Sentences with phrase «interests funding efforts»

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It closed in 1996 and held a few more events in 2010 and 2011 in an effort to revitalize interest in the space, but the local city council backed out of allocating funds to reopen it.

Any effort to improve or expand these airports is subject to the same competing political interests, tax - tinkering, and fund - scrounging that most major infrastructure projects in the U.S. face.

CIFF has indicated a significant interest in funding up to 50 % of Living Goods» costs for 2015 - 2018, with the condition that Living Goods raises approximately $ 1 for every $ 1 CIFF contributes.152 Regardless of CIFF's decision, Living Goods is actively seeking funding from new and existing donors to fill its funding gap and plans to use these funds to support scaling up in Uganda and its partnerships and advocacy team's efforts to help organizations replicate the model in other places.153

Today those efforts are attracting interest from both the crypto community and the largest global institutional funds.»

If you sue the United States government, your settlement will be paid by the same fund used to pay the Iranian government $ 1.3 billion in interest, part of an effort to end a financial dispute between the two countries and hasten the return of five Americans being held in Tehran (including Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian.)

We invest in bonds for the Equity and Income Fund in part to dampen volatility, so low interest rates are unhelpful to that effort.

Now, an institution that has the unlimited ability to create new money can never run short of money and will therefore never need to borrow money to fund its operations, but the Fed sometimes borrows money via RRPs as part of its efforts to manipulate interest rates.

That growing interest is enough to warrant the efforts of the PBFA to bring more support and funding to the industry.

Sponsors are enticed by what Wallace brings as a spokesman, and RPM is hoping it can parlay that interest into increased funding, something the organization has lacked and hindered any sustained rebuilding efforts.

Jenkins and Wardally are expected to develop a well - funded grass - roots and media - outreach effort aimed at convincing black voters that electing Stringer, not Spitzer, is in their long - term interest.

«Wealthy special interest groups spending millions in an effort to promote taxpayer funded political campaigns is the height of hypocrisy,» said the group's executive, Brian Sampson.

Duffus said there is about $ 5.5 million in federal funding available to help support the effort, which likely will help the state acquire «interests» in the properties, which could include either conservation easements or direct ownership.

«We are not interested in where the funding comes from,» said Kowal, president of United University Professions, which has supported efforts to subject campus foundations to more transparency.

Since the 1970's at least, the U.S. federal government has had an interest in alternative sources of energy, although funding for those efforts has risen and fallen with economic conditions, fuel prices, and political administrations, among other factors.

«Most of our efforts are unfunded or funded with a shoestring budget,» says Anupma Prakash, a geologist at the University of Alaska with a career - long interest in coal fires.

«Given the importance of the Montreal Protocol to U.S. commercial interests, the United States needs a financially healthy multilateral fund,» said Banks, adding that securing the funding was «a terrific team effort.»

The first initiative — a combined effort of several U.K. Research Councils called the Energy Programme — will engage universities and businesses that share an interest in energy and work with them to establish research - and - training priorities, and concurrently build on existing research funded by the councils in this sector.

Public funds should be spent on something that people want: whose interests are being served by this research effort?

«While he has steered clear of efforts to sell off public lands and supported the Land and Water Conservation Fund, far more often Rep. Zinke has advanced policies that favor special interests,» said Jamie Williams, president of the Wilderness Society, in a statement.

Encouraged by the interest and contributions of the ASCB to this effort, Anderson provided additional funds from his Howard University / Rockefeller (HUROC) grant to support minority activities at the Annual Meeting.

At a Science Committee hearing held earlier this year, NSF Director France Córdova agreed with a legislative effort to uphold a national interest standard for taxpayer - funded research grants.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

These efforts garner billions of dollars in funding from proponents whose interest in reform is economical and not personal, and whose communities are not directly impacted by the policies they espouse.

Director, Regional Advocacy, Greater Los Angeles As part of the Regional Advocacy team, Chris leads policy and advocacy efforts to support member schools» interests across Los Angeles County in the areas of charter school authorization, growth, renewals, funding equity and facilities advocacy.

Director, Regional Advocacy, Los Angeles 213-634-4445 [email protected] As part of the Regional Advocacy team, Keith leads policy and advocacy efforts to support member schools» interests across Los Angeles County in the areas of charter school authorization, growth, renewals, funding equity and facilities advocacy.

Managing Regional Director, San Francisco Bay Area 510-344-7228 [email protected] As part of the Regional Advocacy team, Patrick leads policy and advocacy efforts to support member schools» interests in the Bay Area such as charter school authorization, growth, renewals, funding equity and facilities advocacy.

Director, Regional Advocacy, Greater Los Angeles As part of the Regional Advocacy team, Jason leads policy and advocacy efforts to support member schools» interests across Los Angeles County in the areas of charter school authorization, growth, renewals, funding equity and facilities advocacy.

Funding provided by the Foundation enables AFHK to: train parents and other stakeholders about school health topics; give parents and others the resources and tools they need to help schools create healthier environments; expand AFHK's network of parents who can work with one another and schools in the interest of student health; and strengthen collaborative healthy school efforts across the state to ensure that parents have a strong voice alongside other school champions.

Given the powerful, well - funded interests behind the plan, no one would describe it as the kind of grassroots effort the Founding Fathers had in mind when they dreamed of a dynamic democracy driven by engaged citizens.

-- A new paper from Thomas Kane in Education Next says that the Institute of Education Sciences «must redirect its efforts away from funding the interests and priorities of the research community and toward building an evidence - based culture within districts and state agencies.»

Their growth has been aided by Pence's successful efforts to increase their funding and give them access to low - interest loans for facilities.

For example, within the context of time - and - effort reporting, interested education leaders and stakeholders may wish to offer suggestions that will improve the quality and content of the information reported, such as demonstrating the valuable impact federally funded positions have on improving student achievement, school services and community involvement in education.

It's interesting to see the attack dogs coming out again to squelch the Our Schools Now effort that would give Utah voters the chance to share their feelings regarding funding for our public schools.

Leave aside for a moment his efforts to merge the two firms when stockholders tend to prefer «pure play» firms to conglomerates — it's interesting to look at how two «growth companies» are facing a challenge raising funds at a time when the stock market is near all time highs.

Managers of such funds generally don't get paid to outperform the index after taxes and fees over 10 years (they're lucky to last 3 and most investors don't notice how large the taxes + fees bite is), and so they don't focus their efforts on this mission that would be in the best interest of their investors.

Trailing interest tactics Financial counselors say that with a little effort and enough ready funds, you may be able to make the jump to interest - free status in a single month.

Some consider the Patriot Bond a gimmick or otherwise a marketing scheme to interest people in funding the anti-terrorism efforts of the country when a Patriot Bond and a regular EE Bond are both as likely to be funding those efforts.

We made many efforts to revive interest, increase adoptions and raise funds, but ultimately we were unsuccessful.

Those interested in helping these rescue efforts can stay up - to - date on the rescue efforts and make a donation to the ARL's Emergency Response Fund below.

These artist books also presented an opportunity to share the work - in - progress with a small gathering of collectors and patrons who've expressed an interest this work and in funding my efforts toward this project.

It all sounds so reasonable, until you realize that this is the same guy that says human - caused global warming theory is all bunk and then find that his efforts have been funded by fossil fuel interests.

Critics of Muller, particularly Joe Romm, have been so focused on undermining the credibility of Muller's effort by focusing on one of his funding sources (the Charles G. Koch Foundation) that it'll be interesting to see how they play his confirmation of temperature trends.

To protect U.S. interests, U.S. naval forces need to fund a strong, consistent effort to increase Arctic operations and cold weather training programs.

While there are quite a number of individuals active and interested in this area and, more generally, the social sciences aspects of global change, developing funding for significant research in this area and an associated effort to build a community of researchers has proven problematic.

So that's a good development, but what saddens me is the fact that he spent millions of dollars of Virginia taxpayer money and forced the University of Virginia to come up with significant funds themselves, wasted on this witch hunt, wasted on this personal vendetta, this effort that he was using to try to discredit climate science, to do the bidding of the fossil fuel interests that fund his campaigns.

The California Energy Commission's Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) and Federal Stimulus Program (Ad Hoc) Committees will conduct a joint workshop to discuss clean technology innovation efforts funded through U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) competitive solicitations with a focus on projects receiving cost - share funding from the Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research and Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Programs.

And that is the first red flag; this 25 × 25 effort is almost exclusively funded by out - of - state interests.

The idea has since gained momentum as a wide range of interests, including the private sector, development experts, policymakers, and environmentalists, have embraced REDD as a means to fund forest conservation and poverty alleviation efforts to the tune of billions of dollars per year while, at the same time, fighting climate change.

The head of Illinois anti-nuclear organization Environmental Law and Policy Center — which is funded by fossil fuel interests and other energy companies that would benefit from closing nuclear plants — has doubled down on his efforts to increase carbon emissions by closing nuclear power plants and replacing them with fossil fuels.

EPI's investigation reveals an ongoing effort by utilities and fossil fuel interests to influence public officials through university courses and conferences and fund reports authored by academic staff to boost lobbying efforts targeting state government officials and decision makers.