Sentences with phrase «of competitive grants in»

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.

Not exact matches

During the developmental stage, enrollees can look forward to sole source and competitive 8 (a) program support, transfer via grants of technology or surplus property owned by the U.S., and training to enhance entrepreneurial skills in a variety of areas.

With the objective of learning from the rich experiences and lessons that other countries have gained from their own programs, in early 2016, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada announced a competitive policy research grant for research on best practices by foreign SME export assistance programs.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

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.

FrieslandCampina will also provide financial support in the form of granting preferential loans to farmers, as well as training and technical advice on how to produce hygienic and quality milk at competitive prices.

Specifically, the PBFA has called for: Support for specialty crops; research on plant protein; removing» anti-competitive» policies to bridge the large competitive gap between commodities and specialty crops; support for organic crops; inclusion of transparency and accountability provisions; and referencing «plant - based foods that are major sources of Nutrients of Concern» in 7 USC Section 3157 under «competitive special and facilities research grants.»

Prior to the 1964 Games in Tokyo a small grant was made to study how industrial facilities could be used to develop athletes of international competitive caliber.

Van Gaal's squad currently features 19 players aged 23 or under who he has signed, played, given competitive debuts to or otherwise sought to involve in United's first - team squad — including them in training, naming them on the bench or registering them for cup competitions, and granting them a shirt number — but which youngsters will stand the test of time and become his legacy on the pitch at Old Trafford for the next decade to come?

The Baxter Equipment for Education Grant will award equipment to a school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant proGrant will award equipment to a school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant progrant process.

But while cheerleading has not traditionally been considered a Title IX sport in college athletics, at least one major high school athletic association has granted cheerleading competitive status for most of the past decade.

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 proGrant program will award one school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant progrant process.

The Baxter Equipment for Education Grant awards equipment to one school in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant proGrant awards equipment to one school in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant progrant process.

The Winston Foodservice Equipment Grant provides 10 pieces of equipment from Winston Foodservice to one school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant proGrant provides 10 pieces of equipment from Winston Foodservice to one school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant progrant process.

The USDA's Farm to School Grant Program — originally funded as part of the Healthy Huger - Free Kids Act of 2010 — provides resources on a competitive basis to schools, nonprofits, farmers and government entities to assist in implementing farm to school programs that improve access to local foods in eligible schools.

Klein said it's «too early» to say for certain whether de Blasio's pre-K plan is «right» compared to the one the governor is proposing, which calls for using $ 1.5 billion over five yreas to fund pre-K statewide ($ 100 million total in the first year, $ 25 million of which is renewing the existing competitive pre-K grants).

The budget proposal redirects formula and reimbursement aid into competitive grants in a number of areas and encourages community solutions rather than State mandates.

On Tuesday Gov. Andrew Cuomo held the districts up as models for the rest of the state, while promising them $ 12 million in competitive grants over the next three years.

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.

«If they pool their resources, they can present their plan to the U.S. Department of Commerce and get a competitive grant that will match every dollar that is put in locally, up to $ 1 million.»

As more is revealed about what really went on then that is still existing, and how the AG covered it up by refusing to indict the corruption now running the State Agencies and Authorities in Albany for massive Civil Service Law abuse and the granting of Pension System Final Average Salaries (FAS) way above the their permanent competitive status, you'll hear more excuses than a corrupt regime gives when it is about to collapse and they're in total fear.

In response to the court decisions, the supplemental grants were removed from the state's campaign financing law; the basic grant of public money to gubernatorial candidates was doubled to make participants more competitive and a low, $ 100 limit was placed on lobbyist contributions, thus limiting their influence.

An afternoon session reviewed projects that the regional council would like to fund in next year's round of competitive grants.

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

But pork - barrel spending has crept back into the state budget in the form of capital grants doled out at the discretion of the governor and favored legislators — to the tune of $ 1.1 billion over three years, with no competitive bidding or disclosure of which politicians requested what money.

ALBANY — Only 88 school districts in New York state have applied for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's competitive pre-kindergarten grants, representing about a quarter of the 345 districts that were eligible.

The money was part of a $ 75 million package of competitive grants that Cuomo unveiled in his State of the State address last year, including $ 25 million for pre-K.

Despite the uproar in New Paltz over granting what critics consider excessive tax breaks for developers, the IDA will continue to offer Pilots, the chairman said, «because the use of Pilots makes us competitive with other counties.»

Last year, he announced a pilot pre-K program funded by $ 25 million in competitive grants which will serve 27 of New York's roughly 700 school districts.

In December, Syracuse was one of 14 cities to win a competitive grant through the Bloomberg Philanthropies Innovation Teams program.

As the Times Union reported in 2015, the Birches at Schoharie received state support despite getting a low initial score from the staff of Homes and Community Renewal, which allocates competitive state and federal grants and tax benefits for affordable housing projects.

Downtown Revitalization Initiative: Similar to 2016's Downtown Revitalization Initiative, Phase II would create a competitive grant program for place - making strategies to revitalize the downtown areas of suburban small cities, villages and towns in the greater Buffalo / Niagara area.

He ended up including competitive grants for some of those programs in his budget, and they were passed into law by the state Legislature.

As the Times Union reported in 2015, the Birches at Schoharie received state support despite getting a low initial score from the staff of the state Division of Housing and Community Renewal, which allocates competitive state and federal grants and tax benefits for affordable housing projects.

NSF is committed to increasing its support of basic research, mostly through competitive merit - reviewed grants, by shifting resources away from facilities and instrumentation support, a commitment that shows in its 3.8 percent increase for basic research to $ 2.1 billion.

Some of the LDCs have also become competitive for research grants in particular diseases or disciplines.

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.

In one of the most competitive funding calls of European history, Moreno won an ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant, worth $ 1 million, to fund his research during the next 5 years.

A competitive faculty application package, I was told, should include publications in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature, or Science; evidence of fundraising such as travel grants and in - kind research support; and teaching experience as a teaching assistant or guest lecturer.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on 3 Feb. that the White House will request a doubling of funding for competitive grants under the department's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) in the president's FY 2017 budget, to be released next week.

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.»

Although temporary teaching jobs look very attractive to new Ph.D. s looking for teaching experience, Nyhus warns that the heavy teaching load makes it very difficult to remain competitive in terms of grants, publications, and job applications.

Meanwhile, the Wellcome Trust in London released a report yesterday calling for the United Kingdom to pay to participate in future Framework Programs, the main source of competitive grants from the European Union, as an «associated country,» like Norway and Switzerland; in return, the country should also retain a voice in setting framework strategies even after it leaves the European Union.

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.

In fact, however, only about 25 percent of those earning American science PhDs will ever land a faculty job that enables them to apply for the competitive grants that support academic research.

We are engaged in the never - ending futile competitive cycle of publishing five replica papers that show that oranges, grapes, mangoes, bananas, and pears respectively follow the rules of gravity (apple being the first) so that we can apply for grants and publish five more papers showing five more fruits also follow the same rule.

The causes of such unpredictable results, Harris said, can include bad ingredients in the lab, including contaminated and misidentified cell lines; poor research design, including insufficient numbers of mice in animal studies; statistical error and overreach, including «HARKing» (hypothesizing after the results are known), a push beyond the limits of the data; and funding pressures, which can lead scientists to hype or exaggerate their results to remain competitive for additional grant money.

«Young investigators — if they had done really well in the late»70s or early»80s — were given their first grant, and then they were screened at the time of their first competitive renewal.

The total funding of physical sciences from all Commonwealth competitive grants schemes in 1992 - 93 was A$ 31 million, compared with A$ 130 million for the life sciences.