Beginning in 1993, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has made awards for the development of Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALNs), which include distance learning via the Internet and computer technology.
NIH officials are scrambling to make awards by the end of September for much of the money, which drew a record number of applications for so-called Challenge Grants.
Instead of awarding one big award, they make awards to four different contractors for agile development teams.
Sir John Hegarty, the co-founder of BBH which has made award-winning campaigns for clients including Levi's, Audi and British Airways, said he believed that a yes vote would further increase London's stranglehold on the creative industries.
It also makes annual awards for top performance.
The Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences, from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (a sponsor of Science's Next Wave), is the model on which other career awards are based--though other organizations, like the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, have been making similar awards for years.
Electricity network operators have always paid compensation to property owners directly affected by the giant pylons criss-crossing the country, but only in the past couple of years have they begun making significant awards for the wooden pole carriers of electricity.
Since 2010, the agency had made 498 awards for cancer research and prevention to Texas institutions totaling $836 million, making it the second largest U.S. funding source for cancer research after the National Cancer Institute.
Think of a list of words, phrases, events, people, etc. that affected your school or community over the last year and make up awards for them e.g., Most Exciting School Assembly, Most Memorable Line by a Teacher, Best Sporting Event Cheer, Hardest Homework, Most Influential Law Passed in the Community, etc. Design the award, and if possible, present them to your "winners".
In some cases the ombudsman will make an award for "non-financial loss", that is for "pain and suffering, damage to reputation, distress or inconvenience".
