Sentences with phrase «private and public sector funds»

«ClimateCare has 17 years» experience of unlocking private and public sector funds for Climate + Care programmes to protect the environment and improve people's lives.

Over the past 5 years an extraordinary amount of private and public sector funds have been spent on the equipment and training infrastructure for the K - 12 teaching / learning environment.

Not exact matches

The private sector has matched public funds dollar for dollar in 2017 to support the Historic Heart of Perth project, which aims to revitalise the east end precinct through public art and streetscape improvements.

Funding startups is a huge challenge, and the solution requires the involvement of both the public and private sectors.

The fund under normal circumstances invests in at least 65 % of its total assets in a diversified portfolio of fixed income instruments of varying maturities, including bonds issued by both U.S. and non-U.S. public - or private - sector entities.

The sectoral results for the 2013 survey indicate that Australia's aggregate net foreign currency asset position was held principally by non-bank private financial corporations (other financial corporations), with non-financial corporations and the public sector (including the Future Fund and the Reserve Bank) also holding small net foreign currency asset exposures (Graph 5).

There has even been talk of the public broadcaster, (CBC) which receives over $ 1 billion in public funding annually, dropping advertising and ceasing to compete for ad dollars with its private sector rivals.

Includes a fund that invests in both private and public equities primarily in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, as well as emerging markets across all sectors.

WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund today sounded the alarm on excessive global borrowing, warning that with a total of $ 164 trillion owed, the world's public and private sectors are deeper in debt than at the height of the financial crisis a decade ago.

Now sovereign wealth funds are turning their attention to public and private - sector financial - data companies.

Since 2000, scientific research and international collaboration on Golden Rice have been supported by funding and in - kind support from the private, public, and philanthropic sectors.

Australia's leading agricultural scientists have called on the public and private sectors to establish a A$ 100m (US$ 76m) agriculture fund to future - proof Australian farmers against looming shocks like climate variability and disease outbreaks.

Funding for the renovation — an almost 50 - 50 split between public and private sectors — has been a problem since the project was announced in July 2008.

We eradicate stigma by increasing the availability and accessibility of mental health care worldwide by: treating patients, training professionals, including psychologists, therapists, OBGYNs, pediatricians, nurses, and midwives, providing public programs, including new parent groups, breastfeeding clinics, and adolescent services, funding research, providing curated content online, and advocating in public and private sectors.

Public and private sector entities and individuals who wish to support infants and young children and their mothers and caregivers in this emergency should donate funds rather than send goods.

At the same time, while there tends to be little ostensible evidence in the UK of the blatant buying off of politicians and officials, the murky networks that connect political parties with private funders, and see the frequent movement of officials across the private and public sector, raise serious questions about the integrity of the public service ethos at the highest levels of power (as even Conservative commentators recognise — e.g. Ferdinand Mount, The New Few).

The fund, run by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, is also heavily weighted to stocks — and, like all public pension funds, is allowed to calculate its funding needs based on accounting assumptions that would not pass muster in the private sector.

The creative sector - from not - for - profit art trusts to high - end commercial outfits - depends on an interconnected web of public funding, private donations, market dynamics, legislation and a free flow of people and information.

It is also why developments in the business of digital journalism matters for democracy, especially in countries like the U.S., where private sector media provide by far the largest share of news coverage of public affairs, because of the low levels of funding for public media — as commercial media organizations in many countries continue to lose revenue and lay off reporters because their legacy platforms (like print) grow less popular by the day, the future of the private media sector, an important part of our democratic systems, depends in part on its ability to find new business models and reinvent itself for a new century and new media world, online and elsewhere.

In all, the Democratic governor boasted that there will be $ 100 billion worth of investments in New York, counting some expenditures from last year, spending by public authorities and matching funds from the private sector.

This release is based on the findings from «Values, practices and outcomes in public and private sector corrections,» funded by the ESRC and carried out by Professor Alison Liebling, Dr Ben Crewe, Dr Susie Hulley and Ms Clare McLean of Cambridge University.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has undertaken a statewide building boom using public construction contracts to spur private - sector job growth that since 2011 has committed billions of dollars in construction funds and tax breaks to companies.

A private finance initiative (PFI), also known as a public private partnership (PPP), is a government programme that is funded and operated through a partnership between the government and one or more private sector companies.

Rather, the private sector will provide the investment, although local governments could partner them in this regard if such an investment of public funds is adjudged prudent and advantageous.

Hawkins» told local supporters that his platform includes guaranteeing jobs for all — be they private or public sector — a $ 15 per hour minimum wage, universal healthcare, fully funded public schools, eliminating the Common Core education standards and providing 100 percent clean energy by 2030.

Cuomo pledged a child care tax credit, tuition - free public college for about 80 percent of New York households, more jobs through investment in the private sector and public - private partnership, support for the homeless and funding for affordable housing, all while New York will be vigilant, he said, protecting and promoting the state's progressive social bonafides.

Jonty Olliff - Cooper, director of policy and strategy at A4E, talks to Kate McCann about private and public sector boundaries and a lack of funding for the Work Programme

Continue to fund such a large proportion of our healthcare through the public sector and so small a one via the private, voluntary, independent and charitable ones?

They are more akin to benefits, and indeed there is a direct link between how public sector pensions and benefits are uprated with inflation, that people become entitled to by working in the public sector than the sort of claim someone has on a private sector pension fund.

THAT at the upcoming conventions of the National Educational Association and the American Federation of Teachers, NYSUT sponsor and support resolutions encouraging teacher unions, public employee unions, private sector unions and not - for - profit organizations to call upon their pension and retirement funds to not invest in private equity funds that are complicit in and profit from the denial of the rights to organize into a union and bargain collectively.

The UFT and NYSUT will also urge the National Educational Association and the American Federation of Teachers, along with other public and private sector unions, to avoid pension and retirement fund investments with any funds operated by Steven Klinsky.

WHEREAS millions of dollars that teachers, public employees, unionists and others in the not - for - profit sector contribute to their pensions and retirement funds are now being invested in private equity funds established and managed by Steven Klinsky, providing profits to the founder and leader of the union - busting Victory, Inc.; and

WHEREAS the private equity funds established and managed by Steven Klinsky, preeminently New Mountain Capital, solicit major investments from teacher retirement and pension funds, public employee retirement and pension funds, union retirement and pension funds and other retirement and pension funds from the not - for - profit sector; and

Specifically, the UFT shall not ask teacher unions, public employee unions, private sector unions and not - for - profit organizations to call upon the trustees or other persons responsible for investment decisions of the pension and retirement funds covering their members and / or employees to not invest in these investment funds.

The Regional Growth Fund will operate in the first two years of the spending period starting in April next year, and will be open to firms and public - private partnerships in areas most dependent on public sector employment.

In my judgment, that kind of leadership will require a comprehensive and sustained effort from both our public and private sectors — including a robust investment in education (especially the STEM fields), a federal commitment to research and development, a renewed emphasis on next generation manufacturing, translating federally funded breakthroughs to commercial applications in the private sector, an immigration policy that enables us to recruit and retain the best and brightest scientists from around the world, and appropriate tax, regulatory, and legal policy.

One hot topic in public health funding, he said, is the idea of working with the private insurance and reinsurance sectors to begin insuring against pandemics in the same way that these companies insure against natural disasters such as hurricanes.

Barriers to access to the benefits of science, particularly in the health sector, result from a shift in the balance of public sector funding for research and private sector funding for development, Wyndham noted.

Former Vice President Al Gore's vision, for example, of creating 100 percent carbon - neutral electrical power in the next decade might be one such challenge — and something Gore specifically likened to a «moon shot» — requiring commitments, coordination and funding at every level of the public and private sectors.

«The key here will be to combine limited public funds with smart policies and instruments to leverage significant private - sector investment in clean energy and infrastructure in developing countries,» Stern said.

Some activists, though, said they are concerned that the United States will focus entirely on private - sector funding and will once again sidestep ways of raising public money, including from «innovative sources,» like a tax on bunker fuels or airline emissions.

Such an approach would increase the chances of a therapeutic breakthrough, they say, and the inclusion of public funding would help mitigate the risks and costs of Alzheimer's research for the private sector.

In this article, we survey several American sources of computational neuroscience research funding in the public and private - nonprofit sectors.

The spending plan completely cuts funding for the oil research and development program on grounds that the private - sector oil industry should pay for the technology developments that provide little public benefit.

While seven new IT universities are in the process of being set up in the public sector and two in the private sector, in order to save money and time we have decided not to invest government funds in construction but rather to use existing campuses and convert them into IT universities or institutes.

These two documents, addressed to researchers as well as to employers and funders in both the public and private sectors, are key elements in the European Union's policy to make research an attractive career, which is a vital feature of its strategy to stimulate economic and employment growth.

Opening the launch event, Monique Barbut, UNCCD Executive Secretary highlighted: «The LDN Fund is a very innovative instrument that we developed over the past three years through the Global Mechanism in close collaboration with Mirova and numerous partners from the public sector, the private sector, and civil society.

Some have also argued that at the very least this new discovery means that federal taxpayers should not fund the destruction of embryos for research (which could proceed in the private sector) and public money should support this new alternative.

EuroSyStem is a European Community funded partnership between Universities, small to medium businesses and named researchers from both the public and private sector.

We work through partnerships in both the public and private sectors, with individuals, research organizations, academic institutions, funders, policymakers and others around the world to make progress in TB vaccine research.