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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Federal grants"”.
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The Administration of Federal Grants and Loans to Local Units of Government
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An Examination Of The Usage Of Grants And Municipal Bonds To Fund Capital Projects For Local Governments
… municipal bonds or funding from state and federal grants. This thesis compares and contrasts these two forms of funding, looking at the economic and political risks that can come with using municipal bonds, as well as the need of resources that local governments need when it comes to …
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Mapping and Qualitative Data Collection for People-First Floodplain Buyout Processes Harris County, TX 2000-2021
Federally funded floodplain buyouts are a nonstructural flood mitigation practice that uses federal grants to remove people and businesses from flood-prone areas to end financial strain on the National Flood Insurance Program. Past research indicates that the selection processes of buyouts made by …
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Quality early childhood education : a cost-effective intervention to student achievement
… 2. School districts utilized a combination of federal funds, state funds, and federal grants to support their preschool programs. 3. The preschool programs were designed to incorporate the best practice characteristics of a curriculum based on the state early learning standards. The programs …
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The Art of Sharing: The Richer Provinces Versus the Poorer Provinces Since Confederation
… political history of equalization, which is the federal program that allows all provinces to provide reasonably comparable levels of services for reasonably comparable levels of taxation. It examines why Ottawa adopted this mechanism in 1957, the models that it used for those grants, and how it …
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Violence against women on the college campus: evaluating anti-violence programming.
… of higher education that were funded by the federal Grants to Reduce Violence Against Women on Campus in 2008 (N=54). This exploratory study had numerous findings related to how program staff members define success and what they think about and how they use evaluation. Success for victim …
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Stories of Experts and Influence:A Discourse Analytic Approach to Bureaucratic Autonomy in the Cold War Era
… whose primary function is the distribution of federal grants-in-aid: the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Institute of Mental Health. Drawing on the theory and practice of discourse analysis, this study seeks to expand upon existing perspectives by better understanding how …
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A Case Study of Northern California: An Evaluation of Stream Restoration and the Success of Increasing California's Native Salmonid Stocks
… pursued for stream restoration besides state and federal grants. Such sources will allow for the continuation of projects when grant funding is no longer available and past implementation phase. All of this together tells is that the field of stream restoration has room for improvement so that we …
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The making of a multiple purpose dam : engineering culture, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and Grand Coulee Dam, 1917-1942
… about these changes. In the twentieth century, federal engineers, working with local Western boosters and their federal superiors, transformed the West's waterscape. Between 1900 and 1970, engineers of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation--only one of three federal agencies that built dams-constructed …
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Career ladders and work pathways : organizational shifts toward job-placement programs in Boston
Federal welfare-to-work legislation (the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 and related federal grants) and the anticipation of the consolidation of job training programs through the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 have created new relationships amongst local government, …
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An Interagency Approach to Reforming the Administration of Federal Grant-In-Aid Programs: A Case Study of the Indian Task Force of the Western Federal Regional Council
… more obvious than in the administration of the federal grant-in-aid programs which developed during the 1960's. Effective administration of these programs has been hampered at the intergovernmental level by the tremendous explosion in the number of grant-in-aid programs, the increasing reliance …
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Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Responders (SAFER) Grant Program: An Analysis of Fiscal Federalism and How Local Governments utilize SAFER Grant Funding
… (SAFER) Grant Program: An Analysis of Fiscal Federalism and How Local Governments Utilize SAFER Grant Funding. Thomas J. Layou ABSTRACT This dissertation presents a comprehensive analysis of the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Responders (SAFER) grant program's impact on Virginia's …
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Public-Nonprofit Partnership: A Case Study of Cobb County Government
… of Community Development Block Grant state and federal grants are dispersed to nonprofit organizations within the county. This case study is an exploratory analysis designed to provide an in‐depth understanding of the structure of the partnerships that enabled Cobb County government to …
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Building a diverse health professions workforce? Changes in enrollment and completion among underserved populations in grant supported health professions pathways
… courts, researchers, and policy makers at the federal level have advocated for strategic action to improve representations and diversity in health professions (Baldwin, et al., 2006; Blagg & Blagg, 2008; Brown, DeCorse-Johnson, Irving-Ray, & Wu, 2005; Committee on Institutional and Policy-Level …