Word: grants
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Journal story published in July fingered large companies such as Home Depot, Merrill Lynch, and T. Rowe Price for rushing to grant options to their executives as stock prices plunged in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks...
...tale of extracurriculars on a shoestring budget is all too familiar for most Harvard students: hectic days and nights of hastily planned rose sales and grant applications, all with hopes of raising the couple hundred dollars needed to keep a group alive...
Several Harvard parties this weekend featured more than the standard kegs, thanks in part to the debut of Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisor (DAPA) party grants. Ranging from $50 to $100, the grants funded food and nonalcoholic beverages to be served at social events. The idea is to give students more options at parties and encourage safe drinking during “high-risk times,” according to DAPA Talya J. Brettler ’08. At least one DAPA-sponsored party this weekend was funded by the Undergraduate Council (UC), as well. Unlike the UC party grants...
...first hour of the 90-minute UC session was dominated by heated debates over the Financial Committee’s (FiCom) grants packages. Representatives from the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club were present to lobby against the UC’s decision to fund less than a third of the grant requested for the 2007 Bipartisan Paintball Brawl. After discussion over the role of precedents in granting UC funding, and whether or not the UC should fund entertainment activities, the council voted to grant the full amount requested by the organizers of the event...
...FiCom has a tough process balancing the need for satisfying student expectations for grant funding while maintaining fiscal responsibility,” Petersen said after the meeting. He added that FiCom wants to be “more transparent” to student groups about what grants will and will not be funded...