Sentences with phrase «granting agency of the government»

Bernice also worked at a senior level for the Ontario Trillium Foundation (a granting agency of the government of Ontario) where she was able to support local organizations and individuals to build capacity and transform communities.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Gan has served as a referee for several government and private grant agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the Alzheimer's Association, and the California Department of Health Services.

Advance and promote the discipline by participating in partnerships with government agencies, foundations, and / or nonprofit organizations, such as funding agency grant panels or other advocacy / advisory boards to contribute to the advancement and promotion of the discipline.

The National Institute of Health, a government agency (not funded by pharmaceutical grants) conducted a clinical trial to see if desiccated thyroid therapy is advantageous to T4 alone (8) The authors of the study concluded: «DTE (Desiccated Thyroid Extract) therapy did not result in a significant improvement in quality of life; however, DTE caused modest weight loss and nearly half (48.6 %) of the study patients expressed preference for DTE over l - T4 (Levothyroxine).

«I would love for the US government to put money into studying these kinds of questions,» but US granting agencies have typically shunned projects on marriage and relationships, he says.

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.

On this occasion, the federal government invited state education agencies to apply and use the grants to increase the number of charter schools in the country.

As part of a marked shift of authority away from the federal government, the Every Student Succeeds Acts of 2015 (ESSA) contains a greater emphasis on monitoring by subrecipients, a term that includes school districts that receive federal grants through state agencies.

Kahn wrote, «Beutner, who had decades of experience in investment banking but none in local government, was granted oversight of 12 city agencies, from the Port of Los Angeles to the Housing Authority.»

Title VIII, Part F, Sec. 8526A stipulates, «No officer or employee of the Federal Government shall condition or incentivize the receipt of any grant, contract, or cooperative agreement, the receipt of any priority or preference... upon a State, local educational agency, or school's adoption or implementation of specific instructional content, academic standards and assessments, curricula, or program of instruction.»

Eligible grant recipients include State and local governments or other political subdivisions, transit agencies, larger MPOs (representing 200,000 or more population), multijurisdictional groups, or consortia of research or academic institutions.

Last week, RIM announced the United States government had granted the BlackBerry PlayBook «FIPS 140 - 2 certification,» making it the first tablet approved for use by employees of U.S. federal government agencies.

There are many government agencies offering finance for starting new businesses, federal grants for first time home buyers or special aid for those who want to go back to school or start college regardless of the applicant's credit situation.

Many of the government agencies that offer grants also offer first - time home buyers educational courses on money management, credit, and the benefits and responsibilities of home ownership.

The government agencies that grant federal loans are instructed to forgive part of the student debt if the students or graduated students apply for certain job positions that the government has special interest in filling or that provide special social benefits.

Department of Education Federal government agency that is responsible for federal financial aid programs including Pell Grants, Perkins Loans, Stafford Loans, parents» PLUS loans, and the Work - Study program.

US Department of Education (ED or USED) Government agency that administers several federal student financial aid programs, including the Federal Pell Grant, the Federal Work - Study Program, the Federal Perkins Loans, the Federal Stafford Loans and the Federal PLUS Loans.

There are many sources of grant and scholarship aid including the federal government, state agencies, colleges and universities, and private organizations.

* Seller - funded down payment programs were eliminated in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, but States and Local government agencies are still permitted to help borrowers finance their homes with second mortgages and grants.

In practice, this means that the number of borrowers who intend to apply for forgiveness, which is typically granted after 10 years of employment at qualifying nonprofit organizations or government agencies, could be much greater.

In addition, there are government agencies that may grant loans for certain businesses or certain segments of the population.