Sentences with phrase «while directing funds»

This approach helps utilities refinance the costs of stranded coal generation assets and redirect savings toward cheaper renewable energy to replace generation capacity, while directing funds to communities or workers affected by coal closures.

Not exact matches

While neither Union Square nor Andreessen Horowitz have disclosed a direct stake in Ethereum, they are invested in funds that do.

While real estate is on sale, and buyers struggle to fund transactions, self - directed account owners are purchasing property in their IRAs and 401 (k) s.

While the officials didn't give any indication that they'd been able to track the funds, they did say their suspicions were backed by the fact that the money was sent to middlemen — Ding and Gao — with direct connections to Macau.

While the Stop had started out raising money through conventional means such as grants, foundations and direct - mail campaigns, and continues to rely on these methods for the bulk of its funding, it saw opportunity in the wealthier constituency that lived near the Green Barn.

While handling these details might not be as thrilling as raising funds part of the campaign, they have a direct impact on an entrepreneur's ability to execute his or her vision, fulfill orders and make the transition from a campaign into a fully sustainable business.

Jarvis also noted that while Facebook is a collaborator and funder of the project, «we designed the governance to assure that neither Facebook nor any other funder would have direct control over grants and to make sure that we would not be put in a position of doing anything we did not want to do.»

While we typically make direct investments on an individual or syndicated basis, we also invest with specialized funds.

One of BlackRock's five largest funds has not yet disclosed 2016 data, while another does not direct trades to brokerages in exchange for research.

The Jenkins Panel promotes a higher proportion of direct funding support for innovation commercialization while retaining traditional tax credit based support for science and technology R&D efforts, more in keeping with what most other countries do.

While direct revenue options have been traditionally thought of as part of the media company model, indirect revenues fall under the approach known as content marketing, or creating content and building relationships with audiences to fund organizational business goals.

While this addition was completely donor funded, as provincial money can't be used for capital projects at private schools, it's a strong reminder of the luxuries that Albertans help subsidize — and the amount of money that could be directed towards public education.

According to data on U.S. - based ETFs and open - end mutual funds from Morningstar Direct, $ 200.3 billion was invested in international bond categories, while $ 3.6 trillion was in U.S. bond categories, as of year - end in 2015.

According to Morningstar Direct, $ 573.2 billion has flowed into passive U.S. stock funds over the past 12 months, while $ 28.7 billion has gone into actively managed ones

But mirroring the trend of recent years, direct hedge fund investments saw a 5.6 % increase to $ 520.9 billion while funds of funds assets dropped 14.6 % to $ 262.9 billion.

While their direct exposure to the US sub-prime market has been limited, we have seen additional demand for liquidity put upward pressure on term funding rates for financial institutions, though to a smaller extent than in Europe or the US and the pressures are now easing somewhat.

• Why would the United States publicly condemn terrorism while at the same time create, fund and direct the contras in Nicaragua, whose principal tactic was terrorism against civilians?

Speakers I found especially engaging included: Louise Fresco, who presented the keynote on future trends in food including tailored nutrition and food printing and the simultaneous challenge of sufficient calories in the developing world, and adequate nutrition in the developed world; and Simon Costa who developed and distributed a micro hermetic silo for grain storage reminding us that funding is mainly directed towards researching increased agricultural production while post-harvest losses go unaddressed.

Please note that while we are affiliated with Stanford University's Graduate School of Education, we receive no direct funding from Stanford, and the education reform efforts that we promote are often overlooked by common funding mechanisms such as foundation grants.

In 2005 and 2006, while he was a sitting councilman, Monserrate directed some $ 300,000 worth of discretionary funds to a nonprofit called Latino Initiative for Better Resources and Empowerment, better known as LIBRE.

While the size of an organization is not necessarily the prime measure for success on the Internet, a robust and strategic use of funds and other resources to sell a nonprofit's message to legislators, business leaders, potential donors and the general public, using all the online tools at one's disposal — even in conjunction with other communications media, like direct mail — is mandatory.

Their ire was directed toward Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who advocates said has failed to fund the state - run agency to meet the demand for infrastructure upgrades while he also sidesteps the issue of degrading service.

While cases began flowing to Weitz through Silver — and, ultimately, according to prosecutors, case settlement money into Silver's pocket — Taub said Chill told him that Silver was pleased with the referrals and helped Taub draft letters to Silver asking him for direct assistance from the state to help fund research.

They think the President would be relegated instead to some sort of «prioritization» process, where he directs those limited funds available to him to making certain that the country honors its outstanding bond obligations — the most unambiguous focus, they contend, of Section 4 of the 14th Amendment — and to funding other absolutely essential functions while allowing most other obligations (salaries, entitlements, contracts, etc.) temporarily to go by the wayside, though this would obviously cause enormous pain and upheaval throughout the country.

«We are directing Title XX funds to child care while increasing total funding to New York City by $ 400 million,» said Morris Peters, a spokesman for the state budget division.

Two people familiar with the outlines of the deal, including one legislator, said the budget would direct an additional $ 627 million through the foundation aid formula and $ 340 million through other funding streams while also directing $ 75 million to help community schools.

An amendment from Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D - N.Y.) would have maintained direct funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau through the Federal Reserve, while the CHOICE Act gives Congress control of the CFPB's budget.

When Margaret Thatcher attempted to sever the link between unions and the Labour Party with the 1984 Trade Union Act, which required unions to regularly ballot members on whether they wished to continue pay - ing into their union's political fund, it was a direct attempt to cripple the Labour Party while reducing the influence of the unions on policy.

SPECTRUM NEWS VIDEO: Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara discusses the challenges of funding education, infrastructure and direct care professional wages as state lawmakers debate how they are going to balance the budget while facing such a large deficit.

Flaum says his project would deliver $ 5 million in direct tax revenue to Albany, while an additional $ 11.4 million in casino - revenue funds would be split between the city and Albany County for a total of $ 10.7 million.

While those serving on the committees have the power to select winners and losers in the race for grants, the real power to direct research is political and is wielded by the bureaucrats who create the programmes, allocate budgets, appoint the committees and impose the rules of the funding game.

213 OMB directs agencies to «operate at a minimal level until after your regular [fiscal year] appropriation is enacted» and oversees their choices to implement that direction214 to prevent a situation where a subsequently enacted regular appropriation provides less funding than the agency had expected.215 While the OMB Director provides a formula that automatically apportions amounts provided under the continuing resolution, 216 the RMOs may further limit this amount, 217 deploy footnotes to specify additional restrictions on its use, 218 and grant requests for sums beyond the automatic apportionment only in «extraordinary circumstances.»

Because while the British Wheel of Yoga higher - ups may want people to think too many yoga teachers are undertrained, fluffy types who injure people left right and centre, and are earning squillions doing it, just across the pond, there's a growing snark directed at young female teachers, who are depicted as vain, clueless, or trust - fund - obnoxious.

While there is no direct advertising, the business can place information on the dating site that leads visitors and members to use the products of the company that created and funded the web site.

Seven years earlier, while evidently still enrolled at New York University, he wrote, directed, produced, and starred in Praying with Anger, a small, parentally - funded English language Indian film that has remained in obscurity, never released to home video in the United States.

While school choice does have a history in rural states — since 1869, Vermont has allowed parents to select a nearby school for their student to attend at the expense of their own town through a «tuitioning» program — few states have encouraged the direct creation of rural, publicly funded schools of choice.

KSBA Director of Governmental Relations Eric Kennedy points out that while Kentucky schools may not see a direct funding impact from the federal tax bill, they will be impacted because the overall financial investment in schools more and more falls on local school districts and local taxes.

This additional flexibility at the district level would encourage comprehensive and coordinated planning and reduce the compliance burden associated with all of the specific federal funding streams, while the state commitment to progressive funding would ensure that additional resources continue to be directed to the schools and students with the greatest need.

As Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders huddle over rival plans to restructure school funding, lawmakers in Colorado have devised a novel approach to directing more state money to disadvantaged students while calling on wealthier communities to raise their taxes if more is needed.

He has promised to flat fund education for two years, essentially an 8 % cut, introduce an A-F grading system for all schools and create in - district school choice, all while adopting market - based «Money Follows the Child» to direct more state funds to privately run charter schools.»

While MCAN's primary strategy to achieving Goal 2025 remains the development and support of Local College Access Networks, MCAN will now also provide grant funding to direct service programs for innovative work in support of the Big Goal.

Second, some Blaine Amendments prohibit only direct funding while others prohibit both direct and indirect funding.

While there are no state or federal laws that direct a student to take a standardized test, the town may lose state funding if students opt out.

While direct certification would serve as a more accurate proxy for low - income students in a weighted school funding formula, it currently falls short in capturing a similar number of low - income students to those currently identified by FRPL.

The difference is that the BRZ / FR - S was actively developed from scratch as a pure driver's car, while the Vantage is simpler than its direct rivals because of Aston's shortage of funds to advance technological development.

While they offer the option of direct billing, payments can also be made via credit card (they accept Visa and MasterCard) or electronic fund transfer from your bank.

Tangerine is facilitating donations to the Red Cross for its customers through direct transfers from their online bank accounts, while just this past weekend Facebook launched a donation button with the option to send funds to one of two nonprofits fighting Ebola.

I also don't think it is a bad idea to utilize a credit card for online purchases, while traveling, or any instance in which you would not want to utilize a debit card and potentially provide scammers with direct access to your checking account funds... That being said, it is imperative that you are able to pay your credit card off each month to avoid fees and interest charges.

According to data on U.S. - based ETFs and open - end mutual funds from Morningstar Direct, $ 200.3 billion was invested in international bond categories, while $ 3.6 trillion was in U.S. bond categories, as of year - end in 2015.

Eaton Vance applies its global macroeconomic and political research process, while considering relative risk / return characteristics in directing Fund investments.