Sentences with phrase «national initiative funded»

Previously, Deb served as the director of the Professional Development Partnership (PDP), a 9 - year national initiative funded by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The PSP is a national initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to promote effective regulatory, legal and policy solutions to improve public health.

Not exact matches

But it also encompasses a host of other big initiatives, including more than $ 5 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and money to help the FDA; $ 1 billion for tackling the opioid epidemic; and provisions that are meant to help pair Americans who suffer from serious mental illnesses with available psychiatric beds.

To deliver on the new national climate plan, the next federal budget will need to include funding for initiatives to reduce carbon pollution.

NDP commitments include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (already implemented by the Conservatives (but with a different phase in); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; and, increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI).

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

The commitment in Budget 2011 to undertake a Strategic Operating Review to find $ 4 billion in annual savings followed the Budget 2010 initiatives which restrained growth in national defence spending, capped funding of the International Assistance Envelope, forced departments to absorb the increase in annual federal employees» wages for 2011 - 12, and froze their operating budgets for 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 at their 2010 - 11 levels.

With funding and support from Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD), the National Angel Capital Organization (NACO) has undertaken an initiative aimed at growing and supporting best practices adoption in Angel investor communities in Western Canada.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

We hope this project will serve as a model for future national initiatives that can be scaled with funds from programs such as the Green Climate Fund.»

The funds will contribute to Cheribundi's future marketing and sales initiatives as it grows its national presence.

As the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom (PBIC) initiative enters its third round of funding, the founding partners — NEA HIN, the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), School Nutrition Foundation (SNF), and the National Association of Elementary School Principals Foundation (NAESPF)-- are working to increase access to school breakfast for students around the country.

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.

Part Two still focuses on Buffalo and Niagara Falls, but about 20 percent of the initiative's proposed funding would go to other Western New York communities, from $ 5 million in financing to the National Comedy Center in Jamestown to a $ 20 million contest for 18 municipalities to compete for funding for downtown revitalization projects.

Labour does not offer a great deal more, focused primarily on low - cost initiatives and on changing mindsets, although the party does also offer a National Refuge Fund and wider access to Legal Aid for victims of domestic violence.

As the national association and accrediting body for CACs, NCA serves as a voice for the movement before lawmakers, funders, and other decision - makers, leads initiatives that advance and support the CAC mission to provide healing and justice for child victims of abuse, and ensures quality care for the children and families our members serve.

Among the initiatives up for possible state funding is Syracuse University's proposed National Veterans Resource Complex, which would help «solidify» central New York as the «hub» of research and programming connected to veterans and military affairs.

Funded by Big Lottery and Comic Relief it is part of the national Moving People initiative, which aims to stamp out discrimination towards people with mental health problems (see notes to editors).

The wider task of comprehensive social security reform would inevitably require a high - level body to review and advise on the harmonization of various initiatives and deductions from workers» payrolls in the name of welfare, such as pension contributions, national housing fund, national health insurance etc

The pledge card, which mirrors New Labour's initiative in 1997, will promise free party membership for trade unionists, the building of 1m new homes over the course of a parliament, an increase in the minimum wage funded by a cut in employers» national insurance, a cost - of - living test for every policy item and a cabinet minister to «take action for the consumer against rip - off companies».

Huge sums that are supposed to fund the National Health Service are finding their way into yet more offshore tax havens, channelled through Private Finance initiative (PFI) projects.

Like low - carbon energy, the Administration has also placed major funding emphasis on advanced manufacturing, particularly through their multi-agency initiative to establish a national network of 45 manufacturing innovation institutes with industry.

The research focused on seventh - and eighth - grade students participating in the Camden Youth Development Study, an initiative funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health.

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).

The study was partially funded by Columbia University Research Initiatives for Science and Engineering (RISE) award; the Office of Naval Research; NOAA's Climate Program Office's Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections; Willis Research Network; and the National Science Foundation.

Thanks to a National Science Foundation — funded initiative called the iPlant Collaborative, for example, there's an emerging generation of data - analyzing «plant biologists» who have never gotten their hands dirty digging in soil or watering seeds.

Meanwhile, at the national research agencies, some relatively recent initiatives are giving promising early career researchers their own funds and lab space, to foster their independence.

Initiatives include the creation of a new funding agency in 2005, the National Research Agency (ANR, L'Agence nationale de la recherché), a decentralization of universities to give them more independence, and financial incentives to internationalize laboratories, which is part of the «government push to attract faculty from abroad,» he describes.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, Ridge 2000 is «an interdisciplinary initiative to study the Earth's oceanic spreading ridge system as an integrated whole, from its inception in the mantle to its manifestations in the biosphere and water column.»

Other targets of the initiative have focused on instituting ways to build collaboration among academic, nonprofit and private sector efforts, including international groups and to increase federal funding, an effort that spurred Congress to pass in December 2016 the 21st Century Cures Act that authorized $ 1.8 billion for the National Cancer Institute.

The scale of this initiative, funded largely by Rotary International, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO), Unicef, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and many national governments, is unprecedented.

The National Institute of Disability Management and Research (NIDMAR) is a labour - management initiative of the Disabled Workers Foundation of Canada and is supported by public and private funding.

The initiative — known as RE-ENERGYSE (REgaining our ENERGY Science and Engineering Edge), will be jointly funded by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.

The European Union - funded CO-REACH initiative, for example, is a consortium of 12 national bilateral research programmes with China that commands a combined annual budget of $ 12 million.

The work was partially funded with a $ 100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's citizen science initiative, which encourages scientists to find ways to expand knowledge of and access to research.

While Allison's early research that led to Yervoy was funded by the National Cancer Institute, «since then, there have been no major initiatives to accelerate progress in this area.»

Today, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has announced a $ 30 million privately funded initiative on human evolution that will sponsor a permanent museum exhibit, educational programs, and research.

To tackle complex problems like improving the compatibility of cattle and fish, the social and ecological systems of mountains and their river basins must be approached holistically, say ecologists working with the Mountain Social Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain communities.

Still, Sheehan said neuroscience already is one of the leaders in data sharing and management, with such resources as the NIH - funded National Database for Autism Research; an NIH - Defense Department sponsored data base on traumatic brain injury; the NIH - funded Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC), which helps researchers to develop, share and collaborate on software tools for doing functional and structural imaging studies of the brain; and the Neuroscience Information Framework, an NIH initiative that makes neuroscience resources - data, materials, and tools - accessible via any computer connected to the Internet.

To promote better understanding of the ethics of research and the inclusion of individuals in research experiments, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced last year a new funding initiative: Research on Ethical Issues in Human Studies.

Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)-- which is funding this initiative jointly with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute — says that having the genomes of three of the most important mammals in biomedical research in hand «will greatly speed the unraveling of the genetics and physiology» of human disease.

We got funding from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy and the Tufts Collaborates initiative to pursue this new area of research.»

And $ 300 million from Cures tagged for the National Cancer Institute is expected to fund former Vice President Joe Biden's moonshot initiative.

The positions are funded by the 10 - year ENS - ICFP grant, obtained through the French National Excellence initiative.

Funds for the Smithsonian - NHGRI exhibition and related initiatives were raised privately by both the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.

The program has three major components: the Director's R&D Fund, which develops new capabilities in support of the Laboratory's research initiatives, the Seed Money Fund, which is open to all innovative ideas that have the potential for enhancing the Laboratory's core scientific and technical disciplines, and the Named Fellowships, open to outstanding doctorate - level candidate scientists and engineers to achieve experience in areas of science and technology of national importance.

The research was conducted as part of the Human Microbiome Project, a major initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that largely has focused on cataloging the body's bacterial ecosystems.

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.

The awards total approximately $ 127 million and represents contributions from the NIH Common Fund; the National Cancer Institute; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; National Institute of General Medical Sciences; National Institute of Mental Health; and the Big Data to Knowledge initiative.

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.