Sentences with phrase «small grants»

Next month, the group will award its first cohort of small grants to seed a handful of grassroots projects.

Provides small grant funding for entrepreneurs and researchers to demonstrate concept feasibility of their new clean energy technology ideas.

A good way to think about that is whether we would give smaller grants if new team members were on a 4 - year schedule.

Compass also supports peer support and advocacy groups and organisations through small grants funding for projects that support people affected by forced adoption policies and practices.

Launched last year, it offers small grants of between # 250 and # 5,000 to local groups for projects that bring people of different faiths together.

The community is also in line for several smaller grant awards.

Schools explore the positive results of providing small grants to low - income students who are a risk for dropping out or not graduating on time.

It has two international organizations that give small grants to young investigators and host a world conference.

Some sources (usually of small grants) will be local.

Tobacco Regulatory Science Small Grant Program for New Investigators (R03 Clinical Trial Optional)

2006 - 07 COR Small Grant in Aid of Research, UC Davis: $ 2,000.

Education & Professional Development Mini-Grants AAS - EPD mini-grants support US - based AAS members with small grants to provide education - related mentoring and professional - development experiences for fellow members.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have welcomed the announcement today of their # 40 million small grants scheme for farmers.

A judging panel including representatives from the Global Environment Facility - United Nations Development Programme Small Grants Programme, UN Climate Change, and tve will pre-select a short list of videos based on the criteria of content, innovation, originality impact, and technical expertise.

WHAT: A two - day residential weekend for young parents WHERE: Centre Parcs, Nottingham AGENCY: Sure Start Plus, Nottingham FUNDING: Teenage Pregnancy Unit Small Grants Scheme

The program administers small grants for spay / neuter surgeries and trapping equipment in targeted communities.

Given that there were only 12 Race to the Top winners (and seven runners - up who got small grants), it's pretty clear that the program had an impact even in states that did not get grants.

This guidance document is based on examples from Community - Based Adaptation (CBA) projects of the GEF Small Grants Programme implemented by UNDP and aims to guide practitioners in developing CBA projects from design to implementation.

The research was funded by the Amazon Conservation Association, the Rufford Small Grants Foundation and a grant from the National Science Foundation.

If your home and belongings are flood - damaged and you don't have flood insurance, some help may be available from the federal government through small grants and larger low - cost loans.

Indeed, the project took 20 years to complete, fueled by the Environmental Protection Fund as well as small grants secured by local legislators as well as private donations.

British Academy Social Science Small Grant: «Discourses on Multiculturalism among University Students in Britain and the United States», (2008)

Policymakers should push their state systems to adopt common course numbering, create small grants for low - cost credits, and link MOOCs to existing credit - by - exam programs.

In August 2007, a national organization, the Uganda Community Libraries Association, was launched to provide training for librarians and distribute small grants.

administering small grants to build sector capacity and enhance group healing activities to support people affected by forced adoptions, where appropriate / possible.

Through this Foundation we will be able to provide small grants on an as - needed basis to pets qualifying for our program.

As a Clinical Instructor at Brown University, mentored and advised pre-medical and community health students and trained students in research including questionnaire development and assisted them in obtaining small grants for overseas research projects and to study health care delivery in other countries including Sweden, Uganda & Kenya.

But don't discount smaller grants.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in cooperation with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Saratoga County has developed a Shooting Range Small Grants Program.

Mohonk Preserve has received a $ 5,000 Greenway Conservancy small grant for its Foothills Trail Connectivity Planning Project.

NIH's review process doesn't include close scrutiny of budgets, so you can use that money to buy equipment, though smaller grants won't pay for big - ticket items.

► «This week [the National Science Foundation] announced its intention to hand out small grants later this year to dozens of institutions to test novel ways of broadening participation in science and engineering,» Jeffrey Mervis wrote Wednesday afternoon.

The center also awards about 10 small grants per year to «drive projects from bench to bedside,» says Britz.

I have several small grants under my name including the R03 training grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD).

From now on such requests will be considered by the discipline - specific NSF divisions; small grants covering only the incremental cost of doing science abroad may not fare well in the new system.

The Science and Technology Small Grant Scheme will stump up for anything which might improve the public's understanding of science.

This budget category yields small grants, often given to young scientists, for advanced studies of exotic missions — like a probe to Enceladus.

For investigators who feel that the NIH should hand out more small grants, the NIGMS's example is welcome.

This project is supported by the John Cheeck Trust, Ruffords Small Grants Foundation and Falkland Islands Environmental Planning Department, as well as the scarce skills scholarship from the National Research Foundation and Post Graduate Research Scholarship from NMMU, South Africa.

Bretschger's lab has also been supported by Synthetic Genomics Inc., the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the California State Public Interest Energy Research Energy Innovations Small Grant program, and the San Diego Foundation Blasker Science and Technology award.

The study was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (P30DA040500) and the Leonard Davis Institute Small Grants Program.