Federal financing for public television in 2010, through grants and appropriations to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, was $97.8 million, or 17 percent of PBS's total revenue.
This is one of the best quick fixes for rail in recent years, but a long-term transportation strategy doesn't get and keep momentum based on the political vagaries of grants, annual appropriations and emergency funding.
Following increased international tension surrounding the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, the Norwegian parliament granted extraordinary appropriations to modernize the Norwegian Armed Forces.
Congress granted an appropriation, and allowed it to be in the form of commemorative half dollars, which legislators and organizers believed could be sold at a premium.
Teachers, school aides and administrators are often just as powerless, said Patricia Cathers, the director of programs and volunteer services at Child Abuse Prevention Services in Roslyn, a nonprofit private agency supported by donations, grants and government appropriations.
The company received a $3 million federal grant in the defense appropriations bill to develop a video system to monitor machinery aboard gas turbine ships.
Nineteen percent came from state appropriations and grants while 15% originated from tuition and fees.
Beyond that, they are hoping their request for a supplemental grant-in-aid appropriation of $350,000 for Rutgers Agricultural Experimentt Station, which Haskin falls under, receives approval when it is put before the State Assembly.
