Rex Impact Grants: a program to provide grants to a wide range of businesses and organizations that are working to help improve patient care or community health status.
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Chicago is counting on Federal grants to get its program off the ground, then relying on private groups to step in.
Participating schools will have access to free tools and resources, including in-person trainings, program activation grants, and direct, personal assistance from certified professionals.
Only a few weeks ago the Canadians announced a new startup visa program that grants permanent residency to foreign-born innovators who received backing from Canadian investors.
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Last Thursday, we discussed the provision in the bills cosponsored by Senators Coburn and Burr and Representatives Ryan and Nunes (S. 1099) that provides a similar program of grants to states for demonstration projects.
Many depend on Cal Grants, the state aid program that covers books and tuition.
We eliminate one program that provides grants to do environmental clean up of abandoned buildings.
For the States and Tribes receiving grants today, the STEP Program is an important marker in collaboration and shared responsibility to promote educational excellence for all American Indian and Alaska Native students.
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He set up a successful scholarship program that awarded grants to young academics to study in other countries, and when he heard of the autochrome, he saw a more far-reaching means of promoting peaceful international relations.
Also included is Home Investment Partnerships (HOME), Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), Housing for Special Populations (Elderly and Disabled), Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA), Emergency Shelter Grants, the Supportive Housing program, the Single Room Occupancy program, the Shelter Plus Care program, and the Home Ownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere (HOPE) program, among others.
We invested in proven strategies like the COPS program and the Byrne Grants that you rely on to bring down crime and boost public safety.
The board recommended that the National Highway Safety Administration, which makes safety grants to states, develop a program to encourage states to ensure all convicted drivers actually use the devices.
He also notes that the winding down of the program that a Treasury Department program that provided cash grants instead of investment tax credits also appears to be slowing the pace of new projects.
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There wasn't a strong succession plan, and it became difficult for a small program to compete for grants, said Melba Joyce Bradford, a jazz singer, who met Ms. Hicks in the late 1980s and became head of the fund's board.
Despite the fact that SAS grants no stock options and a bonus program that can be described as modest at best, the Institute has an incredibly low turnover rate.
On top of all of their other responsibilities, Meier and Weichert are in constant search of grants and funding to pay for expansion and program development.
In Zimbabwe, a participant used ELP tools to develop a program that has now issued 51 grants to help more than 500 children with disabilities get health care and assistive devices.
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Ideally this would be done by reforming Medicaid financing to provide the federal assistance to the states for the program through fixed, finite block grants, which do not vary by matching increased state Medicaid spending as under the current system.
These funds represent additional grants to states under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).
The argument that providing grants to clean energy projects already under construction when the stimulus program began is some kind of boondoggle misses the point at both the level of an individual project, and the clean energy sector as a whole.
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Volunteer grants (aka Dollars for Doers): A type of program offered by businesses to match employee volunteerism with corporate donations.
Nevertheless, the concept deals with one of the main arguments that Democrats make against block grants, which is that more people need Medicaid during economic downturns and block grants do not account for that counter-cyclical nature of the program.
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At the January meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Pierre met the heads of the MacArthur and Rockefeller foundations, who moaned how poorly their grants were spent, or how they can't copy another program's success because of a "not invented here" bias.
He steadily worked toward his goal of reforming the student financial system and played a valuable role in nearly every major federal student-aid program in our nation's history, from Pell Grants in 1972 to the Academic Competitiveness and SMART Grants for high-achieving low-income students in 2006.
The NIAID has a considerable research program dedicated to fighting antibiotic resistant bacteria and the agency awards grants to deserving companies that focus on the identification of new antimicrobials to fight threatening superbugs.
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As part of a higher education package that we passed last year, what we were able to do was to take away subsidies that were going to banks for serving as middlemen in the student loan program and funnel that to help young people, through Pell Grants and lower rates on student loans.
Since 1996, the federal government has issued block grants to the states through the Temporary Assistance For Needy Family (TANF) program.
Their biggest financial support came from the Storefront Seattle program, which helps launch promising arts-driven businesses by providing grants in the form of temporarily rent-free space.
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So my administration has tried to do our part by making sure that the student loan program puts students before banks, by increasing aid like the Pell grants for millions of students and their families, and by allowing students to cap their monthly loan payments at 10 percent of their income, which means that their repayment schedule is manageable.
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