through a common fund, run out of the director's office, to which the different institutes contribute and which can then be applied to particularly pressing research priorities as they arise.

«This analysis comes at a time when following the transfer of scientific knowledge into industry and the economy is a growing priority for governments and research funding agencies, said David Swinbanks, founder of the Nature Index.

With K08 funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, he is presently investigating how ACOs nationwide are engaging patients in board - level decisions about ACO priorities and programs, with plans to design improved engagement strategies.

One thing seems fairly certain about NASA's budget in Fiscal Year 2016 — a contentious clash is afoot between Congress and the Obama Administration on the space agency's funding priorities an...

Our meetings have cemented key relationships between scientists and conservationists, have steered agency funding priorities and created working groups and collaborations that are already producing tangible conservation outcomes.

We also recommend that program quality should be the top priority when agencies make funding decisions.

Instead of funding the interests and priorities of the academic community, the federal government needs to shift its focus toward enabling researchers to support a culture of evidence discovery within school agencies.

California is committed to providing one system of connected resources supporting Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) Priorities to support local educational agencies and schools achieve the goals of the LCFF priorities and serve the needs of California's diverse student pPriorities to support local educational agencies and schools achieve the goals of the LCFF priorities and serve the needs of California's diverse student ppriorities and serve the needs of California's diverse student population.

This group comprised of 32 providers, funders, state agency representatives and community stakeholders got right to work, discussing the most important priorities for the state of Texas and researching the standards of other states, which they will use to inform their recommendations.

-- A new paper from Thomas Kane in Education Next says that the Institute of Education Sciences «must redirect its efforts away from funding the interests and priorities of the research community and toward building an evidence - based culture within districts and state agencies.»

Strengthens the alignment of federal funding with priorities within the Texas Education Agency's strategic plan

As it assists Federal agencies in developing their spending plans, OMB evaluates the effectiveness of agency programs, policies, and procedures in order to assess competing funding demands among agencies and set funding priorities.

As part of that effort, FTA is crafting an agency - focused strategic plan to set investment priorities and guide funding decisions at FTA associated with advancing innovative public transportation research and development.

Estimates of future funds, to be developed cooperatively by the State and relevant metropolitan planning organizations and public transportation agencies, that are reasonably expected to be available to support the investment priorities recommended in the statewide transportation improvement program.

While there are budgetary priorities that need to be advocated for in Washington DC, there are many states that lack complementary definitions in state statute about school libraries and librarians, as well as many states and Local Education Agencies (LEA) that have not been in the habit of funding programs or positions because there was no compelling reason in the law to do so.

The funding also helps support the research projects themselves, allowing research in areas that are critical for animal health and welfare, but are currently of low priority for federal granting agencies.

«The Australian Climate Change Science Program's four - year funding of $ 31.6 million, mostly to the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology, duplicates work by those and other agencies and «should be returned to the budget or allocated to priority areas», the commission said in its report.»

It galvanized Congress in opposition to the president's budget priorities and solidified bipartisan coalitions in support of specific programs and agencies, proving once again that bullying Congress on funding is not an effective strategy for the executive branch to take.

6 states have a priority system for the distribution of family planning funds — including federal funds distributed by a state agency — that disadvantages family planning centers or agencies associated with the provision of abortion services.

However, while funding agencies such as SA Health are mandated to be inclusive and equitable, they also have Government determined priorities, criteria or restrictions where funds are allocated, time - frames, reporting requirements and other planning processes that can limit the ability of programs to be flexible.

ZERO TO THREE priorities include maintaining local ability to use ESEA funds to support early childhood services; requiring data collection on how local educational agencies are using Title I funds for early childhood; promoting joint professional development for early childhood and early elementary school educators; ensuring literacy provisions include infants and toddlers; and requiring coordination between the K - 12 system and early childhood programs.

● A new priority list when it comes to distributing Ohio's share of federal planning funds that puts Planned Parenthood last in line behind state and local agencies, nonpublic federally qualified heath centers and community action agencies, and nonpublic entities that also provide comprehensive primary and preventive health care.