Sentences with phrase «smaller than the program»

For many other environmental policies, the value of the averted CO2 is in fact smaller than the program costs.»

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More than a 100 proposals worth over $ 100 million were chosen through the agency's Small Business Innovation Research program.

They also offer special programs for businesses with fewer than 50 employees, making them a standout provider for small companies.

In FY17, the Small Business Administration (SBA)'s flagship 7 (a) program provided more than $ 25.44 billion in funding across 62,430 loans.

Finally, credit card programs enable small businesses to receive payment more quickly than they could with an individual credit account system.

While more expensive than loans, these programs can help small companies that have cash flow problems because clients are paying slowly.

Before launching Circle in 2013, she was — among other things — the CEO and COO of the Kashf Foundation, where she expanded a small micro-lending pilot program into an entity that provided more than 300,000 women with loans («98 % of which were repaid in full,» she says with a proud smile).

They're typically smaller than rockets that launch satellites and people into space, but structurally, the missiles aren't too different — which is why militaries pay close attention to countries that develop human - spaceflight programs.

An advocate for both small - business owners and workers, Perry oversees efforts that have included offering more than $ 600 million in financing and technical assistance programs to promote business growth and job creation in economically depressed areas of L.A.

Though many community banks in this program have, controversially, used this money to pay off TARP rather than lend to small business, Hall says the money will help Team Capital make $ 200 million in loans to local small businesses, and it has enabled it to loan out $ 40 million in the past year.

«In the last two years, we've seen one by one, several strategic moves by the large global brewers to do mergers and acquisitions of smaller craft breweries in a more fast - paced manner than in the past,» says Julia Herz, craft beer program director for The Brewers Association.

Programs like Dao's Twiistup conference, Koblasa's Start - Up Weekend LA and Start - Up Nights, and Suster's Launchpad L.A. certainly help make L.A. feel smaller than it is, at least for a start - up.

Small businesses can get started online for less than $ 50 per month and have a professional online store launched in a single day, even if the owner has no experience with programming or coding.

The SBA's 7 (a) Loan Program is the most popular of the agency's programs (more than 88,000 of these loans totaling almost $ 14 billion were bestowed upon small businesses in fiscal year 2005).

The unfortunate reality is the opposite: Electric car programs (or programs for any vehicle that doesn't burn hydrocarbons) at the major manufacturers are small to non-existent, constituting an average of far less than 1 % of their total vehicle sales.

As an added bonus, if your small business uses contractors rather than — or in addition to — regular employees, Zenefits makes it easy to manage their details as well, allowing you to track their compensation and handle their tax needs from within a single program.

The SBI program, sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration, pairs more than 500 business schools with small companies nationSmall Business Administration, pairs more than 500 business schools with small companies nationsmall companies nationwide.

If you're hiring, the drum - tight talent market for anyone with programming skills should loosen up considerably, although big companies may reap the benefits more than small ones, says Oliver Ryan, founder of the tech recruiting firm Lab 8 Ventures.

These programs are useful if your business is very small or if you want to take the software for a longer test run than the trial period allows.

The 10,000 Small Businesses program currently operates in 19 markets in the U.S. through a network of more than 100 academic and community partners, and the program continues to expand on a city - by - city basis.

To ensure business owners are aware of and accessing the full range of financing options available to them, Wells Fargo recently established referral relationships with more than 20 nonprofits and other lenders in cities across the country that are participating in the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA) Community Advantage program.

The FBA Small and Light program added thousands of items less than eight ounces priced under $ 10.

Even better than a small business loan, this program offers non-repayable contributions (a.k.a. small business grants) of up to $ 99,999 for eligible individual entrepreneurs.

It found that the program reduced under - five mortality by 27 %.79 The under - five mortality effect was smaller (though still statistically significant) in BRAC branches than in Living Goods branches, but the cost per CHP was lower in BRAC branches as well.80 The authors note: 81

[2] For the purposes of the SBIR program, the term «small business» is defined as a for - profit business with fewer than 500 employees, owned by one or more individuals who are citizens of, or permanent resident aliens in, the United States of America.

That said, B.C.'s strong economic growth over the past three years, combined with a) the announced small business tax relief, b) the new training and youth employment programs (also announced today), and c) a lower - than - average percentage of our working population who actually make minimum wage (about 5 %, compared to 7.1 % nationally), leaves us in a position to cautiously view the announced increases as «reasonable.»

held in smaller markets and at more marginal times than most of the mainline programming which has continued.

And the success of the Boy Scouts of America is due in no small part to their commitment to a set of ideas and principles that have guided the program for more than 100 years.

If all programs are being designed to meet specific needs of specific people, it is logical to design the programs to meet small, achievable needs of a few people, rather than the vast, insurmountable needs of a few million people.

Programs like universal health care and a guaranteed living wage are so within reach that, if they were implemented in the way Miller suggests, «government would he smaller than it was when Ronald Reagan was president.»

The viewing audience for religious programs is far smaller than has been claimed.

The proportion of congregations in the 1960s and 1970s that actually responded as prescribed to their contexts was in fact very small.21 As neighborhood populations changed racially, some churches whose physical and financial resources lingered after their former membership fled introduced service programs to assist the poor, but the adjustment seems in most cases to have stemmed from necessity or default rather than from deliberate reorientation and restructuring by members who themselves stayed on to be transformed.

The viewing audience for the electronic - church programs is far smaller than had been claimed.

Clearly, the ethos of specialization is much more intense in large graduate programs staffed by research - oriented specialists than in small undergraduate programs in which most faculty members teach some introductory courses.

Catholic sustaining - time program «Insight,» for example, has a smaller syndication than the larger programs: 59 stations for 51 percent coverage of the country.

In a speck of watery material smaller than the dot over this i, all the future characteristics of the child are programmed — the color of his skin, eyes and hair, the shape of his facial features, the natural abilities he will have.

Of the 1,200 congregations in Indianapolis, only a small fraction have any established community programs other than an ad hoc food pantry.

In a catalog I recently edited of devices and instruments for congregational research, only a small minority of the hundred or so entries is designed to explore a congregation's narrative identity.20 Most doctor of ministry programs continue the tradition: perusal of the theses and essays these programs produce strongly suggests that projects that employ contextual, mechanist, or organicist methods are more likely to be accepted than those that delve into congregational culture and story.

The awards program attracted entries from companies large and small, and was open to products, campaigns and initiatives introduced or reintroduced to North American or Latin American markets no earlier than June 1, 2009.

If anything, due to supermarkets» own quality assurance programs, they can require more inspections and checks than smaller outlets.»

The diverse wine program features more than 250 familiar names and rare, small - batch varietals for guests to purchase at a retail price, either to enjoy with their meal for a minimal corkage fee or to take to go.

Both schools pull in more athletic revenue than the majority of front - line Big 12 candidates, but they have way worse men's basketball programs, smaller fanbases, less academic funding, and lower university rankings than the league's averages.

First of all, there is almost no specific type of hire (hot coordinator vs retread vs head coach at smaller program, etc.) that works out any better than others.

Two years later, Harbaugh accepted a head coaching position at the University of San Diego, a small, non-scholarship school that had far more in common with Ivy League programs than with his alma mater, Michigan, or the school where he would later forge his reputation as a powerhouse head coach, Stanford.

With more than 600 students total, RSS is large and diverse enough to offer a stimulating and academic program, yet small enough to guarantee that every child receives the individualized attention he or she deserves.

Overall, the researchers found students who received free or reduced - price lunches were more obese than students who did not take part in the USDA program, but the gap in obesity prevalence was much smaller in states with strict lunch standards.

Klopfenstein and Thomas (2010) offer three significant ways in which non-AP students at a school may pay the price for the AP program: they may receive lower instructional quality, as the best teachers are siphoned off to teach AP students; they are in larger classes, as AP classes are smaller than typical high school classes; and non-AP course offerings are reduced or limited in order to fund, staff, and expand AP course offerings.

Even if a family is using food stamps (or in California the newly dubbed «Cal Fresh» program), a small but substantial - enough lunch from home would surely be better than the nasty meat stick in the photo.

Children in large daycare programs will have more infections than children in small groups.

The budget is $ 27 million, or 12 percent, smaller than last year, while the three - year program is $ 19 million less than the current multiyear plan.