Sentences with phrase «special projects funded»

Two are staff on yearly contracts, whereas others work on special projects funded through foundations or grants.

Approve special project funding requests and conduct analysis for trends affecting budget needs, develop budget projections, advise on the accuracy of budget forecasts to facilitate data driven decision making and to ensure that projects are operating within negotiated and agreed - upon parameters.

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SPECIAL REPORT: How does a tech startup in Northbridge backed by a mining consultancy in West Perth manage to secure work on the world's largest privately funded infrastructure project, in Nicaragua?

Under Republican Gov. Rick Perry, Texas has actively chased economic - development projects, closing deals by writing big checks from the Texas Enterprise Fund, a special pot doled out largely at the governor's discretion.

In some areas, there may be additional special rates for tax district that fund services or projects like libraries or parks.

They also serve to fund special local projects like libraries and parks.

Crowdfunding works best when the backers have special knowledge about the project that leads them to fund things that otherwise would have been overlooked or undervalued by traditional investors.

Project Enlightenment offers parents of kids with special needs a place to find support and help even as it deals with funding and staff cuts.

The project, which is funded by National Democratic Congress Parliamentary Candidate for Tema Central Constituency, Ebi Bright, is on track to be completed in time for a special one day tournament on November 6.

43North has been the single largest recipient of a special fund created to ensure Western New York gets its fair share of profits from the sale of hydropower generated at the Niagara Power Project in Lewiston.

Hashamomuck Cove property owners are moving forward with exploring the creation of a special taxing district to fund a project to bolster their shoreline, which has been battered by years of erosion and increasingly frequent and powerful storms.

Council Member King, who reviewed his 12 - Point Plan for the 12TH Council District with more than 700 Bronx residents, friends and special guests in attendance, discussed upcoming and future projects, which include affording housing for working families through a partnership with Habitat for Humanity, the renovation of Agnes Haywood Park, capital funding to schools in the 12th Council District, expense funding to community - based organizations, funding for NYCHA developments and youth programs as well as DOT and DSNY needs in the 12th Council District.

«Despite the unnecessary cost increases associated with the prevailing wage law, special interests in Albany are pushing for prevailing wage to be expanded to projects that are not entirely paid for with public funds.

It creates a new quasi-public entity known as the Connecticut Transportation Finance Authority charged with supporting «the fiscal health and sustainability of the Special Transportation Fund,» the primary source for transportation projects.

The first requires that any annual surplus in the Special Transportation Fund above a certain level be transferred to a new «transportation excess revenue account» that the DOT commissioner would be authorized to spend on transportation projects, subject to the approval of the secretary of the Office of Policy and Management.

The Library Foundation of Buffalo & Erie County and its independent Board of Trustees manages the Library's endowment funds under the auspices of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, and supports special projects within the Library's Strategic Plan with a particular focus on Rare Books & Special Collespecial projects within the Library's Strategic Plan with a particular focus on Rare Books & Special ColleSpecial Collections.

«Total state spending» — including special revenue funds and capital projects — is projected at $ 111.2 billion, an increase of $ 5.9 billion or 5.6 percent over last year, the Assembly report said.

Now the developer — which says it didn't build the project due to a lack of funding and the lengthy approvals process — wants the Southampton Town Board to revive the special zoning so the land can be sold to an as - of - yet unnamed developer who will build the long - planned senior community, The East Hampton Press reported.

«Tax payer funded projects sometimes fuel special - interest groups who expect payback in return.»

City lawmakers will hold a special meeting on Thursday to vote on funding for a project Mayor Paul A. Dyster says will fix the frozen water problem that's occurred the past two winters on 72nd Street.

The review board awarding the funds has approved 427 plans for projects covering 322 school districts and 20 special education schools, Azzopardi said.

At the Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse, Executive Director Natalie Stetson said federal funding allows them to do special projects.

Even as these students were forming their new network, NSF was developing an initiative to fund projects that connect far - flung research departments focusing on the same problems, with a special emphasis on international collaboration.

With special - funding support from a few national projects, the universities have managed to attract elite researchers and academics from abroad, mainly from the Chinese diaspora, to work in China.

While politicians are still working on the final wording of the amendment, «[t] he agreement spells out that the federal government will also continue its funding of several key programs that have boosted research budgets in recent years, such as the Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation — which funds nonuniversity research organizations like the Helmholtz Association and the Max Planck Society — and the Excellence Initiative, which allows universities to compete for extra funding for special projects and the title of «elite university.»»

The agreement spells out that the federal government will also continue its funding of several key programs that have boosted research budgets in recent years, such as the Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation — which funds nonuniversity research organizations like the Helmholtz Association and the Max Planck Society — and the Excellence Initiative, which allows universities to compete for extra funding for special projects and the title of «elite university.»

The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, was funded by a special research project of the FWF (Austrian Science Fund)(SFB - 35, led by Harald Sitte) and presented as a highlight at the international conference on «Organization for Human Brain Mapping.»

The study by primary authors Bernhard Meyer and Julia Huemer, published in the journal Brain Structure and Function, was funded with resources from a special research program by the Austrian Science Fund (Head: Harald Sitte) and an EU project (Head: Gunther Schumann).

The study was supported by grants from the National Science and Technology Pillar Program (2013BAD20B03), Key Project from the Government of Shaanxi Province (2013KTZB02 -03-1), a Public Welfare Project from the Ministry of Forestry (201304110), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2014YB074), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31372019), Talents Supporting Plan of Shaanxi Province, a special fund from the Key laboratory of Shaanxi Province (2015SZS - 10), a special fund from NWAFU for the jujube experimental station (XTG2015002), and the United States National Science Foundation (IOS - 1539831).

Funding: This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program 2010CB530200 to CC), the Bingtuan Twelve Five - Year Special Projects (2012BB051 to CC), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 31201800 and 31260534 to SH), and Utah Multidisciplinary Arrhythmia Consortium and Utah Agricultural Experimental Station (project1100 to IP).

Ask for funds to give a special ASCB prize to a cell biology project.

This is one of several short projects funded in 2016 by the Natural Environment Research Council, designed to feed directly into for the IPCC's special report on 1.5 C.

The Board of Directors may authorize the expenditure of all or any part of the principal of the fund for some project or special purpose that will forward their work of assisting people with eczema.

Hot on the heels of their collaboration with Manolo Blahnik, J. Crew is giving us even more to look forward to in the coming months: The brand is said to be working on a «still - secret «special project» with Vogue / CFDA fashion fund winners Pamela Love, Creatures of the Wind and Joseph Altuzarra,» according to The Daily.

There is also a comprehensive section for the School's Foundation to support capital developments, the Bursary Fund and Special Projects, also has a section outlining the current «Building Futures» project and plans for the future.

Currently I am a Principal Investigator of Project ESCOLAR (Etext Supports for Collaborative Online Learning and Academic Reading) a five year grant funded by the Office of Special education Programs (OSEP) to develop, test, evaluate, refine, and disseminate Collaborative Online Projects designed to support academic reading of science content for middle school students with learning disabilities.

«The cradle to prison pipeline is a national crisis that leaves a black boy born in 2001 with a one in three lifetime chance of going to prison and a Latino boy a one in six risk of the same fate,» said workshop participant Barbara Best, director of foundation relations and special projects at the Children's Defense Fund.

The South Korean Ministry of Special Affairs also granted funds for the Green Lane Diary project in 2012.

Specifically at issue has been the revenue from local mill - levy overrides (MLO), voter - approved property - tax increases that supplement a district's base funding and support a wide variety of special projects.

This year's report also features a special analysis by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center, which tracks several key economic indicators over time, unpacks education funding tied to the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and identifies education - related jobs saved as a result of the economic stimulus package.

Many favored projects — including special education state grants, charter schools, and new programs to train teachers — also were granted significant funding gains this year.

Projected increases in funding under Proposition 98, which sets a minimum funding level for schools, plus more money to the district under the state's Local Control Funding Formula, should ease some of the tensions over the district's special treatment for Priority Sfunding under Proposition 98, which sets a minimum funding level for schools, plus more money to the district under the state's Local Control Funding Formula, should ease some of the tensions over the district's special treatment for Priority Sfunding level for schools, plus more money to the district under the state's Local Control Funding Formula, should ease some of the tensions over the district's special treatment for Priority SFunding Formula, should ease some of the tensions over the district's special treatment for Priority Schools.

Following Governor Malloy's recent proposal to create a Connecticut Special Education Cost Cooperative, a new bureaucratic structure designed to inappropriately control special education funding and services, The Connecticut School Finance Project prepared an «independent analysis examining these proposed changes and how they align with six key principles and practices all special education finance systems should follow.Special Education Cost Cooperative, a new bureaucratic structure designed to inappropriately control special education funding and services, The Connecticut School Finance Project prepared an «independent analysis examining these proposed changes and how they align with six key principles and practices all special education finance systems should follow.special education funding and services, The Connecticut School Finance Project prepared an «independent analysis examining these proposed changes and how they align with six key principles and practices all special education finance systems should follow.special education finance systems should follow.»

The study was funded in part by the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education, Grant #H023E90020, and by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Core Grant #HD15052, Douglas Fuchs, Project Director.

Funding for the original study was provided by a grant from the Division of Personnel Preparation, Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education (Grant #H029K890068; John Cawley, Project Director).

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Kline suggests that funds should be reallocated from «pet projects» and «programs with no track record for success, such as Race to the Top, Investing in Innovation, School Improvement Grants, and Striving Readers, among others» to fulfill the nation's basic obligation to support students with special needs.

Dr. Karen H. Jones, a professor of workforce education at the University of Georgia and ACTE's 2005 National Outstanding Career and Technical Educator, spoke to Catherine Imperatore of ACTE about the M.A.T.H. Today (Mathematics and Technology Happen Today) Project, a grant - funded three - year study of whether participation in computer - based mathematics programs would improve work - related math skills of students from special populations.

Aside from formal requests to district leaders, Brown Deer teachers do have another avenue to fund special projects.

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