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The Programme brokers knowledge and ideas and supports innovation, replicable and sustainable models, and promotes good practice across the participatory governance sector. Objectives of the foundation's Grants Programme • To deliver an efficient and effective programme which is responsive to the development needs of CSOs across the Commonwealth.
The Commonwealth Youth Programme, also known as CYP, is an international development agency working with young people between the ages of 15 and 29. Part of the Commonwealth Secretariat , CYP is active in the Commonwealth's 54 member countries. [ 1 ]
Held one of the first Commonwealth fellowships awarded to a woman. [8] Robert M. Carter, Director of Australia's Secretariat for the Ocean Drilling Program; Warrick Couch, astronomer, Director of the Australian Astronomical Observatory and President of the Australian Institute of Physics. John Gallas, poet and educator
The Commonwealth Fund is a private American foundation whose stated purpose is to "promote a high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, and people of color." It is active in a number of areas ...
The commission was established in July 1933 by the Lyons government during the Great Depression to provide impartial advice on the distribution of federal government grants to the states. [2] The commission operates under the Commonwealth Grants Commission Act 1973 , and is responsible for measuring the relative fiscal capacity of each state ...
President Reagan had requested the consolidation of 85 existing anti-poverty grants into seven categorical grants; Congress agreed to consolidate 77 grants into nine. The nine new block grants were budgeted about 25% less than the programs they replaced (Conlan, qtd. in [2]). The CSBG legislation was amended in 1998 by the Coats Human Services ...
The Association of Commonwealth Universities is governed by its member institutions through an elected Council. As the ACU is a UK-registered charity, Council members also act as its Trustees. The ACU Council comprises up to 23 members: 20 elected Council members, up to two co-opted Council members and, if the Honorary Treasurer is co-opted ...
A young man (in bowtie) receives a scholarship at a ceremony. A scholarship is a form of financial aid awarded to students for further education.Generally, scholarships are awarded based on a set of criteria such as academic merit, diversity and inclusion, athletic skill, and financial need, research experience or specific professional experience.