Sentences with phrase «support of the national initiative»

The Kavli Ideas Challenge, launched in support of the national initiative, will provide $ 1 million for scientists to start inventing the new tools needed.

The Kavli Foundation's $ 1 - million Microbiome Ideas Challenge, launched in support of the national initiative, will provide funds for scientists to start inventing the new tools they need.

The Board of Education of High School District 214 in Illinois was the first local Board of Education to pass a resolution in support of this national initiative.

This festival is about coming together to watch the funniest, most popular cat videos the internet has to offer in support of a national initiative to increase the welfare of cats across Canada and enhance the human - cat bond.

In 2012 — 2013, 42 % of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population aged 15 years or older were daily smokers — 2.6 times the age - standardised prevalence among other Australians.19 Australian governments aimed to halve the Indigenous Australian smoking rate by 2018 (from the 2009 baseline) through a range of Indigenous tobacco control initiatives.20 Funded by the Australian Government in support of these national initiatives, the TATS project was conducted mainly through Aboriginal community - controlled health services (ACCHSs).

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On Wednesday, the Clinton campaign launched «Together for America,» an initiative to recruit GOP endorsements, and announced support from nearly 50 Republicans, including George W. Bush's former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte.

«The need for some of the local value initiatives is somewhat reduced because we're putting the national muscle to play here to support the program,» said CEO Steve Easterbrook.

1 Million for Work Flexibility is the first national initiative to bring people together to create a collective voice in support of work flexibility.

China will need to turn the popular support of the one belt, one road that based on national pride to the one that its citizens can see the material benefits of supporting the initiative in order to sustain the level of enthusiasm.

Through several public policy initiatives, NACO represents Angel asset class issues of national significance, assumes a leadership role in areas requiring national coordination and support, and promotes the Angel asset class to the general public in Canada and abroad.

Second, in response to both the biblical concern for justice and the problems of resources and energy, actively support international, national and local initiatives to conserve energy and resources and to reduce poverty and injustice.

Begun as a private initiative by John D. Rockefeller III with support from other national figures, including then Secretary of the Treasury William Simon, the commission's landmark reports were published by the Department of the Treasury in the 1970s.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

An active national leader in the fight against hunger, Danny serves on the board of Share Our Strength and has long supported hunger relief initiatives including City Harvest, God's Love We Deliver, and the Bed - Stuy Campaign Against Hunger.

This healthy school lunch initiative was founded by the Chef Ann Foundation, National Fruit and Vegetable Alliance, United Fresh Start Foundation, and Whole Foods Market in support of Former First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move!

This healthy school lunch initiative was founded by the Chef Ann Foundation, National Fruit and Vegetable Alliance, United Fresh Produce Association Foundation, and Whole Foods Market in support of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move!

Hangzhou City, People's Republic of China (21 September 2017)- Agriculture research heads of 14 Asian countries supported the ASEAN +3 Rice Breeding and Genetics Initiative - a long - term regional investment and collaboration initiative in rice breeding aimed to address regional food security and national rice sector strategies.

This healthy school lunch initiative was founded by Food Family Farming Foundation (now the Chef Ann Foundation), National Fruit and Vegetable Alliance, United Fresh Start Foundation, and Whole Foods Market in support of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move!

Antenatal tutor Noreen Hart from the National Childbirth Trust (which organised a family fun day in June 2010 to support the initiative) said: «During the last 12 months campaigners have been working closely with Wiltshire Community Health Services» midwifery team and the suggestion of partners having the opportunity of staying the first night after birth was welcomed by all involved in maternity services.

This healthy school lunch initiative was founded by the Chef Ann Foundation, National Fruit and Vegetable Alliance, United Fresh Produce Association Foundation, and Whole Foods Market in support of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move!

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Perinatal support of breastfeeding is the focus of several national initiatives that call hospitals to evaluate and improve their birth practices:

This healthy school lunch initiative was founded by Food Family Farming Foundation (now the Chef Ann Foundation), National Fruit and Vegetable Alliance, United Fresh Start Foundation, and Whole Foods Market in support of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move!

The initiative was introduced to the United Kingdom in 1993, but, although improvements have been reported, 3 rates of breast feeding in the UK are still among the lowest in the world.4 5 Recent reports from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) urge NHS units to become baby friendly to improve rates of breast feeding and save money.4 6 Data from the millennium cohort study, however, show that though participating maternity units in the UK increased rates of initiation of breastfeeding, duration did not increase.5 Other strategies are therefore required to support mothers in the UK to breast feed for the recommended time.

As the national association and accrediting body for CACs, NCA serves as a voice for the movement before lawmakers, funders, and other decision - makers, leads initiatives that advance and support the CAC mission to provide healing and justice for child victims of abuse, and ensures quality care for the children and families our members serve.

Meyers wrote in an email that county officials had worked closely with domestic violence victims» advocates on a number of issues, had secured nearly $ 700,000 in grant money to support initiatives and had launched a domestic violence incidence database that received an award from the National Association of Counties.

It is through efforts such as these that the WNYREDC, through the Buffalo Billion initiative, is taking several steps to support advanced manufacturing in the region and develop the region as a national hub of advanced manufacturing innovation.

«National Grid looks to support initiatives like this to help inspire the next generation of scientists, technologists, and entrepreneurs and to look at innovative solutions to help our customers and enrich the communities of the Mohawk Valley.»

Singh was then appointed to a number of prestigious posts on de Blasio's inauguration committee, the committee backing the city's failed bid to get the Democratic National Convention, and the committee to support and raise money for the mayor's pre-k initiative called UPKNYC, Kramer reported.

I attended the daylong «National Convocation on Revitalizing the University - Industry - Government Partnership in Support of Research in Science, Engineering, and Medicine» in hopes of learning about initiatives to help students and postdocs who are preparing to leave academe and find careers in those other, unfamiliar sectors.

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).

However, he has high hopes for the common standards initiative underway in 48 states with the support of the Department of Education and many national educational organizations.

The National Institute of Disability Management and Research (NIDMAR) is a labour - management initiative of the Disabled Workers Foundation of Canada and is supported by public and private funding.

So Suresh's official response to the attack on his cherished OneNSF initiatives is predictably bland: «We appreciate the strong bipartisan support for the National Science Foundation and recognition of its importance to our national economy and global competitNational Science Foundation and recognition of its importance to our national economy and global competitnational economy and global competitiveness.

«With or without German support — or even without the [Ecuadorian] government's support — the initiative remains valid and legitimate, not only for the indigenous people that live within the borders of the national park but for Ecuadorian society and for the world as a whole,» said Ivonne Yanez, president of Acción Ecológica, a Quito - based environmental activist group which has been instrumental in raising the initiative's profile.

The program has three major components: the Director's R&D Fund, which develops new capabilities in support of the Laboratory's research initiatives, the Seed Money Fund, which is open to all innovative ideas that have the potential for enhancing the Laboratory's core scientific and technical disciplines, and the Named Fellowships, open to outstanding doctorate - level candidate scientists and engineers to achieve experience in areas of science and technology of national importance.

This study was conducted within the interdisciplinary and international framework of the PAGES initiative (Euro - Med 2k and Asia - 2k), which in turn received support from the US and Swiss National Science Foundations, US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and by the International Geosphere - Biosphere Programme.

Research reported in this news release was supported by grants from the USDA - ARS Area - wide project as a part of i5K initiative, the USDA - ARS Office of International Research Program from a grant provided by the USAID Feed - the - Future program (58 -0210-3-012), the U.S. National Science Foundation (IOS - 1110080, IOS - 1109989 and IOS - 1354309), USDA NIFA (2016 -67013-24756), the Swedish Research Council, and the Israel Science Foundation.

-- Receipt of $ 1.2 million from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute as part of an initiative to support human health during spaceflight.

FLAG - ERA gathers most regional and national funding organisations (NRFOs) in Europe with the goal of supporting the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagship concept and more specifically, the FET Flagship initiatives Graphene and Human Brain Project (HBP).

NSF EPSCoR -LRB-(Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) Track 1 awards are intended to improve the research competitiveness of jurisdictions by improving their academic research infrastructure in areas of science and engineering supported by the National Science Foundation and critical to the particular jurisdiction's science and technology initiative or plan.

Rita Colwell is Distinguished University Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland and served as Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 1998 to 2004, where her policy approach enabled the NSF to establish support for major initiatives in many areas, including nanotechnology, biocomplexity, and information technology.

This effort is part of SciLifeLabs initiative to support national projects in genomics, which has been enabled by the kind support from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

As part of Evergreen Health Stores Go Pink for Breast Cancer Research initiative in support of The National Breast Cancer Research Institute (NBCRI), the Natural Beauty and Skincare event was held at the g Hotel, Galway.

This healthy school lunch initiative was founded by Food Family Farming Foundation (now the Chef Ann Foundation), National Fruit and Vegetable Alliance, United Fresh Start Foundation, and Whole Foods Market in support of First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move!

This healthy school lunch initiative was founded by the Chef Ann Foundation, National Fruit and Vegetable Alliance, United Fresh Start Foundation, and Whole Foods Market in support of Former First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move!

National Lab Day is more than just a day; it is a nationwide initiative to build local communities of support that will foster ongoing collaborationsamong volunteers, students, and educators.

The Resource Our Schools initiative, which has already attracted support from the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) and numerous subject associations, comes following procurement research published by BESA that shows that primary schools are spending 3.7 per cent less on resources than last year.

The 2012 National STEM Video Game Challenge is launched in partnership with Digital Promise, a new initiative created by the President and Congress, supported through the Department of Education.