Sentences with phrase «with national funding»

Thirty - six states provide fewer cost - adjusted dollars to their highest - poverty districts than to their lowest - poverty districts, with the national funding gap at $ 1,348 per student.

I look forward to the upcoming discussions with the European Commission, with our national funders and with our extensive user community on how we, by joining forces, can boost European science and innovation.

Not exact matches

With the advancement of crowd funding platforms, businesses are crowdfunding the fees to attend a national or international conference.

Toronto - Dominion Bank, The Bank of Nova Scotia, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and National Bank Financial led the effort, along with five pension funds.

The satellite was funded through a process that received a lesser degree of oversight from Congress compared with similar national security - related satellites, industry officials said.

She added: «We will work with the new Administration and Congress in raising awareness that elimination of federal funding to CPB begins the collapse of the public media system itself and the end of this essential national service.»

That began with the withdrawal of a funding agreement between Moore's campaign and the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

Local tech entrepreneurs have pitched their ideas to representatives from the Big Pitch competition in Leederville today, with the pick of the crop to go into the national finals with a chance to win $ 5 million to fund their idea.

Hajjaj Fahd al - Ajmi, a Kuwaiti national with alleged ties to Al - Qaeda, had unearthed a novel way to secure funds for terror activities.

According to Tim Draimin, executive director of Social Innovation Generation National, social enterprise provides non-profits with the third, stabilizing leg of a three - legged funding stool (the other two legs being government and private donations).

The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts («NAREIT») defines funds from operations («NAREIT FFO») as net income / (loss) attributable to common shareholders computed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States («GAAP»), excluding gains or losses from sales of operating real estate assets and change in control of interests, plus (i) depreciation and amortization of operating properties and (ii) impairment of depreciable real estate and in substance real estate equity investments and (iii) after adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures calculated to reflect NAREIT FFO on the same basis.

But it also encompasses a host of other big initiatives, including more than $ 5 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and money to help the FDA; $ 1 billion for tackling the opioid epidemic; and provisions that are meant to help pair Americans who suffer from serious mental illnesses with available psychiatric beds.

The agreement between trade group National Music Publishers» Association and Spotify will see the Swedish - based service pay publishers and songwriters between $ 16 million and $ 25 million, along with a $ 5 million «bonus fund,» sources told both the New York Times and The Verge.

Britain's productivity crisis has been a driving force behind the dismal economic growth that has characterised its economy since 2009, and policy wonks are increasingly concerned, with Chancellor Philip Hammond last week announcing billions of pounds of extra investment more pounds to his «National Productivity Investment Fund.»

Thanks to government subsidies, low - income workers pay only 13 percent of their salaries for rent, and many are encouraged to buy the apartments with part of the otherwise untouchable savings that they are forced to put into a national retirement fund.

BIG AI DEAL: Element AI, a Montreal - based artificial intelligence startup, has raised $ 102 million ($ 137.5 M Canadian) in Series A funding led by DCVC with participation from BDC, Fidelity Investments, Hanwha, Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, National Bank of Canada, Nvidia, Real Ventures, Tencent, and multiple sovereign wealth funds.

General Fusion has also received funding from the Canadian government's Sustainable Development Technology fund (SDTC) and Cenovus Energy, in addition to scoring a research partnership with one of the U.S.'s leading scientific centres, the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Venture capital funding, which had been setting new records with each passing quarter, tumbled 11 percent at the start of 2016, according to the National Venture Capital Association.

The curriculum will be developed with guidance from several national and local experts confronting racial bias, including Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director - counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Heather McGhee, president of Demos; former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; and Jonathan Greenblatt, ceo of the Anti-Defamation League.

Many companies have broken ties with the National Rifle Association, and the House of Representatives passed a bill to fund more security measures in schools.

The money will come from the National Guard's training funds, and so far, there are no concerns that spending the money could cause readiness problems with the force, said Dana White, the chief Pentagon spokesperson.

NDP commitments include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (already implemented by the Conservatives (but with a different phase in); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; and, increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI).

But it will be many, many years from now, and if we end up with Volcker style Fed fund rates before then — as you seem to believe — it won't be because the Treasury was trying to surreptitiously inflate away the national debt.

Before joining Franklin Bissett, Mr. Riach was vice president of a Canadian mutual fund company, and for 10 years before that he held senior positions in the corporate finance area with a national energy firm and a major Canadian Bank.

Notably, the National Financial Work Conference has been the stage for: forming agencies to regulate the insurance and securities industries and bank bailout strategies in 1997, creating banking regulators and listing state - owned banks on exchanges abroad in 2002, creating the sovereign wealth fund, establishing the China Investment Corporation in 2007, which currently has assets of $ 813.5 billion, and developing methodologies for dealing with the global financial crisis of 2008.

And they are to relinquish public spending to private contractors, and not to interfere with the international flow of investment funds, not even to impede capital flight by domestic elites or speculation against their national currencies.

«They should then be empowered to develop a collaborative strategy that will include the long term funding needed to deal with the significant risks to the Lower Fraser River, the region, and entire the national economy.»

With funding and support from Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD), the National Angel Capital Organization (NACO) has undertaken an initiative aimed at growing and supporting best practices adoption in Angel investor communities in Western Canada.

But they have become increasingly popular over the last decade with the growth of national funds affiliated with big financial services companies like Fidelity, Vanguard and Charles Schwab.

Equality Florida is partnering with the National Center for Victims of Crimes, a nonprofit that helped distribute the proceeds from similar fundraisers after mass shootings in Fort Hood and Chattanooga, to distribute the funds.

The PSAC has been working with the Canadian Labour Congress for some time to press the government to double those benefits, increase the GIS and establish a national pension plan insurance fund.

Female Funders is partnered with the National Angel Capital Organization (NACO) to increase the ratio of women angel investors globally, by creating more accessible tools and resources for aspiring and experienced angel investors.

Groups affiliated with Islamic extremism are showing an increased willingness to raise funds with bitcoin, according to a U.S. national security advisor.

It's about the determination of Republicans to cut funding for Planned Parenthood, National Public Radio and the Environmental Protection Agency - efforts that have absolutely nothing to do with the deficit.

About two years ago, and for the first time, the federal government through the National Institutes of Health set up a special fund concerned with the care and treatment of alcoholic persons.

Vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Marc F. Plattner represents an organization whose definition of democracy is much more stringent in its demands with criteria of democratic inclusivity (as shown in a short essay by its funding officer, Louisa Greve, cited below).

There was something poignant, too, in watching these foot soldiers in the Obama - Pelosi army being mowed down in droves, in many cases having been denied funding from national party headquarters with which to make a fight.

One sign of that is increased funding from the National Institutes of Health, which has helped establish new contemplative science research centers at Stanford University, Emory University, and the University of Wisconsin, where the world's first brain imaging lab with a meditation room next door is now under construction.

When President of the National Council of Catholic Bishops / United States Catholic Conference twenty - five years ago, the late John Cardinal Krol wrote the CHD's guidelines with regard to upholding the Church's moral teaching when it grants funds.

The next farm bill must include support and adequate funding for the USDA National Organic Program (NOP) to keep pace with industry growth, set uniform standards, and carry out compliance and enforcement actions in the U.S. and abroad.

As part of the popular Maryland - based chain's Funds for Friends program, individual restaurants team up with local organizations or local branches of national organizations, select a specific benefit date and donate 10 percent of that day's total sales to the organization in exchange for the organization having encouraged members, friends company profile and family to patronize the location on that date.

We call on governments at all levels to come together as a matter of urgency to develop in collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and communities, health and community sector peak bodies and other key stakeholders, a policy framework, funding commitments and national action plan for food sovereignty and food security.

providing the National Farmers» Federation and the National Irrigators» Council with grants totalling $ 343,970 from the Leadership in Agricultural Industries Fund

The fund was co-sponsored by National Australia Bank with the investment opportunity offered to and accepted by the bank's private wealth clients.

The National Pork Board has responsibility for Checkoff - funded research, promotion and consumer information projects and for communicating with pork producers and the public.

He has conducted on - farm research in cooperation with USDA and Land Grant Universities, and work on a national organic research agenda and national legislation to fund on - farm organic systems research.

Last month, the billionaire Besen family joined with National Australia Bank, The Nature Conservancy and several private investors to raise up to $ 100 million for a fund called the Murray - Darling Basin Balanced Water Ffund called the Murray - Darling Basin Balanced Water FundFund.

The National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme was established in 2011 to provide Australian householders and small business with access to industry - funded collection and recycling services for televisions and computers.

The study was funded by the chocolate manufacturer Mars along with the National Institute of Health and several other research foundations.