Sentences with phrase «grant competition as»

The content is tailored primarily for those preparing proposals for the Animal Advocacy Research Fund, but should generalize in some ways to other granting competitions as well.

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That last point is something I'm very familiar with, as the St. Louis area (where I call home) has become home to three fast - growing startup competitions: placeholderArch Grants, the Ameren Accelerator Demo Day, and the St. Charles County Demo Day.

Grant Maheu (captain), Daniel Johansson and Matthew Nakaska won an all - expenses paid trip to Boston as a result of winning the regional competition for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute Research Challenge in February 2018.

As an example of our firm's commitment to citizenship and community engagement, Goldman Sachs Gives continued to expand its reach in 2017, through initiatives such as the second annual Analyst Impact Fund, a competition whereby teams of analysts from the firm vied to win a Goldman Sachs Gives grant to the nonprofit of their choicAs an example of our firm's commitment to citizenship and community engagement, Goldman Sachs Gives continued to expand its reach in 2017, through initiatives such as the second annual Analyst Impact Fund, a competition whereby teams of analysts from the firm vied to win a Goldman Sachs Gives grant to the nonprofit of their choicas the second annual Analyst Impact Fund, a competition whereby teams of analysts from the firm vied to win a Goldman Sachs Gives grant to the nonprofit of their choice.

William Grant & Sons has been honored as «Distiller of the Year» by the prestigious International Wine & Spirit Competition and International Spirits Challenge ten times over the past 15 years.

Winning the European competition should take priority at this stage in the campaign, with two more wins in the tournament granting them entry to next season's Champions League competition, as well as the European Super Cup.

A 2 - 2 draw against CSKA Moscow in Russia on Thursday allowed Arsenal to advance 6 - 3 on aggregate as they the automatic Champions League qualification granted to the winner of the competition.

Porto led and looked odds - on to put the two - times winners out of the competition with 10 minutes remaining but Josh Grant's equaliser four minutes from time took the semi-final contest to penalties and Jamie Cumming, our goalkeeper, proved the hero in the shootout as he saved three spot - kicks to send us into Monday's final against Barcelona.

As part of the Economic Revitalization Competition, three winning regions will be granted $ 500 million each.

Now in its second year, the 43 North competition will see ideas from around the globe submitted in hopes that they will be among 11 chosen companies to share in the $ 5 million in prize money granted as part of Cuomo's Buffalo Billion initiative for Western New York.

Those plans include what has been labeled by some advocates as a «Hunger Games» style competition between upstate localities for up to $ 500 million in state grants, three of which are available for seven regions to compete for.

Local leaders will be in Albany today to find out how much state funding will come to the community as part of two separate regional grant competitions.

The governor says schools that achieve their agreements early, by September, will get credit toward a competition for $ 250 million dollars in grants that Cuomo intends to award, as part of his school aid budget.

Economic development officials in Lake Placid and the surrounding region earlier this year put forth a proposal to study a new Olympic bid as part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 1.5 billion Upstate Revitalization Initiative, a plus - sized version of the annual statewide competition for grants and other forms of aid.

The incentives created by the way grant dollars flow to and through faculty members» labs encourage them, as rational actors, to follow the course that maximizes their advantage in the fierce competition for professional survival.

Under the new budget proposal, furthermore, competition for new and continuing research grants will stiffen slightly and early - career scientists» prospects of establishing themselves as independent researchers will not improve.

The deferred list includes a new, $ 1.08 billion competition by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation for research infrastructure grants to begin 3 years down the road, as well as modest funding toward buying a 15 % to 20 % stake in the colossal Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) to be built in a dormant Hawaii volcano by 2024.

O'Neill said those whose whole business is batteries — such as A123 and Ener1, which also got a Recovery Act grant for manufacturing — are most vulnerable to Asian competition.

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.

And as federal and state funding continues to hang in the balance, along with ever - increasing competition for grant dollars, this makes looking for alternative funding sources a priority.

ACD members seemed generally supportive, although some suggested NIH should first study the matter more, asked about NIH's ultimate targets for redistributing funds, or wondered about potential adverse consequences, such as even fiercer competition for grants.

Because the competition for the K99 / R00 awards is so stiff, Anthony Carter, a program director in the Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology at NIGMS in Bethesda, Maryland, has been encouraging some prospective applicants who are eligible for other training grants, such as K08s, to go after those awards instead.

Nakamura, known as a low - key, steady - handed administrator, will likely face new stresses as his center is called upon to separate wheat from chaff in a time of intense competition for limited grant dollars.

It urges the government to foster cooperation — as well as healthy competition — among the centers and between them and outside labs by following a U.S. - style funding model that emphasizes research programs that cut across many institutions rather than block grants to individual facilities.

-- From the amounts allocated pursuant to subsection (b) for Indian tribes, the Secretary shall make grants to Indian tribes that comply with the requirement under subsection (d) on the basis of a competition conducted pursuant to specific criteria, as the Secretary shall establish by regulation, for the selection of Indian tribes to receive such amount.

As is the case for individual investigator grants, facility grants should be allocated in open competition in the national community.

A film collaboration between Kiki gatekeeper, Twiggy Pucci Garçon, and Swedish filmmaker Sara Jordenö, we're granted exclusive access into this high stakes world, where tough competitions act as a gateway into the daily lives of LGBTQ youth of color in NYC.

Likewise, we are permitted to get used to, while still wondering about, the sewn letters ticking off Wednesday, Thursday, etc. as the days of rehearsal and preliminaries to the big Miss California judging pass by; about the time we've taken the device for granted, the camera pulls back from «Sunday» to reveal it's stitched onto the panties of a contestant who's been very outspoken in her preference for «tits»n' ass» competition and who wears a special set of lingerie for each day of the week.

Although some may wonder how this fits into a design competition meant to propel blended - learning schools, from my perspective it's a smart grant because the reality is that many districts are unlikely to convert or open entire schools as full blended - learning programs.

Sponsored by the NAESP and the MetLife Foundation, this grant is part of a competition that supports elementary and middle - level principals as they foster and encourage strong school - community relationships.

Washington — The embattled National Institute of Education was under attack again last week, as the Congress moved to cut its budget by 13 percent and to delay the onset of its competition for some $ 30 million in grants to sponsor research through its national laboratories and centers.

As governors and state legislators gear up for a new year of budget action and policymaking, the federal Race to the Top competition is helping to drive a flurry of measures nationwide aimed, at least in part, at making states stronger candidates for a slice of the $ 4 billion in education grants.

As more and more schools look to increase income through their own efforts, we are beginning to see a greater diversity in fundraising methods, from events such as school fetes, fashion shows, raffles, competitions and sponsored activities through to applications to the Lottery and grant - making trustAs more and more schools look to increase income through their own efforts, we are beginning to see a greater diversity in fundraising methods, from events such as school fetes, fashion shows, raffles, competitions and sponsored activities through to applications to the Lottery and grant - making trustas school fetes, fashion shows, raffles, competitions and sponsored activities through to applications to the Lottery and grant - making trusts.

NBC Universal Foundation chooses iCivics as one of the winners of its inaugural Project Innovation grant competition.

As usual, he offers a thoughtful assessment of the pros and cons of Education Secretary Arne Duncan's decision to keep secret the identities of the judges in the $ 4.35 billion grant competition until after winners are announced and Duncan's decision to release minimal detail about how the reviewers were chosen or the substance of the instructions they have received.

Support for competitive programs, even among reformers, is apt to plummet as it becomes clear that the vagaries of peer reviewers and the prowess of grant writers are what drive results in such competitions, not true policy change, political courage, leadership or public commitment to reform.

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

The 2017 - 18 Section 99k - Cybersecurity Competition Event Grant is made available to public school districts that provide pupils in grades 6 - 12 with expanded opportunities to improve computer science skills by participating in cybersecurity competitive events hosted by Mertit Network, Incorporated, known as Michigan High School Challenge, or hosted by the Air Force Association, known as Cyberpatriot.

Tell that to the school choice activists who have successfully passed voucher measures in more than 13 states, the children who attend the 1,091 new charter schools opened between 2010 and 2013, and families in cities such as Adelanto, Calif., who have taken over failing schools using Parent Trigger laws passed as a result of the competitive grant competition.

As a part of its application for the $ 400 million Race to the Top federal grant that North Carolina received, the state promised to align its standards with the Common Core, which gave it an edge in competition.

The Department of Education is seeking individuals from diverse backgrounds and professions — including preK — 12 and postsecondary educators, educational evaluators, social entrepreneurs, strategy consultants, and grant makers — to serve as peer reviewers for its 2012 Investing in Innovation (i3) Grant Competigrant makers — to serve as peer reviewers for its 2012 Investing in Innovation (i3) Grant CompetiGrant Competition.

The scope of this year's competition is notably smaller than i3's first round, which awarded $ 650 million to 49 districts and nonprofits, but the department is still able to fund about half the number of awards as the previous year because so many applicants are receiving the smaller $ 3 million development grants slated for promising but unstudied activities.

As 2011 draws to a close, the U.S. Department of Education has announced the winners of several of its high - profile grant competitions.

«We made staff development a major component of the grant competition to ensure that our teachers and school library media specialists work together to use educational technology effectively as an instructional tool.»

Call For Peer Reviewers: Charter Schools Program Grant Competition The U.S. Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement, is seeking individuals to serve as peer reviewers for the Fiscal Year 2018 Charter Schools Program (CSP) Grant competitions.

Some argue that states were coerced into adopting Common Core by the Obama administration as a requirement for applying for its Race to the Top grant competition (and No Child Left Behind waiver program).

The President also used the event to announce a new $ 35 million grant competition to train STEM graduates for careers as teachers, as well an expansion of STEM AmeriCorps.

Sarah has worked in education for ten years as a special education teacher and in a variety of teacher leader roles including: Special Education and Disproportionality Grant Coordinator, WASC coordinator, member of the California State Network of Educators reviewing formative assessment and professional development material for the Smarter Balanced Consortium's Digital Library, and Race to the Top Peer Reviewer for the 2013 District Grant Competition.

Duncan encourages these models with financial incentives such as School Improvement grants and Race to the Top, a federal competition encouraging education reform that Colorado lost.

Finally, Race to the Top, last year's federal competition for $ 3.4 billion in grants to support education reform, emphasized improving the training and evaluation of principals as much as it did the training and evaluation of teachers.