Sentences with phrase «launch program a year»

Community college collaboration: William Carey, the Pearl River Community College, and three school districts launched a program this year to help undergraduate students finish their third and fourth year of college on the campus of Pearl River Community College.

Driving it is not as much fun as I recall from the launch program a year or so ago.

After a successful test - hike through the Grand Canyon, Google launched a program this year for nonprofits, governmental agencies, research groups, and tourism boards to borrow the Trekker.

Not exact matches

He also spent seven years at CNN, producing financial news programs including launching the successful «In the Money» show with anchor Jack Cafferty.

Founder and CEO Jack Davis launched the company four years ago with the goal of becoming the «Marvel for monsters,» a generator of scary characters that distributes programming through social media.

He launched the Kickstarter campaign as a part of his MBA Summer Internship program at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management following his first year of classwork.

Shapiro said Seeso will launch more than 20 original programs in its first year alone and that more new shows and acquisitions will be announced soon.

«In our 14 years in business we have never launched a program that changed the face and direction of the company more significantly than our free POS initiative.»

The 10 - year agreement gives Rogers (which owns Canadian Business) exclusive broadcast and distribution rights to existing WWE programming such as Raw and Smackdown and pay - per - view events, as well as to its fledgling WWE Network, a dedicated wrestling channel launched in February in the United States.

Earlier this year, for example, it launched a program in which more than 420 of its most active and influential community members sell products to their friends and followers; in turn, they receive a cut of the profits, as well as rewards that include sneak previews of products and trips to New York to visit Glossier and have dinner with Weiss.

Santiago's startup scene — half - jokingly referred to as Chilecon Valley by global investors — has also gained momentum in the past five years, thanks to Start - Up Chile, a government - backed program launched in 2010.

The five - year program, launched by the federal government in early January, proposes to make over 90 percent of the total U.S. offshore acreage available to oil and gas drilling.

In September of last year, McDonald's launched an ambitious program to sell deep - fried chicken wings across its 14,000 U.S. locations.

For years, private space programs consisted of daring engineers in the middle of the desert attempting to launch one rocket after another.

While Colorado and California are looked at as models of the modern marijuana economy, the U.S. lags behind other countries like Canada, which already has a fully - functional nationwide medical program and will launch its nationwide recreational program in the next year.

Earlier this year, Ottawa launched a five - year, $ 250 - million program geared at supporting the auto industry — Ford just received a $ 72 - million cash injection — but DesRosiers and other analysts say the federal government's efforts need to be less targeted at the assembly plants.

Following launches of the Shanghai - and Shenzhen - Hong Kong Connect programs in the last few years, Chinese regulators now have plans for international and mainland investors to trade in ETF products in the Special Administrative Region, Shanghai and Shenzhen, Hong Kong media reported.

Vocus Communications has retained the tech startup accelerator program formed by Amcom Telecommunications, and launched it into its second year.

Bankwest today launched its new charity, which will raise funds for community initiatives, as well as a scholarship program that aims to better the lives of Western Australians, and has pledged $ 1 million per year to the charity for five years.

So that year the company launched its Controlled Substance Monitoring Program (CSMP).

The company is launching Vice Studios, a «global multi-platform scripted studio» aimed at developing original content that Vice can market around the world after the company signed content deals earlier this year to make its programming available in more than 80 territories by the end of the year.

Fresh from his high end gap year, Simmons launched Learnirvana in 2012, a web tutor program that helps users learn languages.

In addition to the Shaw partnership and sponsorship from ICUC Moderation Services, Moderation Town (like Ruby Skye P.I.) received funding through the IPF, which launched a program specifically for web series last year.

Within two years of his appointment, York had launched its International MBA program, which included mandatory study - abroad sessions.

This year, the company launched a program for male subscribers.

Hulu had struggled for years to find its footing with original programming, marked by failed pushes to launch original series with high - profile talent, including actors James Franco (in the time - travel drama 11.22.63) and Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul (in The Path, about a sinister cult).

It launched six more programs in 2013 and early 2014 and the company has said it will add four per year going forward.

Former Google China head Li Kaifu's Sinovation Ventures has launched a new 5 - year artificial intelligence training program in partnership with China's Ministry of Education and Peking University.

The first pilot programs, which involved 150 bikes across four areas, launched a few years later.

NextGen Climate, which has a well - funded super PAC dedicated to electing lawmakers dedicated to halting climate change, launched a «text - banking» voter - turnout program late last year that attempted to motivate potential voters to show up to vote by sending personalized texts from actual organizers encouraging recipients to respond and start a dialogue.

• Last year GM CEO Mary Barra oversaw the launch of the Women in Action leadership development program.

Later this year, Alta will launch a program in Chicago with 3,000 bikes and 300 stations.

About a year after Alta launched a program in Washington, D.C., the city celebrated its one - millionth shared - bike ride, far exceeding expectations and prompting calls for more bikes and more stations.

Nokia, for instance, earlier this year launched «Invent with Nokia,» a program that invites would - be inventors to submit ideas for new technology inventions.

Through our bank Virgin Money we took part in a pilot program last year, and are now launching our own delivery partner, Virgin StartUps, to help provide training and mentorship, as well as money.

Thanks to an increase in government - backed accelerator and incubator programs in emerging economies across the world, we are already seeing more American founders launching in countries like Chile, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia; and we are likely to see this trend sharply increase in coming years.

Riddell donated $ 15 million to launch a graduate program in political management at Carleton University two years ago; the agreement originally stipulated Riddell's foundation could appoint three of five members on a key steering committee.

The PC Optimum program was launched earlier this year when Loblaw brought together the PC Plus and Shoppers Optimum programs.

The school credits its success to a suite of entrepreneurship programs and initiatives, many launched within the last few years.

A year ago, The Foundling began offering New York City's first digital divide programming targeted at the foster youth population, with an aim towards launching a new group of talented and diverse millennials into the workforce.

Wal - Mart's free shipping offer will be in addition to the recently launched 30 - day free trial of ShippingPass, its unlimited 2 - day shipping program, which costs $ 49 per year.

Less than a year after launching the program, the company was already seeing impressive results.

Since launching our accelerator programs two years ago, 114 startups have graduated, and nearly all that sought a subsequent round of funding received it.

In past years, the early launch has been restricted to members of Starbucks» rewards programs or people who participate in an online scavenger hunt.

Tesla Motors launched a two - year lease program for the Model S and Model X with adjusted payment terms compared with the company's three - year lease offering.

The Creative Destruction Lab is a seed stage program for massively scalable science - based ventures that launched from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management in 2012 with a goal of $ 50 million in equity value creation in five years.

Earlier this year, Kraken in partnership with The Economist, launched a contest that posed an important question to MBA programs across the country.

CMIT Solutions military veterans program includes a 20 % discount on the franchise fee, comprehensive training and launch assistance, 6 months of business coaching, and a managed marketing program for the first year.

Fisher kicked off his buyout program in 2012, a year before he launched the «I Hate Annuities...» ad campaign.

Each year a batch of international founders will go through a fixed - period, cohort - based program where they will receive the mentoring and partnerships required to launch their businesses right here in Canada.