Sentences with phrase «of grant every year»

The Irving Schoolyard Project group has also applied for a number of grants this year, Crawford said, and continues to push fundraising efforts in the community.

So if you are eligible for $ 1,000 of grants this year (from a $ 5,000 contribution), you'll get $ 1,000 only.

Not exact matches

Investigators believed the company's reviews over whether to supply customers more controlled substances were not meaningful and were used as a sales tool; customers were granted threshold increases for reasons, like the 4th of July, or the closure of an area pharmacy years earlier, that the government considered less than compelling.

In the past two years, aided by a grant from the Small Business Administration, the network has helped a niche - group of energy entrepreneurs secure some $ 32 million in federal contracts and create an estimated 400 jobs.

Giving 25 % of the market rate for a position each year, rather than a lump sum grant that covers the next four years, will smooth out the vesting process so the employee never reaches a cliff.

Because the performance - based stock grants also aren't worth anything until Valeant stock hits $ 60, the current value of Papa's paycheck last year is much lower, or about $ 14.7 million.

In 2010 and 2011, the cluster received a total of $ 1.2 million in grants from the SBA, and is one of seven to be selected for additional funding beyond the two - year pilot, receiving another $ 385,000 in 2012, with an option to renew that grant for another four years.

I've been following Wharton's top - rated professor Adam Grant as well as Dan Pink, one of the 10 most - influential management thinkers in the world, for years now.

Overall, the use of option grants fell last year to just 25 % from 28 % the previous year and 35 % in 2011.

In recent years the value of patents that have been monetized through acquisitions or licensing has neared $ 200 billion, and yet that represents a tiny portion of all patent grants.

Looking at the number of options awarded by S&P 500 companies for the roughly two decades between 1992 and 2010, they found about 20 % of the time boards simply kept the number of options they granted to their top executive the same from one year to the next.

Because option values can be difficult to understand, boards have tended to issue a certain number of options from year to year, regardless of the grant's dollar value, rather than calculate a desired dollar value and vary the number of options.

The Hive has been open in Manhattan for nearly a year, since receiving a $ 100,000 grant from the Bloomberg administration as part of the mayor's MediaNYC 2020 program.

Because a patent grants the inventor a monopoly on his or her invention for relatively long period of time (between 14 and 20 years depending upon the invention), patent applications are rigorously examined by the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).

A few years ago he went beyond critique and created the Thiel Fellowship, which gives a US$ 100,000 grant to entrepreneurial young people who «want to build new things instead of sitting in a classroom.»

And rather than granting requests by seniority, he has a lottery to let about a fifth of his staff leave at noon on either Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve.

This is most often done over a period of time, say like 20 % of the grant per year over five years.

Government grants are a major source of funding for small businesses, estimated to be worth over $ 90.7 billion per year.

To receive the grant, the winners — between 20 and 30 of them each year — must drop out of school to pursue their ventures.

Granted, follow - up calls throughout the year may make that one important sale possible, but knowing when to instigate the first call is a priceless piece of information.

Employees will vest about 80 % of their initial stock grant after two years of work.

His father, Stanley Ho, has been nicknamed «The King of Gambling,» referring to the government - granted monopoly he held on the Macau gambling industry for 40 years.

The next frontier As such, drones have quietly been making inroads in the Arctic for the past several years, mostly under clearances granted to research institutions like the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

But of the more than 2,500 claims finalized last year, 53 percent were granted refugee status.

Once you open an RESP account, you can take advantage of the Canadian Education Savings Grant, which gives you a 20 % top - up from the government for every dollar you contribute, up to $ 2,500 a year per child.

With their efforts ranging from hosting employee - appreciation banquets to granting years - of - service awards, company leaders do try to boost morale.

In the aftermath, I was left with years of memories and a smartphone that couldn't provide enjoyable company across a dinner table, share in the joys of experiencing a concert or kiss me goodnight before bed — all these things I had previously taken for granted simply because I was too preoccupied looking for fulfillment from a screen.

If those options were exercised and the stock was then sold at, say, $ 40, it would amount to a bonus of almost $ 330 million — the market price less the strike price, times the number of options granted — paid out to Siebel employees over the next nine years.

Former CEO Gene Isenberg made over $ 108 million in the last three years, and as he exits the CEO post to become chair of the energy drilling company, Nabors» (NBR) board is granting what Gary Strauss has suitably called a «platinum kiss,» a handsome thank - you estimated to be $ 100 to $ 165 million for his services.

Given the similarities between the Canadian Patent Act and its U.S. counterpart for the definition of «invention», the Canadian Patent Office has for many years granted claims like Myriad's to isolated gene sequences and continues to do so.

Granted patents have a lifespan of 20 years.

This dramatic rendering of a real - life tragedy recounts the final hours of Oscar Grant, who was shot by San Francisco Transit Police on New Year's Day in 2009.

The two - year «solar soldier» project brings together 15 researchers from six universities, led by the University of Glasgow, and is funded by a $ 1 - million grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Ministry of Defence.

Scott Spector, a Silicon Valley compensation expert with law firm Fenwick & West, says the typical small technology company he advises may well grant options equal to 24 % or more of total shares outstanding, up from 15 % just three years ago.

That program, instituted under President Obama, makes certain undocumented people who came to the U.S. before the age of 16 low - level priorities for deportation while also granting them legal, three - year work permits.

And the pace and breadth of his inventiveness is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that during those three critical years he was granted not only nearly 90 patents for incandescent filaments and lamps but also 60 patents for magneto or dynamo - electric machines and their regulation, 14 patents for the system of electric lighting, 12 patents for the distribution of electricity, and 10 patents for electric meters and motors.

One year after it launched Etsy Hacker Grants, the number of female engineers at the firm grew from four to 20.

An employee's options grant tends to be broken up into percentage blocks, with each block vesting annually over a set number of years.

Wynne will have to hope that a 10 - year, $ 2.5 - billion Jobs and Prosperity Fund of corporate grants will lure business back.

In a decision released by the Baltimore Circuit Court, Judge Martin P. Welch wrote that the 35 - year - old was being granted a new trial because his initial council failed to properly cross-examine an expert from the state about the reliability of cell tower data that seemed to place him at the scene of the crime.

Most of the money spent in its first year went directly to political ads or grants to other groups.

The number of shares Coke will grant as a percentage of total outstanding stock will be no more than 0.8 percent in 2015 and an average of 0.4 percent for the remainder of the 10 - year plan.

I quickly learned that Turkey is the envy of many with several programs to help new businesses including tax credits to angel investors and grants to technology - based entrepreneurs to support their first year of operation.

Take, for example, the Peter Thiel Fellowship, which grants recipients $ 100,000 and two years out of college to pursue a compelling entrepreneurial idea.

Amgen has argued that Sandoz (the generic medicines unit of pharma giant Novartis) and other biosimilar makers must wait an additional six months (on top of the 12 years» exclusivity already granted to biologics) before selling copycats.

The $ 199 million grant would have made Pichai the top - paid U.S. CEO in 2015, according to the Financial Times, which reports that the highest pay for a U.S. CEO last year was the $ 156 million paid to David Zaslav of Discovery Communications (disca).

Davis» career has spanned almost 50 years and he has discovered some of the biggest names in music, but he doesn't attribute it to talent and has never taken it for granted.

If that sounds like a familiar point, it's the exact conclusion of the 75 - year Harvard Grant Study, which found that the number - one thing people need in order to be fulfilled and happy is to develop relationships with other people.

To qualify for that sweet tax deal, they can't dispose of the stock within two years after the time the option was granted — and they also can't sell stock within one year of the time they exercise the option.

Eduventures says about one million students are enrolled in degree - granting online programs this year at both traditional schools and at for - profit programs such as the University of Phoenix.