Sentences with phrase «launch national initiative»

The National Foundation for Celiac Awareness (NFCA) has teamed up with public relations firm Trevelino / Keller to launch a national initiative for restaurant training and education on gluten - free safe serving practices, making gluten - free dining and cross-contamination concerns more clearly defined for the food service industry.

It is particularly urgent that urban high schools be reformed, and in 2000, the Carnegie Corporation of New York launched a national initiative, Schools for a New Society, to help urban communities redesign their high schools.

Six years ago, the Pew Charitable Trusts launched a national initiative aimed at helping states provide access to high - quality pre-kindergarten for every three - and four - year - old whose parents want it for them.

In June 2009, the Pathways to College Network launched a national initiative to ensure that students» needs for integrated academic and social support strategies are being addressed.

In 2011, CASEL launched a national initiative called the Collaborating Districts Initiative, aimed at supporting districts» capacities to promote SEL for all students.

Not exact matches

On Wednesday, the Clinton campaign launched «Together for America,» an initiative to recruit GOP endorsements, and announced support from nearly 50 Republicans, including George W. Bush's former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte.

As a result, in May of 2016, OnDeck helped launch an initiative of the three largest online small business lenders, and a leading national non-profit microfinance trade association (the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO)-RRB-, to produce a disclosure solution that would help standardize a common set of pricing metrics and make it easier for small business borrowers to assess their options.

In March 2014, the Schultz Family Foundation launched Onward Veterans, a national initiative that empowers Post-9 / 11 veterans and their families to successfully transition to civilian life.

The We CareSM initiative was launched in 2008 as a joint effort of the National Pork Board, the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and state organizations representing farmers.

The beverage industry also supported «Go Green Use Blue,» a similar initiative launched in Hartford, Conn., in 2008, in conjunction with Mayor Eddie A. Perez and the National Recycling Coalition.

3) Marketing & messages: One of the pillars of this new launch is that «In 2012, McDonald's will also raise nutrition awareness among children and parents through national marketing initiatives.

At the launch of the initiative, President Barack Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum creating the first - ever Task Force on Childhood Obesity to conduct a review of every single program and policy relating to child nutrition and physical activity and develop a national action plan to maximize federal resources and set concrete benchmarks toward the First Lady's national goal.

Just in time to celebrate National School Breakfast Week, our friends at Fuel Up to Play 60 have launched their own school breakfast initiative!

Three years after NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray launched her signature $ 850 million ThriveNYC mental health initiative, she is tapping Alexis Confer, who has worked on de Blasio's successful universal pre-K initiative, on national gun reform and on former President Obama's campaign, to serve as the initiative's first - ever executive director.

Earlier attempts by the NPP to launch such an initiative had been plagued with similar misunderstandings when the party's suspended General Secretary, Kwabena Agyei Agyapong and National Treasurer, Abankwa Yeboah in September 2015, both launched parallel fund raising electronic cards for the party, leading to serious credibility crisis as both camps dismissed the others» initiative as fraudulent.

Three years after First Lady Chirlane McCray launched her signature $ 850 million ThriveNYC mental health initiative, she is tapping Alexis Confer — who has worked on Mayor Bill de Blasio's successful universal pre-kindergarten initiative, on national gun reform and on former President Barack Obama's campaign — to serve as the initiative's first - ever executive director.

She has served on many executive committees including the American Association of School Administrators, the New York State Council for School Superintendents, the Association of Small City School Districts, and the New Standards Project, a national initiative that launched the transformation to standards - based instruction, a concept that remains the framework for teaching and learning across the nation.

PROPOSAL 13: Launch a «Right Priorities» initiative to further New York's status as a national leader in criminal justice and re-entry reforms.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that 64 more local governments across the state have signed up to share their data on open.ny.gov, a new and comprehensive data transparency website — just three days after its launch at the start of Sunshine Week, a national initiative designed to raise awareness about the importance of open government.

One of the initiatives we have launched in Denmark is a national partnership for reduction of avoidable food waste, which will foster voluntary and binding collaboration between all links in the food chain and relevant authorities and organisations, as solutions and barriers should be addressed across all stakeholders.»

«This is a major initiative that will be launched on May 1st, and for those who have completed their national service recruitment will start on that day online,» Dr. Bawumia noted at the 22nd Congregation of the University of Education, Winneba over the weekend.

Previously, she was the Deputy Director for Government Relations and launched SEIU's state planning program, a national initiative called 2020.

Governor Cuomo made a big show last week of marking Sunshine Week - a national initiative launched in 2005 by the American Society of News Editors to highlight the importance of open government and the dangers of excessive and unnecessary secrecy.

The office recently launched a diversity initiative with Sens. Cory Booker and Brian Schatz, asking all of the Senate to use the «Rooney Rule,» a National Football League policy that requires the league's teams to interview minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operation jobs.

Meyers wrote in an email that county officials had worked closely with domestic violence victims» advocates on a number of issues, had secured nearly $ 700,000 in grant money to support initiatives and had launched a domestic violence incidence database that received an award from the National Association of Counties.

«Cancer research is a high priority for both countries — just witness the launch of a new National Cancer Moonshot initiative in the United States early this year,» said Tom Wang, chief international officer at AAAS and director of the AAAS center, referring to the plan President Barack Obama unveiled earlier this year to direct $ 1 billion toward battling cancer.

Just as scientists begin to unmask the microbiome — they're even working with the White House to launch a national microbiome research initiative — they're realizing that many microbiomes are threatened.

Between national space programmes and private initiatives, 2018 is the goal launch year for at least eight different missions to the moon, making it the most popular destination outside low Earth orbit.

The release of the film, Second Century Stewardship, Science Beyond the Scenery in Acadia National Park, officially launched the Second Century Stewardship initiative.

But the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN), part of a 10 - year, half - billion - dollar initiative launched in 2014 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to enhance the diversity of the biomedical workforce, has gotten off to a rocky start.

And Obama said this morning that DOE and the National Science Foundation will launch a joint initiative aimed at urging American students to pursue career in science, engineering and entrepreneurship related to clean energy.

The National Institutes of Health has launched a five - year, $ 120 million program called 4D Nucleome that is sure to build momentum in the nuclear - architecture research community, and a similar initiative is being launched in Europe.

Trying to recover a U.S. lead As part of a new manufacturing initiative to boost U.S. competitiveness through the clean energy sector, the Department of Energy launched a state - of - the - art carbon fiber technology facility earlier this year at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

The Kavli Ideas Challenge, launched in support of the national initiative, will provide $ 1 million for scientists to start inventing the new tools needed.

The Kavli Foundation's $ 1 - million Microbiome Ideas Challenge, launched in support of the national initiative, will provide funds for scientists to start inventing the new tools they need.

In order to enhance complementarities and synergies of regional, national and European research programmes and initiatives, the funding organisations share information on these programmes and initiatives, identify gaps and overlaps, and can thus adapt their thematic program and launch new initiatives according to the identified needs.

In response to this need, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched on January 25, 2016 a formal initiative aimed at improving research reproducibility through an emphasis on scientific rigor and transparency.

A few years later, Peabody developmental psychologist Susan Gray launched a preschool intervention program for low - income children that inspired the national initiative known as Head Start.

The researchers studied how diabetes care changed at 17 Midwestern FQHCs that participated in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Health Disparities Collaboratives — a national, federally funded quality - improvement initiative launched in 1998.

With support from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation SciLifeLab has launched a national sequencing project initiative that serves to support and advance large - scale genomic research in Sweden.

Indiana University Bloomington's Center of Excellence for Women in Technology, a new campus initiative dedicated to helping women succeed in tech - related fields, will formally launch this month with a lecture by Moira Gunn, host of National Public Radio's «Tech Nation.»

And New Zealand has also announced that it will launch a national brain research initiative.

Her strengths are in developing and launching national inspiring, exciting, engaging integrative health educational programs rooted in policy initiatives and campaigns.

As part of the initiative, LEGO ® City & National Geographic Kids will launch an exciting new competition to win a National Geographic Family Expedition to the jungles of Costa Rica in Central America!

The initiative was launched to showcase live British theatre performances in cinemas around the world, and this year, multi-awarding winning play A Disappearing Number made the line - up in the National Theatre Live's second season.

On October 7, the Harvard Graduate School of Education hosted the local launch of the XQ: The Super School Project initiative — a national campaign, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design a new high school model.

The World Wildlife Fund has launched a national environmental education initiative to teach students that their lives are interconnected with those of plants and other species of animals.

A new education initiative launched at the national Big Bang Fair is opening the door to engineering for children across the country.

The Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - making.

National Campaigns 10:10, a leading UK climate campaign group, launched a new initiative in September called Solar Schools, which helps schools raise funds to buy their own solar panels.