Sentences with phrase «grants of about»

If we had had the higher 12.5 K EFC they would not be eligible for that 4) At one kids school, since she was «Pell Eligible» (meaning just qualified, whether she used it or not) and in a certain major, along with our income being in the bottom quarter of students (< 80K) she was eligible for School Grants of about 15K over the 4 years.

The District Attorney's offices around the state of California will now get grants of about $ 23 million to tackle the auto insurance fraud.

The department expects to award four to six implementation grants ranging from $ 4 to $ 6 million and a second round of 10 one - year planning grants of about $ 500,000 each.

The trust's Education Entrepreneur Fellowship has granted seven project grants of about $ 250,000 each to help people design, build and launch new local educational ventures, inspiring proposals from more than 48 states and 31 countries, Harris said.

Washington — Two hundred high schools across the country will receive grants of about $ 3,000 each to improve their academic quality, the president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching announced last week.

Even though «there is no contract, no agreement,» says Frank Dellaert, a robotics and computer - vision researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, who has received two grants of about $ 40,000 from Microsoft, «it is in my own self - interest to use the money [as proposed] to build that relationship up.»

They were provided school improvement grants of about $ 2 million a year over three years.

Through his annual awards to regional economic development councils, Cuomo has also approved state grants of about $ 4 million to COR to demolish the former Kennedy Square housing project in Syracuse and about $ 4 million to COR to redevelop the former Mercy Hospital site in Watertown.

Kennedy, as did his opponent in 2014, signed a contract promising to limit campaign spending to a grant of about $ 95,000 in taxpayer money he received under the Citizen Election Program (CEP), the landmark Connecticut campaign finance reform that its supporters claim is a model for keeping special interest money out of elections.

The Stanford team received a grant of about $ 4 million over 5 years; it's led by Sergiu Pasca, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

Each city will receive up to $ 15 million over five years, with an initial grant of about $ 2 million this year.

With the help of a federal grant of about $ 450,000, Pope made sure all students in 1st through 5th grade took instrumental music and a daily movement or dance class.

Not exact matches

At least 24 of the 34 colleges and universities granted religious exemptions based on their beliefs about gender identity also received waivers allowing them to discriminate against gay and lesbian students and employees, citing faith - based prohibitions against homosexual sex, the Human Rights Campaign said.

Roberto Torres, co-owner of the Black and Denim Apparel Company, discusses their successfully funded Kickstarter Campaign, how they found out about, and were awarded, several business grants, were featured in Entrepreneur magazine, and got their products in the Oscar, Grammy, and BET awards swag bags.

The fast - food chain is tackling rumors about pink slime, McRibs and horse meat with the help of former «MythBusters» co-host Grant Imahara, in a new ad campaign.

If in doubt about which grants your business is eligible for, it is worth taking advice from an organization such as Business Link, or even paying a consultant to guide you through the entire process if there is a large sum of money at stake.

Countless new and deepened relationships have evolved from this, including new friendships, invitations to join boards, round - about new clients and lots of «wishes» granted.

Two Perth - based startups have been awarded federal grants totalling about $ 815,000 to help bring their products to market, as part of the national Accelerating Commercialisation (AC) program.

«We spend about a quarter of our lives at work,» says «Originals» author Adam Grant.»

Because the performance - based stock grants also aren't worth anything until Valeant stock hits $ 60, the current value of Papa's paycheck last year is much lower, or about $ 14.7 million.

The researchers concluded that since that time, boards appear to have become much more thoughtful about how they make grants to CEOs, and the growth rate of CEO pay has also tapered off.

He'll receive about $ 10 million worth of stock options plus a grant of 933,416 performance - based restricted shares.

Looking at the number of options awarded by S&P 500 companies for the roughly two decades between 1992 and 2010, they found about 20 % of the time boards simply kept the number of options they granted to their top executive the same from one year to the next.

Such behavior, the researchers argue, suggests that boards indeed tend to think about grants in terms of the number of options, not their dollar value.

Grant recently spoke in an interview about how to come back stronger on the other side of suffering.

And rather than granting requests by seniority, he has a lottery to let about a fifth of his staff leave at noon on either Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve.

Employees will vest about 80 % of their initial stock grant after two years of work.

Granted, if an employee is willing to tell you well ahead of time she plans to leave, or is just thinking about leaving, it means she trusts you to an exceptional degree.

This new release also made Grant's list of upcoming books everyone will soon be talking about.

In a decision released by the Baltimore Circuit Court, Judge Martin P. Welch wrote that the 35 - year - old was being granted a new trial because his initial council failed to properly cross-examine an expert from the state about the reliability of cell tower data that seemed to place him at the scene of the crime.

Indolfi's team has raised about $ 800,000 in grant money for the research so far, working out of MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital labs.

Business Insider followed up with Grant about his op - ed, asking for concrete advice and got an intriguing trio of tricks.

Citing studies on the early lives of heroes who rescued people from the Holocaust and highly creative architects, Grant suggests parents «help children think about the consequences of their action for others,» rather than simply yelling «no!».

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.

About 20,000 Pokémon Go players traveled from all corners of the world in July to Chicago's Grant Park for the first - ever Pokémon Go Fest.

She has become a staunch advocate for raising awareness about brain aneurysms and increasing funding for research, establishing «The Sharon Epperson Chair of Research» through the Brain Aneurysm Foundation to provide grants for research on early detection.

Eduventures says about one million students are enrolled in degree - granting online programs this year at both traditional schools and at for - profit programs such as the University of Phoenix.

The organic food retailer tells Fortune that, since its 1992 inception, about 94 % of its equity awards have been granted to team members rather than C - Suite employees.

Most interesting about the Locationary news is that CEO Grant Ritchie (also the co-founder of CanadianHotelGuide.com) wrote an opinion piece for TechCrunch last September entitled «5 Big Map App Issues Apple Must Solve.»

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.

Grant co-wrote the book «Option B» about resilience with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in the wake of her husband David Goldberg's sudden death in 2015.

Grant once studied a group of fundraisers at a phone bank where the turnover rate was 400 percent annually, «so the entire staff would quit about every two months if you do the math,» he says.

CBS Radio brings in more than a billion dollars in revenue from about 50 million listeners, Henn said, and the public radio universe generates about the same amount of money from pledges and donations, as well as advertising and grants.

Retailers have expressed concerns that the value of their brand will be washed - out by advertising on Amazon's site, while others are relunctant to grant the tech behemoth access to information about which items are popular with customers, Re / code reports.

With the closing of its Series C financing, d.light has raised about $ 30 million in investments, and another $ 10 million in awards and grants.

Khan, only at Snap for about two years, has been granted $ 145 million worth of shares, the company said in a filing on February 2.

(Granted, cash - ins of some of those investments will start mounting in about 10 years, when the oldest boomers can start drawing on their retirement accounts, but the youngest of this group are still in their thirties.)

Hatch's concern — that granting tax holidays on a regular basis incentivizes companies to cheat on (or at least artfully avoid paying) their taxes — is one I heard from a lot of Argentine entrepreneurs when I wrote about the country for this month's issue of Inc..

When asked about the compatibility of family and work, Schulz said he would grant relief to parents by offering more child care facilities and the gradual abolition of daycare fees.

Granted, writing commentary does sort of change the equation and, in that sense, I'm certainly not shy about making my opinions known.