Sentences with phrase «funding initiatives aimed»

House lawmakers unveiled a draft biennial budget Monday that includes pay raises for all teachers and a patchwork of funding initiatives aimed at improving leadership and instruction — but what's not in the budget is what some say will prove to be the biggest challenge ahead for North Carolina's classrooms.

House lawmakers unveiled a draft biennial budget Monday that includes pay raises for all teachers and a patchwork of funding initiatives aimed at improving leadership and instruction — but what's not in the budget is what some say...

House lawmakers released a draft 2015 - 17 budget last month that includes modest pay raises for all teachers and a patchwork of funding initiatives aimed at improving leadership and instruction.

EMPower Training is a CDC - funded initiative aimed at improving knowledge and skills in evidence - based maternity practices supportive of optimal infant nutrition.

This funding initiative aims to foster creative and resourceful filmmaking in Co..

Carroll County farmers have enrolled more than 34,000 acres of farmland this year in the state's Cover Crop Program — a grant funding initiative aimed at improving water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.

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As the government cracks down anew on smokers, it's providing funding to initiatives aimed at cracking down on highly addictive opioids.

Bankwest today launched its new charity, which will raise funds for community initiatives, as well as a scholarship program that aims to better the lives of Western Australians, and has pledged $ 1 million per year to the charity for five years.

With funding and support from Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD), the National Angel Capital Organization (NACO) has undertaken an initiative aimed at growing and supporting best practices adoption in Angel investor communities in Western Canada.

Ms. Taylor was also involved in the Electoral Commission Papua New Guinea project, an Australian Government project managed by CARDNO ACIL and was the Project Manager for The Electoral Reform Project, a European Union (EU) funded initiative operated by Transparency International (PNG) which was aimed at promoting democracy and advocacy for electoral reform.

That initiative provides funds to train unemployed workers not eligible for employment insurance and is aimed at aboriginals, immigrants, women, youth, older workers, people with disabilities and those with low literacy levels.

As Senator, Santorum was one of President Bush's key Republican allies in securing congressional funding for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Bush's signature initiative aimed at combating HIV / AIDS in Africa.

The ten companies officially joined the Southeast Asia Alliance for Sustainable Palm Oil (SASPO), a business initiative led by the World Wide Fund for Nature Singapore aiming to lower barriers to sustainable sourcing policies.

Also present were bodies set up to further their aims, such as Epode (an initiative that promotes corporate involvement in and funding of nutrition education), the International Food and Beverage Alliance, the World Economic Forum, the Global Social Observatory and the International Association of Infant Food Manufacturers.

The grants aim to provide funding as a catalyst to support mental well - being initiatives that are relevant and meaningful to each applicant's unique school context.

Cuomo announced $ 5.5 million in new state funding for after - school and job training initiatives aimed at preventing the MS - 13 gang from recruiting on Long Island.

Funded by Big Lottery and Comic Relief it is part of the national Moving People initiative, which aims to stamp out discrimination towards people with mental health problems (see notes to editors).

The funding awarded Tuesday is part of the state's Gun Involved Violence Elimination initiative, a program aimed at curbing violent crime in areas of the state outside of New York City.

Then, too, the speaker aims to fund his subsidy (and other initiatives beyond what Mayor Bill de Blasio has proposed for the nearly $ 90 billion city budget) from some iffy sources: ordering city agencies to find new savings and getting $ 1.25 billion in higher tax revenues — including $ 50 million more in administrative fines.

The state is bringing back to life a program aimed at protecting the state's farmland, having secured $ 20.5 million in funding for the initiative, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced earlier this month.

L'Oréal aim to raise the profile of their own scientific research (they employ over 2000 research staff) by funding initiatives such as this award.

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurons).

Funded through a Fulbright fellowship, the research is in keeping with WSU's Grand Challenges, a suite of research initiatives aimed at large societal issues.

The new initiative, Enhancing the Diversity of the NIH - Funded Workforce, aims to address the issue by focusing on undergraduate and graduate education.

Breakthrough Listen is part of billionaire Yuri Milner's Breakthrough Initiatives program, a collection of lavishly - funded efforts aiming to uncover evidence of life elsewhere in the universe.

On Friday 24 September, CERN1 will be one of 260 European locations involved in the 5th edition of the European Researchers» Night, an initiative funded by the European Union's Science and Society programme aimed at highlighting the appeal of being a researcher and promoting scientific research among young Europeans.

The Summit4StemCell initiative aims to fund a trial of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS)- derived DA neurons in persons in the early stages of PD through private charitable donations.

Alzheimer's Research UK is funding pioneering research to unravel the link between sleep and the amyloid protein, and it is an important area of research for scientists working at the UK Dementia Research Institute, the country's largest ever initiative aimed at understanding the causes of dementia.

Jan. 11, 2018 - The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) today announced the funding of $ 450,000 for the first two private - public partnerships under a brand - new initiative aimed at discovering, designing and scaling up production of novel materials for severe environments.

As part of her commitment to international development, Dr. Lopez - Correa funded the not for profit organization ODNS (Organisation pour le Développement avec des Nouvelles Solidarités) in 2012 and has been involved in several initiatives aiming at demonstrating the impact of genomics in developing countries.

«We fund the kinds of large - scale initiatives that aim to prepare jobseekers with disabilities to succeed in this competitive environment.»

It all began with the 4D Genome project, an ambitious and innovative research initiative funded by a European Research Council Synergy grant aimed at understanding how the spatial organisation of the genome contributes to decisions made by cells.

Meanwhile, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is facing opposition to full funding for a 2002 ballot initiative, which he spearheaded during his own days as an actor, that aims to expand tutoring, homework - assistance, and enrichment programs.

Grant money, which started going to the school district this year, funds SAISD's Pipeline for College Success program, an initiative aimed at increasing the number of students who enroll in and complete college.

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

The Netflix (NFLX) CEO has launched a $ 100 million philanthropic fund aimed at supporting education groups and initiatives.

The program, one of the urban reform initiatives funded through the Annenberg Challenge, included standards - driven curriculum and assessment, a performance accountability system, decentralization of decision - making, and professional development aimed at strengthening leadership and improving classroom practice.

Finally, the initiative will provide additional funding to the six districts that already are part of Wallace's separate, $ 75 - million Principal Pipeline Initiative, which began in 2011 and aims to help those districts develop a large corps of «instructional leaders» — principals who are well trained and supported to improve teaching and learning in their schools.

It's part of a $ 10bn publicly and privately funded digital learning initiative called ConnectEd, one of the aims of which is to get 99 % of students connected to high - speed broadband within five years.

Today the New Museum «s director, Lisa Phillips, announced three major new scholarship opportunities that aim to promote the study of contemporary art and culture.The first initiative, titled the Mellon Grant for Contemporary Scholarship in Contemporary Art, is a $ 500,000 fund that will be... Read More

The project is a self - funded initiative and part of Nuart's on - going «Art City» program that aims to find convergence points between Street Art and the region's city development plans; the intent being to develop the region as an international «hub» and destination for Street Art culture.

Billions of dollars are committed each year to the international fight against climate change, but the majority of these funds focus on mitigation initiatives, mainly renewable energy, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The ultimate aim is a national declaration of Climate Emergency with its ability to unlock all the required policy changes and funds for a rapid climate emergency response, but local councils can start the ball rolling by demonstrating successful climate emergency initiatives at the local level.

The approach aims to help avert fraud, ineffective projects and corruption and misappropriation of funds during the implementation of REDD + initiatives.

IFC today agreed to create the largest green - bond fund dedicated to emerging markets — a $ 2 billion initiative that aims to deepen local capital markets and expand financing for climate investments

The East Side Coastal Resiliency Project The East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) Project is a coastal protection initiative, jointly funded by the City of New York and the federal government, aimed at reducing flood risk due to coastal storms and sea level rise on Manhattan's East Side from East 25th Street to Montgomery Street.

Penn has been working with French environment minister Segolene Royal to restore Haiti, with France funding the actor's major new environmental initiative, Haiti Takes Root, which aims to help the island following the 2010 earthquake, improve soil quality and promote sustainable forestry and renewable energy.

He spent about $ 50 million in an unsuccessful effort to pass Proposition 87, the November ballot initiative aimed at taxing oil companies to fund alternative energy initiatives.

Today, the Code REDD consortium announced a new initiative called «Stand For Trees ``, which aims to change that by using social media and crowd - funding to tell the stories of individual REDD projects and make it easier than ever for individuals to make direct purchases.

This activity report aims to develop a programme for funding projects in the strategy and action plan for an initiative «Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in the CARICOM and Wider Caribbean Region.»