Sentences with phrase «year fund designed»

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In recent years, he's started a company called HVF (standing for, enjoyably, «Hard, Valuable, and Fun»), a firm designed to fund projects looking to leverage data and joined Yahoo!'s Board of Directors.

This announcement comes nearly three years after the overwhelming bipartisan passage into law of the JOBS Act, a historic piece of legislation designed to help small businesses raise funds to launch and grow.

Last year, it rolled out a series of exchange - traded funds designed for women to save for retirement.

Turley was responsible for designing some compelling yet controversial covers, including last year's «Hedge Fund Myth» cover which had phallic imagery.

A trio of hedge fund managers have secretly directed one of the largest pools of philanthropic capital for years, undetected by design.

With a significant cutback in government capacities over the past twenty years, is it even realistic to expect that the public sector can design, fund, operate and maintain needed infrastructure?

Hedge funds designed to protect against falling and volatile markets have made a strong pitch to investors: Trust us with your money, and we'll make lots of it for you when years of relatively smooth, positive stock returns inevitably end.

Fidelity Freedom Funds are designed for investors expecting to retire around the year indicated in each fund's name.

Last Thursday, after Trump unveiled his proposed budget for fiscal year 2018, ASCE president Norma Jean Mattei issued a discouraging note, writing that the president's budget «would eliminate funding for many of the programs designed to improve our nation's infrastructure.»

The United States Natural Gas (UNG) fund, an ETF designed to track in percentage terms the movements of natural gas prices, has struggled in July over the last four years.

The Fed has kept the funds rate near zero for years now, as part of a broader stimulus program designed to spur the economy.

As the fund is designed to be a hedge against market declines and rising volatility, Cambria expects the fund to produce negative returns in the most years with rising markets or declining volatility.

About 100 friends and family of the late 29 - year veteran of the Elmhurst Park District Board gathered last week at a dinner designed to raise funds to provide recreation scholarships for users of Elmhurst «s park programs.

In the past year, Park District commissioners have put in place a series of checks and balances designed to ensure that district funds are spent properly.

City officials have not yet determined how or when to fund a proposed $ 5 million beach redevelopment project unveiled earlier this year by planning firm Leisure Concepts and Designs Inc. of Mt. Prospect.

Park district Executive Director Steve Scholten said that after preliminary meetings with the village, park staff has decided the design needs further review and that the timing could be delayed based on district funding and overall capital expense commitments for the year.

CPS Enhancement Funds are designed to reduce Child Protective Services» staff - to - client ratios and will be used to offset the costs of the new CPS positions added earlier this year.

People for New York is loosely designed on the concept behind the now - defunct Committee to Save New York, which was funded by deep - pocketed business and real estate interests in support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top policy proposals (pension and tax reform, the property tax cap etc.) in the early years of his governship.

Following several years of public input and careful analysis to address Dutchess County's long standing issue of lack of capacity and housing out inmates, Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro has submitted a bond authorization resolution to the Dutchess County Legislature to fund the design and construction of a new Dutchess County Justice and Transition Center (DCJTC).

Central New York, the Finger Lakes and the Southern Tier will each receive $ 500 million in state money over the next five years to help fund projects and programs designed to produce long - term job growth.

The funding was authorized over a year ago when the FAA authorized the County's design... Read more

The capital plan also includes $ 1.1 billion for designing and building new jails in 2018 as de Blasio's begins a 10 - year effort to close Rikers Island, though the funding was already in the plan and has been reallocated.

Cuomo this year has proposed a package of measures designed to combat sexual harassment and reform the state's laws, including a ban on taxpayer - funded settlements for harassment cases.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's (D) REDC model is designed to have members cross party lines and work together.Each year, the State has regions compete for funding by developing proposals drawn up by each REDC.

CNY will receive the $ 500 million over five years — about $ 100 million a year — to help fund development projects and programs designed to generate long - term job growth.

The National Science Foundation is funding the effort, and AAAS is targeted to have the survey and its sample design completed by year's end.

For example, she has spent 2.5 years working on a European Union — funded project to design a flu test that works in less than 30 minutes and can be administered in a port, an airport, or a doctor's office.

Recent Activity RCP Assesses Mississippi Program's Novel Public Health and Community Engagement Partnership In March 2017, RCP conducted an assessment of the Mississippi IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (Mississippi INBRE) program, a five - year cycle - competitive $ 20 million NIH - funded program designed to enhance biomedical research capacity throughout the state.

Does the college participate in any federal, state, or privately funded programs designed to help science students complete their 2 - year programs and succeed at the university level?

Thanks to # 183,759 funding from the Leverhulme Trust to the University, Dr Siddle will lead a three - year research project to understand how the disease moves between the animals and then use this information to design a vaccine against the tumour.

Climeworks will use funding from the Swiss Federal Office of Energy to fine - tune the plant's design so it runs more cheaply and efficiently during the three - year pilot period.

Last year, it announced the K99 / R00 Pathway to Independence (PI) award, a new mechanism designed to increase the share of federally - funded awards received by younger investigators and to create institutional incentives to help postdocs become independent investigators.

► «After 4 years of mulling, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is preparing to tighten rules designed to protect people who participate in research funded by the federal government and many private entities,» Kelly Servick wrote in a Wednesday ScienceInsider.

The FDA already has a 6 - year - old program called the Critical Path Initiative that, according to its Web site, funds a number of research projects on topics such as clinical trial design.

The awards are also designed to encourage international collaborations and are a «prelude» to more than $ 2 billion in funding earmarked for genomics - related research in the EC's new Sixth Framework funding program set to begin later this year, the commission said in a statement.

Developed over the past two years by a team of four at NTU's VIRTUS IC Design Centre of Excellence, the project has since received over S$ 850,000 in research funding.

This seems fair and reasonable, since there's an entire institute at the NIH designed to fund cancer research, but it kind of sucks if your sequencing center spent the last eight years building a reputation in cancer genomics.

They have nearly $ 100,000 from the U.S. National Science Foundation for a one - year «design study» that was enough to pay for telescope time through November 2009 and hope to obtain another year of funds to seek promising results to justify additional grants.

At Fred Hutch, start - up funding is designed to cover about three years.

Other strategies that could stimulate women to stay in science are a) various forms of flexibility with federal - grant funding designed to accommodate women with young children keeping these women in the game; b) increasing the value of teaching, service, and administrative experience in the tenure / promotion evaluation process; c) providing on - campus childcare centres; d) supporting requests from partners for shared tenure lines that enable couples to better balance work and personal / caretaking roles; e) stopping the tenure clock for one year per child due to childbearing demands; f) providing fully - paid leave for giving birth for tenure track women for one semester; g) providing equal opportunity for women and men to lead committees and research groups.

Under the program, David Heldebrant and Dongsheng Li will each receive five - year research grants that fund work designed to reduce carbon emissions, create new materials for energy storage and measure the mass of some of the smallest components of the universe.

We also performed subgroup meta - analyses by type of prevention (primary v secondary: in this study, trials involving healthy populations or patients with any specific disease except for cardiovascular disease were classified as primary prevention trials, and trials involving patients with cardiovascular disease were classified as secondary prevention trials), type of supplement by quality and dose (each supplement, vitamins only, antioxidants only, or antioxidants excluding vitamins), type of outcome (cardiovascular death, angina, fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischaemic attack), type of outcome in each supplement, type of study design (randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial v open label, randomised controlled trial), methodological quality (high v low), duration of treatment (< 5 years v ≥ 5 years), funding source (pharmaceutical industry v independent organisation), provider of supplements (pharmaceutical industry v not pharmaceutical industry), type of control (placebo v no placebo), number of participants (≥ 10000 v < 10000), and supplements given singly or in combination with other vitamin or antioxidant supplements by quality.

Her super feminine designs were a welcome breath of fresh air from black and studs, so much so that she took home the prize as this year's CFDA / Vogue Fashion Fund Award winner.

Last year J. Crew tapped the 2011 Vogue / CFDA fashion fund winner and runner - ups Billy Reid, Prabal Gurung, and Eddie Borgo to design capsule collections for the brand, so it makes sense that this could be something similar.

The Time's Up initiative, unveiled on New Year's Day and signed on by 300 prominent Hollywood women, is designed to address gender inequity in the workplace and provide a legal defense fund for women who have suffered sexual harassment or assault, but its first big impact was seen at Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony, where virtually every woman attending wore black..

Today, members of the House of Representatives began debating a bill designed to fund our federal government for the remainder of this fiscal year.

The college - bridge programs created 50 years ago through the War on Poverty were never designed — or funded — to serve all the students who need them.

Currently I am a Principal Investigator of Project ESCOLAR (Etext Supports for Collaborative Online Learning and Academic Reading) a five year grant funded by the Office of Special education Programs (OSEP) to develop, test, evaluate, refine, and disseminate Collaborative Online Projects designed to support academic reading of science content for middle school students with learning disabilities.

In response, teachers and students from the above - mentioned school, J.H. Rose (JHR) High School in Greenville, North Carolina, in conjunction with the Tar River Writing Project at East Carolina University, received funds to design and implement pop - up makerspaces during the 2015 - 16 school year.

Contracted to the Education Funding Agency, Kajima and Interserve began construction work in March 2015, assuming primary responsibility for design and construction, as well as hard facilities management and lifecycle service for the seven schools over a 25 - year concession period.