Sentences with phrase «support of the national network»

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Despite the fact that the company launched in the midst of a national economic crisis, it has since reeled in more than $ 45 million in funding from investors such as New York City - based General Atlantic as well as Endeavor Catalyst, an investing branch of the eponymous, global entrepreneurship support network.

Plus, being part of a national franchise offers the opportunity to tap into a large consulting network of knowledgeable business owners and corporate support staff.

Burnside, of Fairview, has plenty of support with both her local staff and a national network.

After this (and with the installation of the Workers» Party in power in Brazil), support from beyond Fortaleza, notably from the National Secretary of the Solidarity Economy in the Ministry of Labour, made possible a network of community banks in Brazil on the Banco Palmas model.

CMIT Solutions is a national network of locally owned IT franchises that serves a specific and growing market with demonstrated demand: small businesses that employ between five and 99 people, businesses big enough to need outsourced IT support but generally not big enough to have internal IT departments.

The company received the award for demonstrating sustained support for the local communities through its network of over 600 brokerage offices and for philanthropic innovation on a national scale.

As the national industry association for Angel investors, NACO is able to leverage the knowledge, experience and networks of its membership to support Canadian early - stage investors.

There are national networks of churches supporting adoptions.

If we measure left and right by support for or opposition to abortion and Bill Clinton, which is a reasonable measure in this case, twelve of the groups represented are very far left indeed — including Catholics for a Free Choice, Human Rights Campaign (a leading gay rights organization), People for the American Way, AIDS National Interfaith Network, and Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.

By way of contrast, the Rev. Norman Dewire, the chief program coordinating executive for the United Methodist Church, pointed out that «the national United Methodist Church runs on five cents of each $ 1, supports 750 missionaries, 900 short - term missionaries, curriculum and worship materials, the largest network of private colleges in the United States, one hundred retirement homes, and the recruitment and training of ministers plus all communication materials.

Also encouraging is last summer's inauguration by the Division of Church and Society of the National Council of Churches of a national networking and support project for those hurt by plant closings and economic disloNational Council of Churches of a national networking and support project for those hurt by plant closings and economic dislonational networking and support project for those hurt by plant closings and economic dislocations.

The Knowledge Centre, a network made up of experts in and outside the Commission, will support EU policymakers and national authorities by providing access -LSB-...]

Felice N Jacka has received Grant / Research support from the Brain and Behaviour Research Institute, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australian Rotary Health, the Geelong Medical Research Foundation, the Ian Potter Foundation, Eli Lilly, Meat and Livestock Australia, Woolworths Limited, and The University of Melbourne and has received speakers honoraria from Sanofi - Synthelabo, Janssen Cilag, Servier, Pfizer, Health Ed, Network Nutrition, Angelini Farmaceutica, Metagenics and Eli Lilly.

A good example of this is through our sponsorship of the Getting to Zero Summit, to support desexing and responsible pet ownership along with the National Desexing Network and the Animal Welfare League of Queensland.

The annual National Pancake Day fundraiser invites guests to enjoy a free short stack of IHOP's famous buttermilk pancakes from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. with the hope that they consider making a voluntary contribution to support the Children's Miracle Network Hospital in their area.

Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India (BPNI) was founded on 3rd December, 1991 atWardha, Maharashtra.BPNI is a registered, independent, nonprofit, national organization; working towards protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding and appropriate complementary feeding of infants & young children.BPNI acts on the targets of Innocenti Declarations, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes, and the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding (WHO 2002).

As the founding sponsor of the National Diaper Bank Network since 2011, Huggies through its No Baby Unhugged program has provided ongoing support for the organization and has donated more than 200 million diapers and baby wipes, including critical donations during times of crisis, to those in diaper need.

The Diaper Bank supports the efforts of the National Diaper Bank Network (NDBN) by increasing awareness within our state and community; by informing elected officials; by obtaining Diaper Need Awareness Week proclamations for an annually determined week in the month of September; by hosting diaper drives; and by promoting opportunities for supporters and advocates to talk and help raise diapers, and dollars in support of diaper need.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

From short term voting gigs with national brands to attending local events to working as a founding member of a new blogging network, I wouldn't be where I am today if it hadn't been for the support and networking power of my local blogging friends.

Thanks to a grant from the Department of Health, we are setting up a neonatal branch of the National Infant Feeding Network (NeoNIFN), specifically to support neonatal units to improve practice and standards of care for sick and preterm babies and their families.

It is a national network of organisations and individuals dedicated to promote mother and child health through protection, promotion, and support of breastfeeding.

An alternative would be to abandon federal support, privatize the endowments and corporation, and then seek support on a state by state level as a bunch of state organizations that are part of a national network.

♦ Ideas for making the UK's road network ready to support connected and autonomous vehicles are sought as part of a competition launched by the National Infrastructure Commission.

The ScrapTheCode folks aren't alone, but their comrades the teabaggers are running a more involved online endeavor: to support the national Tax Day Tea Party, a couple of different organizing sites are using video, social networking outreach, Twitter, a planning wiki, and email (unfortunately, someone's also turned to robocalls).

Find out more about the energy challenge and how National Grid is helping find solutions to some of the challenges we face at www.nationalgridconnecting.com The National Grid Energy Efficiency Innovation Award scheme was launched across National Grid's four gas distribution networks and provided a # 400k fund to support major innovations to tackle fuel poverty and deliver energy efficiency solutions in communities, with five agencies in total receiving awards.

The 19 - year - old twins are the co-founders, along with 62 - year - old Kentucky volunteer Bill Goins, of Hucksarmy.com, an until - recently under - the - radar national grassroots effort that is growing into a powerful component of Huckabee's support network.

Business News of Friday, 11 May 2018 Source: PHD Media PHD GH CEO, Bright Ladzekpo (right) and Jean Quarcoopome PHD Ghana, an affiliate of Omnicom Media Group's PHD Worldwide network of media agencies, is taking its longstanding partnership with Ashesi University a step further its focus on Ashesi's student talent pool through its support for the University's career fairs, student mentorship, summer internship programmes, national service placements and full time employment opportunities for its graduates.

10:00 AM New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer, the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and US Business Leadership Network, will host a roundtable discussion on how the City can better support emerging small businesses.

Fresh from observing Liberia's general elections held on 10th October, Head of the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC) and Chair, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of Nigeria, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, in company with INEC and ECONEC officials earlier today met with the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) Coordinator and Resident Representative in Cote d'Ivoire, Mr Babacar Cisse to advocate for support for the Commission Electorale Independante of Cote'd» Ivoire (CEI).

4:00 PM — Public Advocate Letitia James and Comptroller Scott Stringer delivers remarks at the National Action Network Press Conference in Support of Malcolm Xavier.

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson told Al Sharpton's National Action Network Saturday that he supports «full legalization» of marijuana and «in the meantime,» sending pot smokers along with a summons...

Cuomo isn't in any way totally cut off from normal Democratic areas of strength, finding support at a rally celebrating a successful unionization effort by nurses at the Albany Medical Center, and using his appearance at Al Sharpton's National Action Network convention to announce the plan to restore voting rights for parolees.

«Families could face the stark choice of cutting back on essentials or having to move away long distances from their support networks to look for cheaper places to live,» the National Housing Federation's director Ruth Davison warned.

Like Johnson, Grose says SUNY Poly can serve a national role in advanced manufacturing, painting a picture that sounds similar to the Fraunhofer - Gesellschaft, Germany's network of state - supported research labs.

The measure is supported by the Military Officers Association of America, the National Military Spouse Network and the National Military Family Association.

The first phase of Sêr Cymru committed up to # 50 million (US$ 66.2 million) to bring prestigious research chairs to Welsh universities and also to support national research networks in three «grand challenge» areas: life sciences and health; low carbon, energy, and environment; and advanced engineering and materials.

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurons).

This research also was supported by the NASA, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through the Santa Barbara Channel Marine Biodiversity Observation Network.

The EC has set up a network of National Contact Points (NCPs) who can provide information and support to researchers and host organisations wishing to submit a Marie Curie proposal.

Earlier this month, a network of researchers supported by the National Eye Institute (NEI) found that the drug Lucentis (ranibizumab) can be highly effective for treating proliferative diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that can occur as a complication of diabetes.

«Meeting the network of other ambassadors and the Lemelson network helped me to understand that as an ambassador, I am part of a larger community focused on a national and international mission to support inventors,» Gaspard said.

This work was supported by the following grants from the USA National Institutes of Health: PO1 AG025901, RO1 AG033373, 1U01 - AG022307, T32AG000266 and partial support from the Larry L. Hillblom Foundation Network Grant, the Ellison Medical Foundation and the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research.

An architectural lighting designer, Thea Chassin of Briarcliff Manor, New York, leads the Westchester Resource and Support Network of the National Alopecia Areata Foundation, which sets up discussion groups for people with hair loss.

«Our results show that while patients have relatively small deficits in working memory, the activity of the cortical networks that support such a function are predictive of their performance,» says author Vicente Camacho, M.D., and a Masters student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

The MacArthur Foundation, the Coral Reef Initiative of the U.S. Department of State, UNESCO and the U.S. National Science Foundation supported the CARICOMP network as did the individual institutions that run the monitoring stations.

The research was supported by grants from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health (GM - 29554), the National Science Foundation (CMMI - 1120890, CCF - 1117210), the Army Research Office (MURI W911NF -11-1-0024), the Office of Naval Research (N000141110729, N000140911118), an Australian Nanotechnology Network Overseas Travel Fellowship, a Melbourne Abroad Travelling Scholarship, the Bio21 Institute and Particulate Fluids Processing Centre.

NODES is a partnership between AAAS, the U.S. Department of State, AAA, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) that seeks to support diaspora knowledge networks

• Support reauthorization of essential behavioral health programs, such as the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act;

$ 20 million for the National Science Foundation (NSF), to support research into the development of nanoscale probes that can record the activity of neural networks; information processing technology that can handle the flood of data generated by BRAIN research; and better understanding of the neural representation of thoughts, emotions, actions, and memories