Sentences with phrase «of the big projects funded»

Bringing IBM to Buffalo was one of the big projects funded by the Buffalo Billion, Governor Cuomo's signature initiative to revitalize Western New York's economy.

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The project certainly taught us that one of the big challenges for crowd - funded projects to overcome is the propensity for delays.

Pilbara Minerals has announced the biggest capital raising by a Western Australian company for 2016, which it will use to fund development of its Pilgangoora lithium project, while also announcing it will put its new Tabba Tabba plant on ice.

Although Sandwich still makes plenty of videos for penniless passion projects and moderately - funded ventures, the company has recently taken on work for big corporations like eBay and Yahoo, and has even put together the odd TV ad.

Indiegogo has made a big effort in helping entrepreneurs and new businesses with more than just the funding stage and the platform helps the entrepreneur through the whole lifecycle of their project.

Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi, a low - profile minister with a high - impact portfolio, must hammer out huge bilateral deals with all the provinces for their slices of $ 33 billion in federal funds for ribbon - cutting - worthy projects like big public transit expansions.

The findings were announced by Professor Carlo Leifert of the Tesco Centre for Organic Agriculture based at Newcastle University, UK, who with his team are working on the EU funded project called the Quality Low Input Food (QLIF) project, the biggest ever to research the pros and cons of organic farming and food.

Hajia Fati said she was told by her sponsored paymasters to attack the person of Mr. Afoko and others because to them they represented a big threat to their quest for controlling party funds in the run - up to the November 7th polls.Secondly, she said they were told of some agenda 2020 and were asked to undermine President Kuffour and anyone who was seen to be his loyalist in order to kill the Kufuor faction in NPP, leaving only the Akuffo Addo blog to project Dr. Mahamoudu Bawumiah after the flagbearer's tenure.

While they support the $ 500 million for the next Buffalo Billion phase, lawmakers insist Cuomo should get input into how the projects are selected for the next big flow of funds.

But the biggest change to the project was a requirement that the developer shift 30 percent of its proposed $ 17 million donation to the High Line Improvement Fund — roughly $ 5.1 million — to affordable housing projects in the neighborhood.

I had requested documents that detail the selection of developers for the three big - ticket projects being funded by the Buffalo Billion, including a sprawling solar panel manufacturing plant on the city's waterfront.

In a blow to the Cuomo administration — and a big win for the environmental community — the EPA has rejected almost all of the controversial funding approved by the Environmental Facilities Corp. for projects related to building a new Tappan Zee Bridge, deeming them ineligble for funding from revolving loan fund intended to pay for clean water initiatives.

Mayor de Blasio's team raised conflict - of - interest questions about the state awarding two big contracts to a firm owned by a top campaign donor to Cuomo one a day after the state put on hold a Brooklyn construction project because Cuomo ESDC appointees expressed similar concerns about the developer who made donations to a fund supporting the mayor.

«With the NY Works program launching job - creating projects in all corners of the state, these funds will help the state continue to provide low - cost, affordable power to businesses big and small, while also investing in projects to improve energy - efficiency at public, commercial, and residential buildings across the state.

The blog provides regular insights into the European project, government waste, Gordon Brown's burdens on the economy, the dangers of state funding of political parties and it offers a sceptical view of a big government approach to combating climate change.

In addition to running your independent projects, «find some specific questions which will be different and in the interest of some of the big guys» and work and apply for funding together.

The European Commission (EC) is currently funding several projects intended «to explore the potential in Europe to develop a very big scientific initiative in this particular field,» says Andrés Moya, head of the Spanish Cavanilles Institute for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology in Valencia.

David Kessler, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, is calling for a big government - funded research project to help fill in the gaps in genetic pathways in people, which are turning out to be far more complex than expected for illnesses such as heart disease and which may be beyond the ability of private companies and smaller labs to figure out and pay for.

Ricardo Letelier, professor of biological oceanography, says that although NASA used to represent a big slice of the funding pie for university projects, that slice has shrunk in recent years.

The new BigStorage project, funded by the European Union, will thus develop new approaches to deal with Big Data concepts over the next three years, from theoretical basic research to the development of complex infrastructures and software packages.

«Saying that everything has to fit together in one big plan might be used to delay funding of projects, though,» says Mike Beck, lead scientist of The Nature Conservancy's Global Marine Team.

Furthermore, the extremely competitive nature of the job, and of research funding once they have the job, may be forcing early career scientists to play it safe, choosing research projects with a surer, shorter - term payoff instead of daring projects that may not pay off big in the longer term.

iSpot.org.uk is supported by the Big Lottery Fund for England, as part of the Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) project, and by the Garfield Weston Foundation.

Under Chu, DOE's biggest effort has been the review and selection of solar projects to be funded with the 2009 stimulus money, including the ARPA - E grants.

The biggest supporter of HTS research funding in United States is the federal Department of Energy (DOE), which funds both basic research and applied projects.

The $ 100 million is only enough for research, not to fund the full mission, which Milner says will be a decades - long, multibillion dollar project on the scale of the world's biggest scientific experiments, like the James Webb Space Telescope or the Large Hadron Collider.

Gibbons is looking at ways of avoiding the need for funds for big science projects to be approved by Congress every year.

Today Big Science consists of large - scale, collaborative, often interdisciplinary R&D projects, which governments around the world are increasingly funding in an attempt to jump - start innovation.

Because the flagship program was envisioned as a showcase project outside the usual science - funding process — and because of the big budget that needed to be justified — politicians, bureaucrats and even scientists had strong incentives to exaggerate its promises.

Massive cost overruns on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will imperil funding for the agency's on - orbit astronomy missions while potentially wiping out big - ticket space observatories and a host of less - expensive development projects deemed high priorities by the science community, according to experts.

That's an undeniable strength of big science funding — just about every project makes a Nature paper.

This World Wildlife Day, we promised participants of the Big Cats Team Challenge we would donate funds to conservation projects that protect endangered big cat speciBig Cats Team Challenge we would donate funds to conservation projects that protect endangered big cat specibig cat species.

The big problem with cancelling (or the big surprise delay) the Wii U edition of Project CARS is that it was «crowd - funded» (the 18th biggest crowd - funded prProject CARS is that it was «crowd - funded» (the 18th biggest crowd - funded projectproject).

It's no secret that I am a big fan of the Eurimages funding scheme and the projects it backs, and Foxtrot is no exception.

The national charity, Dyspraxia Foundation, is pleased to announce it will be hostinganother series of practical workshops this Spring — starting in Birmingham - as part ofthe three year «Dyspraxia Diffusion Project», funded by the Big Lottery Fund.

The Big Lottery Fund has a funding programme aimed at projects which help people and communities most in need, and The Wolfson Foundation awards approximately # 1.75 million each year to high - achieving state - funded secondary schools and sixth - form colleges for building or equipment projects related to the teaching of science and technology.

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Significantly more money from the state budget and a bigger portion of the pay of recently hired teachers» pay will go to the state teachers pension fund to make up for projected lower investment earnings.

With a colleague I carried out a review a few years ago for UNESCO of all major donors» activities related to teachers in multi-year projects with over $ 1 million funding and the biggest takeaway was that most funding that one can identify as earmarked for teachers goes to short - term in - service courses and that there is very little evidence about impact.

One of the biggest being that it's a lot cheaper to start with and you can use the profits to fund bigger print projects.

While few creative people with big dreams are loaded with disposable income to fund their first few projects, we do have tons of valuable skills and expertise to trade and networks filled with other skilled and creative people.

The report is part of a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, with research undertaken by Nesta and The Literary Platform, in partnership the British Council and Douban, one of China's biggest social media channels.

Create a simple, low cost portfolio: It is a big project to move out of mutual funds and into a portfolio that you manage yourself.

To that end the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and others have been calling on governments to orchestrate, essentially, a repeat of 2009 fiscal stimulus programs — this time with a focus on big infrastructure projects that pave the way for growth in decades to come — alongside structural reforms to promote global trade, research and education and an overhaul of inefficient tax policies.

Even so, «the amount of killing that goes on is often very surprising to people,» said Dickman, who runs a Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) project funded by the Big Cats Initiative of the National Geographic Society, which owns National Geographic News.

Ground support will be provided by Puerto Rico - based groups, including the Humane Society of Puerto Rico, the Sato Project, the Puerto Rico Dog Fund, Friends of Culebra Animals, Wild at Heart Foundation, and Our Big Fat Caribbean Rescue.

#ThankstoMaddie and the generosity of @maddiesfund, more than 320,000 lives have been saved in the Big Apple since 2005, when the @mayorsalliancenyc partnered with Maddie's Fund to create the largest Maddie's Pet Rescue Project ever.

Our goal is about the minimal level of funding that would be required to make a big difference on this project because it is enough where we can start to bring on some of our part - time people, full - time and guarantee them at least a certain duration of wages.

It's a great resource for budding developers with big dreams, or even seasoned developers that wish to seek alternate means of funding their projects.

Essentially, kickstarter projects and their developers just need to tell everyone what will happen, up front, as best they can, at various levels of funding, especially if they have bigger plans at higher funding levels (stretch goals).