Sentences with phrase «through competitive grants»

The Arts Council manages the Fort Worth Community Arts Center, provides leadership and funding to local arts organizations through a competitive Grants Program and administers the Fort Worth Public Art program on behalf of the City.

The measure would help states expand access to high - quality charter schools by providing $ 300 million for FY12 and each of the next five years to support states» creation, replication, and expansion of high - quality charter schools through competitive grants.

Supports states» creation, replication, and expansion of high - quality charter schools through competitive grants.

Stimulate the creation of early college programs through competitive grants or availability of seed money.

Will states take advantage of the opportunities available under ESSA through competitive grants and mandates that could be used to incentivize school diversity?

For nearly seven decades, federal agencies and many private funders have financed medical research through competitive grants to individual scientists who submit proposals for particular projects.

New York already allocates around $ 400 million for pre-K, and Cuomo has expanded funding through competitive grants that have gone to 27 districts.

One of the last stumbling blocks remains education aid and the amount of money to be allocated through competitive grants.

The budget is due Sunday, but already lawmakers are putting the finishing touches on a deal that includes plans to merge gambling oversight, a new infrastructure improvement plan for the state and a 4 percent boost in education spending through competitive grants.

Although the National School Lunch Program received $ 100 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and $ 25 million from fiscal 2010 appropriations, this funding, which is allocated through a competitive grants program, represents a fraction of what school districts need to upgrade their kitchen equipment and infrastructure and to adequately train staff.

The Baxter Equipment for Education Grant will award equipment to a school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant process.

Now in its sixth year, the Winston Industries Equipment Award Grant program will award one school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant process.

The Baxter Equipment for Education Grant awards equipment to one school in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant process.

The Winston Foodservice Equipment Grant provides 10 pieces of equipment from Winston Foodservice to one school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant process.

A bill that would provide direct state funding to museums through a competitive grant program is gaining ground in the Legislature.

But other housing authorities have received money from the state through competitive grant programs.

He said the funding, which will be distributed through a competitive grant process, would create full - day programs or expand existing half - day programs for New York's neediest students.

The project was funded, through a competitive grant process, by the USIP, which convened the meeting, where Wolfinbarger and her colleagues shared lessons learned from their case studies, and announced a new website that will feature a «practitioners» guide» for other researchers who want to leverage satellite - image analysis.

Earlier in 2009, also through Race to the Top, the administration had offered $ 4.35 billion in funding through a competitive grant program designed to encourage states to enact the feds» preferred school - reform policies — including the adoption of better standards and assessments.

Section 1003 (b)(1)(B) is for districts that need heavier state «direction» than they would otherwise receive through a competitive grant process (under Choice 101).

They could link monetary awards to the use of direct student services and provide additional funding for choice opportunities through the competitive grant framework.

New York state's Socioeconomic Integration Pilot Program, for example, provides grants of up to $ 1.25 million to schools that use socioeconomic integration to increase student performance in the state's lowest performing schools.118 Also, states can incentivize charter school diversity through competitive grant programs such as the Charter Schools Program State Educational Agencies competition.119

The decision three years ago by President Barack Obama to not push for a budget for 2010 - 2011, a move to which Democrats who controlled all of Congress at the time had acquiesced (even as it was clear that the party would lose control of the federal lower house), has resulted in sequestration - triggered budget cuts that denies the administration funding it can leverage through competitive grant programs such as Race to the Top in order to force states to fulfill their promises under the waiver.

This should be done through a competitive grant program that is targeted at low - income schools.

In addition to formula allocations, at times the federal government makes discretionary awards through competitive grant processes.

Additionally, the U.S. Department of Education has promoted charter school expansion through competitive grant programs like Race to the Top (RTT), the Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund, and the Charter School Program's Replication and Expansion for High - Quality Charter Schools grant.64

According to Smith, PDF awards grants non-profit organizations through a competitive grant process.

Funding was awarded in part through a competitive grant presented to Pratt Institute by the Importer Support Program of the Cotton Board and managed by Cotton Incorporated.

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74) Anne H. Van Ingen Young Alumni Committee Sam Bennett (B.F.A. Fashion Design» 07) Sarah Bergenheim (B.F.A. Fashion Design» 07) Samantha Black (B.F.A. Fashion Design» 05) Thea Bloch - Neal (B.F.A. Fashion Design» 07) Blaise Kavanagh (B.F.A. Fashion Design» 06)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Funding Provided By: Funding for the 2012 Pratt Fashion Show was awarded in part through a competitive grant presented to Pratt Institute by the Importer Support Program of the Cotton Board and managed by Cotton Incorporated.

Funds are available to districts through a competitive grant, and all schools must respond to a statement of need.

Not exact matches

Through its competitive Global Startup Competition, Arch Grants retains and attracts the most innovative entrepreneurs to the St. Louis region.

The $ 17.6 million in grants are funded through a competitive process by NIFA's Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative, authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill, according to a news release.

Most recently, prekindergarten programs were primarily funded through competitive state grants.

According to MultiChoice Ghana's statement of claim, SuperSport was granted exclusive rights by the English Premier League, through a competitive bidding process to broadcast the football matches of the EPL for the 2015/2016 football season within Sub-Saharan Africa including Ghana.

But Cuomo says those grants are awarded through a «competitive process based on need,» while pork is doled out at individual legislators» discretion.

He listed the following as Regents» achievements: winning $ 700 million through the federal Race To The Top competitive grant program, raising standards, achieving a significant new investment in pre-kindergarten and increasing graduation rates.

Cuomo's office said that grants made available through the program «will be awarded through a competitive process, with priority given to nonprofits with State contracts that provide direct services in high - need communities, particularly smaller nonprofits and nonprofits that lack access to other capital funding opportunities.»

About $ 1.5 billion is distributed through a «partially competitive» process, mostly large construction grants administered by the State University of New York, the report said.

In 2009, through the «Race to the Top» program, the federal government offered $ 4.35 billion in competitive grants to states that adopted Common Core standards and developed plans to improve state test scores and teacher evaluation results.

In a statement, HCR spokeswoman Stephanie Davis noted the agency «has granted 180 awards over the last five years through its annual competitive funding application for tax credits and low interest loans, and these projects were given the same consideration as all the others.

The Hotel Syracuse is receiving a multi-million dollar state grant through New York's competitive economic development funding program.

The Common Core standards were developed by a group of state education leaders but promoted by the federal government, particularly through Race To The Top, a nationwide competitive grant program that required the adoption of standards that boost college - and career - readiness.

In December, Syracuse was one of 14 cities to win a competitive grant through the Bloomberg Philanthropies Innovation Teams program.

Nearly half of the 773 grants awarded to schools have gone to JROTC programs, which put students through a basic military curriculum and offer an array of small competitive clubs, like the rifle team at Broward's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

NSF is committed to increasing its support of basic research, mostly through competitive merit - reviewed grants, by shifting resources away from facilities and instrumentation support, a commitment that shows in its 3.8 percent increase for basic research to $ 2.1 billion.

Since the 1940s, when the U.S. government began to invest seriously in civilian research, the work has been done largely at the nation's universities and paid for through competitive, temporary grants awarded to individual professors by federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

It's a risky strategy though: Those bigger grants are more competitive, and it takes longer for them to come through.

In the coming months, the government is expected to establish an agency akin to the U.S. National Science Foundation that will distribute research funds through competitive, peer - reviewed grants.

Funding for NEPAN has been provided through competitive research grants and various programs within the U.S. Department of Defense and Department of Energy, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Department of Defense's Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), the U.S. Navy's Living Marine Resources Program (LMR) and the Naval Operations Energy and Environmental Readiness Division (N45), with some funding provided by the NOAA Ocean Acoustics Program, and the NOAA Office of Protected Resources.