Sentences with phrase «use of the grant money»

He also said because of the board's delay in deciding what to do with the park space, and the needed extension of the use of the grant money, that perhaps the park district could be «blackballed» when being considered for state grants in the future.

Not exact matches

With that in mind, although a young startup has dozens of challenges they're trying to address (and $ 50,000 of free money can pretty much solve anything), we adapted our application to narrowly focus on using the grant funds to solve a very specific issue.

Similar kinds of cases are under way in other parts of the country, including a case on appeal in Chicago after a federal judge issued a nationwide injunction barring the government from blocking grant money typically used to help local police combat violent crime and help victims.

Graphene used the money to bankroll proposal efforts for a hefty Department of Defense grant.

According to AzHFA, the money is provided in the form of a «non-repayable grant» and can be used for both the down payment and closing costs.

For purchasing equipment, as long as you've provided some investment into your business you should be able to acquire financing, although there are plenty of ways to raise money, like grants, loans, line - of - credits from your bank, etc. (I prefer to use a line of credit)

A Maryland town hall attendee who works for Secular Coalition for America asked Obama about statements he made as a candidate in 2008 when he said, «If you get a federal grant, you can't use that grant money to proselytize to the people you help, and you can't discriminate against them - or against the people you hire - on the basis of their religion.»

There wasn't any direct cost to me as the result of using this grant money, and of course American Dairy Association / Fuel Up to Play 60 are based on fueling kids up with nutritious foods — all foods!

He proposed using just over $ 27,000 of grant money this spring for the project along with $ 42,000 in surplus from the previous grant allocation.

The money from the Illinois Public Museum Operating Grant Program will be used to build a blacksmith shop to house the tools, as well as for new programs in blacksmithing, woodworking, pottery and candlemaking, said Elaine Keating, coordinator of historic sites for the Lisle Park District and the only full - time employee at Lisle Station Park.

Abbott Ross, makers of Similac infant formula, were among the top three corporate sponsors of the AAP in 2002.1 Formula companies historically give money to the academy through renewable annual grants, and also contributed $ 3 million to the construction of the AAP's headquarters in Illinois.2 It is unclear to what extent this has affected the policies of the AAP, however both the use of pacifiers and the separation of mother and baby are impediments to a healthy breastfeeding relationship and increase the chance of mothers switching to formula.

Maybe, you know a group like Hudson's Bands of Hope that could use some very special grant money and impact your local community in large and small ways.

Should «administration costs» be equated (as they used to be) with the costs of employing civil servants and running government offices as distinct from the money paid out in grants, government contracts or welfare benefits?

The county had received a similar state grant in 2013 for $ 6 million and used part of that money to purchase 400 police radios which were loaned to other departments to allow them to better communicate during emergency incidents, Mr. Sini said.

Facilities will use the grant money to hire a forensic interviewer who can reduce the number of times a child victim must explain what happened and also create a safe environment where healing starts sooner.

The question before progressive advocates of public campaign financing in New York State is whether we push for full public campaign finance on the Clean Money model of equal and sufficient funding grants for all qualified candidates, or whether we settle for partial public campaign financing on the Matching Funds model used for presidential primaries since 1976 and for New York City local elections since 1989.

«The way I like at it is there's this enormous temptation by the state government to try to control the economy — to use state grants, which is essentially our tax money — and different types of rules and regualtions and fancy programs with fancy titles to try to act like politicians create jobs.

If the state reimburses at a higher rate than budgeted, or a grant is found where now state money instead of budgeted town money is used, the fund balance increases.

Moriah Town Supervisor Thomas Scozzafava said the town has some leftover grant money from the now - dissolved Village of Port Henry that could be used for the assessment.

Mr Nuhu Shadalafiya, Chairman House Committee on Information, said the money would be used to address «issues of insecurity, leave grant and overhead.»

Suffolk Police Commissioner nominee Geraldine Hart said she wants to work closely with authorities in El Salvador to help fight the deadly MS - 13 gang's activities in the county and plans to use her knowledge of federal programs to push for more grant money.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr., today announced that the Oneida County Health Department's Lead Primary Prevention Program has received a $ 30,000 increase in funding provided by the New York State Department of Health's Lead Primary Prevention grant and will use that money to increase inspections in the areas of Utica at the highest risk of lead poisoning.

That year the pool of taxpayer money Silver used for the grants was eliminated, according to papers.

More recently, it appears from press accounts and government websites that Governor Cuomo has begun using Multi-Modal Program money as an important part of Regional Economic Development Council grants.

SURA uses federal money from its Community Development Block Grant to buy insurance for its employees, a cost of about $ 50,000, said DelVecchio.

Instead he wants the money put in the hands of the mayor's office, where it would be distributed as community grants using a merit - based system informed by districts» needs.

Even though «there is no contract, no agreement,» says Frank Dellaert, a robotics and computer - vision researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, who has received two grants of about $ 40,000 from Microsoft, «it is in my own self - interest to use the money [as proposed] to build that relationship up.»

Although 10 schools were awarded NSF - AIRE grants, Colby and Grinnell College in Iowa are the only ones that used some of the money to fund postdocs.

It is possible that they may eventually use altmetric data to inform their allocation of grant money.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research, with an identical budget, will either revoke a planned 5 % cutback to existing grants or use the monies to alleviate skyrocketing demand for new operating grants, according to its president, Alan Bernstein.

«[P] ositions may be institution - funded or grant - funded («hard money» or «soft money») and may come with varying degrees of stability (either through a tenure commitment or other funding arrangement),» but many «postdocs do not recognize that the term tenure - track is over-applied and used colloquially rather than as an accurate description of a given faculty appointment,» they continue.

Then they determine the sequence of as many of those genes as their grant money will allow — typically around a thousand, coming from a thousand bacterial cells — and use that information to estimate how many different kinds of bacteria are present in the sample.

For example, while 30 % of 50 principal investigators (PIs) surveyed from the five institutions that got the most ARRA money used their grants to hire new staff members, half of these PIs used it to retain staff or avoid cutting their hours.

But Leonhardt and Silberg would come to suspect that a substantial portion of his grant money and the salary due to Silberg were being diverted to other uses.

«About 30 % of the grant money that goes out is used for indirect expenses, which as you know means that money goes for something other than the research that's being done,» Price said.

A large amount of the money we spend outside of research grants is used to give scientists the best facilities and services in which to carry out their life - saving work.

In the case of Nebraska, while it's no journey to Mt. Doom or Battle Royale, Woody Grant (Bruce Dern)'s mission to get to Lincoln, Nebraska to claim his prize money of one million dollars in any way possible is very much a moving story that uses actors who don't necessarily jump off the screen but are perfect fits for the narrative at hand.

Currently, high school graduates can use federal student aid money to pay for up to 30 credits of remedial coursework, so long as it is part of a degree - granting program.

The grant monies were used to send 13 members of the Belfry High staff to a five - day literacy conference.

To pay for the lessons, Ms. Johnson used some of the $ 8,000 in federal money her school, Handley Middle School in Roanoke, Ala., received this year under the Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities grant program.

Bates used the bulk of their grant money for professional development, which they started in the 2007 - 08 school year.

Requiring «highly qualified early educators,» dedicating existing federal funds for an early - education matching - grant program, and giving districts more flexibility to use Title I money for pre-K-3 programs are some of the major recommendations in a report on revamping the federal No Child Left Behind Act to improve schooling for younger children.

The program also helped Krakowsky prepare a portfolio of work from her first year as a teacher, and participants in her section of the program submitted applications for mini-grants and used the grant money for class projects.

Schools used their share of $ 4.3 billion in federal Race to the Top competitive - grant money to make significant progress in areas including state data systems and instructional resources for teachers.

An overflow crowd of 200 Newtown, Conn., residents voted to use $ 750,000 in grant money to begin construction on a new Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Washington — An independent assessment of the Education Department's initial review of how federal block - grant funds have been used charges that many of the 23 jurisdictions whose programs were evaluated by the department have not adequately monitored local school districts» use of Chapter 2 money.

Rather than pour those savings into Pell Grants — which the document describes as a better way to deliver need - based aid — the budget maintains the current funding level for Pell grants and calls for the «cancellation» of $ 3.9 billion in Pell reserves, money that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle had hoped would be used to help students take summer clGrants — which the document describes as a better way to deliver need - based aid — the budget maintains the current funding level for Pell grants and calls for the «cancellation» of $ 3.9 billion in Pell reserves, money that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle had hoped would be used to help students take summer clgrants and calls for the «cancellation» of $ 3.9 billion in Pell reserves, money that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle had hoped would be used to help students take summer classes.

Following a charter school model, principals in the state - run New Orleans schools will have the independence to recruit and hire their own teachers and academic support staff, and control the use of federal Title I grant money, beginning next school year.

Grant funds would also be awarded on the basis of student attendance, and the monies could be used for any building needs, including new construction, modernization or major maintenance.

The Colorado Supreme Court upheld the Colorado higher education grant program against a challenge brought under one of its Blaine Amendments (Article IX, Section 7) because the program benefits students, not their schools, because it is available to private as well as public school students, and because it eliminates any danger of indirectly supporting religious missions by attaching statutory conditions on the use of the money.