It is vitally important for nonprofits to go out and find their own matching grants.
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The administration is considering matching grants and other partnerships that entice private-sector participation and keep federal investment to a minimum.
The government offered twenty-five-million-dollar matching grants to companies that could devise a way to produce the material domestically, without using enriched uranium.
Mr Blair is expected to try to secure their approval by lowering the level of matching grants they must supply to qualify for EU structural funds.
Otherwise, at exactly the wrong time, we stand to get yet more government steering while the market rows, like so-called partnerships and matching grants that seduce not-quite-private-sector opportunism.
With the help of some Port Security Grants and PPC matching funds, we built the first leg of this system.
Those block grants replaced the old federal matching funding formula with fixed finite funding that left the states responsible for 100% of increased spending, but gaining 100% from any savings.
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The simplest way for the federal government to restrain Medicaid would be to end the current system of matching state spending and replace this with block grants, which would give the states an incentive to focus on cost-control.
Ideally this would be done by reforming Medicaid financing to provide the federal assistance to the states for the program through fixed, finite block grants, which do not vary by matching increased state Medicaid spending as under the current system.
The key to the 1996 reforms was that the block grants to each state were finite, not matching, so the federal funding did not vary with the amount the state spent.
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Federal programs with matching funds to states (e.g. transit, Medicaid) should be eliminated or restructured as block grants as was done successfully with Welfare.
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