The administration announced awards earlier this year, with projects in Florida and California getting the biggest awards, but scores of projects in other states also were approved for funds.

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Eventually, other members of the SitePoint community jumped in and started offering cash awards for work on real projects, such as logos and WordPress themes.

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Other ideas include a clean development mechanism that would allow firms and countries to earn credits for investments that help poor countries clean up, and a joint implementation scheme that awards credits for projects carried out in other industrialised countries.

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Representatives of innovative educational projects based in India and Burkina Faso received the awards of the UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize.

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For example, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pioneer and New Innovator awards provide support for creative researchers with ideas for projects that have the potential for unusually high impact.

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Projects operating in Afghanistan and the Philippines were honoured with the awards of the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy, with a programme in Bhutan receiving an Honourable Mention.

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He's promised greater oversight of the procurement process, including intermediate reviews of weapons projects and the use of "shadow teams" to ensure that contracts awards are decided fairly.

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There were over 75, 000 individual projects that went on in your states and a total of 250, 000 awards, meaning a check had to be cut to 250, 000 different entities.

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