Sentences with phrase «of the grant money on»

In recent trials of genetically modified (GM) crops, Swiss researchers spent 78 % of their grant money on security to protect the controversial crops from destruction at the hands of protestors.

Eventually the school allowed me to put the remaining balance of the grant money on an Amazon gift card and store that in the system, which did streamline the process.

Regarding the impact of grant money on a scientists» salary — read Scott Mandia's awesome breakdown of this myth, part 1 and part 2.

Not exact matches

Granting credit approval depends on the willingness of the creditor to lend money in the current economy and that same lender's assessment of the ability and willingness of the borrower to return the money or pay for the goods obtained — plus interest — in a timely fashion.

With that in mind, although a young startup has dozens of challenges they're trying to address (and $ 50,000 of free money can pretty much solve anything), we adapted our application to narrowly focus on using the grant funds to solve a very specific issue.

Block grants would give states a set amount of money to cover people on the Medicaid program and provide flexibility in spending decisions.

Similar kinds of cases are under way in other parts of the country, including a case on appeal in Chicago after a federal judge issued a nationwide injunction barring the government from blocking grant money typically used to help local police combat violent crime and help victims.

While the Stop had started out raising money through conventional means such as grants, foundations and direct - mail campaigns, and continues to rely on these methods for the bulk of its funding, it saw opportunity in the wealthier constituency that lived near the Green Barn.

Federal Election Commission records show that these groups, as well as five other grant recipients of Crossroads GPS, spent money on political ads, directly or indirectly, in the 2010 election cycle.

The money is spread across 29 programs working on disability technologies — the average amount they'll each receive is $ 750,000, with six of the grant winners getting more than $ 1 million, Wired reports.

The 14 - person company has raised a total of $ 3.4 million in seed and Series A financing, as well as received a $ 2 million grant from the Department of Energy's SunShot Incubator Program, which funds up to $ 12 million in grant money to small businesses and entrepreneurs working on both hardware and software technology that makes solar more accessible for Americans.

No not the genre, but I will not buy another book from Grant Cardone in fear of wasting my money on another book with the same concepts.

See Ilona Babenko and Richard Sen, «Money Left on the Table: An Analysis of Participation in Employee Stock Purchase Plans, Review of Financial Studies, 27 (2014): 3658 - 3698; 4) Stock held after the exercise of granted stock options or grants of restricted stock.

Three commissioners may grant some of the nation's largest refineries a tax refund of more than $ 135 million — money Texas» cash - strapped schools and other local governments have been counting on to help pay teachers and provide other public services.

While some charities depend only on donations, or grants, or government money, most create a well - balanced portfolio of income sources.

A good way to avoid making debt payment is to focus on getting «free» money in the form of grants and gifts.

GFI is entirely supported by grants and donations.79 Their three largest donors provided a total of around 25 - 40 % of their funding in 2016, and we would expect those donors to provide a similar, perhaps slightly larger, amount of funding in 2017 — though GFI's intention is to raise significantly more money overall.80, 81 GFI's fiscal management strategy is to spend each year what it raised the prior year; this enables them to budget on a rolling 12 - month timeframe.82, 83 Overall, we think that while their funding sources are not especially diverse, they do rely on a relatively broad donor base and take a responsible and sustainable approach to their finances.

Of those, God told one to steal a car and go to Minnesota to receive divine blessings (stopped by police on the way); another was «told» to spend all her money on a plane ticket as there was a grant waiting for her in another state to go to college with (there wasn't, and she had to call relatives to rescue her); another was told to cut himself; another was told to harm people (but only avoided doing this because he called police and was put inpatient).

Money is granted on scientific merit of the proposals.

Based on that information, their revenue was of $ 1B in 2010 of which 46 % of that was received in government grants and reimbursement — that would be tax payer money.

If you want to believe that joke as scientific fact go ahead.Scietific «facts» are nothing more than guesswork on the part bunch of educated morons looking for more free grant money so they don't have to get a real job.

A Maryland town hall attendee who works for Secular Coalition for America asked Obama about statements he made as a candidate in 2008 when he said, «If you get a federal grant, you can't use that grant money to proselytize to the people you help, and you can't discriminate against them - or against the people you hire - on the basis of their religion.»

When I was invited to a Mennonite college to speak on peace and simple living (neither of which is Caesar's favorite topic), I had to sign a formal, legal contract — because my honorarium was to come out of federal grant money.

Hamilton Grant shed new light on our existing recipes, allowing us to refine and improve these by standardising on a smaller number of ingredients — saving money and ensuring that we could meet competitive price points.

Each one was supported by a separate short - term grant, often on a contract from one city agency or another, and in order to keep the money flowing, Canada was required to demonstrate to the foundations and agencies that paid for the programs that a certain number of children had participated.

Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.

Granted, none of those jobs made me a lot of money, but it helped keep our family afloat — and was essential income when my former husband's union went on strike — and, more important, it kept me up - to - date in the career I loved and enabled me to maintain relationships with editors.

There wasn't any direct cost to me as the result of using this grant money, and of course American Dairy Association / Fuel Up to Play 60 are based on fueling kids up with nutritious foods — all foods!

Because of the grant I was able to stay calm and focus on my daughter's best interests instead of focusing on money.

Granted, I lose money on my blog, but if I had a large following I could easily make it profitable, unless of course I posted content that was undesirable.

The grant money was given to Dr. Robert Taub of Columbia University who was doing groundbreaking research on mesothelioma.

The question before progressive advocates of public campaign financing in New York State is whether we push for full public campaign finance on the Clean Money model of equal and sufficient funding grants for all qualified candidates, or whether we settle for partial public campaign financing on the Matching Funds model used for presidential primaries since 1976 and for New York City local elections since 1989.

In New York, it is not against the law for legislators to take outside income — and it was a major factor in the case of Mr. Silver, who prosecutors said had traded state grant money and influence on tenant legislation in exchange for legal referral fees.

«We're living on borrowed money [state grants],» she said of the mayor's proposed 2018 budget.

The legislative scandals have reached almost farcical proportions: a senator from the Bronx, Pedro Espada Jr., stands accused — perhaps not coincidentally by Attorney General Cuomo — of spending $ 20,000 in state and federal grant money on takeout sushi that was delivered to his house in Westchester County.

The Mayor also proposed a plan for City Council to grant the city the power to sell Emergency Repair Program liens that exist on a property to a third party collector (see video above), who would then be in charge of collecting on the debt — saving taxpayer money from footing the bills for emergency repairs and possibly giving landlords more incentive to make repairs themselves.

But if you look at the ability of what we've been able to spend grant monies and loan monies in the last few years based on the work done to date.»

As a converse, it doesn't matter WHAT you do, as soon as you grant more power / more budgets to the government, it will ALWAYS be more cost effective for someone to spend X amount of money on lobbying to obtain a lot more than X in government preferential treatment.

Mr Nuhu Shadalafiya, Chairman House Committee on Information, said the money would be used to address «issues of insecurity, leave grant and overhead.»

Granted, the Senate GOP's soft money housekeeping account is yet to file and could show more cash expended on behalf of Republican candidates.

Trump's plan to replace the Affordable Care Act will propose giving each state a fixed amount of federal money in the form of a block grant to provide health care to low - income people on Medicaid, Conway said.

Mr. Adams said his office had received marching orders from Governor Andrew Cuomo to provide $ 785 million in grants by asking regional Economic Development Corporations for advice on the most crucial projects in their areas, instead of having the state dictate where the money would go.

Whether ratepayers bear the brunt of that cost depends, at least partially, on how successful the utility is drawing federal grant money...

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.

Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center bought ads on Hikind's radio show through Hikind's for - profit ad agency while the hospital was applying for hundreds of thousands of dollars in state grant money and lobbying the assemblyman for help.

Meyers wrote in an email that county officials had worked closely with domestic violence victims» advocates on a number of issues, had secured nearly $ 700,000 in grant money to support initiatives and had launched a domestic violence incidence database that received an award from the National Association of Counties.

Badeh, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alongside Iyalikam Nigeria Limited on a 10 - count charge bordering on money laundering, criminal breach of trust and corruption to the tune of N3.97 billion was on March 10, 2016 granted N2 billion bail.

Empire State Development, the state agency administering the program's grant funding, refused an interview request but said in a statement that the company's funding is contingent on job creation and that it will be required to return the money if it fails to create the number of jobs promised.

Organizations with representatives on the CNY regional council received at least 47 of those grants, worth $ 30 million, nearly 5 percent of the total money allotted.

They say the grant money will be taken away from all of the schools if P.S. 145 doesn't have room to expand, because the school won the grant on the condition that it had room to grow.