Sentences with phrase «of education funding by»

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• Noodle Partners, a New York firm that helps colleges decrease the cost of online higher education, raised about $ 14 million in Series A funding led by Owl Ventures.

The Flatiron School also offers a Web - development fellowship, with a similar education funded entirely by New York City's Department of Small Business Services.

«There's lots of positive momentum,» he says, pointing as well to the recent $ 80 - million venture capital investment by OMERS Ventures and the American venture fund New Enterprise Associates in Desire2Learn, a global provider of online education platforms, based in Kitchener, Ont.

The systematic gutting of publicly funded education — be it in elementary schools or in colleges — was done by officials we've elected, many of whom have received strong support from members of the business community who regularly complain about the lack of a prepared workforce.

-- By Shaleena Chanrai, co-founder and art director of Bella Kinesis, a sportswear brand that helps fund business education for women in rural India through customer purchases.

«By providing three years advance notice of the move and by funding education and retraining programs for up to four years after the move is complete, we are providing employees with both time and opportunity to help them to make a smooth transition,» the company saiBy providing three years advance notice of the move and by funding education and retraining programs for up to four years after the move is complete, we are providing employees with both time and opportunity to help them to make a smooth transition,» the company saiby funding education and retraining programs for up to four years after the move is complete, we are providing employees with both time and opportunity to help them to make a smooth transition,» the company said.

H.B. 929 Status: Failed Relates to promotion of cybersecurity in the Commonwealth, initiates several efforts to promote economic development, research and development, and workforce development of the cybersecurity industry in the Commonwealth, creates two new matching grant funds, adds one administered by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority for private entities that collaborate with one or more public institutions of higher education on research and development related to cybersecurity.

Everyone who was on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School campus during the Feb. 14 mass shootings will be eligible to receive a share of the victims» fund created by the Broward Education Foundation.

The governor said he issued an executive order Friday to halt the erosion of the bank's dwindling liquidity by allowing withdrawals only to fund necessary costs for health, public safety and education services.

The nonprofit Flyers Rights, which invests in the airlines through its education fund, has filed shareholder proposals requesting a report from each one that includes an analysis of how its profit margin and stock price could be affected by these trends.

The VentureStart program works on an «equal contribution» basis, where entrepreneurs contribute toward the total cost of the education phase of the program (matched by FedDev through VentureStart) and 50 per cent of the seed financing for the product development phase, up to a maximum of $ 30,000 in matching funds.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Presentations on topics such as (a) the relationships among price movements of stock indexes, the CBOE Volatility Index ® (VIX ®), and the India VIX Index, and (b) new studies on fund use of options and volatility - based strategies, will be delivered by me to continuing - education meetings of the Indian Association of Investment Professionals (IAIP) in the cities -LSB-...]

«The net result of the Liberals» carbon trust shell game is that year after year money gets drained from classrooms and emergency rooms without any resulting efficiency gains while big polluters like Encana get a free ride funded by our healthcare and education systems,» said New Democrat environment critic Rob Fleming.

Other Uses of Funds In view of the near impossibility of replicating the debt cancellations of prior millennia in the modern context, we have re-interpreted the prior objective of seeking to sustain a property - owning democracy in terms of equity participation by the State to enable any (young) person to afford the down - payment for a home, to finance a start - up business, and to benefit (if academically gifted) from tertiary education.

I also believe that funding higher education by religions is simply a way of offering a worthwhile product (good education) to intice a captive audience in the hopes of indoctrination... actually an ingenious recruiting investment.

Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

, and by working to lower the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies in the first place — which means better sexual health education in schools, funding for birth control measures and education about using that birth control, promoting research into methods of safe male birth control, and creating an environment where the women in your life can come to you to discuss safe sexual choices.

In his service as missionary and later as director of the World Council's Theological Education Fund, he had encountered and dissented from the notion that redemptive Christian norms and ideas transform culture by being imported into or imposed on it.

And the General Education Board, funded by John D. Rockefeller, Sr., was becoming a most promising source of funds for promising universities.

«In May 2011, Rhee spoke in favor of school choice alongside the Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker at an event hosted by the American Federation for Children, a pro-school choice education organization founded and funded by Betsy DeVos.

There is no need to shrug and assume that current government - funded schemes of sex education or vague imitations of them are the only way forward: Catholic schools are popular and highly - regarded by the public in general in Britain and in a stand - off between them and officialdom the latter might find it had fewer allies than it imagines.

Through their associated non-profit, Sudara Freedom Fund, they have an even greater impact on the lives of women and children in India by equipping even more women and their children with education and housing and micro-loans — tools needed to build and sustain a new life such as the Sunetha Home, supporting long - term, systemic change by directly addressing issues that lead to generational sex work.

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.

Trump also committed to work with Congress to repeal and replace the health care law, to divert education funds to school - choice programs, and to stop illegal immigration by funding the construction of a wall on the Mexican border and other provisions.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

Funded by three successive grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the project was able to develop class - tested materials and to enlist the support of recognized historians of religion.

It has been nurtured in many ways: by research into basic issues in theological education underwritten by competitive grants offered by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) and funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.; by the work of some theological educators commissioned by the Endowment to think about these questions; and by a series of seminars and conferences convened by the ATS to discuss some of the results of this research and reflection.

Funds donated by the company and others to the foundation are used to «provide the advancement of education, the community and scientific research,» the company says.

Members of our Board of Directors have been providing postharvest training for many years (sponsored by a variety of organizations and funding bodies), and starting in 2012, PEF has been offering these programs via e-learning (low cost distance education) for a wide range of young horticultural professionals in more than 25 countries.

The company, Whole Kids, manufactures and supplies organic, hypo - allergenic, additive - free snacks for children, and is Ms Meldrum's attempt to rectify some of the wrongs she sees perpetrated by Big Food, and generate revenue to fund health and education programs for children nationally.

Her research, supported by the a Western Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education fund, was recently published in the Nutrition Journal and continues to provide justification for «value added» nutritional labeling for farmer direct marketing of grass - fed products.

Established by Cape Classics, The Indaba Education Fund is a registered Section 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization that invests in Early Childhood Development within the Winelands of South Africa

The monies raised will help create miracles by funding medical care, research and education that saves and improves the lives of 17 million children treated at Children's Miracle Network Hospitals each year.

Co-sponsored by the Greater Marathon Chamber of Commerce, the seafood fest also helps fund members» continuing - education opportunities.

They will also discuss the progress made by the FVIAC's five Working Groups, which cover the following topics: 1) Ports of Entry Inspection Delays, 2) Research and Grant Funding, 3) Agricultural Labor, 4) Education and Branding, and 5) Food Safety.

The initiative will be supported for the next three years by the Foundation for Global Sports Development (GSD), which has provided the ITF with a grant of $ 375,000 to fund workshops, education courses and professional development for women in sport.»

Premier League Enterprise, jointly funded by the Premier League and Sport Relief, uses the backdrop of professional football clubs» business models to deliver enterprise education.

Please note that while we are affiliated with Stanford University's Graduate School of Education, we receive no direct funding from Stanford, and the education reform efforts that we promote are often overlooked by common funding mechanisms such as foundatioEducation, we receive no direct funding from Stanford, and the education reform efforts that we promote are often overlooked by common funding mechanisms such as foundatioeducation reform efforts that we promote are often overlooked by common funding mechanisms such as foundation grants.

Over the last two years, working with the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships and funded by the Department for Education, we have been offering this seminar to practitioners and managers working in local authorities across England, to support the engagement of the couple / parental relationships with a more father - inclusive approach.

Coming from a family affected by breast cancer, I am here to tell you that building awareness, helping fund research and education and spreading the good word is of the utmost importance.

These pilot programs were funded through the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom; along with SNF, the partners include the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), National Association of Elementary School Principals Foundation (NAESPF), and National Education Association Health Information Network (NEAHIN), and funded by the Walmart Foundation.

This work was funded in part by a grant from the CityBridge Foundation, the education - focused foundation of Katherine and David Bradley, who also own The Atlantic.

The Chicago Board of Education is often stymied by lack of funds in attempting to solve the myriad problems that face the district.

The following materials were funded by a USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant through the Vermont Agency of Agriculture and are a collaboration of the Vermont Agency of Education, Vermont FEED (Food Education Every Day) and Green Mountain Farm to School.

The Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers» Society (PATS) utilized funds they received from a grant provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Health, to work collaboratively with the PAMed and SSI to provide free concussion education throughout the Commonwealth for physicians, physician assistants, coaches, parents and athletes participating in youth sports.

Violations of Section II (public schools and private schools receiving federal funds) of the ADA are overseen by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

PATS utilized funds they received from a grant provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Health to provide free concussion education throughout the Commonwealth for physicians, physician assistants, coaches, parents and athletes participating in youth sports.

If a student goes through the food service line and it is discovered that the student does not have the required funds for a meal, the Chartwells Food Service representative has been instructed by the Willingboro Board of Education to withhold the meal from the student, with the understanding that such meal can not be re-served and must be discarded.

This program is a partnership between the Bower Foundation and the Department of Education to improve students» health and nutrition by providing funds to help purchase combination oven steamers, known as «combi ovens,» in order to eliminate deep fat fryers in Mississippi schools.