Sentences with phrase «year challenge grants»

NIH's new 2 - year challenge grants — the only stimulus funding program open to proposals for new projects — are, Suter believes, perfect for giving «young people fresh out of their training, the hot, young Turks with the cutting - edge methodologies, an opportunity to move these very cutting - edge questions forward very, very quickly.»

Not exact matches

Granted, we face new challenges this year that have caused market jitters — Ebola and ISIS, just to name a couple.

Run by the fifth generation of the Grant family, the company has been named Distiller of the Year nine times in the past 12 years by the International Spirits Challenge and International Wine & Spirits Competition.

William Grant & Sons has been honored as «Distiller of the Year» by the prestigious International Wine & Spirit Competition and International Spirits Challenge ten times over the past 15 years.

In a real way, the grant can be seen as a vote of confidence in the greater Utica metropolitan area which has had more than its share of economic challenges over the years.»

Terrance «Terry» Power, a 59 - year - old Oldsmar - based certified financial planner, is launching a 2018 primary challenge against House District 64 incumbent Jamie Grant.

In August, two members of the IAS Board of Trustees gave the institute a challenge grant of $ 100 million, to be matched by $ 100 million from other donors over the next 4 years.

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze debuted a few years ago for Wii U and this Switch version is basically a port with some improved performance and a new Funky mode where you can play as Funky Kong or tone down the level of challenge as DK by granting him extra health.

Watson - Blagden says the concept of place - based education has taken root over the past ten to twenty years, fueled, in part, by Annenberg Rural Challenge grants, launched in 1995 to improve rural schools by linking them more with their communities.

Two years in, the federal School Improvement Grant program shows momentum, but sustaining gains may be a challenge.

Teach For America, the privately organized teacher corps that places recent college graduates in rural and inner - city classrooms, last week announced the receipt of a three - year, $ 3 - million «challenge» grant from Philip Morris Companies Inc..

Mr. Annenberg's death on Oct. 1 came at a time when experts are still assessing the legacy of his five - year, $ 500 million grant to American public education unveiled in late 1993, known as the Annenberg Challenge.

He has led three - year initiatives with the Florida Department of Education and with Florida Atlantic University, the latter supported by an Annenberg Challenge Grant Award.

The pre-K money, called the Early Learning Challenge grants, would amount to $ 8 billion over eight years and would encourage states to improve their early learning standards, provide comprehensive professional development, and assess students» readiness for success in school, among other outcomes.There would also be $ 10 million for grants to challenge community colleges to improve programs like transfer agreements, dual enrollment, and remChallenge grants, would amount to $ 8 billion over eight years and would encourage states to improve their early learning standards, provide comprehensive professional development, and assess students» readiness for success in school, among other outcomes.There would also be $ 10 million for grants to challenge community colleges to improve programs like transfer agreements, dual enrollment, and remchallenge community colleges to improve programs like transfer agreements, dual enrollment, and remediation.

Plaintiffs in the second case, Wright v. New York, filed a complaint in July that challenges both LIFO and the law under which teachers are granted or denied tenure after three years.

Race to the Top District, or RTT - D, which supports innovation and improvements at the local level, and Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge, or RTT - ELC, a grant competition to strengthen early learning, also grew out of ARRA's RTT initiative through congressional appropriations beginning in fiscal year 2011.

During the seven year Annenberg Challenge, Steve chaired the Evaluation Committee which monitored and assessed over 100 grants impacting 280,000 students, 15,000 teachers and 378 schools.

Reflecting on the challenges many of their high school graduates face in postsecondary education, KIPP Houston's leadership saw the Raising Blended Learners grant as an opportunity to lay a stronger foundation in math in the middle school years.

In fall 2017 we launched a series of updates from the seven Next Generation Learning Challenge (NGLC) in Oakland launch grantees to hear what they have learned and how it has shaped their focus for the second year of their grant.

She managed a Federal Preschool Development Grant and, as part of the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Grant, worked on a first time initiative to require child care providers to conduct developmental screening on children aged 6 weeks to 5 years old and to help families access referrals and / or resources as necessary.

The Broad Foundation's most recent $ 30 million challenge grant to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, of which Eli Broad was the founding chairman, has enabled MOCA to present Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years, which opens Nov. 15 and features more than 500 works from the institution's 6,000 - work permanent collection.

Secretary Duncan's administration has included dual and concurrent enrollment in a number of the Department's programs throughout his six year term, including Race to the Top, College Access Challenge Grants, Investing in Innovation grants, Promise Neighborhoods, Youth CareerConnect, School Improvement Grants, and ESEA Flexibility WaGrants, Investing in Innovation grants, Promise Neighborhoods, Youth CareerConnect, School Improvement Grants, and ESEA Flexibility Wagrants, Promise Neighborhoods, Youth CareerConnect, School Improvement Grants, and ESEA Flexibility WaGrants, and ESEA Flexibility Waivers.

Granted, we face new challenges this year that have caused market jitters — Ebola and ISIS, just to name a couple.

Given this year's challenging environment, many colleges are offering more assistance to students, such as more generous grants and direct government - backed loans with capped interest rates, such as Stafford loans.

The Kentucky Humane Society won a coveted spot in this year's ASPCA $ 100K Challenge, competing for grants from the ASPCA totaling $ 300,000, including a top prize of $ 100,000 and a $ 25,000 community engagement grant.

Specifically, the WaterShed grant challenges us to complete 200 adoptions or outbound transfers from the Harmony Equine Center each year for a two - year period.

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has selected the recipients of its 2016 Artist as Activist Fellowship — a two - year grant program designed to support US based artists and artist collectives tackling important social challenges through their creative practice.

The Ford Foundation has given United States Artists a five - year $ 10 million challenge grant, while the Rockefeller Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and... Read More

The Cranbrook Art Museum, too, is a Knight Arts Challenge winner, receiving funding in support of last year's Nick Cave project, as well as a second Knight arts grant in 2015 to host «The Truth Booth» by Hank Willis Thomas.

Thanks to three big grants, CAMP is in September able to launch the new two - year exhibition program State of Integration: Artistic analyses of the challenges of coexistence.

25th Anniversary Challenge Grant To celebrate MOS's 25 consecutive years of service, Peggy Haas and the Board have collectively offered to add 25 % to all individual gifts this year.

Today we announced the ten artists and artist collectives selected for the 2016 Artist as Activist Fellowship — the Foundation's two - year grant program designed to support independent artists and artist collectives who tackle important social challenges through their creative practice.

The exhibitions Miami presentation is supported by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of its Knight Arts Challenge, a five year, $ 40 million initiative to bring South Florida together through the arts.

Challenges that the nuclear fuel tax — which amounted to $ 1.5 billion by January 2013 within two years — could not qualify as a consumption tax were granted by the Hamburg Tax Court in September 2011, leading to refunds of $ 74 million for E.ON and $ 96 million for RWE.

Whereas at the market's height a few years ago a developer might have rigidly insisted on retaining such a clause — safe in the knowledge that another buyer who would accept it was likely to be waiting in the wings — the subtle shift of power to buyers since then means that there is nothing to be lost from a challenge and, in an environment where developers are under increasing public pressure to grant fair leases and to do away with RPI, everything to be won.

OpenCourt's first year of operation was funded by a $ 250,000 Knight News Challenge grant.

Third Circuit grants plaintiffs» petition for permission to appeal in case challenging the lawfulness of GSK's diversity re-removals of state court Paxil personal injury cases more than one year after the cases were filed in state court: This afternoon, a three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit entered an order granting my clients» petition for permission to appeal in a case presenting the question «Whether a defendant may remove a case a second time based on diversity jurisdiction more than one year after the commencement of the case?»

acting in a challenge to a decision by central government to reduce in year grant allocations for a particular service,

Earlier this year, the company won a $ 100,000 grant after winning a top prize in an ed tech challenge sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Facebook (s FB), and it said that, so far, it's secured $ 30 million in scholarship commitments.

Proposed remedies included fee - shifting, which would undercut the economic imbalance that makes trolling so lucrative, and the creation of expedited review procedures to challenge the validity of so - called «business method» patents, which the Patent Office began issuing by the thousands after 1998, and which can grant 20 - year monopolies on basic business practices.

Over 400 early childhood professionals and advocates joined with us at the Albuquerque Convention Center to celebrate and learn about the accomplishments of the Race To the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT - ELC) grant over the past 5 years, as well as look forward to what it's going to take to sustain these efforts into the future and to expand on the gains made.

For members or potential members for whom paying the MCFM Basic Membership fee would be financially challenging, the MCFM Membership Committee is authorized to grant a limited number of basic one - year MCFM memberships at a reduced fee of $ 50 per calendar year.

That year, Congress passed the Child Abuse Prevention Federal Challenge Grants Act (title IV of P.L. 98 — 473) to encourage more States to follow suit.

In December 2011, nine states were awarded four - year Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (ELC) grants.

In December 2011, Delaware was awarded a four - year Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (RTT - ELC) grant and proposed the following targets to improve its early learning and development (ELD) systems.

In December 2011, Maryland was awarded a four - year Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (RTT - ELC) grant and proposed the following targets to improve its early learning and development (ELD) syst...

In December 2011, Washington was awarded a four - year Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (RTT - ELC) grant and proposed the following targets to improve its early learning and development (ELD) sy...

In December 2011, Maryland was awarded a four - year Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (RTT - ELC) grant and proposed the following targets to improve its early learning and development (ELD) systems.

In December 2011, Delaware was awarded a four - year Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (RTT - ELC) grant and proposed the following targets to improve its early learning and development (ELD) syst...

«Not only did we make gains with the Race to the Top early learning challenge, we just won one of 13 preschool expansion grants in a competitive national competition — $ 19 million over four years with a focus on low income children.