Sentences with phrase «sizable grants»

He / she receives sizable grants from companies whose primary motivation is to develop profitable new products.

The main targets of CARRF's criticism are the anonymity of the reports given about funding decisions and the fact that scientists serving on the awards committees are themselves often recipients of sizable grants.

But following the rejection by two prominent foundations of the group's proposals for sizable grants, its board of directors...

The schools in Tampa, Fla., are among the largest recipients of outside help, having won sizable grants from the Walton and Wallace foundations, as well as $ 100 million over seven years from Gates.

In 1974, the newly - formed Alberta Law Foundation (ALF) provided the first of many sizable grants.

Teresa Johnson could see her home - based, soil - free farm in Lake Zurich, Purewater Aquaponics, grow like never before if she garners enough online votes by Jan. 31 to receive a sizable grant from a national produce distributor.

And the present decade opened with the Race to the Top, the brainchild of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, based on the bold hypothesis that sizable grants of federal dollars, disbursed via a competitive process, can induce states to jump through reform policy hoops that they likely would not otherwise have attempted.

Although a precise breakdown was not available, sizable grants have gone to networks like FirstLine Schools (with five schools), KIPP New Orleans (with 10 schools), Collegiate Academies (with three schools) and Inspire NOLA (with three schools).

We are grateful to the ASPCA who awarded two sizable grants to support the development of the AniMatch Program.

Armed with a sizable grant from the Ford Foundation — no small feat in any decade!

Three distinctive New York artists have each been awarded a sizable grant from the Jerome Foundation that aims to encourage and foster their professional acumen and creative development.

This year they received a sizable grant from New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) which will help fund the dance companies and some event itself.

Postscript, 5:25 p.m. ** Via Twitter, I was pointed to a Heritage Foundation blog post by Joel Griffith criticizing Young Conservatives for Energy Reform for supporting renewable - energy subsidies and taking a sizable grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, which focuses in part on addressing climate change.