Sentences with phrase «with competitive grants»
It also is working for passage of the Veterinary Public Health Workforce Expansion Act, a bill that would provide veterinary schools with competitive grants to increase capacity in these shortage areas.
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Schulz said the United States would be left with a «competitive distortion» and could not be granted additional market access in such a scenario.
Grants can be very competitive with application requirements that are very specific regarding the type of business you can have and what the funds will be used for.
When the stock price plummets because your company underperforms, and you subsequently feel you have to grant a lot more to remain competitive, and then your stock price recovers, your CEO will end up with a lot more award value than the CEO of a competitor whose firm's stock price dropped much less, before also recovering.
With the objective of learning from the rich experiences and lessons that other countries have gained from their own programs, in early 2016, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada announced a competitive policy research grant for research on best practices by foreign SME export assistance programs.
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.
The bill also provides $ 30 million for competitive grants to State agencies for sub grants to local educational agencies and schools to purchase equipment with a value of at least $ 1,000.
This competitive grant program supports states with the interest and ability to expand and / or improve their evidence - based home visiting programs to ultimately ensure better outcomes for children and families living in at - risk communities.
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday rolled out a sweeping plan to help revitalize the state's economy, complete with an ad campaign and competitive grant program designed to spark innovation.
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.»
Treanor is lobbying to make the Nevele the second Catskills region casino, with approvals granted at the same time so Monticello would not get an insurmountable competitive advantage.
COR has also interacted with HCR as part of its annual competitive disbursement of affordable housing grants and tax credits.
Ball has also co-sponsored a bill to ditch the Common Core altogether, along with the federal competitive grant program Race To The Top, which is President Obama's signature education initiative.
But pork - barrel spending has crept back into the state budget in the form of capital grants doled out at the discretion of the governor and favored legislators — to the tune of $ 1.1 billion over three years, with no competitive bidding or disclosure of which politicians requested what money.
«This is more about timing than anything else,» he said, when asked if he's unhappy with the results of Cuomo's competitive grants program.
Despite the uproar in New Paltz over granting what critics consider excessive tax breaks for developers, the IDA will continue to offer Pilots, the chairman said, «because the use of Pilots makes us competitive with other counties.»
His pre-k initiative is a $ 25 million competitive grant program that will reward winning districts with money to expand both full - and half - day pre-k.
Now that she has her ERC grant — which she applied for convinced that she had what it takes to carry out her idea but doubting that her CV would be competitive with others — she has the opportunity to make her research vision a reality.
The fellowship program, supported by a competitive National Science Foundation GK - 12 grant, provides students with partial tuition, a stipend, and an opportunity for community outreach and training in education as they continue their graduate education.
Postdocs often receive grant money to raise their salaries to an acceptable level, «but it is not competitive with western countries, so there is a continuous drain of Czech postdocs to the west and across the Atlantic.»
The number of new competitive NIH research grants would also remain essentially steady under the budget proposal, with the proposal success rate stationary at about 27 %.
With a 5 - year term for research grants and a competitive renewal rate of about 53 %, supporting an expanded scientific workforce is a tall order for NIH, even as the research budget continues to grow at a modest pace.
Eighty percent of NIH's funds go to 50,000 competitive grants to principal investigators who staff their labs with temporary labor — grad students and postdocs who become part of a constant stream of new scientific - job seekers.
As a member of the Education & Workforce committee, I strongly oppose recent efforts to reduce federal funding in these areas, and I am the author of H.R. 258, the STEM Master Teacher Corps Act, which would award competitive grants to school districts or states to partner with colleges and universities or nonprofit organizations to establish a program which will develop, support and retain exceptional teachers in the STEM disciplines.
The Polish Parliament this month began voting on legislation creating a new national agency charged with distributing competitive grants for frontier research.
«These partnerships go well beyond just providing competitive grants to academic researchers and include numerous cooperative institutes, joint programs with academia and nongovernmental organizations, involvement with students at all levels, and participation in international organizations,» he says.
A 2005 National Academy of Sciences report documented a shortage of veterinarian scientists in the biomedical enterprise, noting that few National Institutes of Health (NIH)-- funded competitive grants involving animals were awarded to principal investigators with veterinary training.
But as science becomes increasingly competitive and dependent on interdisciplinary, collaborative projects, communication skills — from interacting with others to presenting data at seminars to writing papers and grants to networking — will be even more critical to a scientist's success.
In addition, Shah might be able focus USDA on funding peer - reviewed, competitive research; the Gates Foundation is known for the rigor with which it reviews its grant applications.
The United States concentrates its civilian research in universities, with projects funded mainly by competitive grants awarded to individual faculty members.
But its version of MSP makes competitive grants to university faculty members who have teamed up with local school districts to improve student learning.
The total funding of physical sciences from all Commonwealth competitive grants schemes in 1992 - 93 was A$ 31 million, compared with A$ 130 million for the life sciences.
It was possible, he said, to have your scientific cake and eat it, with short term research driven by competitive grants fitting into long term broad priorities.
The dysfunction stems from a Spanish peculiarity: In the national science budget, the government not only includes lump sums to public research institutes and competitive grants to research teams, but also a pot of money aimed at supporting companies, universities, and public research institutions with loans.
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.
Budget limited to no more than amount of current parent award; Can be from less than $ 5,000 to more than $ 100,000 depending on career level of candidate; End with competitive cycle of parent grant
This consortium grant is a competitive renewal of a previous award to Markou, in collaboration with Novartis, when her laboratory was located at Scripps Research.
Recognized for his brilliance and entrepreneurship, Dr. Pomerantz, will lead a high - intensity laser facility currently being built at the university, with seed funds raised from the university and from competitive grant programs.
The Consortium plans to place 94 people with disabilities into competitive, long - term employment by the end of the two - year grant period.
Several social enterprises funded by employment grants from Kessler Foundation are providing competitive jobs for people with disabilities.
Competitive grants and contractual research with the private sector provide additional funds.
For many competitive research laboratories, R01 grants, with an...
This trial (with no planned expiration date) grants players unrestricted access to all the game's competitive maps and modes with a weekly rotation of six battleborn to select from.
It's being funded with a competitive TFA «innovation grant» that the executive directors collectively applied for out of frustration that there was no infrastructure to develop principals for their schools.
With the Department of Education proposing a new $ 5 billion Race to the Top — style competitive grant program aimed at teacher policy, however, it's worth taking a closer look at Race to the Top's results.
That grant, managed jointly by the Florida Department of Education and the Florida Department of Labor and Employment Security, resulted in the development of a number of programs designed to provide students with the means to achieve economic independence and to provide employers with a competent and competitive workforce.
Bilingual program administrators in districts with high percentages of English learners — such as Fresno Unified, Los Angeles Unified and Santa Ana Unified — plan to apply for the competitive grants once details are issued by the state Department of Education.
(Sec. 9212) The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), jointly with ED, shall award preschool development grants to states on a competitive basis.
With respect to the per - pupil facilities aid program (under which the Secretary makes competitive matching grants to states to provide per - pupil financing to charter schools), the bill allows states to: (1) partner with organizations to provide up to 50 % of the state share of funding for the program; and (2) receive more than one program grant, so long as the amount of the grant funds provided to charter schools increases with each successive grWith respect to the per - pupil facilities aid program (under which the Secretary makes competitive matching grants to states to provide per - pupil financing to charter schools), the bill allows states to: (1) partner with organizations to provide up to 50 % of the state share of funding for the program; and (2) receive more than one program grant, so long as the amount of the grant funds provided to charter schools increases with each successive grwith organizations to provide up to 50 % of the state share of funding for the program; and (2) receive more than one program grant, so long as the amount of the grant funds provided to charter schools increases with each successive grwith each successive grant.
(Sec. 4301) The bill replaces the existing charter school grant program with a program awarding competitive grants to state entities and, through them, competitive subgrants to charter school developers to open new charter schools and expand and replicate high - quality charter schools.