Sentences with phrase «recently funding efforts»

New Yorkers Together this election cycle has been especially active in Long Island state Senate races on behalf of Democratic challengers to Republican incumbents, most recently funding efforts to bolster Democrat Ryan Cronin's bid against Sen. Kemp Hannon.

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This topic came up recently at a meeting where everyone was bemoaning the funding cutbacks in social services in many cities and the fact that outreach efforts, awareness campaigns and other marketing initiatives were among the first things to be dropped.

Millions more are bound to be reached as a multistakeholder effort to make life better for these farmers has recently received funding to carry on its work for another five years.

In an effort to promote healthy social and emotional development and school readiness among young children, Ohio and Colorado recently increased funding for early childhood mental health consultation...

Until recently he was a founding member and VP of J.P. Morgan Sustainable Finance where he helped develop innovative investment structures such as GHIF (the world's first VC fund for HIV & Malaria Research), Dementia Discovery Fund (a first - of - its kind collaborative effort to accelerate fundamental research in Dementia) and NatureVest, an investment fund focused on nature protection co-developed with The Nature Conservafund for HIV & Malaria Research), Dementia Discovery Fund (a first - of - its kind collaborative effort to accelerate fundamental research in Dementia) and NatureVest, an investment fund focused on nature protection co-developed with The Nature ConservaFund (a first - of - its kind collaborative effort to accelerate fundamental research in Dementia) and NatureVest, an investment fund focused on nature protection co-developed with The Nature Conservafund focused on nature protection co-developed with The Nature Conservancy.

Funding included in the recently passed state budget will allow New York City subway cars to be repaired more quickly, Cuomo said while unveiling an effort aimed at improving service for a transit system notorious for frequent breakdowns.

In 2011, the state approved land bank legislation to help communities deal with vacant and abandoned properties after the housing crisis, but until recently the effort lacked the needed funding.

Those efforts have more recently been backed by hedge fund investors: When Mr. Cuomo was preparing to run for governor in 2010, he met with a team of their representatives.

Samuels recently called on Cuomo to transfer $ 10 million from his overflowing campaign coffers to the Senate Democrats» to help fund their political efforts this fall.

(The NRCC has tried to make an issue of the ties McMahon and other Democrats have to Global, which recently settled with AG Andrew Cuomo in his ongoing pay - to - play pension fund probe, but that effort hasn't gotten much traction).

Until he was recently fired, Mr. Howe worked for Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, a prominent Albany law firm; among its clients was the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, which, as a linchpin of the Cuomo administration's efforts to stimulate economic growth upstate, has received and helped distribute hundreds of millions of dollars in state funds.

The Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership was recently awarded Rural Development Funds from USDA in an effort to stimulate small business growth throughout Saratoga County.

Creighton cited a recently published Politico story detailing Bishop's efforts to help a Southampton hedge fund investor obtain a permit for a bar mitzvah fireworks display at his home.

«There have been reports in the news recently of successful drug busts and that is the exact reason why we must continue to fund the Sheriff's efforts.

Leaders pressure feds for farm aid — Gov. Scott, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam and U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson have recently ramped up efforts to get much - needed funding distributed to Florida farmers affected by Hurricane Irma.

Habib leads the «Computing the Sky at Extreme Scales» project or «ExaSky,» one of the first projects funded by the recently established Exascale Computing Project (ECP), a collaborative effort between DOE's Office of Science and its National Nuclear Security Administration.

The physics Nobelist who recently stepped down as point person for the Obama Administration's efforts to improve U.S. science education told Congress yesterday that many federally funded programs don't draw upon current research about how people learn and, therefore, haven't managed to boost student achievement.

Michael Stephens, an aide who recently left the committee after working for Obey for 3 decades, praises his former boss for defending peer review and opposing political efforts to steer funding to specific diseases.

The cancer center's endowment also fell with the stock market plunge, although according to a statement from Sloan - Kettering, Varmus oversaw a fund - raising effort that recently topped $ 2 billion.

To support their efforts, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently awarded them over $ 8.5 million in funding.

Recently, iBET became the coordinator of a research unit funded by FCT, iNOVA4Health, a translational medicine program organising the efforts of biomedical researchers involved in biological understanding of disease, lead compounds and biopharmaceuticals «pre-discovery», technological scientists involved in «preclinical development», and clinicians involved in «early clinical and first in man clinical trials» from institutions within NOVA University of Lisbon.

Up to $ 350 million from the fund will be carved out to support a recently announced effort by 46 states to develop common academic standards.

ConnAD was a primary funder behind the lobbying effort to pass Malloy's education bill last spring, and more recently, helped fund Mayor Bill Finch's failed effort to eliminate a democratically elected board of education in Bridgeport and replace it with one appointed by the Mayor.

To complement the efforts of the Investment Office to identify an external fund manager, Purdom developed a syllabus for the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Investing class in partnership with Cary Krosinsky — an educator and advisor on sustainable investing who had recently worked with students at Yale — enlisting him to teach the course as an adjunct lecturer.

Through our rescue efforts and our recently established dedicated rescue fund, Millie's Mission, we have rescued or provided funding for more than 250 dogs rescued from puppy mills.

But animal advocates agree that the decrease in euthanasia has been dramatic, driven mostly by successful spay - neuter programs and, more recently, by savvy adoption campaigns, greater efforts to reunite lost pets with owners and the proliferation of advocacy groups both small and large that have swept in to help municipal shelters, often poorly funded and sluggish.

Heidi Chen, General Counsel for Zoetis, was recently presented with the 2016 Justice in Action Award by the Asian American Legal Defense Fund, which recognizes outstanding achievements and efforts in advancing social justice in the U.S. Below is an adaptation of Heidi's remarks from the event.

Gili Islands Bio Rock Update Reef restoration efforts on the Gili islands received a major boost recently as Graham Davies, owner of Malia's Child bungalows on Gili Meno, funded five new Bio-Rocks.

SIPN will hold an open meeting during the 2017 AGU Fall Meetings to provide discussion of the 2017 Arctic sea ice / Sea Ice Outlook season, an overview of the recently - funded «SIPN 2» project and collaborations (see below), and opportunity for discussion and to share information on related efforts.

While he said he was working for the plaintiffs pro-bono, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which has admitted to funding efforts to investigate and bring charges against the oil and gas industry, had very recently given a $ 200,000 grant to the Niskanen Center in February 2018 «for its climate program.»

The school's efforts have received plenty of external recognition — for example, the 2016 Clawbie for best Canadian Law Blog — and also funding, including two innovation - related grants the school recently secured from the Law Foundation of Ontario.

With several hot button issues highlighted in the media recently, this article served as a timely effort to showcase the issues revolving around funding for legal services organizations, like Community Legal Services... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 21, 2011 — The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big «I») stands ready to help meet disaster assistance needs through the Trusted Choice ® Disaster Relief Fund and recently made a contribution to the relief efforts in Japan after the devastating earthquake and tsunami.

«My concern as an investor is focus and diluted effort,» he said, since the TON aims to disrupt the same areas as several other blockchain startups that have also recently raised funds via token sales.

Motorola hasn't given up on Moto Mods yet, and the company recently held a pitch day for budding inventors to pitch their best concepts and ideas to a panel of Motorola, Lenovo, and Verizon executives in an effort to secure investment funds for development, via Engadget.

Additionally MARE has received funding from Mr. Williams» fundraising efforts since 1982 and more recently through grants from the Endowment for Wednesday's Child.

Century 21 In Town Realty and Centum Pacific Mortgages in Vancouver recently hosted a charity golf tournament to raise funds for Easter Seals B.C. Through the tournament and other fundraising efforts throughout the year, they raised $ 4,872, which will be used to pay for children with disabilities to attend Easter Seals Camp Squamish next summer.

House lawmakers recently gave a big boost to the NAR effort by passing a provision prohibiting the Treasury Department from using fiscal 2003 funds to implement its proposed rule.