Sentences with phrase «grantees working»

The program currently supports grantees working to: create international protections for species and ecoregions of the High Seas; educate scientists and the public about the value and vulnerability of the ocean as a world system; and foment civil society movements to protect Arctic waters and Arctic coastal communities.

Janie Geiser, excerpt from The Reptile Under the Flowers The Creative Capital grantees working in the medium of puppetry aren't your average Punch - and - Judy puppeteers.

Here are a few more breakthrough school grantees working on their elevator pitches and «telling their story:»

The Grantee Image Collection is a database of images of grantee work.

We are honored to share the compiled list of grantee work that came to fruition in 2017 — please read on for select highlights and links to the full list of grantee projects.

And, it's why our grantees work so hard to ensure justice families facing potentially devastating challenges.

This can be seen at the program level in collaboration across home visiting models; at the state level in which multiple agencies work together to implement the grant; and at the federal level in which grantees work across state lines to identify best practices and provide communities of support.

Grantees work together in teams to test changes aimed at streamlining processes, reducing redundancy, enhancing services, and improving outcomes for program participants.

The grantees work to understand the service infrastructure in their communities and to build coordinated, effective early childhood systems.

Not exact matches

Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.

In this capacity she works closely with various grantee organizations on a wide - range of collaborative projects involving performance, historical conservation, and digital musicology.

In FY11 the contractor has been funded to provide individualized, grantee - specific guidance around research and evaluation topics; begin analyzing and synthesizing challenges faced by grantees around research and evaluation; develop comprehensive, user - friendly synthesis of guidance for tribal grantees; and work with grantees on efforts to disseminate and share the knowledge they are building regarding effective home visiting in tribal communities.

Specifically, DACA recipients should be aware the Department of Homeland Security is not receiving new applications, grantees with permits for work that expire between Sept. 5 and March 5 of next year can apply for a renewal.

«I am confident his strategic mind, unrivaled work ethic and strong record achieving results will serve the Foundation, our grantees, and the people they benefit well.

On January 18, AAAS reaffirmed its support for the current public access policy of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), stating that it does not endorse the Research Works Act, which would prevent NIH from requiring its grantees to make biomedical research findings freely available via the National Library of Medicine's Web site.

NIH will also work to reduce regulatory burdens on grantees.

It elicits the best ideas and best work from highly motivated scientists because it chooses the grantees through a competitive system of merit rankings done by peer committees composed of academic experts in each field who serve as part - time judges.

But NIH does not want grantees to give away tax - funded work just because one of the reagents was developed by an outside company.

The concurrent thematic sessions will allow time for detailed presentation and collegial interchange about each grantee's project; the plenary sessions will be directed at sharing information across themes and grants, listening to independent, expert assessments of work in progress, and shared discussions.

We work with our grantees to develop strategies for success and best practices so that the initiatives can be scaled and replicated for a greater impact.»

Researchers in any field and in any part of the world may apply, but ERC grantees must work at least half the time at a European host institution.

Grantees are encouraged to submit their completed work for festival consideration directly to the Program staff of the Sundance Film Festival, which selects films independently.

The competition creators intended the design and development stages to be just as powerful and useful as the actual work the grantees will do on their schools.

Ms. Meredith currently serves on the Board of Directors of the California Family Health Council, awarding grants of $ 20 million annually for reproductive health; the George Lucas Education Foundation - Edutopia, the leading voice illuminating and showcasing what works in education; and the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2), where she serves as board liaison to grantee Asylum Access working on global refugee rights.

But the agency's leadership over the past 25 years must share some of the responsibility for its shortcomings; OERI directors have not always tried to recruit distinguished researchers or insisted on high - quality work from all of the agency's grantees and contractors.

The Department of Health and Human Services would be required to develop performance measures that could be applied to local programs, and grantees would be allowed to serve more working families.

As with all grantees, the Department works to ensure that the grants are on track, that funds are spent appropriately, and that we have actively supported grantee success.

Instead, the Saving Brains grantees need to be enabled to share learnings to accelerate progress, and Grand Challenges Canada needs to work with partners who bring distinctive resources and strategies to the child development arena.

The program works with youth - serving government agencies, District schools and youth - serving government grantees to ensure bullying prevention policies are adopted and implemented in ways consistent with the best practices adopted by the Youth Bullying Prevention Task Force.

The Obama Administration's Investing in Innovation program set an important precedent by using a tiered model to align the amount of funding a grantee received to the strength of the evidence to support its effectiveness and requiring that its work be subjected to independent evaluation.

Part of the problem is that many ed reform grantees and the foundations that fund them are populated by relatively recent graduates of those elite colleges who haven't adjusted to the fact that what worked back at school and works among their colleagues doesn't necessarily appeal to the Republican legislators they need to convince.

In another legislative victory for magnet schools, MSA worked with the National Coalition on School Diversity to also ensure that an outdated anti-busing provision from the 1970s did not prevent current MSAP grantees from using their funding for school transportation as authorized under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

Our first round of grantees represents the important work we plan to do.

Prior to joining the foundation, she worked as an independent consultant to a number of education funders and ngos on projects including strategic planning and advising, monitoring and evaluation, grant - making support and due diligence, advocacy and policy change work, and grantee network facilitation and support.

They advise the Trustees on which projects to fund, work with the Evaluation team to design robust, real - world trials, and manage relationships with existing grantees.

«None of these [2010 grant terminations] is a surprise, and all could have been predicted at the time the projects were submitted,» said William J. Slotnik, the founder and executive director of the Community Training and Assistance Center, a Boston nonprofit leadership and management organization that has worked with many TIF grantees to develop compensation plans.

Prior to joining the Diverse Charter Schools Coalition, she served under Secretary John King at the US Department of Education as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Innovation and Improvement where she worked on policies concerning charter schools and provided guidance for Race to the Top - District grantees.

We establish benchmarks at the start of each grant to track progress, and we partner with our grantees to help them advance their work.

MDC will continue to work with NGLC in Oakland grantees through the planning process, visiting teachers and leaders in their schools, and convening the group as part of the design process.

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation publishes a bi-annual report that showcases the work of our grantees and highlights their impact in dramatically improving America's public schools, advancing scientific and medical research and making the arts accessible for as many people as possible.

The Joyce Foundation works with grantee partners to research, develop, and advance policy solutions to improve quality of life, promote community vitality, and achieve a fair society.

Grantees: School districts and nonprofit organizations working with districts or a consortium of schools

Some of this year's other grantees that joined YouthTruth in getting celebrated for their work in producing meaningful feedback loops and increasing foundation openness include: Habitat for Humanity International, Global Living, Creative Commons, the Center for Effective Philanthropy and Urban Institute With Feeding America.

While it is difficult to say which of their participation - building strategies worked best, grantees succeeded in widening participation in their cultural endeavors.

Together with its grantees and partners, College Futures works towards more graduates for a thriving California.

In addition to providing funding, NGLC provides an opportunity for grantees and other adopters to learn from the successes of peer organizations working to solve the same barriers to student success.

Federal policymakers and local grantees should continue working to increase the qualifications and skills of Head Start and other early childhood teachers.

Many of our grantees, from school districts to nonprofits to universities, also deeply consider how their work fits in with reforms happening around the world.

This brief is based on the real experiences of six Race to the Top State grantees that took part in the Reform Support Network Sustainability Work Group during 2014.

This paper provides a snapshot of the work of the 12 Race to the Top grantees (Phases 1 and 2) within state support systems.