Sentences with phrase «with grant dollars»

«We've seen some pretty remarkable success in a first year of Denver Public Schools» effort here at Far Northeast Denver,» A + executive director Van Schoales said Wednesday as he stood in the lobby of High Tech Early College, one of the smaller schools opened with grant dollars awarded to remake long - struggling Montbello High School.

Results indicate an average increase of 50 percent in overall daily breakfast participation from the programs funded with grant dollars.

Not exact matches

The two hit it off, and soon after they teamed up at MIT's Media Lab, armed with a near - million - dollar National Science Foundation grant, to prototype a sort of emotional hearing aid for autistic people — essentially a wearable camera that scanned people's facial expressions to interpret social cues, in real time, for the person wearing the device.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

During fiscal 2018, each non-employee director received a quarterly grant of fully - vested shares of our common stock for service during the respective preceding quarter with a dollar value intended to approximate $ 125,000 based on the average recent trading price over a period of time before the grant date.

A team of researchers with a hot idea or newly granted patents can find venture capital funds eager to provide millions of dollars in startup funding.

With support from FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, hundreds of communities have spent tens of millions of dollars each year to purchase flood - prone properties from willing sellers.

Following the hotel's $ 80 - million dollar retrofit in the 1980's, the Grant Grill re-opened with a new design palate and eventually became a three - meal restaurant, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner.

It isn't impossible to craft a scenario where the ACC decides it might be able to add a basketball - only team to the ranks — that keeps you at 14 football teams but brings you to an even 16 in basketball (granted, an even number of teams is not a grave necessity in basketball, where you can live with or without a division structure)-- and if the conference were to determine that a basketball - only member makes sense (and from a dollars - and - sense perspective, it may not — we often make the mistake of overestimating basketball's importance in the realignment equation), I've got a pretty good idea where it might begin its search.

It should be noted there are MUCH cheaper cloth diaper options than I chose to use — I've found 10 pre-fold cloth diapers for just under $ 10 dollars, granted with those you will also need plastic covers & diaper pins, but still it is a VERY economical option!!!

The village could offer more than $ 5 million in TIF dollars for the project, according to officials, with the remainder from grants and park district funds.

Last week, an additional million - dollar grant was awarded to Mass Audubon, in partnership with the state Department of Conservation and Recreation, from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Program.

Recently, the OCBFC received an $ 8200 dollar grant to do a research project in collaboration with UCI.

All ten regions competing for economic development money were awarded some portion of $ 788 million dollars in funds in a ceremony led by Governor Cuomo Thursday, but some regions were more equal than others, with four areas receiving the top grant prizes.

In late December, the state's education commissioner froze some of the state's $ 700 million dollars in Race to the Top grants, saying some schools, including in New York City and several upstate cities, had not complied with the teacher evaluation requirements.

The Community Builders interviewed by the auditors lacked knowledge of HUD's grant programs, the report said, and in some cases improperly interfered with housing transactions between local officials and nonprofit groups, resulting in the loss of millions of taxpayer dollars.

The $ 110 million federal dollars, matched with non-federal grants, would go toward establishing an Integrated Photonics Manufacturing Institute.

The funds will come from the Higher Education Capital Matching Grant Program, under which grantees must match every dollar awarded with three dollars of their own, according to a press release.

Back in 2012, I worked with volunteer firefighters and the Firefighters Association of the State of New York, known as FASNY, to get Erie County included in the HELP (Higher Education Learning Plan) grant, which was paid for with federal dollars.

As the criminal complaint against Silver alleges, he used his authority to disburse HCRA grants to enrich himself, directing hundreds of thousands of dollars to renowned Columbia University physician Dr. Robert Taub for the completion of a center to study mesothelioma, a rare cancer that can be caused by asbestos exposure, in exchange for Taub's agreement to direct clients with cancer to Silver's law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, which specializes in lucrative asbestos lawsuits.

Mr. Storm promised that the state would be supported with 1.5 million dollars if it meets the conditions for Health Insurance Fund grant.

The report illustrated the problem by quoting blunt emails: from lobbyists prodding their clients to keep contributing tens of thousands of dollars to lawmakers in a position to approve legislation, because «with the NYS Legislature it is not over until the fat lady sings,» and from one recipient of a state grant complaining that «it was likely over the last 15 years, we had paid [the official]... more than [the official] was now giving us.»

Last week, two police officials — Deputy Chief Michael Harrington and Deputy Inspector James Grant — were charged by the feds with taking tens of thousands of dollars from two businessmen with ties to Mayor Bill de Blasio in exchange for favors, according to Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

Under the state's Citizens» Election Program, gubernatorial candidates need to raise a quarter of a million dollars in donations of $ 100 or less with 90 percent of the money coming from Connecticut residents to receive millions in taxpayer - financed election grants.

Mr. Paterson announced that he would veto the grants after lawmakers set aside parts of his budget and passed their own version this week, restoring hundreds of millions of dollars in school and health spending along with the member item money.

Kaloyeros has parlayed hundreds of millions of dollars in state government grants and capital investments into R&D partnerships with leading tech companies, including IBM, Intel and Samsung.

Saying that New York is in the bottom twenty percent among the states while Wisconsin is in the top twenty percent, he pledged to work with the New York congressional delegation bring more jobs, grants, and federal dollars back to NY - 13.

In June, the Erie County Legislature offered up to a half - million dollars in one - time grant money to community organizations with worthy proposals.

Only three legislators voted against giving Brega nearly $ 4 million dollars to wash the buses and raise County taxes by 4 % — Democrat Meyers with Republicans Carey and Grant.

Because Iowa's engineering department had a close relationship with the College of Medicine, he was able to receive grants in excess of $ 1 million dollars from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, as well as Microsoft, for his work in AI, specifically robotics and bioinformatics.

OAR now plans to pass the low priority list on to institutes who will then notify investigators, who sometimes aren't even aware that their grants are funded with AIDS dollars.

Pilsner has recently received a multi-million dollar grant to replicate and validate the findings with a dose - dependent experiment in mice.

And as federal and state funding continues to hang in the balance, along with ever - increasing competition for grant dollars, this makes looking for alternative funding sources a priority.

They were backed with more than half a billion US dollars in grants from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in Washington DC, the world's largest funder of environmental projects.

«When we look at grant programs... the key is not the amount of the grant to begin with, but what we are getting for the taxpayer dollars,» he said, adding that he has supported research into particular diseases.

«With the Americans investing hundreds of millions of dollars in this area, we will not be able to keep up with a few grants» from the European Research Council, he sWith the Americans investing hundreds of millions of dollars in this area, we will not be able to keep up with a few grants» from the European Research Council, he swith a few grants» from the European Research Council, he says.

Compared to white scientists with the same productivity index, the black researchers had just as many, if not more, grants and research dollars.

In addition, grant dollars will promote the abilities of people with disabilities in the workforce through televised educational content, expand transportation options, connect artists with disabilities to potential art buyers and create professional workplace coursework and internships for college students with disabilities.

«The dollar amount associated with these grants is substantial,» said Timothy A. Kohler, professor of anthropology at WSU and coauthor of the NSF grant proposal.

Money could be spent within weeks of passage of a stimulus package to fund many highly rated applications that have been waiting in line for support in FY 2008 and to restore dollars cut from the budgets of funded grants in recent years, with virtually no increase in administrative cost.

The projects also covered a broad spectrum in size, ranging from a few 1 - 2 investigator grants through a number of medium - sized teams to a few really large teams with multi-million dollar grants.

It's astounding to me that many of these were taken with telescopes you can easily buy online (granted, for thousands of dollars) rather than with the Hubble or some building - sized scope on the top of a mountain in Chile.

Convinced that he won a million dollars in a sweepstakes contest, cantankerous coot Woody Grant (an excellent Bruce Dern) heads with his son David (Will Forte) from their Billings, Montana home to Lincoln, Nebraska to pick up the loot.

In directing the thriller, Gore Verbinski, whose «Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest» set the record for the highest opening weekend of all time — one hundred thirty - five million dollars — has apparently been granted a free hand with all the money he could need.

With millions of grant dollars on the line, representatives of the 16 state finalists for federal Race to the Top prize money will go to Washington next week to make final, in - person pitches to the U.S. Department of Education for investment in their brand of school reform.

In an Education Week commentary essay about school boards in 2009, I wrote, «[M] y sense of things, after two stints on my local school board... is that school boards have been overtaken by the «educatocracy,» by powerful trade unions, certified specialists, certification agencies, state and federal rule - makers and legislators, grants with strings, billion - dollar - contractor lobbyists, textbook mega-companies, professional associations, and lawyers — the list could go on.»

First, they depend on philanthropic support for start - up revenue; with the stock market, and thus endowments, down some 30 percent, it's not known whether there will be enough grant dollars to go around.

-- The National Science Foundation (NSF) promoted the NCTM standards beginning in 1991 and awarded millions of dollars in grant money for the writing of math texts that embraced them and to state boards of education whose math standards aligned with them (see Figure 1).

Rather than reallocating dollars slated for education, supporters proposed to give tax credits to individuals and businesses that donated money to nonprofit organizations providing low - income students with scholarship grants to attend private schools (see Table 1).

For example, in a public middle school with 600 students, if two - thirds of the children are eligible for the grant, that's $ 200,000 in new federal dollars each year following those children to that school.