Sentences with phrase «grants each year focused»

The Pro Bono Publico Foundation awards grants each year focused primarily on supporting successful schools and their supporting organizations.

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Think of it as an inside out «Steve Jobs» focus: «we'll tell you what you want» rather than outside in — finding out and designing what the customer really wants; and (2) they all seem to have overlooked a most basic fact of life and a relatively primitive tool that we have all pretty much taken for granted for years now.

This year, Starbucks has expanded the focus of the grants program to include youth as well as veterans and military spouses, and refugees, with a focus on supporting organizations that are working to help connect those facing barriers to jobs and education to a pathway to long - term economic opportunity.

Late last year, the Trump administration officially notified the WTO that the U.S. opposes granting China market economy status at the WTO, as China - US Focus contributor Dan Steinbock noted.

By extending this USAID Global Development Alliance (GDA) grant by an additional $ 519,000 for one more year, Starbucks will focus its support on:

Oliver Martin, who redshirted last year and is now fighting for a starting job at the slot WR spot with Grant Perry, said the new coaching staff under Jim McElwain is focusing on the WRs getting off jams at the line of scrimmage:

«For years and of course as part of our Young African Leaders initiative, we are training young entrepreneurs and we give them small grants to start or to grow businesses, but the focus of what the regional minister and I are talking about tonight, is looking at youth employment in the context of agro industry.»

DiNapoli said his audit will focus on employment, hiring practices and the payroll of the foundation, which handles nearly $ 1 billion a year in research grants and has 17,000 employees on its payroll.

This plan continues Cuomo's approach of focusing the state's economic development grants outside of New York City, which is home to over half of its population but also has led in job growth over the past several years.

Another was a $ 6 billion, three - year property tax relief plan that would focus new aid on middle - class homeowners, granting an average of $ 920 in relief for such families in the New York suburbs and an average of $ 512 upstate.

As far back as my first term in the Legislature some six years ago I have worked to bring focus to this problem; a demand for equivalent service or withdrawal was part of my Minority Address four years ago; and a formal withdrawal process was commenced in the legislature, under the auspices of the Economic Development committee headed up by Legislator Michael Grant, three years ago on January 21, 2009 to be precise.

Instead, she says, NIH is focusing on the length of postdoctoral training, for example by limiting eligibility for its «kangaroo» K99 / R00 awards, which combine training and an independent research grant, to applicants with no more than 4 years of postdoctoral training.

(Under Beaudet's reforms, CIHR's former array of grant programs was obliterated in favor of a regime that awarded Foundation scheme grants worth between $ 38,800 to $ 1.16 million annually for up to 7 years to established researchers to conduct open - ended research, or Project scheme grants worth between $ 38,800 to $ 581,000 annually for up to 5 years for more focused research projects.)

The agency also plans to reprogram $ 65 million of its AIDS research grant funding this year to focus more sharply on ending the epidemic.

Liu recently received a two - year grant from the Bright Focus Foundation (brightfocus.org /) that is enabling next - step studies such as exploration of the impact of current drug therapy on miR - 182.

Under the reforms, CIHR essentially obliterated its array of existing grant programs, replacing them with a regime that essentially awards two types of grants: «Foundation scheme» grants that provided $ 38,800 to $ 1.16 million annually for up to 7 years for work on more open - ended research (with duration and size pegged to how «established» a researcher was); and «Project scheme» grants of $ 38,800 to $ 581,000 annually for up to 5 years for more focused research projects.

The work is the outcome of a partnership between the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and the Bourns College of Engineering at UCR that has flourished for more than ten years with continuous grant support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Science Foundation, focused largely on innovations in bioinformatics.

Led by Philip De Jager of the Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Broad Institute, and Harvard University, and David Bennett, of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, the study will focus on drugs that have completed phase 1 testing, and could be granted $ 7.9 million over 5 years.

Dr. Walter Wilczynski in the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at Georgia State University has received a five - year $ 499,209 National Science Foundation grant to form a Research Coordination Network focused on advancing the field of sociogenomics.

That study found that since MSCRF first began awarding grants in 2007, its pattern of giving shifted over the years from strongly favoring projects focusing on ethically contentious human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR) to projects focusing on ethically non-contentious adult stem cells and other non-embryonic stem cell research.

In the past two years, more than $ 3.7 million in grants have been awarded to Crnic - related grants programs supporting over 80 scientists focused on Down syndrome research.

2/20/2007 Seven at UC San Diego Receive Stem Cell Funding from California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Dr. Leon Thal of UC San Diego honored with naming of statewide SEED grants More than two years after voters approved a $ 3 billion program to fund stem cell research in California, the state has approved the first grants focused solely on human embr... More...

Year in Review: Calico and the Buck Institute Are Collaborating on Research into Aging and Potential Therapeutics for Age - related Diseases Top Grant from the NIH Faculty Awards Published Research Buck Faculty Share Their Expertise Worldwide Buck Labs Focus on mTOR Pathway Live Longer, Live Well — New Donor Groups Get Behind the Buck's Mission Full STEAM Ahead: Unique Partnership Helps Marin and Sonoma Schools Meet New Science Standards Energy and Climate Change Visionary Jostein Eikeland Pledges $ 5 Million to the Buck Scientific Advisory Board Board of Trustees Financial Summary Buck Advisory Council Cumulative Donors and Sponsors Honor Roll of Donors

Between 2005 and 2011 GenoMEL was funded under the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) to the tune of $ 10.45 million, however in recent years GenoMEL has continued to evolve, giving rise to BioGenoMEL (a daughter consortium focusing on understanding the genetics of survival from melanoma) and most recently the MELGEN consortium which itself is funded by a $ 4.8 million grant through the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 641458.

Speaking about the new $ 30 subscription layer, eHarmony CEO Grant Langston said: «Over the last few years, we tested a variety of premium services focused on delivering a more personalised online dating experience.

The Creative Producing Program encompasses a year - round series of Labs, Fellowships, granting and events focusing not only on nurturing the next generation of independent producers, but renewing the community of veteran producers dedicated to sustaining the vibrancy and vitality of independent film.

The first round of grants will focus on three areas: building commitment among policymakers and business and community leaders to increase postsecondary completion rates; improving the ability of institutions of higher learning to help struggling students at two - and four - year colleges finish their programs,...

In focusing on individual school models and putting forth an open call for ideas — rather than insisting on a prescribed list of policy - related preferences — the initiative appeared to depart significantly from the kind of education grant making that has been practiced for the past 15 years by philanthropists such as the Gates, Walton, and Broad families.

The Fund, which focuses on supporting disadvantaged pupils, will offer approximately five grants of up to # 150,000 for projects working over two academic years.

Most studies using the Pell proxy, however, are focused on four - year institutions, and limiting the analysis to this group of students shows that the share of low - income students who received a Pell Grant is still surprisingly low (73.2 percent).

In the 1980s, the maximum Pell Grant — the money the federal money gives to low - income students to attend college — covered more than half the cost of a four - year public school, according to The Institute for College Access and Success, a think tank focused on college affordability.

In an effort to provide ongoing feedback to teachers during the course of the school year, measure annual student growth, and move beyond narrowly - focused bubble tests, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded two groups of states grants to develop a new generation of tests.

ASCD receives a follow - up, two - year grant of $ 250,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to provide educators with free, ongoing, virtual professional development training focused on the instructional shifts required by the Common Core State Standards.

President Donald Trump is seeking a roughly 5 percent cut to the U.S. Department of Education's budget for fiscal 2019 in a proposal that also mirrors his spending plan from last year by seeking to eliminate a major teacher - focused grant and to expand school choice.

Developed with over $ 8M in research grants and backed by 40 + collective years of research, we're focused on evidence - driven innovation.

PCAPS Coordinator Ron Whitehorne outlined the strategy for getting 10 % of Philadelphia Schools to be Sustainable Community Schools in four years, focusing on the demand that federal School Improvement Grant money be used exclusively for that purpose.

«We have focused intensive efforts this past year to help turn around our lowest - performing schools, and these grants will provide additional support to those schools,» said state Education Commissioner Chris Cerf in announcing the grants.

These state grants are one part of the $ 75 million, five - year New Skills for Youth initiative developed by JPMorgan Chase & Co., in collaboration with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), Advance CTE and Education Strategy Group, aimed at strengthening career - focused education starting in high school and ending with postsecondary degrees or credentials aligned with high - skill jobs.

That is why we have focused over the years on taking afterschool to scale across the country, including growing statewide afterschool networks from 9 in 2002 to 41 today, and supporting the development and implementation of the federal afterschool grant program known as the 21st Century Community Learning Centers initiative.

In fall 2017 we launched a series of updates from the seven Next Generation Learning Challenge (NGLC) in Oakland launch grantees to hear what they have learned and how it has shaped their focus for the second year of their grant.

Also in December, the Barr Foundation awarded ConnectEd a two - year grant to support Linked Learning initiatives in Massachusetts, with specific focus and support for Holyoke School District and Boston Public Schools.

TEACHER AND SCHOOL INCENTIVE GRANTS Janeece Docal, the former principal of Powell Elementary School in Washington, DC and DC Public Schools» Principal of the Year for 2014, emphasizes the importance of expanding the Teacher and School Leader Incentive Grants (TSLIG) and other federal programs to focus more on leaders and leadership develoGRANTS Janeece Docal, the former principal of Powell Elementary School in Washington, DC and DC Public Schools» Principal of the Year for 2014, emphasizes the importance of expanding the Teacher and School Leader Incentive Grants (TSLIG) and other federal programs to focus more on leaders and leadership develoGrants (TSLIG) and other federal programs to focus more on leaders and leadership development.

The one - year grant will support the work of the Partnership for Resilience by focusing on linking schools in Chicago's southern suburbs with health care and other community supports.

This year's grant will support the selected Opportunity Culture districts in redesigning schools with a focus on teacher - leadership.

Another focus of the National Writing Project grant is to provide at least 30 hours of professional development in writing instruction throughout the school year for teachers serving high - need students in 100 schools and districts across the country.

Granted, the 2016 Ford Focus Electric obviously isn't the latest, and Ford made some big changes for the 2017 model - year vehicle.

FOCUS: Small animal rescues with no paid staff Visit website Hugs & Kisses offers grants to what they consider «mom and pop» animal welfare groups in the US that have no paid staff and have a minimum of a 5 year record.

Shelter medicine, education and research were a major focus of Maddie's Fund ® grants in fiscal year 2011 - 2012.

Based on our participation in numerous national coalitions focused on animal / shelter overpopulation issues; our work in shelter medicine, shelter research and as a major animal welfare grant maker; and our 100 + years as a direct service provider in New York City as well as our more recent direct participation in intensive, collaborative efforts with more than 10 ASPCA partner communities across the United States, the ASPCA has determined that a number of indicators should be tracked to understand progress in decreasing the number of animals at risk.

Granted it crippled them in the prior E3 conferences, but this year they were totally able to let loose and focus on the games.