Sentences with phrase «private agency program»

Dollars and Sense: A Guide to Achieving Adoptions Through Public - Private Contracting (PDF - 339 KB) Freundlich (2007) AdoptUSKids Provides public and private agency program managers, supervisors, and contract managers with information about the purchase of interjurisdictional adoption services, including funding and paying for adoption services, monitoring and follow - up, and more.

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Similarly, the SBA beefed up its Small Business Investment Company program, where the agency works with venture capital and private equity firms to provide capital to high - growth companies.

Following the scandal and stories surrounding the National Security Agency and other government surveillance programs, customers are more reluctant than before to share private information.

Dragon 2, in spite of several delays, is a key part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program — in which the agency will contract private companies (SpaceX and Boeing so far) to send NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.

I have instructed the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to: Appoint an advisory committee on alcoholism; establish in the Public Health Service a center for research on the cause, prevention, control, and treatment of alcoholism; develop an educational program in order to foster public understanding based on scientific fact; work with public and private agencies on the state and local level, to include this disease in a comprehensive health program.

Colleges may still have to certify they do not discriminate in order for their students to be eligible; and the threat of liability from private lawsuits may be just as effective as an agency decision in driving the college either to drop out of the grant program or to violate its religious tenets.

The social welfare programs sponsored by the government and by community and private agencies are far better resourced and programmatically more comprehensive than those that individual churches can sustain.

Animal protectionists assert that the trapping industry and wildlife damage control programs (such as the USDA - APHIS - Wildlife Services agency and private wildlife control companies) constitute the worst expression of environmental stewardship.

There were some broadcasters and program agencies of different churches who gave me access to their files and made otherwise private research available to me for use in the study.

These partners include national agricultural research and extension programs, government agencies, nongovernment organizations, and private sector actors, including seed producers.

The office provides vision, expertise, and leadership in order to build NRCS» public - private partnership program to advance conservation activities through strategic coordination and planning with other USDA agencies, customers, stakeholders and agricultural industries.

The SWP program builds on the impressive work in sustainable practices by many regional winegrowing and vintner associations, private companies, individual viticulturists and winemakers, researchers, government agencies, and innovative regulators involved in the California wine community.

Hundreds of public and private - agency programs are trying to persuade adolescents to delay pregnancy until they are mature enough to give their infants better odds of survival and good health.

Family Network, located in the Highland Park Presbyterian Church, 330 Laurel St., is a 12 - year - old private agency that serves 32 North Shore communities, offering an array of support programs for families with children from birth through 3 years of age.

The PRIDE program was designed in partnership with Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, national and international experts, foster and adoptive parents, and staff members from both public and private agencies.

Mass Audubon's Coastal Waterbird Program protects vulnerable populations of shorebirds on approximately 160 beaches in the state (more than 70 mi of coastline) through partnerships with private landowners and with local and state agencies.

Many organizations, agencies, churches, schools, municipalities and private providers offer day - camp programs.

Adoptions From The Heart, the East Coast's leading private adoption agency, has contract social workers in the Manhattan area of New York City to help families with a home study for international or our domestic adoption program.

Many parent training programs offered through social service agencies, educational programs and private counselors utilize aspects of behavioral family intervention to treat everything from severely disruptive behavior to mental health issues.

The PPA will help represent the state pediatric dentistry association in promoting children's oral health issues with the state legislature and other elected bodies, state regulatory agencies (including Medicaid and health departments), licensing bureaus, professional health and child welfare organizations, oral health coalitions, foundations, institutions of dental education, publicly - funded safety net programs, and the private sector benefits industry.

The Initiative is modeled after President Barack Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative for young men and the city's Young Men's Initiative — and will be funded with $ 20 million in City Council and private philanthropic funds to pursue recommendations like hiring more guidance counselors in school, expanding the Nurse - Family Partnership program, and requiring city agencies to have «gender equity liaisons.»

Plans include a private lobby outfitted with a marketing wall that will be visible to all who enter or pass by, which will display programs, events and stories about those consumers that are assisted and cared for every day; new classrooms; a gym for pre-K and early intervention students; training rooms; breakout, community and education space; new offices and workstations; adaptive technology training program space; a doctor - staffed Low Vision Center; a new boardroom; private conference rooms for interviews and agency work; and displays telling the story of HKS» past and its vision for the future.

The integrated housing and community renewal agencies of HCR worked together to provide $ 2.2 million from the Homes for Working Families Program and sufficient Low Income Housing Tax Credits to leverage $ 18.9 million in private investment, which makes it possible for Astoria seniors to live comfortably, affordably, and independently in a place that enhances quality of life throughout the entire community.»

A public - private «green partnership» between the county's Lead Primary Prevention Pilot Program and Gro - West, Inc., will again be offering a series of instructional classes on window replacement prior to new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations mandating lead... Read more

In February Bush directed heads of federal agencies to assist technological enterprise through a long - standing government - wide program that subsidizes private - sector research under the Small Business Administration.

The program receives mentoring, equipment, and other support from private corporations and government agencies.

After a decade as NASA's program manager for the International Space Station (ISS) he retired from the agency in September 2015 to pursue opportunities in the private sector, convinced that a golden age of commercial spaceflight was dawning.

Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment research published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE shows that private landowners trust conservation agencies more and have better views of program outcomes when they accompany conservation biologists who are monitoring habitat management on their land.

Many federal agencies and private firms use the ACS data to track trends and plan programs.

NIH, by the way, has recently recognized that «the career outcomes of NRSA - supported training programs include both research - intensive careers in academia and industry and research - related careers in various sectors, e.g. academic institutions, government agencies, for - profit businesses, and private foundations» and is encouraging universities with T32 programs to provide «structured, career development advising and learning opportunities» to prepare trainees for those opportunities, according to a notice issued in September 2013, near the end of the study period.

But in a recent letter to NIH Director Francis Collins, copied to several members of Congress, CTD Holdings Inc., a disgruntled, competing, Florida - based firm, complains that the agency is «choosing winners and losers in the development programs of private enterprises.»

Both private and government - run funding agencies typically hire grant administrators and program officers with graduate degrees.

«The CBBG also includes a strong partnership program with private industry and government agencies like state departments of transportation, cities and counties that are owners and managers of the civil infrastructure.»

Stipends from the Jesse Jones Leadership Center Summer in D.C. Policy Research Internship Program enable Rice students to get policy research experience at government agencies, private think tanks and nongovernmental organizations in Washington.

Access to these observatories by astronomers outside a given private collaboration is sometimes possible via financial contributions or time - exchange programs negotiated by universities (e.g., Swinburne University, Yale, and the Australian National University) or agencies, either domestic (National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA], National Optical Astronomy Observatory [NOAO]-RRB- or foreign (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan / Subaru Telescope).

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Hopes NASA's private partners on the agency's Commercial Crew Program would launch crewed spacecraft by the end of this year (2018) have been dashed.

The six RICE lead agencies align and bring to the table consortia, networks, platforms, programs, and collaborative projects with more than 600 partners from the governmental, nongovernmental, public, private, and civil society sectors.

While most Head Start programs nationwide are run by private, nonprofit agencies, Chicago is one of the largest school districts operating a program.

Do we really want government agencies to oversee and regulate private schools that participate in choice programs?

-LSB-...] Agencies similar to an ICB should be developed to oversee private schools participating in choice programs.

In the Senate Education Committee, the debate was limited to amendments dealing with implementation: how long private schools had to operate before participating, what tests students receiving vouchers would have to take, what agency would be responsible for the costs of auditing the program.

The program aims to train graduates for senior leadership roles in school systems, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the private sector, school officials said.

Basis Policy Research provides data analytics, program evaluation, and other research services to government agencies, foundations, private institutions, and nonprofits that are tackling important education issues.

Glen has been the principal team leader for efforts that have raised over $ 1 billion dollars for the capital, program, and strategic planning needs of public and private agencies.

A key element of the program is to foster community engagement and collaboration among schools, public institutions, private agencies, business, and other community - based organizations.

The State of Utah Office of Education offers a typical definition of a private school: «A school that is controlled by an individual or agency other than a governmental entity, which is usually supported primarily by other than public funds, and the operation of whose program rests with someone other than publicly elected or appointed officials.»

During the investigation, the U.S. DOJ: 1) threatened to sue the state of Wisconsin unless the state made changes to the voucher program in a way detrimental to choice, 2) demanded Wisconsin turn over student records at private schools, and 3) commandeered a Wisconsin state agency (DPI) to create an illegal complaint process.

§ 392 - 172A - 04070 (2)(«Equipment and supplies used with students in a private school or agency may be placed on nonsectarian private school premises for the period of time necessary for the program.»

The federal Office of Head Start (OHS) provides grants to operate both Head Start and Early Head Start programs directly to public and private agencies in Nevada.

In that capacity he designed and programmed sites for private companies, professional sports teams and government agencies.