Sentences with phrase «government granting agencies»

The bill would force government granting agencies to, among other requirements, post funded applications on the Web, provide lists of reviewers, and enable unsuccessful applicants to request a «debriefing» from agency officials.

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Jerrit Tan, CEO of New York City - based Canopy, believes more entrepreneurs should take advantage of the billions of dollars in business grants offered by government agencies, which can buy a startup valuable R&D time and boost credibility.

But Lesko's lists pertain mostly to small business: you'll find information on agencies that give development assistance to expanding companies, economic reports that regional Federal Reserve banks will send you, government surplus - property auctions, whom to ask about overseas selling, how to find financial data on a company or franchisor, where to apply for research grants — in sum, information on the offerings of nearly every federal, state, and local bureaucracy in the country.

He's also a fan of funding not - for - profit agencies that mostly rely on government grants to do community work.

Other Trump targets include the Environmental Protection Agency, the IRS, and many grant programs for state and local government.

In the film Snowden, released earlier this year, Woodley plays Lindsay Mills, girlfriend of the former National Security Agency contractor, who leaked details about the U.S. government's massive surveillance programs and was granted asylum in Russia after fleeing the United States in 2013.

You can search for patent applications and granted patents through the government and intergovernmental agencies listed below.

Furthermore, when appropriations for education are made directly from the public treasury, they should be granted to politically independent agencies so that government financial support does not become a means for political domination of education.

Gov. George Ryan awarded five municipalities and one government agency in southern Cook, Will and Kankakee Counties more than $ 3 million in grant money for open land and bike trail projects.

The simplest approach to funding - direct funding by your municipality, a government agency, or by the state (e.g., state department of public health, school department budget), or through a government grant - may be all that is needed, particularly if you are seeking to start a Community Access Defibrillation Program (CAD) serving your entire community, or a significant segment, such as the public schools.

The Kane County Forest Preserve District and park districts in Naperville and Lisle are among local government agencies to receive grants from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources for land acquisition and other parkland projects.

Park districts in Naperville and Lisle, along with the Kane County Forest Preserve District, are among local government agencies to receive grants from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources for land acquisition and other parkland projects.

CEO Chanel Boutakidis, along with Five Acres Board of Directors has hired Graft to oversee, among other things, all financial and business matters including setting financial policy and direction, audits compliance and recognition for government contracts and private grants and to assist with and drive the Agency's overall strategy.

Part of the objectives of the Foundation was to sponsor students by way of scholarships, grants and organizing capacity building seminars, workshops and other related activities and opportunities to students and young people, as well as collaborating with other stakeholders such as government agencies, NGOs, foreign bodies to raise awareness on the state of education in Nigeria and intervening with solutions.

However, DiNapoli warns that tax exemptions granted by the agencies can put a strain on local governments by removing properties from the tax roll and generally depleting a main revenue source in the tax base.

Cuomo's man visits Stony Point, promises up to $ 300,000 per home, but says those who already agreed to SBA loans are stuck with that aid Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D - Westchester / Rockland) this week announced that local governments in Westchester and Rockland Counties have so far received $ 35,338,879 in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Public Assistance grants to -LSB-...]

The youth leaders said, «The Leadership of Arewa Youth Assembly has observed with keen interest the high level of lawlessness exhibited by Nnamdi Kanu since he was granted bail in June this year and the conspiracy of silence displayed by the federal government and its security agencies in the face of such affront by the IPOB leader.

This comes amid steps by the government to grant operational autonomy and wean the DVLA and other agencies that are doing well financially off its support.

The EFCC subsequently received a petition alleging that over N50bn from the Employee Compensation Scheme fund, paid by Ministries, Departments and Agencies and private companies as well as another N18bn, being the contribution of the Federal Government as take - off grant to the NSITF, was mismanaged and diverted into the personal accounts of Olojeme and Umar Abubakar, a former Managing Director of the NSITF.

The Municipal Consolidation and Shared Services Grant Program will incentivize municipalities to reduce the total cost of government in Dutchess County and the Agency Partner Grant Program will support outcome based programming provided by non-profit agencies.

-- «Bills seek more transparency, oversight from agency granting zoning variances,» by POLITICO New York's Khorri Atkinson: «The City Council's government operations committee is pushing 10 bills that would increase oversight and make it more difficult for developers seeking relief from city zoning laws from the Board of Standards and Appeals.

It added, «The leadership of Arewa Youth Assembly has observed with keen interest the high level of lawlessness exhibited by Nnamdi Kanu since he was granted bail in June this year and the conspiracy of silence displayed by the Federal Government and its security agencies in the face of such affront by the IPOB leader.

The amicus brief argues that the DOJ denying sanctuary cities the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant, a prominent federal funding source for local enfacement agencies, is against federal law, seizes local control in public safety policy and «poses serious challenges for local governments.»

He claimed that the Federal Government acting through the operatives of the SSS and other security agencies have frustrated the said order by barricading his apartment since the permission was granted.

On 6 July, the newly elected government headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presented its first budget, which grants science agencies a roughly 12 % increase over last year.

Although Wellcome does not have the power of a government agency, it does wield a sword of Damocles over universities and research institutes hesitant to enforce its planned rules: the threat of making them ineligible for Wellcome grants.

In future, the money should be open to competition from research council institutes, which are normally funded by block grants, commercial research organisations, and government laboratories and agencies such as the Building Research Establishment.

Stamper would like to see the federal government put out requests for proposals and provide grants to develop best practices curriculum at the national level, although given the way our police forces are organized, he says, local agencies would still have to pick up the tab for actual training, which means fund appropriations from city or state politicians and taxpayers.

Joanne Carney, director of government relations at AAAS (publisher of ScienceInsider), said she knew of no federal agency that currently bars grant recipients from serving on advisory committees.

But «the overall total has probably not decreased,» says Koichi Kitazawa, president of the Japan Science and Technology Agency, which administers government grants and promotes technology transfers.

As Nature detailed last week, one Italian science agency recently sent out a call for stem cell grant proposals but specifically excluded human ES cell research, leading three Italian scientists to sue the government.

Since its establishment in 2012, the Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection has received several major grants from the federal government, as well as international institutions and agencies, to investigate oil behaviors in the environment.

The report highlighted one case in point in which scientific evidence was overlooked: a decision by the U.K. government's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in May of this year to grant its first license for a homeopathic medicine called arnica.

How does your grant - proposal success rate compare to the government funding agency averages?

Since the 1940s, when the U.S. government began to invest seriously in civilian research, the work has been done largely at the nation's universities and paid for through competitive, temporary grants awarded to individual professors by federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

Both private and government - run funding agencies typically hire grant administrators and program officers with graduate degrees.

On 8 April, however, Onac got an e-mail from the government financing agency, UEFISCDI, advising him that the grant's 2013 installment would be about 45 % less than agreed, «taking into account the available budget.»

It has been offered successfully for 15 years to 794 students through donations / grants from government agencies, more than 30 corporations, and the University of Denver.

In the coming months, the government is expected to establish an agency akin to the U.S. National Science Foundation that will distribute research funds through competitive, peer - reviewed grants.

The Canadian and provincial governments will need to increase their funding to the granting agencies so these agencies can, in turn, provide more money for postdoctoral fellowships.

It is interesting to note that Federal law was specifically altered in 1984 to strike reference to patent agreements between fellows and government funding agencies (35 USCS 212): «No scholarship, fellowship, training grant, or other funding agreement made by a Federal agency primarily to an awardee for educational purposes will contain any provision giving the Federal agency any rights to inventions made by the awardee.»

The foundation has grants from companies, government agencies, and other foundations to develop eight new prizes, including competitions involving health care, tuberculosis, and alternative aviation fuels.

To get extra income in China, many scientists are busy attending various meetings, establishing or maintaining close relations (guanxi) with government officials, indiscriminately applying for grants from different government agencies, and anxiously producing more and more papers....

NSF is also coordinating with Grants.gov and other agencies on what the government calls the Grants Management Line of Business, an initiative to improve all grants - related business procGrants.gov and other agencies on what the government calls the Grants Management Line of Business, an initiative to improve all grants - related business procGrants Management Line of Business, an initiative to improve all grants - related business procgrants - related business processes.

Although it did get some small education grants from the National Science Foundation, major government research agencies generally wouldn't touch the place.

The report urges Spain to raise the government's «contribution to science and innovation» — currently at 0.61 % — «to 0.7 % of the gross domestic product (GDP) and argues for the creation of a national funding agency that gives out merit - based grants, more autonomy for the universities, and a major overhaul of Spain's national research centers.

Although scientific merit may still be the key to the success of smaller research grants, such as those from China's National Natural Science Foundation, it is much less relevant for the megaproject grants from various government funding agencies, which range from tens to hundreds of millions of Chinese yuan (7 yuan equals approximately 1 U.S. dollar).

In the report, Taylor examined non-profits, government agencies and grant - making foundations and found that non-white minorities comprised no more than 16 percent of staff in these institutions, in spite of constituting 29 percent of the U.S. science and engineering workforce and 38 percent of the American population.

He has served as referee for several government and private grant agencies, including the National Institutes of Health and the American Federation for Aging Research.

Ad hoc reviewer for several grant agencies including: Wellcome Trust, European Commission, Medical Research Council of UK, Funding for Scientific Research of Belgium, National Research Agency of France, National Cancer Institute of France, the Broad Foundation for Scientific and Medical Research of USA, Health Research Board of Ireland, Italian Ministry of University and Research, Italian Ministry of Health, Italian National Institute of Health, Italian - German University, Italian National Research Council, Al Neelain University of the Islamic Republic of Sudan, Cancéropôle Grand Ouest of the French government, Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Science, Technology and Space State of the State of Israel, Cancer Research Wales, Kuwait University.