Sentences with phrase «year national initiative»

Previously, Deb served as the director of the Professional Development Partnership (PDP), a 9 - year national initiative funded by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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A five year - content - led initiative between ITHRA, or the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, and National Geographic to propel Saudi Arabia as the region's center for creativity and entertainment.

Late last year, the GMA announced a national labeling initiative to provide consumers with «instantaneous access» to detailed information on thousands of products through their smart phones.

Dialogue is so critical to the architectural engineering design firm's DNA that once a year, the company hosts a national initiative called Aspire Dialog, where the company's best projects are put on display to be critiqued by outside experts.

For example, the group was instrumental in supporting and helping to pass the 1988 Women's Business Ownership Act, which expanded women entrepreneurs» access to credit markets; instituted a three - year, $ 10 million training and technical support initiative for women business owners; and created a National Women's Business Council.

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).

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); 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; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

Shechtman, with 34 years of experience in the gourmet food, gifting and branding world, says a goal of the company is to facilitate a «rebirth of a regional [Hebert] brand into a national presence,» and she says the combined skills of the companies and her management team, as well as some new initiatives, will make that happen.

Jody has over 25 years of experience in the water sector where she has been responsible for driving a range of initiatives including state water reforms under the National Water initiative, driving the momentum and integration of The Living Murray, delivery of environmental water with and on behalf of Basin states, development and implementation of a plan to avoid widespread acidification to the lower lakes of the Murray system during the Millennium drought and identification of the sustainable level of take to be embodied in the Murray - Darling Basin Plan.

TLT: Almost two years after the National Restaurant Association announced its Kids Live Well initiative to improve children's menus, CSPI's has issued a new report indicating that nearly all of the kids» meals at America's top 50 chain restaurants are of poor nutritional quality, with 97 % of meals failing to meet CSPI's own nutritional criteria and 91 % failing to meet the Kids Live Well nutritional criteria.

Much has been achieved in 22 years, such as the adoption of the revised International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 183 and Recommendation 191 on maternity protection in 2000 — enacting stronger maternity entitlements, more country initiatives, and improving national laws and practices.

KET took up the call for this year's National Breastfeeding Awareness Month by airing a 28 - minute segment on all things breastfeeding: benefits, barriers, laws, workplace considerations, hospital initiatives, cultural challenges, and more.

Saunders organizes national fitness initiatives like Project ACES each year, where millions of children exercise simultaneously each May.

As a part of the Healthy People 2020 initiative, the national goal is to increase the proportion of mothers who breastfeed their babies in the early postpartum period to 81.9 percent by the year 2020.

He organizes national fitness initiatives such as Project ACES each year, where millions of children exercise simultaneously each May.

Three years after NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray launched her signature $ 850 million ThriveNYC mental health initiative, she is tapping Alexis Confer, who has worked on de Blasio's successful universal pre-K initiative, on national gun reform and on former President Obama's campaign, to serve as the initiative's first - ever executive director.

Three years after First Lady Chirlane McCray launched her signature $ 850 million ThriveNYC mental health initiative, she is tapping Alexis Confer — who has worked on Mayor Bill de Blasio's successful universal pre-kindergarten initiative, on national gun reform and on former President Barack Obama's campaign — to serve as the initiative's first - ever executive director.

But years on, it appears the initiative was a mere national mirage; there are no tangibles to show.

Bello said that the 2017 budget was prepared in line with Domesticated National Chart of Account, Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Muti - Year Budget Framework (MYBF) which outlined key initiatives, assumptions and expected achievements of MDAs.

He also commended the CBN's initiative to give three million naira each to empower eligible youths under the Youth Initiative Empowerment Development Programme (YIEDP), which was open to youths who are either serving in the National Youth Service Corps or those who have not spent more than five years post NYSC service.

«Cancer research is a high priority for both countries — just witness the launch of a new National Cancer Moonshot initiative in the United States early this year,» said Tom Wang, chief international officer at AAAS and director of the AAAS center, referring to the plan President Barack Obama unveiled earlier this year to direct $ 1 billion toward battling cancer.

The doubling of the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) budget to $ 28 billion a year — originally a Clinton initiative — is complete.

The attempted revival of American manufacturing through initiatives like the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation has been a major priority for government in the Obama years.

For 14 years, a National Institute of General Medical Services (NIGMS) initiative has worked to increase those numbers.

Between national space programmes and private initiatives, 2018 is the goal launch year for at least eight different missions to the moon, making it the most popular destination outside low Earth orbit.

But the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN), part of a 10 - year, half - billion - dollar initiative launched in 2014 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to enhance the diversity of the biomedical workforce, has gotten off to a rocky start.

The National Institutes of Health has launched a five - year, $ 120 million program called 4D Nucleome that is sure to build momentum in the nuclear - architecture research community, and a similar initiative is being launched in Europe.

The patients are part of a National Cancer Institute initiative, called the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, which has followed more than 14,000 children and adolescents since 1994 who were diagnosed with cancer and survived for at least five years after diagnosis.

To promote better understanding of the ethics of research and the inclusion of individuals in research experiments, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced last year a new funding initiative: Research on Ethical Issues in Human Studies.

Trying to recover a U.S. lead As part of a new manufacturing initiative to boost U.S. competitiveness through the clean energy sector, the Department of Energy launched a state - of - the - art carbon fiber technology facility earlier this year at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

Heart disease deaths have almost halved over the past 40 - 50 years, particularly in high income countries, thanks largely to the identification of the common risk factors involved and national public health initiatives, say the authors.

The positions are funded by the 10 - year ENS - ICFP grant, obtained through the French National Excellence initiative.

A few years later, Peabody developmental psychologist Susan Gray launched a preschool intervention program for low - income children that inspired the national initiative known as Head Start.

The committee also calls attention to the potential for very cost - effective and scientifically fruitful advances with the advent of long - duration (10 - day) balloon flights and the expected availability after the final 2 years of development of ultralong - duration (up to 100 - day) balloon flights (see the section «The National Virtual Observatory and Other High - Leverage, Small Initiatives» in Chapter 3).

LA JOLLA — Salk Institute scientists will lead a multimillion - dollar, five - year initiative to revolutionize our understanding of the human brain by systematically identifying and cataloging cell types across the mammalian brain, the National Institutes of Health has announced.

National initiatives are well intentioned, but the complexity of remodeling entrenched practices — and doing so in a way that will work for hundreds of different institutions — means that change will take many years.

The Australian Brain Alliance, formed earlier this year, is a network comprising more than 20 research institutions and professional organizations advocating for a national brain research initiative.

To view the clean water initiative documents and view the authority's rise in national rankings over the last four years among srf bond issuers.

The initiative was launched to showcase live British theatre performances in cinemas around the world, and this year, multi-awarding winning play A Disappearing Number made the line - up in the National Theatre Live's second season.

Lance Rutter has spent the last 30 + years of his career devoted to graphic design, working on projects in his Chicago design studio, teaching design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, serving on the national board of the AIGA, and presiding over the 2008 and 2010 Chicago International Poster Biennials, among other public design advocacy initiatives.

SI: As mentioned above, the National Lab Day «Event» simply celebrates all of the work that is ongoing throughout the year, and it also encouragesfuture involvement in our initiative.

During the years following the ill - fated «New Math» initiatives of the 1960s, there was no visible national mathematics curriculum; but in 1980 the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) published the manifesto An Agenda for Action, followed by a 1989 document generally referred to as «The NCTM Standardsnational mathematics curriculum; but in 1980 the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) published the manifesto An Agenda for Action, followed by a 1989 document generally referred to as «The NCTM StandardsNational Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) published the manifesto An Agenda for Action, followed by a 1989 document generally referred to as «The NCTM Standards.»

Targeted at 14 to 19 year - olds, Career Colleges are a national initiative conceived by former Education Secretary, Lord Baker, who passionately believes that high quality technical, practical and vocational training should be offered to students from age 14.

Mega-gifts such as the Gates Foundation's high school funding initiative capture headlines around the world, while each year more modest contributions from local and national philanthropies capture the imaginations and bolster the resources of administrators and educators charged with meeting today's wide - ranging educational challenges.

The 1 - million - member group, formerly known as the National Retired Teachers Association and now dubbed NRTA: AARP's Educator Community, expects to convene a panel of business and education leaders early in the new year to guide the initiative.

Six years ago, the Pew Charitable Trusts launched a national initiative aimed at helping states provide access to high - quality pre-kindergarten for every three - and four - year - old whose parents want it for them.

The National Wildlife Federation, which has strived to protect wild animals and their habitat for nearly 75 years, is encouraging educators and parents to send children outdoors through its Be Out There initiative.

A DOE spokesperson tells me that an implementation plan for the mayor's early reading initiative is coming later this year, and that the city will work with «national experts and universities» to train the seven hundred new reading specialists they plan to hire.

The Resource Our Schools initiative, which has already attracted support from the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) and numerous subject associations, comes following procurement research published by BESA that shows that primary schools are spending 3.7 per cent less on resources than last year.

For the last 13 years Matt has worked in charity leadership as a director of local youth and community services, as Operations Director at School Councils UK, a national education charity specialising in youth participation and active citizenship in schools, and more recently leading on the delivery of ThinkForward, the successful Social Impact Bond funded, five year education - to - employment initiative.