Sentences with phrase «which achieve equity»

It refers to a continuous and ongoing effort to achieve measureable improvements in the efficiency, effectiveness, performance, accountability, outcomes, and other indicators of quality in services or processes which achieve equity and improve the health of the community.»

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In addition, the vesting features of our equity awards contributes to executive retention because this feature provides an incentive to our named executive officers to remain in our employ during the scheduled vesting period or until the achievement of the applicable performance milestones, which are expected to be achieved over the medium - to long - term.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

Smart Order Routing Saxo executes Equity and CFD orders via SORs (Smart Order Routers), which are sophisticated algorithms placing orders across multiple venues in order to achieve the best result.

When one thinks about which investment is likely to achieve Buffett's goal of allowing an investor to consume more in the future, we think equities remain the easy choice.

Klinsky scoured the city and the suburbs (all while working in private equity) for low - achieving areas that might welcome his new school and in which he might find space.

I believe that we can not achieve educational equity without empowering communities, which is why I have committed myself to empowering the students.

The Center for Public Education distinguishes between the two concepts by defining equality as treating all students the same, with equal access to resources, as compared to equity, which «is achieved when all students receive the resources they need so they graduate prepared for success after high school.»

Leading for Equity: A Practical Framework for Board Discussion and Action Using a framework developed by the Arizona School Boards Association, participants will unpack five essential and interrelated areas through which school boards can lead for equity, consider key questions within each, and identify actions board members can take individually and as a leadership team to ensure personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background of students in their district are not obstacles to achieving educational poteEquity: A Practical Framework for Board Discussion and Action Using a framework developed by the Arizona School Boards Association, participants will unpack five essential and interrelated areas through which school boards can lead for equity, consider key questions within each, and identify actions board members can take individually and as a leadership team to ensure personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background of students in their district are not obstacles to achieving educational poteequity, consider key questions within each, and identify actions board members can take individually and as a leadership team to ensure personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background of students in their district are not obstacles to achieving educational potential.

The NEPC produced the infographic, below, with the non-profit Schott Foundation for Public Education, which works to improve public policy to achieve equity and opportunity in education and child care.

Pedro Noguera was a presenter on LPI's inaugural webinar in the series Achieving Equity Through Deeper Learning, which addressed ways schools and school districts can improve academic achievement, particularly among students who are farthest from opportunity, through engaging students in learning that focuses on meaningful mastery of subjects, critical thinking, problem - solving, collaboration and other skills necessary for college, career, and civic participation in the 21st Century.

One way accountability can be defined is through a high - stakes lens, which is when the school and district are held accountable for educating children, creating equity, and ensuring that students achieve.

Deals like that helped the Lester Canadian Equity Fund generate a return of 24.7 per cent in 2016, which was achieved with very little oil and gas exposure, no mining or gold stocks, and no banks.

They will need to invest in real equities to achieve this return — which means taking on more risk,» explains Aston.

Smart Order Routing Saxo executes Equity and CFD orders via SORs (Smart Order Routers), which are sophisticated algorithms placing orders across multiple venues in order to achieve the best result.

Even more impressive is that it achieved that operating cash flow on only $ 9.5 B of equity (up from $ 9.1 B in the prior year), which means it returned around 21 % on average equity.

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

Along this line there are several issues in particular about which greater awareness is needed including greater public understanding of the ethical implications of any nation's ghg emissions reduction commitment in regard to an atmospheric stabilization goal the commitment is seeking to achieve and the coherence or lack there of the national commitment to an acceptable equity framework.

This latest report was made at the conclusion of these negotiations during which almost no progress was made in defining equity under UNFCCC by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Durban Platform For Enhanced Action (ADP), a mechanism under the UNFCCC that seeks to achieve a adequate global climate agreement, despite a growing consensus among most observers of the UNFCCC negotiations that nations need to align their emissions reductions commitments to levels required of them by equity and justice if the world is going to prevent extremely dangerous climate change.

Equity reference frameworks can help achieve the crucial task of justice, which now threatens to fall through the cracks.

His analysis of the result in LAC Minerals Ltd. v. International Corona Resources Ltd., [1989] 2 S.C.R. 574, 61 D.L.R. (4th) 14, misses the point that the award of the constructive trust (for the violation of an obligation of confidentiality) achieved almost perfect compensation: the award gave Corona the kind of equity stake in the property that it would have had had it been able to buy the property which Lac bought from under its nose.

This is the deadline by which many more employers with 10 or more employees will have to achieve pay equity in their business and have posted the results.

Instead, the Board commissioned another report (2014) by Douglas Stanley which recommended embedding experience rating even more deeply into the system to achieve «insurance equity.»

«Empowerment Voice» is exhibited in an actor possessing, at various degrees of capacity, an ability to command the institutional form and language of the power structural arrangements in which the conflict arises, sufficient to effect long term distributive concessions, sometimes permanent, however, like Protest Voice, actors engaged in Empowerment Voice are unlikely to achieve reconstruction of the power structural arrangements, instead they are more likely to engage in an effort to preserve the existing power structural arrangement to maintain perceived socioeconomic advantage, or to be unable to identify how the power structural arrangements might be reconstructed in a way that does not perpetuate the underlying source of conflict, namely the imbalances of inclusion and equity resulting from the hyper - segregated hierarchical power regime.

Dr. Meslin also manages CSP Equity Partners, a portfolio of private equity co-investments in more than 100 companies active in the industries served by CSP, which has achieved consistent top - quartile returns over nearly a 20 - year pEquity Partners, a portfolio of private equity co-investments in more than 100 companies active in the industries served by CSP, which has achieved consistent top - quartile returns over nearly a 20 - year pequity co-investments in more than 100 companies active in the industries served by CSP, which has achieved consistent top - quartile returns over nearly a 20 - year period.

By the end of the 10 sessions you will have thoroughly reviewed your existing brand equity and reshaped it into a powerful congruent message designed specifically for your own goals which will help you achieve extraordinary results.

This year has been the one in which the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation was required to put to the Australian people its views on what actions are required to achieve the Council's vision of «a united Australia which respects this land of ours; values the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage; and provides justice and equity for all».

Furthermore, AIPA is committed to supporting and formally representing the views of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander psychologists and students, supporting Indigenous psychologists through undergraduate and post graduate courses, working toward achieving equity within the profession and developing and delivering professional development activities which aim to increase the cultural competence of the mental health workforce, service delivery and the mental health system overall.

A company thus achieves a lower debt - to - equity ratio, which may favorably affect its cost of debt and equity for its core business.