Sentences with phrase «programming on a local basis»

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Everyone in the program completes afour - month internship with an area business — important local experience for thethree - quarters of the student body thatcome from abroad — and most complete anapplied business project, a group businessanalysis assignment based on the real - worldexperience gleaned through the internship.Those with an interest in finance can forgothe independent project and instead bolton an optional fifth semester that givesadditional weight to securities, derivativesand investing, covering topics like the mutualfund industry and real estate investing.

Whole Foods Market is helping independent local producers expand and grow their businesses through its Local Producer Loan Program, which lends up to $ 10 million annually and accepts applications on a rolling blocal producers expand and grow their businesses through its Local Producer Loan Program, which lends up to $ 10 million annually and accepts applications on a rolling bLocal Producer Loan Program, which lends up to $ 10 million annually and accepts applications on a rolling basis.

«The Commission will not take adverse action on a license renewal application based upon the subjective determination of a listener or group of listeners that the station has broadcast purportedly inappropriate programming,» the FCC commissioners wrote in a recent decision challenging a local radio station license.

Board members have access to all of our employees outside of Board meetings, and the Board has a program that encourages each director to visit different Intel sites and events worldwide on a regular basis and meet with local management at those sites and events.

A spending spree on mostly U.S. - made equipment means Japan's defense planners are being forced to curtail domestic programs that would help local defense contractors such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Kawasaki Heavy Industries maintain their military industrial base.

Starbucks will also work with Teamwork Englewood, a non-profit that brings community services together, to provide a multi-week job skills training program for local youth — based on Starbucks own world - class customer service training curriculum for new hires — in a specially - designed classroom space located within the store.

Another 42 percent don't offer a well - being strategy for employees in other geographies, but they do give local regions the ability to implement a program based on their specific needs.

The unique Council partnership has resulted in a strategic approach to high tech economic development that involves matching funds research, workforce development and a marketing program leveraging governmental, corporate and economic development organization budgets on a regional rather than local basis.

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.

The program is based on the «simple notion that students, laypeople, pastors and professors all have a stake in the particular problems of ministry and mission within local congregations, that each has gifts to bring to the understanding of the issues and that they can work together to address those issues.»

Start locally - helping out an elderly neighbor with some chores, volunteering at a rescue shelter, helping out the neighborhood school, being involved in a kids program at the local park, helping out at a local hospital, visiting a juvenile detention center on a regular basis.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Paid - time religious programming has justified its dominance of the religious television field in recent years by suggesting that with its independent financial resources gained through audience cultivation and support it has been able to overcome the limitations experienced by mainline broadcasters as they worked with the local stations and networks on a public service basis.

These two companies conduct continuous research on a carefully calculated, statistically representative basis into audiences of most broadcast programs on a local, regional, and national level.

In this regard, the National Housing Task Force recommends that increased federal spending for housing be allocated through a program of entitlements to states and localities based on need as well as through a program of matching funds based on the willingness of local governments, businesses and nonprofits to provide land and financing.

FAO's Strategic Objective 4 Enabling more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems at local, national and international levels includes the Output on Evidence - based food loss and waste reduction programs developed at national, regional and global level.

«Our food safety programs have been developed based on federal, state and local government agencies» requirements and guidance,» the company says.

Russo's continued to add to its customer base beginning in the 1980s as a result of a growing local interest in food that «Tony» Russo attributes to the popularity of television chef Julia Child, whose program aired locally on famed PBS affiliate WGBH.

As part of the popular Maryland - based chain's Funds for Friends program, individual restaurants team up with local organizations or local branches of national organizations, select a specific benefit date and donate 10 percent of that day's total sales to the organization in exchange for the organization having encouraged members, friends company profile and family to patronize the location on that date.

Jud Dolphin, a senior field organizer with the Food Research and Action Center, called the Savannah program laudable, but says, «They «re depending strictly on a local funding base.

The USDA's Farm to School Grant Program — originally funded as part of the Healthy Huger - Free Kids Act of 2010 — provides resources on a competitive basis to schools, nonprofits, farmers and government entities to assist in implementing farm to school programs that improve access to local foods in eligible schools.

The education - based program will aim to connect local teachers and students to the importance of animal care and conservation and show them how the next generation can take a hands - on approach to help preserve animals and the environment.

New York State has modeled the Certified Application Counselors on successful community assistance programs in New York, as the program is designed for local districts to help meet the needs of county residents by providing assistance in convenient, community - based locations.

Currently, the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) prepares the most comprehensive view of state and local economic development efforts statewide; however, the usefulness of this presentation is limited because it is based mostly on available data published for past years.1 A UEDB should be part of the Executive and Enacted budgets and should include prospective information showing the costs of all economic development programs for the coming fiscal year.2 To capture the full scope of economic development costs, a UEDB should bring together tax expenditures and spending at state agencies and authorities, as well as the value of discounted power offered by the New York Power Authority.

In exchange for taking its parkland, soaking up taxpayer dollars (in the form of subsidies and tax breaks) and bringing more traffic congestion and parking woes to the area, the Yankees (and the city which backed the project) promised to provide local jobs, quickly restore parkland and give back money to community groups and programs on annual basis.

While unions have said they worry that teachers could be unfairly judged based on their students» test results, the scoring for students and teachers is quite different — students get an objective standardized test score, while teachers are evaluated under multipart programs that are developed by local teachers unions and school leaders.

Excerpt:»... we must work with Colleges and Universities with a focus on STEM based course work, creating degrees and vocational programs at the local level.

The Program, which is part of the Governor's broad agenda to reduce unnecessary burdens and mandates on local governments and businesses, eliminate waste and fraud, and streamline government operations, is being implemented on a rolling schedule that designates new agencies for participation on a periodic basis.

Assemblyman partners with parents of Suzanne Lyall and leading Saratoga County - based beverage distributor on pilot program to generate tips on location of 7 local missing persons

Renovator Training Supports Local Employment «Joint Initiative Partners MVCC, LPP and Workforce Development» Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. today announced a free training program designed to provide as many as ten persons with construction experience who are currently unemployed the necessary skills to work on pre-1978 built houses that may have lead - based paints.

The state's 57 counties (and New York City) administer hundreds of federal and state programs, he noted, «all on a reimbursement basis, where the local taxpayer bears 100 percent of the cost up front.»

Diet records were analyzed using a computer program (ESHA Food Processor SQL, version 10.1.1) based on US Department of Agriculture data22 and international GI tables23 using the bread scale (for glucose scale, multiply values by 0.71) 24 with additional GI measurements made on local foods (Glycemic Index Laboratories).

Based at the Miracle Theatre on Coral Gables, the Playhouse has a constantly changing program of events, from well - known musicals to works by obscure local talents.

The report examines school - based initiatives, youth employment programs, GED - preparation efforts, and state and local policies that have had a positive effect on helping dropouts return to school in 12 communities.

Bowen, former teen coordinator at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Napa Valley, won $ 18,000 from the Community Foundation of the Napa Valley based on five grant proposals for educational after - school programs (such as dance and cooking classes) she helped local teens put together.

Each participating state has developed its own unique policy, program, and funding scheme for Course Access based on the policy landscape, student needs, and local receptiveness.

In these programs local implementers can create their own curriculum based on the needs of the people living in a specific community.

In the cases of both Phillips and Parker, separated by more than two hundred years, each school received broad but specified authority from the state, with diplomas granted on the basis of public «exhibitions» and with the expectation - the trust - that the details of the program and its assessment would be creatures of the schools» immediate community, subject, as deemed necessary, to the inspection by the state or, in the case of Phillips, the local superintendent of (public) schools.

Because funding was based primarily on future commitments, the program did little to alter the compliance - oriented relationship between federal officials and state and local educators once grants were awarded.

Technology can be used to advance learning by bringing exciting curricula based on real - world problems into the classroom, providing scaffolds and tools to enhance learning, such as modeling programs and visualization tools, giving students and teachers more opportunities for feedback, reflection, and revision, and building local and global communities that include teachers, administrators, students, parents, practicing scientists, and other interested people expanding opportunities for teacher learning.

The Economic Index, which determines each county's share of the total Local Fund Assignment, is based on a complex formula conceived in 1949 when the Foundation Program was instituted.

The program requires students and local, Boston - based alumni to meet formally and informally throughout the academic year and the Alumni Relations office facilitates four structured opportunities for SAMI participants to meet on Appian Way.

It's a controversial model that, based on the numbers reported in similar programs in Tennessee, Michigan and Louisiana, has produced mixed results and bitter opposition from local parents, many of whom are fired up over the notion of turning over their local schools to outside charters.

Ashford University does not discriminate in its education programs and activities on the basis of race, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, service in the uniformed services, political activities and affiliations, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.

As one of the first federal education programs, Impact Aid was created in 1950 to address the absence of a local property tax base to fund the education of military - connected students on installations.

In an April 4 letter to state education officers, local schools, colleges and related public agencies, Ali reminded that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs or activities operated by schools receiving federal assistance.

Consistent with the current emphasis on performance - based accountability in K - 12 education, several states and a few local districts have introduced school - based incentive programs.

The Commonwealth of Virginia provides each locality with an apportioned share of funds to support local program services, based on that locality's total student enrollment.

The way changes were implemented at each campus differed according to local needs, but ultimately, all preparation programs had to find ways to teach their candidates how to align their instruction and assessment with specific content standards and to differentiate their teaching based on individual student needs.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.