Sentences with phrase «new challenge grant»

Our brand new challenge grant means that every dollar you donate this December will count double!

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They recently received a $ 10,000 grant to help grow their business from the New Economy Initiative's small business challenge, and his farm was among one of five Detroit based urban farms to be awarded.

On Thursday, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted a request for a preliminary injunction to the states of California and New Mexico, which are challenging Interior's suspension.

As op - ed writer Adam Grant noted in the New York Times in September 2015, the slow extinction of full - time, conventional employment arrangements (along with the rise of freelance work) poses a challenge to establishing meaningful connections in the office.

Granted, we face new challenges this year that have caused market jitters — Ebola and ISIS, just to name a couple.

Available free of charge on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents, and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season, and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.

In December, 2013, New Jersey became one of the six newest states to receive a Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT - ELC) grant.

In recent months Business Secretary Greg Clark has announced a series of new innovation grants as part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.

The money is being sought from phase 3 of the New York SUNY 2020 Challenge Grant program.

Tight lips at the Board of Elections as they work to verify signatures hurriedly BY SARA GILBERT New York State Senator David Carlucci challenged over 1,100 petition signatures gathered by Democratic candidate Grant Valentine and his supporters.

On this week's edition of the Campbell Conversations, Grant Reeher talks with Oswego County Sheriff Reuel Todd, who recently joined a constitutional challenge to the law filed by the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running for reelection and faces a Democratic primary challenge from actress and education activist Cynthia Nixon, promised to grant 35,000 felons currently on parole in New York State the right to vote.

This week on the Campbell Conversations, host Grant Reeher talks to Dana Balter, the Democratic Party's endorsed candidate to challenge Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus) for central New York's 24th Congressional District seat.

Created the NYSUNY 2020 Challenge Grant Program making the State University of New York an engine of economic development with world - class centers of research and innovation.

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman is heading a coalition of 16 Attorneys General in a new amicus brief to protect cities and police departments from federal funding cuts, supporting a challenge to the Trump administration's efforts to punish so - called «sanctuary» jurisdictions by putting immigration - related conditions on federal law enforcement granNew York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman is heading a coalition of 16 Attorneys General in a new amicus brief to protect cities and police departments from federal funding cuts, supporting a challenge to the Trump administration's efforts to punish so - called «sanctuary» jurisdictions by putting immigration - related conditions on federal law enforcement grannew amicus brief to protect cities and police departments from federal funding cuts, supporting a challenge to the Trump administration's efforts to punish so - called «sanctuary» jurisdictions by putting immigration - related conditions on federal law enforcement grants.

He acknowledged that Entergy faced more challenges in its bid for a new license, but was confident a renewal would eventually be granted.

At a meeting in September, the chairman of the location board, Kevin Law, said that Atlantic City's decline was one of many factors the state considered as it reviewed the bidders» applications, and that deciding whether or not to grant a license in Orange County — close to New York City — was the «biggest challenge» the state faced in the decision - making process.

New York State Senator David Carlucci challenged over 1,100 petition signatures gathered by Democratic candidate Grant Valentine and his supporters.

NIH's new 2 - year challenge grants — the only stimulus funding program open to proposals for new projects — are, Suter believes, perfect for giving «young people fresh out of their training, the hot, young Turks with the cutting - edge methodologies, an opportunity to move these very cutting - edge questions forward very, very quickly.»

On 23 November, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced that it will not fund new grants for prevention and treatment until 2014, owing to «substantial budget challenges in some donor countries».

In a new study funded in part by a National Geographic Society / Waitt Fund Grant and published in Behavioral Ecology, Rudolph and McEntee found that victorious colonies might offset this challenge by recruiting members of the losing colonies to help.

M.L.: I wouldn't call it a challenge exactly, but one thing that's new is that there is now the European Research Council [ERC] that now distributes research grants, so some say, «Won't EMBO be obsolete?»

Today, in Nature Genetics and at a New York City press briefing, Larry Kedes and Grant Campany from the X PRIZE Foundation laid out the revised challenge, which includes a less tight deadline and other changes.

To inspire STEM awareness, one New Jersey school district has turned its Kit Club grant award into a video challenge for area schools.

Missions near the end of the game throw all - new challenges at the player; old strategies that players may take for granted can quickly become useless in the face of smarter, stronger, more situationally - aware enemies.

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze debuted a few years ago for Wii U and this Switch version is basically a port with some improved performance and a new Funky mode where you can play as Funky Kong or tone down the level of challenge as DK by granting him extra health.

Wood, who began his career as a social studies and history teacher in South Carolina, says he didn't really understand the impact of policy on what he did in the classroom until U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley invited him to Washington in 1993 to write the guidelines and serve as chief reviewer for the department's new Technology Innovation Challenge Grants program.

Youth Engaged in Service to America, or yes, would be a federal challenge - grant program designed to build upon existing youth - service programs and spur the creation of new ones, the Vice President said.

The Annenberg Rural Challenge recently announced two new recipients of its grants to promote rural school reform.

Granted, the achievement - level design of the NCLB accountability system creates some challenges for new schools like charters.

Earlier this month I had the privilege of visiting the USC Hybrid High School (HHS), a new charter school in Los Angeles and winner of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Next Generation Learning Challenges grant.

The department recently awarded 24 new grants totaling $ 23 million to school, community, and business partnerships in 16 states under its Challenge Grants for Technology in Education Prgrants totaling $ 23 million to school, community, and business partnerships in 16 states under its Challenge Grants for Technology in Education PrGrants for Technology in Education Program.

Regional schools commissioners have been told to grant more than 60 new free schools each as the Department for Education formalises plans to meet David Cameron's «challenging» pledge of 500 new schools by 2020.

Plaintiffs in the second case, Wright v. New York, filed a complaint in July that challenges both LIFO and the law under which teachers are granted or denied tenure after three years.

1994 — CEI became a founding partner in the Annenberg Challenge grant to create small public schools and networks among New York City schools.

Maximizing Large Federal Funds to Support Opportunity Youth This new report investigates the ways in which the existing federal funding streams of WIOA, TANF, SNAP (Food Stamps) Education and Training, and Pell Grants are challenging to use and hard to combine, even when it would be in the best interest of the young person and the community to do so.

With support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the meeting offered two days of conversation and reflection on the rationale for a new schools strategy, emerging evidence on its viability and the challenges grant - makers need to confront to support successful new schools initiatives.

The U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today that California, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, Oregon and Wisconsin will each receive a supplemental award from the 2013 Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT - ELC) grant fund to improve quality and expand access to early learning programs throughout their states.

The NEA announced a $ 500,000 challenge grant to replicate and expand a successful New Jersey Education Association program that helps increase the number of certified science and math teachers.

Caitlin Scott writes on a new REL Northwest study that uncovers challenges faced by rural schools with School Improvement Grants and shows the promise of technical assistance when it comes to implementing evidence - based strategies.

There have now been a few successful lawsuits brought to challenge various versions of these tests, with rulings centering on tenuous connections between the skills being tested and those necessary to do the job.120 To address some of these underlying concerns, the TeachNY Advisory Council, supported by a grant from the New York State Department of Education, drafted policy recommendations in May 2016 around teacher preparation recruitment, selection, and cultural competence in the hopes of finding ways to improve teacher quality and diversity.121

Caitlin Scott writes on a new REL Northwest study that uncovers challenges faced by rural schools with School Improvement Grants and shows the promise of technical...

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6, 2014 — Educators in at least four major cities across the United States will compete to win funds to redesign or build new schools that personalize instruction for their students through a $ 2.4 million grant to the Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC), The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation announced today.

Six states — California, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, Oregon, and Wisconsin — with grant proposals that were partially funded as part of the Department of Education's Race to the Top Early - Learning Challenge (RTT - ELC) will now receive a combined $ 89 million in supplemental awards to help improve early childhood education.

All eyes are on King and Castrejón to see if the new relationship they have begun through back - channel meetings will result in success — by no means a guarantee, as other LA reform efforts have proved mostly unsuccessful, such as the oft - criticized Annenberg Challenge grants in the 1990s.

New York State selected OPFC as a single source provider of mobile, community - based college access and success services, providing federal College Access Challenge Grant funding to replicate to Utica, NY and Manhattan / Bronx, in partnership with Goddard - Riverside Community Center and New Settlement Apartments

William T. Grant Foundation, Spencer Foundation & Child Trends: Research - Practice Partnerships: Building Two - Way Streets of Engagement This report discuss how RPPs challenge researchers and practitioners to work together in new ways, as well as how to improve these relationships to enhance youth outcomes.

As part of his interest in the potential impact of serious music and writing on each other, he made the first challenge grant to listeners of New Sounds (formerly Q2 Music), the 24/7 live - streaming contemporary classical Internet service of New York Public Radio flagship WNYC / WQXR.

Granted, we face new challenges this year that have caused market jitters — Ebola and ISIS, just to name a couple.

That's why, from April 29 to May 31, 2016, we gave 596 grants totaling $ 617,500 to shelters that joined the Challenge, and to Challenge shelters that referred new participants.