Sentences with phrase «programs agencies like»

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It's a paradoxical situation to be in — he wishes things like the U.S. National Security Agency's PRISM program weren't happening, but they are, and that's giving his perfectly timed work a bump.

He's also creator of «The 90 Day Year» Program, a goal achievement system used by athletes, entrepreneurs and companies like, Shell, Goldman Sachs, Cisco Systems and Government agencies around the world.

Like the National Organic Program in the U.S., accredited third - party organizations certify organic products to the standards.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is the authority over this program in Canada, and the official Organic Canada / Biologique Canada seal is pictureProgram in the U.S., accredited third - party organizations certify organic products to the standards.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is the authority over this program in Canada, and the official Organic Canada / Biologique Canada seal is pictureprogram in Canada, and the official Organic Canada / Biologique Canada seal is pictured here.

Peter Laufer: Yes, except in the environment that we have and the type capitalism we practice the regulatory agency in question which is the USDA, the United States Department of Agriculture; the National Organic Program, the NOP, is serving business at least as much as it's servicing the rest of us and maybe more and it's the position of the USDA that if companies like Trader Joe's or others decide that the origin of their products is a proprietary business tool, then they are successfully able to hide behind that claim and not tell you where something you're going to buy and eat came from.

Because the USDA houses the National School Lunch Program, and the agency's main job is to sell highly subsidized conventional crops (like corn, soybeans, rice, and wheat) and farmed foods (like dairy and beef), behemoths like Chartwells wind - up pushing cheap, low - quality surplus food into our schools.

When schools expand their breakfast program through the implementation of one or more new strategies like BIC and / or CEP, there are several factors that help support a successful outcome: Strong leadership within the district, a diverse and engaged coalition of stakeholders (state agency, school nutrition department, anti-hunger and health partners, et al.), staff engagement and training on sharing the positive benefits of school breakfast, and strong overall communications and transparency.

Because of lower - than - expected federal assistance for Medicaid, Albany instituted an across - the - board budget sweep of 1.1 percent, cutting state spending and also siphoning off theoretically separate revenue streams dedicated to specific programs and agencies, like the MTA.

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.»

Other proposals by the Albanese campaign include new Mitchell Lama development in place of the mayor's proposal to build 90 new homeless shelters, a tax on real estate purchased by foreign individuals and corporations as investments rather than residences, and consolidating «programs like Head Start and pre-K under a single city agency.»

Dubbed «The Hunger Games» for the competition - like effort that pits regions against each other for funding, the program is run through Cuomo's economic development agency.

, counting state and local sources like industrial development agencies, the Citizens Budget Commission has estimated — and suggest that consolidation of state subsidy programs seems a more likely reform, for now, than retrenchment.

That proposal called for the elimination of 19 federal agencies and would cut funding locally for programs like Meals on Wheels, heating assistance programs and arts and culture organizations.

In addition, Operation Primetime also gives agencies like the George K. Arthur Community Center a chance to expand their programming in the summer months, giving more youth a chance to participate in safe, structured activities throughout the summer.»

The preliminary budget, which would take effect July 1 and must first be approved by the City Council, also includes more than $ 740 million worth of new city agency spending, mostly on programs de Blasio has already announced in recent months, like new initiatives to help the homeless and an overhaul of the city's mental health system.

[1] These reductions would hit most agencies, including both civilian science and technology programs like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE), as well as basic and applied research activities in the Department of Defense (DOD).

Working for a government agency like NSF, Olsen says, gives you the chance to influence science: establishing activities and / or programs to support emerging new areas or underrepresented groups.

To that end, federal funding agencies have programs in place that provide assistance to postdocs who would like to get a taste for industrial research in a Canadian company.

«This study shows that local events like forest die - offs in one part of the globe influence climate and ecology in other, often distant locations,» said Tim Kratz, program director at the funding agency, the National Science Foundation.

But at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, which held its own briefing an hour before WHO, Angus Nicoll, head of the agency's influenza program, said he was seeing «something that looks more like an ordinary influenza, with a lot of people infected, but very few people being sick enough to end up in hospital or die.»

To her, this sounded like a lot, but the national Gaelic Development Agency was pleased: it's about the number of bilingual speakers they were already aiming to produce through classes and programs, a spokesman told The Scotsman when Kandler's study came out.

As the chief scientist of NASA's space radiation program, Francis Cucinotta is the agency's chief oddsmaker, an erudite, respectable Jimmy the Greek who occasionally seasons his otherwise flat, technical speech with words like roulette.

As former lead of the World Bank's global program for fisheries and aquaculture, he said these indicators could be very useful for institutions like the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and nongovernmental organizations that fund projects on fisheries reform in developing countries to monitor and evaluate progress.

Secretary Chu could be forgiven for possibly feeling conflicted about his role: He had been called in to save an industry, while working as hard as he could to render it obsolete via programs like the Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy.

«Studies like this one help advance our understanding of autism and improve the way scientists and clinicians develop new treatments,» said Lisa Gilotty, Chief of the Research Program on Autism Spectrum Disorders at the National Institute of Mental Health, one of the agencies that funded the study.

«We're not talking about big, thick structures that we want to keep an eye on like in the Cold War,» says Wade Pulliam, program manager with the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's (DARPA) Tactical Technology Office, an arm of the Pentagon charged with researching and developing new technology for the defense department.

«We hope to get initiatives like this all over the subcontinent, and they could all join together, and that would put pressure on the national governments to make the drug bans more effective,» says Chris Bowden, the Bangaluru, India — based program manager for Saving Asia's Vultures from Extinction, a consortium of conservation groups and government agencies.

The commercial crew program — subsidies for companies like SpaceX to develop privately owned, human - rated rockets — would get $ 805 million, while the agency would spend $ 2.051 billion on its own rocket, the Space Launch System, a lumbering, and delayed, heavy - lift vehicle that will not see its first launch until the end of 2018.

«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.»

«The United States looks like a pin cushion,» said Bruce Kobelski, a geologist who has been with the agency's underground injection program since 1986.

This means we communicate with a wide range of parties from program officers, to intramural investigators, to other institutes that work on genomics, and agencies like the FDA and CDC.

As gamification matures, I think we will eventually see some accrediting agencies spring up around badging, new programs developed like World of Classcraft, and a growing focus on adding elements that increase learner engagement in all types of learning venues.

Instead, they look like creative businesses on deadline — like advertising agencies pulling together a big campaign, architectural firms drawing up blueprints, or software companies developing new programs,» writes Justin Reich, Ed.D.» 12.

One way forward for simplification and increases in the productivity of the federal investment is to make social programs intended to support lower income families with children more like tax expenditures — putting more money directly in the hands of parents to spend on the care and development of their children and less money directly in the financial accounts of states, welfare agencies, and social service providers.

Reach Institute for School Leadership's programs and activities are made possible by the generous support of foundations, government agencies and individual gifts from people like you.

Some, like Head Start and migrant programs, are sponsored by federal agencies, and others are run by nonprofit groups such as churches and charitable organizations.

School districts now have until August 31, 2014, to notify their state agencies that they would like to implement the Community Eligibility Program (CEP) during the 2014 — 15 school year.

But it's tough to fit data drawn from the nontraditional, competency - based programming that is key to schools like ours into the formulaic tracking systems of government agencies.

I am interested in: Trainings for school or agency staff on parent engagementTrainings for parent coordinators, community liaisons and volunteersCulturally relevant curriculum to engage students and their families in the early yearsCulturally relevant curriculum to engage students and their families in middle or high schoolCulturally relevant curriculum to engage English Learner students and their familiesAdvocacy trainings for parent leadersAdvocacy focused around parent engagement in schoolsI'm a parent and would like to get free resources to support my child's educationYo soy un padre y me gustaría información sobre recursos gratuitos para apoyar a mi hijo / a en su educaciónSponsoring family engagement program (s) and / or campaign (s) Donating to Families In SchoolsReceiving general email updates from Families In Schools

When schools expand their breakfast program through the implementation of one or more new strategies like BIC and / or CEP, there are several factors that help support a successful outcome: Strong leadership within the district, a diverse and engaged coalition of stakeholders (state agency, school nutrition department, anti-hunger and health partners, et al.), staff engagement and training on sharing the positive benefits of school breakfast, and strong overall communications and transparency.

For example, the City Connects program places coordinators at 18 school sites in Boston to link the schools with community agencies that provide integrated student services like mental health care and intensive academic supports.

In partnership with IDE, NYCLA has worked with nine local education agencies and organizations like the School Administrators of Iowa to design the TLC Administrator Support Program and to build the capacity of facilitators and coaches across the state to support program implemenProgram and to build the capacity of facilitators and coaches across the state to support program implemenprogram implementation.

Like so many mixed blessings, this one had its start with the Department of Defense, specifically the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), founded as a technology incubator in 1958 in response to the Soviet Sputnik program.

If it is a genuine crap detector you'd like for your agency, I suggest you inquire as to the program Triond.com and Factoids uses.

In short, this is a program fit - to - purpose for what Amazon has perceived a high - powered agency like Curtis Brown UK might want and need to refloat clients» available backlists on the digital tide.

A debt management program, offered through a credit counselling agency, allows you to consolidate certain debts, like credit card debt.

Many areas and potential home buyers also qualify for First Time Home Buyer programs, like the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency Start Up program, here in Minnesota where I am, that will typically loan the new homeowner a big chunk of their down payment money.

«Offering consumer credit counseling along with other programs like homebuyer education, small business development, or our housing rehab allows us to become more of a full service agency.»

The Massachusetts attorney general has sued another loan servicer, the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, charging that it mismanaged a program under which students were entitled to have their loans forgiven after 10 years in public service occupations like nursing, social work, policing and the military.

Other services, like debt consolidation which includes negotiation with creditors, would be fee - based, but only to cover the administrative costs of running the agency and its programs.

This class is mandatory for programs like the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency (MHFA) Start Up loans, Dakota County First Time Home Buyer, City Living, and many other programs where you get assistance.