Sentences with phrase «grant agencies provided»

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You need to understand the aims of the agency providing the grant because that can help you tailor your proposal.

I was reminded of this with particular poignancy a few days ago, when I read that the Japan Science and Technology Agency had awarded a grant of $ 3.4 million to a group of Japanese and American researchers in «evolutionary science and technology» for a project to be conducted at Monash University, the ultimate aim of which is to determine — based on models provided by Integrated Information Theory (IIT)-- whether it is possible to create «artificial consciousness.»

Prior to that, Polly provided comprehensive research and grants administration for a portfolio of externally funded projects, including a $ 3 million Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Center for Risk Science and Public Health at The George Washington University.

The bill also provides $ 30 million for competitive grants to State agencies for sub grants to local educational agencies and schools to purchase equipment with a value of at least $ 1,000.

Mass Audubon, the University of Rhode Island's Coastal Resources Center, and the Natural Capital Project recently received a $ 560,636 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop information on the human benefits provided by the Narragansett Bay watershed.

With the State's moratorium on (fracked shale) natural gas production, the only way we can receive natural gas is from the Constitution Pipeline and local distribution from the Leatherstocking Company... It is also important to note that a state agency, Empire State Development, has provided a $ 750,000 grant... to assist in degrading the costs of bringing the Leatherstocking gas line to our new facility.

The analysis excluded agreements with other municipalities and public agencies to provide certain services or pass through grant funds.

+ Carrión is working in close collaboration with The Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation (BOEDC), a federally designated agency for economic development in the county, to provide grants for supporting homeownership assistance programs that seek to increase homeownership rates in the Bronx.

We were able to expand our Agency Partner Grant program, assist our veterans in need of transportation, provide opportunity for residents to preserve the environment and ensure our law enforcement personnel get the training they need for critical situations that are too often occurring in our nation.

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.

If your agency is approved for a Primetime grant from the Erie County Youth Bureau, you will be required to provide a revised program budget (5005) and revised program details / calendar reflecting your award amount *.

Camp Centerland is one of 56 local not - for - profit agencies that are expanding their 2015 summer programming with «Prime Time» grants provided by Erie County.

For research papers created under grants for which the authors are required by their funding agencies to make their research results publicly available (for example, from NIH, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, or Wellcome Trust), we allow posting of the accepted version of research content (Research Articles and Reports) to the funding body's archive or designated repository (such as PubMed Central) no sooner than six months after publication, provided that a link to the final version of the paper published in the Science Journal is included.

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.

Editors and granting agency program officers are always looking for new reviewers — they need fresh perspectives to provide high - quality reviews.

Grants.gov acts as a front end for all the federal agencies that make grants, providing a uniform format and security protocols for the core grant application, and routing applications to the appropriate agencies.

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.

Grants.gov also provides a standard electronic grant application for federal agencies, as well as a single registration point for submitting those applications.

Funding for the study was provided by Japan Science and Technology Agency Strategic Basic Research Program ACT - C and Grant - in - Aid for Scientific Research (B) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.

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.

«The benefits genomically for production excellence and driving up production parameters is very good,» adds Trounson, who recently stepped down after six years as president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, a state agency that provides loans and grants for stem cell research.

See the Grants & Funding section of the website to stay informed about select funding opportunities and provide background information on the key public and private agencies supporting plant biology research and education.

OMB's role in the budget process does not end when Congress passes and the President signs the annual appropriations bills (or, in more recent years, the continuing resolutions to provide funding for a limited period of time after the fiscal year until the appropriations bills are agreed upon).195 OMB is intimately involved in budget execution — the way federal agencies carry out their work under the budgetary authority they have been granted.196 OMB affects budget execution through two different levers: the formal specification lever, through which it «apportions» and otherwise defines how agencies spend the funds Congress has appropriated, and the informal monitoring lever, through which it oversees agencies» implementation of their programs.

213 OMB directs agencies to «operate at a minimal level until after your regular [fiscal year] appropriation is enacted» and oversees their choices to implement that direction214 to prevent a situation where a subsequently enacted regular appropriation provides less funding than the agency had expected.215 While the OMB Director provides a formula that automatically apportions amounts provided under the continuing resolution, 216 the RMOs may further limit this amount, 217 deploy footnotes to specify additional restrictions on its use, 218 and grant requests for sums beyond the automatic apportionment only in «extraordinary circumstances.»

The moratorium was imposed at a time when NIH had no grants out for this type of research, which provided an opportunity for the agency to take stock of scientific and ethical considerations, Wolinetz said.

Funding for the Healthy Lawns and Healthy Waters Program is provided in part through Clean Water Act grants from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Primary funding for the program is provided through a Clean Water Act nonpoint source grant from the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Winners, announced at a red - carpet event May 10, hosted by United Talent Agency in Beverly Hills, are awarded industry mentorships; the opportunity to screen their film at the Los Angeles - based HollyShorts Film Festival (August 9 - 18), an Academy Award - qualifying competition; $ 1,000 grants provided by Universal Filmed Entertainment Group towards their next production; and other prizes, including Dell computers and a Nike gift bag with assorted products, including a pair of shoes from the new FlyEase line!

The UK Space Agency has provided a grant to support the project, which will look at human behaviour through analysis of the carbon footprint of homes and schools alongside the monitoring of changes in polar ice using Earth Observation data.

Providing a non-arbitrary comparison of schools on even one criterion will be nearly impossible...» He says that the agency's subjective measures of equity grant almost complete control to federal regulators over a district's administration, something that is at odds with the very structure of the American educational system and will surely damage local control.

The money is in addition to the $ 370 million in grants provided last summer to all state education agencies to help meet the testing requirements under the law, a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

Meyers: Our goals include providing a media venue where people from all walks of life can have their voices heard in a safe, commercial - free, child - friendly environment; promoting positive role models; empowering young people to realize their own potential to effect positive change in the world; bridging the digital divide and continuing to enrich this digital media archive with inspiring stories from around the globe; enlisting support from foundations, grants, and government agencies, corporations, and individuals so that this global learning project can continue to grow and provide a freely - accessible, online multi-media resource to educators and students around the world for decades to come.

The UK Space Agency has provided a grant to support the project, which will look at human -LSB-...]

In addition, ED issued guidance to provide assistance to state and local education agencies, and to schools in implementing the final requirements of the School Improvement Grants program on January 20, 2010.

[10] In general, these LEA amounts may be reduced by state educational agencies to account for funds reserved for state administration, program improvement, and academic achievement awards; to adjust for recent shifts in LEA boundaries; and to provide grants to charter schools treated as separate LEAs under state law (such charter schools are not considered in the calculation of grants by USED).

Although the high - poverty Cornell School District has only about 630 students, it was able to take the plunge into virtual reality with a $ 20,000 foundation - funded grant provided through the Allegheny Intermediate Unit, a regional public school service agency.

AB 1217 by Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra, D - San Fernando, would provide grants to local educational agencies to support teacher residency programs where new teachers would be assigned a mentor that would oversee classroom training.

More specifically, using Title II, Part A funds, Tennessee will provide Diversity Innovation Planning Grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for the purpose of developing and implementing recruitment plans that intentionally work to diversify the teacher pipelines.

The School Leadership program provides competitive grants to assist high - need local educational agencies (LEAs) with recruiting, training, and retaining principals and assistant principals.

New York state's Socioeconomic Integration Pilot Program, for example, provides grants of up to $ 1.25 million to schools that use socioeconomic integration to increase student performance in the state's lowest performing schools.118 Also, states can incentivize charter school diversity through competitive grant programs such as the Charter Schools Program State Educational Agencies competition.119

CSDC was the lead catalyst, architect and advocate for the establishment of a $ 25 million Congressional demonstration program in 2001, the forerunner to the Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program administered by the U.S. Department of Education, which has provided several hundred million dollars in grants nationally for credit enhancement and revolving loan programs operated by nonprofit organizations and state agencies.

The Promoting Student Resilience program provides grants to local educational agencies (LEAs)(or consortia of LEAs) to build and increase their capacity to address the comprehensive behavioral and mental health needs of students in communities that have experienced significant civil unrest in the past 24 months.

Under the Ed - Tech program, the U.S. Department of Education provides grants to State educational agencies (SEAs) on the basis of their proportionate share of funding under Part A of Title I.

The CAPE program provided grants to schools to form partnerships between local artists, arts agencies, and teachers to integrate arts into the curriculum.

Utilizing a $ 10 million federal enhancement grant and a $ 100,000 contribution from the Texas Education Agency (TEA), TCEP provides credit enhancement for municipal bonds that provide financing for the acquisition, construction, repair or renovation of Texas charter school facilities (including certain refinancing of facilities debt that meet federal guidelines), by funding a debt service reserve fund for such issuances.

This includes: $ 10 million for the Integrated Teacher Preparation Grant Program to provide grants to colleges and universities to develop or improve programs so that students can earn a teaching credential and a bachelor's degree in four years; $ 20 million to establish the California Classified School Employees Credentialing Program to recruit non-certificated school employees to become certificated classroom teachers; and $ 5 million for a local educational agency to establish and operate the California Center on Teaching Careers to recruit teachers.

In addition, in October 2016, the Department of Education issued new guidance on the Every Student Succeeds Act describing how funds from Title IV, Part A's Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants can help state and local educational agencies provide all students with access to a well - rounded education.42 According to this guidance, local educational agencies «may use funds for activities in social emotional learning, including interventions that build resilience, self - control, empathy, persistence, and other social and behavioral skills.»

Other challenges include finding and retaining staff in low - performing schools, staffing shortages in state education agencies that limit the ability to provide the schools with necessary support, and sustaining improvement efforts after the grants run out.

Under this program the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) will award at least $ 3.25 million in grants each school year to school districts, and operators of independent charter schools, to be used for the purpose of providing mental health services to pupils in collaboration with community health agencies.

The new law also ensures that state charter schools are eligible for RESA (Regional Education Service Agency) services and membership; provides an increase in capital funds for brick and mortar state charter schools located in the boundaries of a local school district where the capital revenue (per student) exceeds the state average total capital (per student); increases per - student capital funding for virtual schools to offset certain technology costs; and provides a Department of Education and State Charter School Commission grant program for replicating high performing charter schools.