Sentences with phrase «individual agencies fund»

The Senate also had its way on supporting the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, an Obama - era priority in which individual agencies fund large centers that attract significant amounts of private sector money as well.

Not exact matches

Primer's approach has already won over U.S. spy agencies (Gourley claims he doesn't know which, since In - Q - Tel manages the relationship with the individual agencies) and other early customers, such as Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC and retail giant Walmart (wmt).

[1][2] Fundraising Fundraising or fund raising (also known as «development») is the process of soliciting and gathering voluntary contributions of money or other resources, by requesting donations from individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies (see also crowd funding).

Individuals and congregations are shifting resources from «basic support» of the denomination's general mission fund to «designated giving» — funding specific denominational activities or church - related or independent agencies.

Any individual or agency paying for services with federal funds is eligible for tax exempt status for NC State sales tax.

New Yorkers - both individuals and businesses - that purchase health insurance currently pay more than $ 3.1 billion in health taxes through the Covered Lives Assessment; the (HCRA) hospital services surcharge; the Insurance Department Section 332 industry - wide assessments that fund Department operations and are also suballocated to other agencies and programs; and the 1.75 percent premium tax.

«Under this program, residential properties owned by individuals, the Albany County Land Bank and the Albany Community Development Agency will be eligible for funding up to $ 50,000 per building.

Rather than line out specific amounts for individual projects, the funds are giant lumps of cash inserted into budget legislation, with diffuse language governing their spending and a nod toward a process for spending that involves a state agency or authority and sometimes a memorandum of understanding with legislative leaders.

Individuals are welcome to help us throughout the community by volunteering with a funded agency program.

Addabbo said a process should be established where applications can be submitted directly to state agencies where the funding has already been allocated to their individual budgets.

Also, the executive branch fellowships are funded by the hosting agencies and they seek individuals who can not easily move into the system without a fellowship.

Raising the spending caps does not automatically mean science agencies will now get a spending increase: Congress still needs to agree on a catch - all omnibus appropriations bill that reflects this new higher spending level, and lays out funding for individual agencies and programs.

The purpose of this guide is to provide up - to - date information on academic Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (SEPP) programs to assist prospective students, researchers, administrators, and funding agencies in obtaining a picture of the field and identifying programs whose offerings meet their individual needs and interests.

«There's a fundamental trade - off between the complexity of individual agents and the size of the simulation,» says Jonathan Pfautz, who funds agent - based modeling of social behavior as a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Arlington, Virginia.

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurons).

Along similar lines, the umbrella organization for the UK's research councils — RCUK — opened an office in Beijing in October 2007, with a view to enabling the research councils to offer UK - China funding opportunities (ideally in conjunction with Chinese funding agencies) and make it easier for individual researchers to develop contacts with key partners in other countries, according to the office director, Chris Godwin.

Click on individual tabs to see how different agencies are faring throughout the funding debate, and mouse over for more detail.

It's still unclear how any funds will be divvied up among individual agencies and programs.

But often the dilemmas pit individual researchers against their employers and funding agencies.

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.

In my perspective, the biggest challenge to global scientific collaboration is lack of funding for global issues, as individual national agencies often tend to allocate funds for scientific endeavors aimed at their specific national interests.

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding the integration of 10 individual organs - on - a-chip to create a miniature model of the human body.

For nearly seven decades, federal agencies and many private funders have financed medical research through competitive grants to individual scientists who submit proposals for particular projects.

The report, which pokes fun at 20 studies funded by NSF, the National Institutes of Health, and other agencies, is the latest in a barrage of attacks from Republicans in Congress against individual federal grants.

The report calls on federal agencies and other research funders to support efforts to build the surveillance systems and develop case studies on the health of individual marine mammals and populations.

Creating good jobs across the economy: As you know, basic science research in the U.S. is largely funded by grants to individual investigators or national laboratories from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), the Dept. of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and a few other agencies.

FERPA states that no federal funds shall be made available to any educational agency or institution that has a policy or practice of permitting the release of students» educational records (or personally identifiable information contained therein) to any individual, agency, or organization, without the written consent of the students» parents.

Eileen Milner, the chief executive of the Education and Skills Funding Agency, has written today to the chairs of 87 MATs employing individuals earning more than this amount, asking them to explain their rationale for doing so by 9 March.

In February the Education and Skills Funding Agency wrote to the chairs of 87 multi-academy trusts employing individuals earning more than # 150,000, asking them to explain their rationale for doing so.

Firstly, the government needs to ensure that more is done to improve the flow of information between individual schools, the Education Funding Agency (EFA, the government's school building delivery body), and those bidding for contracts.

With the Environment Agency recently warning that communities will have to pay more towards flood defences in their area, despite taxpayer funding of # 629 million towards flood management, it is clear that individuals should be aware of how to mitigate risk and lessen the financial impact of flooding.

Smarter Balanced was created by assessment professionals in state education agencies who determined that by pooling their experience and expertise — and by taking advantage of the federal funds offered by the Department of Education and working in partnership with private sector firms — they could build more sophisticated and accurate assessments of student learning than any individual state could offer on its own.

Instead of funding a national network of 10 regional education labs, suppose those funds were made available on a competitive basis to individual state agencies willing to help districts track the impacts of their own efforts, to identify matched comparison groups for their initiatives (using other students and schools in a state) and to generate reports on impacts.

The State of Utah Office of Education offers a typical definition of a private school: «A school that is controlled by an individual or agency other than a governmental entity, which is usually supported primarily by other than public funds, and the operation of whose program rests with someone other than publicly elected or appointed officials.»

At the state level, funds that were targeted for local education agencies are diverted to vouchers for individual children, a sharp loss in the funding that states historically have provided to school districts.

Contract schools are essentially state - funded schools that are operated by non-state agencies such as individuals, NGOs or other organizations.

On an individual state level, funding for pre-kindergarten programs increased by 6.9 % from 2012 - 2013, and a number of states have created new early childhood education agencies.

(A) designate a State agency as the sole State agency to administer the plan, or to supervise its administration by a local agency, except that (i) where under the State's law the State agency for the blind or other agency which provides assistance or services to the adult blind, is authorized to * provide vocational REHABILITATION services to such individuals, such agency may be designated as the sole State agency to administer the part of the plan * under which vocational REHABILITATION services are provided for the blind (or to supervise the administration of such part by a local agency) and a separate State agency may be designated as the sole State agency with respect to the rest of the State plan, and (ii) the Secretary, upon the request of a State, may authorize such agency to share funding and administrative responsibility with another agency of the State or with a local agency in order to permit such agencies to carry out a joint program to provide services to handicapped individuals, and may waive compliance with respect to vocational * REHABILITATION services furnished under such programs with the requirement of clause (4) of this subsection that the plan be in effect in all political subdivisions of that State;

(B)(i) that such unit shall be located at an organizational level and shall have an organizational status within such State agency comparable to that of other major organizational units of such agency, or (ii) in the case of an agency described in clause (1)(B)(ii), either that such unit shall be so located and have such status, or that the director of such unit shall be the executive officer of such State agency; except that, in the case of a State which has designated only one State agency pursuant to clause (1) of this subsection, such State may, if it so desires, assign responsibility for the part of the plan under which vocational REHABILITATION services are provided for the blind to one organizational unit of such agency, and assign responsibility for the rest of the plan to another organizational unit of such agency, with the provisions of this clause applying separately to each of such units; provide for financial participation by the State, or if the State so elects, by the State and local agencies to meet the amount of the non - Federal share; provide that the plan shall be in effect in all political subdivisions, except that in the case of any activity which, in the judgment of the Secretary, is likely to assist in promoting the vocational REHABILITATION of substantially larger numbers of handicapped individuals or groups of handicapped individuals the Secretary may waive compliance with the requirement herein that the plan be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State to the extent and for such period as may be provided in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, but only if the non - Federal share of the * cost of such vocational REHABILITATION services is met from funds made available by a local agency (including, to the extent permitted by such regulations, funds contributed to such agency by a private agency, organization, or individual);

The program provides funding through a competitive basis to individuals / consortia teams of university research entities working in partnership with industry and state agencies.

Investment dollar minimums may make buying and selling individual bonds less suitable to many individual investors than buying an agency bond fund or U.S. Treasuries directly.

Many local and state agencies run bond programs to generate funds to help individuals and families with a down payment.

Finally, a credit rating is also impacted by the number of times that a lending agency inquires into a credit report because the individual is seeking funding.

Bonds and their funds are often graded on quality and borrower repayment ability (like an individuals» credit score) by credit rating agencies like CRISIL, ICRA etc..

If the individual budges and pays his debt, the creditor pays the debt collector a percentage of the funds or assets that the agency recovers.

As for your Thrift Savings Plan account, you can transfer your funds (your contributions, Agency Matching contributions, and, if vested, the Agency Automatic (1 %) Contributions) to an Individual Retirement Arrangement (IRA) or other eligible retirement plan.

Down Payment Assistance Many local and state agencies run bond programs to generate funds to help individuals and families with a down payment.

The criteria for grant applications are strict, and no funds are offered or awarded for animal control programs run by government agencies or under government contract, for individuals, for facility construction, or to support endowment campaigns, research, scholarships, general operating budgets, special events, or films and publications.

- to provide refuge for homeless animals and animals in need and coordinate their placement in permanent and safe home environments; - to provide education through publications, seminars, and discussions to the general public on animal health and welfare, behavior and care including the benefits of spaying and neutering; - to provide information and referrals to affordable and low cost medical care including spay & neuter clinics and other animal medical and care facilities; - to provide information on training, behavior modification and general handling instruction along with referrals to vetted and certified professionals in these areas; - to liaise and network with other animal rescue organizations as part of a mutual effort to aid animals in distress; - to solicit donations and funding from government agencies, corporations, private foundations, public charities, individuals and the general public at large to finance the medical, housing and other incidental costs of homeless animals while in the custody of the organization; - to organize and participate in fundraisers to benefit furtherance of the overall main purpose and goals of the organization; - to have the normal functions, operations, programs and pursuits incidental to a fully recognized and operational nonprofit animal rescue organization.

WCHS immediately contacted rescue groups, animal welfare agencies, and private individuals to raise funds for Hope's surgery.