Sentences with phrase «small grants budget»

Frustrated by the traditional foundation model in which programmatic impact is limited to the small grants budget, the foundation's board agreed to invest some endowment assets in ventures and funds that generated social and environmental benefits along with attractive returns.

Not exact matches

Since more than 40 percent of Sonoma's vineyards are fewer than 20 acres, the commission has established a $ 100,000 budget for grants to offset certification costs, which can be $ 1,500 for a single site — a cost that smaller growers could find prohibitive.

The Executive Budget would also establish a grant program for pre-Kindergarten for 3 year olds and raises the charter school cap and a small increase in funding.

The «patronising» advert tweeted by Conservative party chairman Grant Shapps is «quite a small issue» when compared to the rest of the budget, according to a Lib Dem minister.

He discussed his experience with crafting school budgets, and the impact even a small grant can have on lessening taxpayer burden while helping to fund much - needed improvements.

Sometimes, once you have won the grant and are negotiating your contract with the funding body, there still might be some room for a small budget adjustment if you can provide convincing arguments.

Like other universities in the Netherlands, Leiden is facing a smaller annual budget after science minister Ronald Plasterk's decision last year to shift $ 100 million in research funding to the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the main grant - giving institution in the country.

Second, funding such efforts is likely to require not merely writing another grant, but, rather, encouraging investigators / educators to add in a small budget — and appropriate language — to research and training grants across departments, even across the whole institution.

Because the budget allocated by research councils for R&D isn't going up while inflation is, that means fewer and smaller grants will be awarded in 2015 and 2016.

These include the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Awards, fellowships co-funded by the European Commission under the Marie Skłodowska - Curie Actions COFUND programme, Ulysses and small research grants under New Foundations (subject to budget).

Same goes for director Josh Trank, who proved with Chronicle that he could do superhero mayhem on a much smaller budget than the one he's been granted here.

You can start by sharing the reasoning behind everyday, small decisions, like why tutoring groups have been created in a specific way, how you've established budget numbers, or why you've written a grant proposal for iPads instead of laptops.

Head teachers of some small schools in England say they might have to use teaching budgets to help fund school lunches after a grant ends in July.

While we apply for applicable grants on a regular basis, they only make up a very small percentage of our budget.

Granted, the game was made with a small budget, but it still annoyed me a lot.

Eventually, an increment of something like $ 7.5 million was added to the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences budget within the National Science Foundation for grants to universities as a start to getting studies going and to expand the relatively small group of researchers.

Developed youth leadership programming; cultivated partnerships with regional non-profits, businesses, and other governmental agencies; planned large and small - scale special events; wrote departmental grants and supervised mini-grant process for NC Youth Advisory Council; prepared and managed budgets; recruited and supervised volunteers; served as youth advocate to local and state agencies, boards, and schools; conducted meetings; prepared reports, newsletters, correspondence, and other materials.

In the days following the announcement of $ 860m in grant offers, Guardian Australia spoke to numerous organisations that had been denied funding for programs, or had been offered a grant smaller than their previous budget in return for expanded programs.