Sentences with phrase «national funding organizations»

A growing number of international and national funding organizations encourage global scientific collaborations.

Although national funding organizations are involved in developing curricula and establishing «best practices,» I think you'll find that most organizations — even these funding organizations — consider this to be the responsibility of the university.

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He has lectured and consulted for companies like Google, National Geographic, the Jewish National Fund and major organizations in the USA, Israel, Europe and Austrailia.

She currently serves as President and Executive Director and as a member of the board of directors of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), an independent 501 (c)(3) charitable organization established by Congress to support the mission of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by raising private funds for biomedical research and fostering partnerships and alliances around the world.

(For this reality check, the definition of «venture fund» means funds run by venture capital organizations that are members of the National Venture Capital Association.)

Indeed, over the last 10 years two of the only national organizations that served to link Canadian - based China scholars in the past have suffered sharp declines in funding.

As we describe in our 2014 report for the National Marriage Project, «Facilitating Forever,» community organizations receiving federal funding approved by both Democrat and Republican administrations have attempted to foster stable marriages and families in at - risk populations for over a decade.

Vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Marc F. Plattner represents an organization whose definition of democracy is much more stringent in its demands with criteria of democratic inclusivity (as shown in a short essay by its funding officer, Louisa Greve, cited below).

The premise is simple: you send cookies to 3 other food bloggers and get 3 dozen cookies from 3 different food bloggers in return... and best of all, we get to support Cookies For Kids» Cancer, a national non-profit organization that funds new therapies used to fight against pediatric cancer!

As part of the popular Maryland - based chain's Funds for Friends program, individual restaurants team up with local organizations or local branches of national organizations, select a specific benefit date and donate 10 percent of that day's total sales to the organization in exchange for the organization having encouraged members, friends company profile and family to patronize the location on that date.

Weighing in at six tons (the equivalent of 32,346 medium - sized Idaho ® potatoes), the Great Big Idaho ® Potato is traversing the country to greet fans and to help raise funds and awareness for the Meals On Wheels Association of America (MOWAA), the oldest and largest national organization dedicated to helping end senior hunger.

Following the merger, additional funding from member state and regional organizations was allocated to national programs.

The announcement comes at a time when the National Farm Animal Care Council — a governmental funded organization — is reviewing and revising its Codes of Practice and considering a nationwide phase - out of gestation crates.

Weighing in at 6 tons (the equivalent of 32,346 medium - sized Idaho ® potatoes), the Great Big Idaho ® Potato is traversing the country to greet fans and to help raise funds and awareness for Meals On Wheels Association of America (MOWAA), the oldest and largest national organization dedicated to helping end senior hunger.

The Irrigated Rice Research Consortium (IRRC) was created in 1997 with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to provide a venue for linkages among national agricultural research and extension systems, government agencies, nongovernment organizations, academic institutions, and the private sector.

The funds, which were collected from all 26 Brick House Tavern + Tap locations nationwide, will enable Operation Homefront, the national non-profit organization, to provide invaluable services and assistance to tens of thousands of military families.

Entitled «Transforming School Food: A National Gathering of Peers and Partners Taking on School Food Change,» the conference will draw over 160 school food service professionals and community organizations from over forty large school districts, as well as government agency partners and funders.

Local campaign staff and candidates, staff at union locals labor organizations not based in DC, community organizing groups that aren't part of national networks, grassroots groups that aren't getting funding from the main backers of community organizing and progressive causes, staff working in local government, and the list goes on and on.

As so - called social welfare organizations, 501 (c) 4 groups emerged on the national level as a potent force in campaign funding, sliding through existing regulatory frameworks because they do not coordinate directly with candidates and do not expressly advocate for or against them.

Finally, DEP notes a significant number of arts and cultural organizations receiving assistance from Erie County also receive funding through the National Endowment for the Arts (herein referred to as «NEA»).

Off topic questions included a Department of Investigations report detailing problems with corrections officers at Rikers Island, de Blasio's message to protestors resuming anti-NYPD protests, his relationship with police unions, a call by the head of the Lieutentants Benevolent Association to strengthen laws concerning resisting arrest, an increase in police protection for Jewish organizations and sites and Dov Hikind's claim of a decrease in police presence, delays in the implementation of the City's municipal ID card program, his message to PBA members dissatisfied with their union leadership, his position on a city council plan to fund the purchase of additional bullet - proof vests for police officers, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns around the recent protests as it considers whether to hold the 2016 convention in Brooklyn, whether his «thoughts» on the anti-NYPD protests have «evolved» and whether he will direct the NYPD to change its FOIL request process to accept email or other electronic requests.

Jess O'Connell, the Democratic National Committee's highest - ranking aide, abruptly quit, the latest setback for a group that has struggled with fund - raising and organization even as the party's candidates have found recent success.

The organization is funding the building of Ghana's national Mosque at Kanda, Accra, near the Flag Staff House.

On November 14, Fairvote, a national organization which promotes proportional representation, instant runoff voting, and other alternative forms of voting, pledged $ 100 to the fund.

TRMPAC was modeled closely after DeLay's Americans for a Republican Majority (ARMPAC), a federal - level organization created to raise funds for Republicans during the 2000 national elections.

«With the obvious decision of the House not to roughen the feather in their criminal enterprise, we hereby call on members of the civil society organizations to commence the demand for holistic reform in the management of the National Assembly funds», the statement said.

Following the lingering crisis rocking the National Assembly, the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has called on the nation's civil society organizations and the generality of Nigerian people to commence in earnest the demand for holistic reforms in the management of the National Assembly's funds.

Crucially, the new organization will partner a host of other institutions such as Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, providers of mobile money services, cooperatives, Town & Country Planning Department, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, National Board for Small Scale Industries, GRATIS Foundation, Venture Capital Trust Fund, the commercial and investment banks, insurance companies, and of course, the District Assemblies themselves.

A Planned Parenthood clinic in Syracuse is taking part in a national campaign to bring awareness to the organization as its federal funding remains uncertain.

Say Yes national has said that the organization does not plan to fund scholarships after that date.

get involved with and / or donate funds to national environmental advocacy organizations like the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, and 350.org; and local groups like Environmental Advocates of New York and the NY League of Conservation Voters.

The first openly gay Council speaker also had the entire gay political establishment behind her, including the Empire State Pride Agenda, the Stonewall Democratic Club, Lambda Independent Democrats, the Gay & Lesbian Democrats, the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, and the Human Rights Campaign, along with women's organizations such as Emily's List and the National Organization for Women - NYC.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a privately funded nonprofit organization, works to save America's historic places.

The New York Times notes the extent to which Team Romney is hampered by limited funds: «Much of the more than $ 300 million the campaign reported raising this summer is earmarked for the Republican National Committee, state Republican organizations and Congressional races.»

THAT at the upcoming conventions of the National Educational Association and the American Federation of Teachers, NYSUT sponsor and support resolutions encouraging teacher unions, public employee unions, private sector unions and not - for - profit organizations to call upon their pension and retirement funds to not invest in private equity funds that are complicit in and profit from the denial of the rights to organize into a union and bargain collectively.

With funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health, AAAS and 17 other organizations sponsored a Summer 1991 workshop on values and ethical issues in science and technology for minority scholars.

The research was funded in part by grants (AI105887, AI101407, CA176624, NS064599) from the National Institutes of Health; the American Asthma Foundation; and ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization of St. Jude.

In addition, organizations such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and Los Alamos National Laboratory systematically fund a large number of undergraduate researchers.

Like the bipartisan group of Members of Congress who support the Golden Goose Award, the founding organizations believe that federally funded basic scientific research is the cornerstone of American innovation and essential to our economic growth, health, global competitiveness, and national security.

The viral nature of the campaign earned the national ALS Association, an organization which raises public awareness and funding for ALS, an additional US$ 115 million1.

A study was released today by United for Medical Research, a coalition of research organizations, on the benefits that funding for the National Institutes of Health has provided to the economy and medical research, for example.

For this we need to acknowledge the wisdom of our elected officials in generously funding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the effectiveness of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and other scientific organizations in convincing politicians of the value of biomedical research.

The debate about ethics in bio and life sciences in Germany was refueled last week: While Germany's central research funding organization, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), decided to revise its position on human stem cell research, the German government is finally reacting to heated public debates about sensitive issues by establishing a National Ethics Commission.

The long - planned creation of a new body to speak for European science was thrown into disarray yesterday at a special general assembly of the European Science Foundation (ESF) when its member organizations backed away from proposals to merge with EuroHORCs, an informal body that now represents Europe's national funding agencies.

Today's shutdown of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), a National Science Foundation - funded organization that runs the radio telescopes, threatens that accuracy.

The participating organizations were the AXA Research Fund in France, the Fonds National de la Recherche in Luxembourg, the Goethe Graduate Academy in Germany, the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, and the international Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases.

Currently, Liou is funded by the National Niemann - Pick Disease Foundation Inc., an international not - for - profit organization of parents, medical professionals, and others who are working to find a cure for Niemann - Pick.

The work was a collaboration among scientists from EcoHealth Alliance, Duke - NUS Medical School, Wuhan Institute of Virology and other organizations, and was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.

Like the bipartisan group of members of Congress who support the award, the founding organizations believe that federally funded basic scientific research is the cornerstone of American innovation and essential to our economic growth, health, global competitiveness, and national security.

It may not hold Italy's interest like presidential sex scandals, but the country's premier science funding agency, the National Research Council (CNR), is generating its own unwelcome headlines after it came out that CNR helped fund and support a pro-creationism book compiled by a vice-president at the organization.