Sentences with phrase «of competitive grants awarded»

Libby Doggett, director of the Pew Home Visiting Campaign, an initiative of the Pew Center on the States, released the following statement in response to the first round of competitive grants awarded in the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program:

Not exact matches

When the stock price plummets because your company underperforms, and you subsequently feel you have to grant a lot more to remain competitive, and then your stock price recovers, your CEO will end up with a lot more award value than the CEO of a competitor whose firm's stock price dropped much less, before also recovering.

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Now in its sixth year, the Winston Industries Equipment Award Grant program will award one school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant proAward Grant program will award one school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant proGrant program will award one school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant proaward one school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant progrant process.

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The Task Force began their anti-fraud investigations in mid-April of this year, after Erie County was awarded a competitive grant for this purpose from the New York Office of Children and Family Services.

Westchester, NY — Westchester Congress Members Eliot Engel (NY - 16), Nita Lowey (NY - 17), and Sean Patrick Maloney (NY - 18) announced today that Westchester County has been awarded a $ 3.6 million federal grant from the United States Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration for new vehicles under the Bus and Bus Facilities Competitive Grant Progrant from the United States Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration for new vehicles under the Bus and Bus Facilities Competitive Grant ProGrant Program.

New York received a $ 750 million competitive grant award in 2010 as part of President Barack Obama's signature education initiative.

Chapter 13 of the City Charter requires sealed competitive bidding for virtually every purchase or grant awarded by the city.

Nearly half of the 773 grants awarded to schools have gone to JROTC programs, which put students through a basic military curriculum and offer an array of small competitive clubs, like the rifle team at Broward's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

For the 26 most competitive programs, less than 15 % of applicants were awarded the grants.

As a member of the Education & Workforce committee, I strongly oppose recent efforts to reduce federal funding in these areas, and I am the author of H.R. 258, the STEM Master Teacher Corps Act, which would award competitive grants to school districts or states to partner with colleges and universities or nonprofit organizations to establish a program which will develop, support and retain exceptional teachers in the STEM disciplines.

A 2005 National Academy of Sciences report documented a shortage of veterinarian scientists in the biomedical enterprise, noting that few National Institutes of Health (NIH)-- funded competitive grants involving animals were awarded to principal investigators with veterinary training.

She suggested that the directorate follow the example of other science agencies like the National Science Foundation in giving out grants, and «that funds be awarded on a competitive basis based on scientific peer review except in cases when that is clearly not feasible.»

Since the 1940s, when the U.S. government began to invest seriously in civilian research, the work has been done largely at the nation's universities and paid for through competitive, temporary grants awarded to individual professors by federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

Competitive grants are catching on at two agencies — the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency — that haven't been big investors in such awards in the past.

Budget limited to no more than amount of current parent award; Can be from less than $ 5,000 to more than $ 100,000 depending on career level of candidate; End with competitive cycle of parent grant

Crittenden has published 27 peer - reviewed journal articles and eight peer - reviewed book chapters thus far, has received a Regents» Rising Researcher Award from the Nevada System of Higher Education, has been awarded several highly competitive research grants, and has demonstrated a commitment to increasing inclusiveness and diversity within the STEM fields through several mentorship initiatives she participates in.

This consortium grant is a competitive renewal of a previous award to Markou, in collaboration with Novartis, when her laboratory was located at Scripps Research.

Synergy grants are awarded by the ERC, on the basis of scientific excellence in an intricate and highly competitive selection procedure.

Jeffrey D. Rudolf, a postdoctoral researcher on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), has been awarded a Pathway to Independence Award (K99 / R00), a highly competitive career transition grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

«Through the President's Research Award, we are seeking to encourage collaborative projects that have a strong likelihood of realizing competitive grant funding.

The center also participates in the national «MICROMouse» program, which awards competitive one - year grants up to $ 75,000 for research projects that have the potential to enhance and advance the mission of the MMPC as a resource for scientists using mice to study diabetes and obesity.

In awarding grants for homelessness programs, federal housing officials will give a «competitive advantage to providers who keep families together and strengthen the family structure,» Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry G. Cisneros said in announcing the policy last month.

At the same time, the Race to the Top program offered competitive grants that awarded points to states based on their implementation of policies like performance - based evaluations.

ED shall award competitive grants to eligible entities for the establishment of Presidential and Congressional Academies for the Teaching of American History and Civics, through which seminars or institutes shall be offered to teachers and students.

In addition, ED shall annually award competitive grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to eligible entities for the purposes of enriching students» academic experience by promoting: (1) arts education for disadvantaged and disabled students, (2) school readiness through the development and dissemination of accessible instructional programing for preschool and elementary school children and their families, and (3) support for high - ability learners and high - ability learning through the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Program.

(Sec. 9212) The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), jointly with ED, shall award preschool development grants to states on a competitive basis.

The expanded federal role has been most evident in a thoroughly revamped National Assessment of Educational Progress (1988); the Clinton administration's Goals 2000 Act (1994); the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind Act (2001); and, most recently, the «Race to the Top» component of the 2009 economic stimulus act, which will award competitive grants to states that, in the judgment of the Obama administration, have what it takes to turn around failing schools and boost student achievement.

Through the Teachers and School Leader Incentive Program, ED shall award competitive grants to eligible entities for the development, implementation, or expansion of performance - based compensation systems or human capital management systems.

They could link monetary awards to the use of direct student services and provide additional funding for choice opportunities through the competitive grant framework.

In the Department's fiscal year (FY) 2006 appropriations bill, Congress also included language overriding the statutory provision that SEAs use 50 percent of the amount available for grants to Local Education Agencies (LEAs) for formula awards and 50 percent for competitive awards.

Additionally, the U.S. Department of Education began using state charter laws as a consideration in the awarding of the federal Race - to - the - Top competitive grant program.

The District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education «intends to award $ 1.5 million in competitive grants from Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act funds for the public charter sector for teacher pipeline initiatives.

The Title II program awarded and supported over 90 competitive grants to states and to partnerships of universities and high need schools to improve the quality of teacher preparation policy and practice in the United States.

Through her work in governmental affairs, she earned the title of Principal Investigator within the UC system and received over $ 20M in competitive grant awards.

In 2010, the US Department of Education awarded AppleTree a highly competitive Investing in Innovation (i3) grant to further develop and codify Every Child Ready.

As a result of NISL's track record of success across the country, the U.S. Department of Education recently awarded NISL nearly $ 23 million in competitive grants, supporting the development of over 1,500 school leaders in California, Florida, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Mississippi.

The U.S. Department of Education will be awarding the money in competitive grants to states.

The first $ 40 million of excise tax (a wholesale tax before the product reaches the store shelf) on marijuana raised each year in Colorado is dedicated to a program called BEST, which awards competitive grants to school construction projects — mostly to improve buildings in rural districts

Moreover, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded dozens of competitive grants in the past several days so that it is not held up by a shutdown.

The Wallace Foundation awarded a competitive grant to UChicago CCSR in 2013 to undertake the project, which included a review of relevant literature spanning decades as well as interviews with national experts in research, policy and practice, and young people and the adults who work with them in schools, programs and agencies throughout Chicago.

The administration also leveraged $ 4.3 billion in stimulus money that Congress approved for education, creating a series of competitive grants known as Race to the Top, pumping to a new level this type of award.

The U.S. Department of Education today announced the launch of the «State - Tribal Education Partnership» — or STEP — pilot program, which will award $ 1.9 million in competitive grants to tribal education agencies (TEAs) to increase their role in the education of American Indian and Alaska Native students.

«She continued to work in the laboratory following the end of the program, and this spring was awarded a highly competitive grant from the Morris Animal Foundation to continue that research this summer and will continue to work in the laboratory on this project during the fall semester as well.

Team Luton, the town's leading competitive swimming club, is one of the latest projects to be awarded a grant by the London Luton Airport Community Trust Fund.

Funding was awarded in part through a competitive grant presented to Pratt Institute by the Importer Support Program of the Cotton Board and managed by Cotton Incorporated.

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74) Anne H. Van Ingen Young Alumni Committee Sam Bennett (B.F.A. Fashion Design» 07) Sarah Bergenheim (B.F.A. Fashion Design» 07) Samantha Black (B.F.A. Fashion Design» 05) Thea Bloch - Neal (B.F.A. Fashion Design» 07) Blaise Kavanagh (B.F.A. Fashion Design» 06)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Funding Provided By: Funding for the 2012 Pratt Fashion Show was awarded in part through a competitive grant presented to Pratt Institute by the Importer Support Program of the Cotton Board and managed by Cotton Incorporated.

Up to 10 grants ($ 500 for individual artists and $ 1,500 for groups of artists) will be awarded on a competitive basis in two grant cycles to eligible artists towards the purchase of goods or services that will have a direct impact on increasing their emergency readiness.